VHS Prompt: Exact Wording and Example Frame

In the Lookbook this card is called VHS Camcorder.

VHS Camcorder example: a birthday party in a living room, a kid blowing out candles — Example frame made with this look. Scene: a birthday party in a living room, a kid blowing out candles.

What it is

Consumer analog video from a shoulder camcorder: soft low-resolution image, colour smearing past edges, tracking noise bands, blown highlights, a date stamp.

The prompt

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Prompt

VHS camcorder footage, 1989 home video, soft low-resolution image, chroma bleed, tracking noise bands, blown-out highlights, on-screen date stamp in the corner, 4:3 frame

Not this

A sharp image with RGB-split glitch effects. VHS is soft everywhere, with colour smearing sideways.

Other names

VHS Camcorder, VHS tape, camcorder home video, analog video

Pairs with

a blocky on-screen date stamp
handheld auto-zoom
warbly synth pad with tape wow

Build a full look around it

The Lookbook deals the camera, light, film look, palette and music that go with this card, and writes one prompt for the whole set.

Open VHS Camcorder in the Lookbook