Effects & Time

VHS Look

Also called VHS Effect, Analog Tape Look, CRT Scanlines

Footage is degraded to look like a worn video tape: horizontal scanlines, color bleed, noise and jittering tracking, usually in a 4:3 frame.

Nostalgic, found-footage and 80s-90s styled videos

Prompt

Replace [scene] with the shot and [duration] with how long it should take, then paste the prompt into your AI agent. Each prompt includes the name of the technique, so next time you can simply ask for it by name.

This is for a motion graphics video. Give [scene] a "VHS Look" (also called a VHS effect or analog tape look): degrade the footage so it plays like a worn video tape.
Layer the tape artifacts together — fine horizontal scanlines, colour bleeding softly to one side, speckled tape noise, and a tracking error that drags a band of the picture sideways while the whole frame jitters. It is a constant texture over the entire shot, not a momentary break like a glitch.
Hold it for the full [duration], and crop to the squarer frame of an old television if the layout allows.

Replace [scene] with the shot and [duration] with how long it should take, then paste the prompt into your AI agent. Each prompt includes the name of the technique, so next time you can simply ask for it by name.