Create VCR-Style Glitch Effects
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THE AVERAGE AGE OF THE READERS of this magazine is such that we don’t need to explain what a VHS player or VCR was, thankfully, but this ancient technology has been consigned to the trash can of history, along with the eight-track cartridge and the wax cylinder.
What the VHS system did have, as with many analog technologies, was charm—especially when it started to go wrong. The glitches, picture wobbles, and color artifacts this generates are a kind of art in their own way, perhaps explaining their continued popularity in movies and TV shows. Any time
