Need help with "VHS Effect"

[Riley Stearns]

Hello, my name is Riley and I'm currently in post production on a short film I directed. I don't own nor have I ever used After Effects, but there's a effect that I'm looking to incorporate into my short at several specific points that I'm curious to see if After Effects could achieve so I could find/hire someone to do for me.

The effect is the static lines that sporadically dissect the image horizontally when a vhs tape is fast forwarded or rewound. Along with this effect I need to have a moment where static appears for about a second over the filmed image mimicing what happens when a VCR is used to record a show and occasionally you get a moment of poor quality. Actually a lot of people have seen the VHS look a done a couple of times recently in the films "cloverfield" and to a much lesser extent in "be kind rewind".

http://vimeo.com/849837
Here's a snippet from my title sequence where I need the fast forward and pause lines over the footage, then as if someone presses play the lines go away, then someone presses fast forward again...

Here's an example from paused footage I shot and captured with my Hi8 camera so everyone knows exactly what I'm talking about. http://www.dvxuser6.com/uploaded/25616/1207084967.jpg
Does anyone have any experience with pseudo-static in After Effects or know how one might go about it? Thanks in advance!

[inspire84]

Why not go the old fashioned way? Record the miniDV tape TO VHS, then play it back in the VHS, while recording onto the miniDV. Just push fast forward and play live, while recording it. Can't get more organic than that.

[Riley Stearns]

That was my plan from the beginning, but I figured I'd have more control over things if it was done as a visual effect. I'm pretty sure that's what I'll end up doing. Thanks man.

[rook]

Create a solid layer and add fractal noise. Adjust the peramaters utill you get something that looks stretchy and contrasty (static interruption, signal break-up like).

Next you need to animate the evolution settings. Set a start key frame and then tweak the hell out of the second key frame.

Pre comp that layer and stack your video layer (the one you want to screw up) underneath it. Add a displacement map effect to this video layer.

Set the displacement map layer to the pre comp you just made and begin the tweaking process.

Have fun.

-rook

[Riley Stearns]

Create a solid layer and add fractal noise. Adjust the peramaters utill you get something that looks stretchy and contrasty (static interruption, signal break-up like).

Next you need to animate the evolution settings. Set a start key frame and then tweak the hell out of the second key frame.

Pre comp that layer and stack your video layer (the one you want to screw up) underneath it. Add a displacement map effect to this video layer.

Set the displacement map layer to the pre comp you just made and begin the tweaking process.

Have fun.

-rook
Thank you very much for taking the time to write that out.

[rook]

No biggie.
Good luck.
-rook