vhs-deck
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True VHS tape simulator — chroma bleed, RF interference snow, head-switching noise lines, time-base wobble, tape-stretch warble, scanline interlace artifacts, generation loss. Drop-in over any clip with intensity 0-3. Stronger than film-grain — emulates the actual physics of consumer VHS playback. Use when the user wants VHS, tape look, generation loss, head-switch noise, or full analog tape damage.
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Real VHS pipeline. Not just grain + scanlines — chroma bleeding, head-switching, time-base errors.
Run
python3 ~/.claude/skills/vhs-deck/scripts/vhs_deck.py \
--input clip.mp4 --out clip_vhs.mp4 --intensity 2
Intensity
0— clean reference (still desaturated)1— broadcast-tape, mild damage2— consumer SP-mode, default3— EP-mode triple-recorded, heavy generation loss
What it actually does
- Chroma bleed: subsample chroma to 1/4 res then upscale. The classic blurry red bleed.
- Head-switching: bottom 2-6 rows of frame get noise/displacement, randomly per frame.
- Time-base wobble: per-line horizontal offset oscillating slowly.
- RF interference: salt-and-pepper noise on luma + occasional white-line dropouts.
- Scanlines + interlace: drawgrid + slight vertical motion blur between fields.
- Generation loss: progressive contrast crush + saturation pull on higher intensities.
- Color shift: slight magenta cast common to old NTSC tapes.
Notes
- Pure ffmpeg — no extra deps.
- Source can be any resolution; output is 720p NTSC-shape (854x480 letterboxed if 16:9).
- Add
--ntscfor NTSC field rate (29.97),--palfor PAL (25fps).
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VERSIONS
- 0.0.1777076301935 — 2.6 KB — be5944e25e24
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