Look

VHS 1994

Date-stamped, scan-lined home video.

How this one runs

Model
seedance-2.0-fast
Mode
Text to video
You bring
Just a sentence

What this effect is

VHS stored colour separately from brightness at far lower resolution, so reds bleed past their edges, scan lines show, and the picture floats. The date stamp burned into the corner is what instantly relocates a scene into the nineties.

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