old camcorder look

[wakeupsontae]

been trying to replicate a look as if it came through an early 2000's camcorder, but I am stuck as to where to go with it. I havent found anything on youtube

here are some references:

[thomaso]

Though your 3 sample images seem to be related mainly to  contrast, text shadow, blur, low resolution  this thread might help:

[Ron P.]

FWIW, I have a bunch of old camcorder video, shot with a Sony DC TRV120. They look nothing like those.

Screenshot from a frame from that camcorder.

 

EDIT:

I done some further digging and located some old footage, shot with a VHS camcorder. from those, I'd say add noise, and a slight blur, not much contrast would get you close.

[NotMyFault]

For those looking a more hard-core VHS effect, this (PS) tutorial gives you inspirations.

• mis-aligning RGB color positions
• adjusting saturation and tone curve
• adding blocky color areas
• adding twirl in certain places
• adding pixelate effect in multiple levels 
• adding blur
• adding noise
• adding text to show in-picture player status overlay

Almost all steps can be done in Photo non-destructively, but you will need a few adaptions:

• use groups with blend mode add, and color channel adjustment to tackle color channels individually. Or create individual color channels from pixel layer (copy layer 2 times, fill 2 of 3 channels with black, blend mode add)
• Step 15, patchwork filter: I think this can be done destructively with pixelate filter.

https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-make-your-photo-looks-like-a-frame-from-vhs-tape--cms-26562#:~:text=Create the VHS Textures 1 Step 1 Create,7 ... 8 Step 8 ... Weitere Elemente

[PaulEC]

I'd suggest having a play with some of the effects in the G'Mics plugin. (https://gmic.eu/download.html)

 

[Lisbon]

There are online tools like photomosh that also give interesting results.

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