So, do you need to make a video that
looks like it was recorded back in the
80s or the 90s on one of those old VHS
camcorders? I just found the best iPhone
app that is a retro video camera.
Hey, it's Dave Dolphin at practicalworshipblog.com,
sharing ideas, tips and
practical advice for the everyday
worship leader. As worship leaders it
seems like at some point we need to
make a video whether it's in our job
description or not. Recently I needed
to make a video that looked like it was
recorded back in the 90s. Now, when you are
running an overhead projector you need
to be ready for anything, and so
organization is going to be key to that...
And so I searched the App Store for an app
that would create this effect, and I
found a lot of good options, but the most
realistic by far was this one called VHS Camcorder
by Rarevision. It's about $3.
I'll put a link in the
description below. Check this thing out!
And just like that you're at a whole new
world. I love the"play" that was right up
here in the top left corner. It records
in a 4:3 aspect ratio. It
actually creates the file that way, so it
doesn't put the bars on it. You can add
the bars later if you need to put it
into a 16:9 type video. The colors are
spot-on for that old VHS look. This noise
here down at the bottom, I love that. It's
the most realistic noise that I've found
in an iPhone app. The audio of course is
muffled. You've got that tape hiss going
on. There's this date right here, and the
cool thing is you can actually spoof the
date of it. Notice that it says 1996. You
can change that date to whatever you
want. You can't spoof the time, but you
can spoof the date. If you don't want to
put a date on there, there's an option to
turn that off as well. I remember on
the camcorder that I used to have back
in the day, you could add these really
cheesy titles like this. The app can do
it too. It can also make it flash.
If you swipe on the screen, if you swipe up it
makes the noise worse. If you swipe down it
goes back to normal. There's also an
option in the control panel that instead
of using your finger you can just tilt
the device, and it'll add that noise in
as well. I also like this zoom. When you...
let's see if I can do this.
If you zoom in like this, see how it's real
janky like an old camcorder, real
stuttery. Love it! Now two limitations
that I have found, one, when you're in
selfie mode which is what i'm using
right now it actually records the video
mirrored. Like, this is my left hand. You
can see my wedding ring right here.
You can fix that in post. You
can just flip it, that's not a problem.
But if you've got this title right here,
you can't flip that, so you just got to
think about that when you're shooting
the video. You can also use the camera on
the back of the iPhone, and that's going
to record normally. You also can't import
previously recorded video. You have to
shoot the video on this iPhone app, so if
you've already made the video you can't
run it through this app. But for $3
this app is absolutely amazing.
It creates the most realistic look. In
fact the video that I did with it I had
several people comment that they really
thought it was an old VHS tape that had
been converted over to to digital. So
that's a look at the iPhone app
VHS Camcorder from Rarevision. Again there's
a link to it in the description below.
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