Videotape Tracking Error
A worn videotape playing back: tracking bands roll through the picture, the bottom lines tear with head-switching noise and color bleeds sideways. Recreates 80s–90s home video playback for music videos, retro edits and nostalgic intros.
Prompt · replace [TEXT]
Tool-agnosticMake [TEXT] look like it is playing from a worn videotape on an old VCR. Start on a flat blue screen with a blocky white "PLAY" label and arrow, then cut to the picture rolling vertically and tearing while an on-screen tracking meter adjusts until it locks. Show [TEXT] in a heavy rounded sans, warm cream with a soft shadow, over a dim indigo scene with blurry party lights. Keep the playback imperfect: lines wobble sideways, the top of the frame bends, color smears a few pixels to the right of every edge, blacks are lifted and grainy, the bottom lines tear with head-switching noise, and a band of displaced lines and white dropout streaks rolls slowly upward. End with fast-forward noise bars, a stop label and the blue screen; loop every 8 seconds.
Visual DNA
- Rolling tracking band of torn, displaced lines and white dropout streaks
- Head-switching noise tearing the bottom few lines sideways
- Soft smeared chroma bleeding to the right of every edge
- Blue screen, vertical roll and auto-tracking settle before the picture locks
- Blocky on-screen display: play arrow, tracking meter and tape counter
- Category
- Analog Video & Glitch
- Demo built with
- WebGL
- Energy
- Lively
- Background
- Dark bg
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