A filter sits on top of the picture. REC runs the camera feed through the whole signal chain while you shoot: composite encoding, color bleed, tracking noise, head switching. What you frame in the viewfinder is what gets saved.
Composite video, luma and chroma processing, tracking and head switching noise: the whole chain runs on the live feed at capture, on the phone. Stop recording and the file is already finished, with no render step to sit through.
Eighty profiles across eight collections. Base is a clean tape with some warmth in it. Damage is dropouts and torn frames. The ones worth using are usually somewhere in between.
Open one up and the whole signal chain is there: composite simulation, luma and chroma, tape wear and dropouts, color bleeding, sharpness and grain, ringing at hard edges. Over seventy parameters per profile.
The camcorder date and time overlay in five formats, with a custom date for whatever era you are recreating. It is drawn into the frame at the moment you record.
RECPLAYPAUSEBatteryTape counterTape speed
Photos and video from your library go through the same chain as the live feed. Bring in what you shot last summer and export what comes out.
Tap to focus, pinch to zoom, and set the rest by hand. The processing sits underneath the controls and renders as you shoot.
LensStabilizationFocusExposureISOShutterWhite balance
Sound should age the way the picture does. Four levels of tape wear, printed into the recording alongside the video.
CleanMintWornDamaged
Green tint and the torch come on together. A dark room turns into something that looks recovered rather than shot.
Green tintAuto torch
Eight groups, sorted by what they do to the picture.
A tape in good condition: warmth and a little softness, with everything still intact.
Something found in a box. Faded color, dust, edges going soft.
Off-air looks. Cable, news desk lighting, the late-night hours.
The deck losing its place. Tracking error and timebase wobble.
Color behaving badly. Bleed, phase shift, smear across hard edges.
A tape that has been chewed. Dropouts, torn lines, missing frames.
Profiles built one at a time, without a particular deck to imitate.
A new set of parameters every time you tap it.
Eighty profiles, from a clean tape to one that has been chewed. Every parameter in the chain is yours to move.
