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Make Your Videos Look Like Crap with an App That Simulates an 80s Camcorder

Because why not?
Rachel Pick
New York, US
Image: Rarevision

For those who are sick of hi-def and want to harken back to more lo-fi times, LA post-production studio Rarevision has created an app to make your smartphone videos look like they were shot with an 80s camcorder.

The app, called VHS Camcorder, gives you a choice of three shitty framerates and allows you to further degrade the image by shaking your phone or swiping your finger across the screen. You can also add that classic datestamp in the corner of the frame so it looks just like a submission from America's Funniest Home Videos. And Rarevision has managed to degrade the sound your phone records, too, for maximum authenticity.

Given our collective childhood nostalgia and yen for retro-looking images, VHS Camcorder may just catch on. Maybe it'll become the new Tumblr aesthetic: degradewave.