That happens quite a lot when you work with video/effects software. And not even in that fun, braggy way. After making video for hundreds or thousands of hours, your brain kinda gets rewired to always look at video as you do in work - trying to remember and grasp all of the mechanics of it - layers, effects, movements, etc.. And it's kind of an intrusive thought when you just watch video. Sometimes I find my brain thinking about effect stacks on an image instead of just enjoying it like a decent mind sponge.
@@cybernakulum Hahaha, check out this guy, humbly bragging about his motion graphics skills but then mentioning he works with "layers, effects, and movements". Cause After Effects is the pinnacle of compositing and motion graphics, and is definitely not just a program kids and freelancers alike use to dabble with video effects.
@@n3bloons23 r/wooooosh Edit : i made a shitty joke (it's not even a joke) calm down ^^' Is this a witch trial or something. Anyways, don't make shitty comments like me and take care.
of course you're aware that it's "come back" already, several times… but in a way that isn't consciously "retro"? probably not going to happen for a long time from now. it would have to be some time after most of the people who were alive then are dead and gone
@@andrewn735 I don't think so, if it was simply about listening to the music, for example, we are already doing that for free on THEIR OWN official channels. The ban would only truly apply on creative grounds, where the IA that is already put in place is doing the shittiest job deciding who is violating copyright and who isn't, fucking most creators in the ass for doing nothing.
@@shitbag. i am probably the only person on earth who likes the suggestions (even though the videos are often really old) because they show you sometimes something new wich isn't related to the kind of Videos you usually watch
You are hitting parts of my childhood nostalgia that I didn't even Know you could hit. srsly im not understanding why looking at vcr boxes is forcing me to hold back tears
The world will outlive us, and we are just passing through. Have fun remembering, but also make memories you'll shed tears for in the future. Take care g
Here you see one of the top commenters in RU-vid, JedDraws, you will most likely see them along side with our lord and saviour, Justin Y. Move along now people, next up is Morgan Lemon.
Year 1815: blank paper with pen that it’s very culture, heart and romantic. Year 819234567123: blank “cloudfuck” dematerialized that it’s very silly, sick and ignorant.
I really hope this style of design becomes popular again. It looks absolutely stunning and has so much character to it compares to today's bland minimalism that's taken over everything.
@@delphicdescant I think the issue with current minimalism is that it's boring and uninventive, unoriginal. These VHS covers were colorful, made to give someone a certain feeling or have a certain meaning. Current minimalism is very bland, black on white. It's also mostly based on older logos with more life. Minimalism is about looking beautiful yet simple, not bland and uninspiring.
LOVE THIS! My dad worked for 3M and sold Scotch brand tape here and in Latin America. He was on the team that came up with the colored sphere and the marketing campaign. Thank you for this!
Hi I'm writing a book about VHS tape covers. Is there any chance I can get in touch with your dad? He is exactly the kind of person I need to get in touch with to understand the design process and thinking that went on behind these beautiful objects. Can you PM me, please?
@@jayexonauts5587 Thanks for writing back! Seems I can't switch on PM function on my channel. Any chance you can get in touch with me on Twitter @itsmybike ?
Man, I want these kind of aesthetics to make a comeback in today's modern world. These are far more appealing than the "sleek and simple" design we've got going on. Infact, just modernise VHS tapes again, love em alot
I work at a thrift store as the person who collects the donations and someone donated like 100 of these tapes. I'm happy to say that they are just as beautiful in real life and despite being born too late to remember many of these from my childhood, I could recognize ~80% of them because of this absolutely beautiful video.
The engineers had thought they'd gone and created the greatest format to ever exist, and triumph over their success by employing skillful graphic artists to create art that compliments it in a way that no other style could.
ball saxophone CD used infared lasers, one of the thicker wavelengths of light. They held 650 megabytes. DVDs used a red laser, narrower than infared. They held like 6.7 or so GB. A blu ray uses a blue laser, the thinnest visible light. They hold like 60gb or something
Holy crap I just realized the trend of diagonal parallel lines is based directly on the innovation that made VHS possible! It's exactly how the video is recorded onto the tape! Thanks Technology Connections for explaining that to me.
I'm a year older than you but I feel the exact same way. I grew up with VHS alongside DVD since we had a combo player and a bunch of old tapes from when they were still being released.
well nowadays it went from a magic black box and magic differently coloured smaller boxes to differently sized and proportioned magic boxes with a magic window powdered by magic black boxes of various sizes
[The smoothest synthwave you've ever heard] A true classic, and a marvel in its time. The powerhouse of visual media for decades, with its cousins not far behind it and its competitors left in the dust. It has traded hands from blockbuster hits, to simple home movies, and with tens of millions sold, the VHS is a truly iconic symbol of the late 20th century. So how did this marvel of the early information age come about in the first place? Why did it beat out the competitors in it's time? And most importantly... Why did it all eventually come unwound? [AHOY LOGO/SPLASH ART]
The essence of the times is captured so elegantly and perfectly in this work. It's obvious there was study before embarking on its production. It's so well done - thank you for bringing this nostalgia to the internet.
@lilboybailey Not at all! PAL VHS being 25fps is a misconception. Analog TV is interlaced, and each interlaced "frame" is actually composed of two different images, stored at half the vertical resolution of the standard. These images are called fields. PAL TV (and therefore, PAL VHS) displays 50 fields per second. The reason for this confusion is people think 25 interlaced frames = 25 progressive frames, and deinterlace the footage by blending the two fields contained in an interlaced frame into one progressive frame. The correct way to deinterlace the footage is to interpolate the missing lines in each of the fields, turning each field into a progressive frame. This results in video that plays at 50 progressive frames per second. I know my explanation is convoluted, but no, 50fps would not break the immersion at all - it would help it.
Took me back to my childhood. Grabbing a tape at the last minute to record a movie that was starting in 60 seconds, only to find the tab had been snapped off. So you frantically run around the house trying to find some selotape to cover it up to hit record.
I thought this was going to be an obscure video essay about how under appreciated the art is, while I would have admired that. It feels so much better to just have it shown to you in a beautiful way. Rather than have it explained
God this video is so fucking good. The choice of covers abs especially the editing is just perfect. The little edit at 0:50 where he kicks the colors to the music is just awesome. Great stuff here.
This video really made me appreciate something. I could just say that I wish I was born in this era, where cassettes and tapes ruled. I could say that I wish I grew up with the different music, the different people, so many things. But then, I would have to forsake so many things I've come to take for granted. I'd have to leave behind the things that made me the person I am today, being on the cusp of adulthood. Could I just give it all up and try again, in a different way? No. What I am glad for, is that I get to experience videos like these, that show just how alive and vibrate the world was before me. I can live today and see what happened yesterday, meet the people and talk to the people who grew up with this unique experience. I can see all of the beautiful things that have been made in rememberance of what once was, and is no longer. What I can do in the future is to do the same for others. Constantly forwarding the human experience. Isn't that the age we live in now? Man, I gotta go the fuck to bed I got a final to fail
Woah that one at 0:52 is nostalgic. My dad used to buy VHS all the time as he recorded lot of hockey games and he often got those ones. Know what's funny though, we've almost gone backwards in a way. It's actually very hard to record a TV show for archival now. You can use a PVR but now the show is stuck in a proprietary "black box" that you can't do anything with. With VHS at least it was on removable storage in a standard format. You could just buy more tapes as needed, pass them to a friend etc. Now if your PVR is full you have to delete stuff. I bough my dad a HDMI capture device that can record to USB stick so guess that's the closest you're going to get to a VCR, but at least with VCR you could watch something else while it was recording.
TV tuner cards are very much still a thing and, at least in the US, as long as it has a CableCARD port on it, you can get encrypted channels that you pay for, just need a conditional access module, you just gotta ask the provider for one though. Only issue is that Microsoft's support for that equipment is dying and the free alternatives ate unstable as hell
I think thats maybe the point. Was too easy to record and pass it around. Copyright infringement was their biggest complaint back then. My mom still has shelves full of movies that were recorded on blank tape and passed around at work.
I got a TV decoder that can record raw TS streams to a USB drive. It's awesome, though nowadays there's no interesting content on national TV in my country. I use it to record and archive TV ads.
This is an amazing piece of animation! The first one should have read "Ampex" rather than "Aphex," but aside from that I have no quarrels with it. The way you got each one to seamlessly morph into the next is nothing short of fantastic. Speaking not just as a fan of old VHS tapes but also as a longtime pro graphic designer: Thank you for loading up a bunch of great memories!
1:06 This one is literally standing on my desk, with the recording of Czech Television´s "special report" on the 9/11 attacks, that happened earlier that day. All of this recorded over the movie Amadeus
Designers were really fond of stripes and in the later years, cubes and spheres. Was hoping to see some TDK designs in here too! Nostalgic but I'm glad we moved on from VHS and past LDs and CDs!
Couldn't agree more. Love the designs of old blank VHS tape boxes. So much so that I bought all 9 boards in 5boro's first VHS series and they've been hanging on my walls for years now.
I still remember video companies using tapes like Maxel,Scotch,and TDK to record the studios’movies like I remember that the Raiders of the Lost Ark & Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan said on the wrapper,”Recorded on Scotch Video as was Back to the Future.❤️ the video!
This really is beautiful. It really makes me nostalgic for those covers, there was a simple charm to them, but you really expanded that with the transitions. You've really got some skill and an eye for visual design! Dang, going to hold on to the few of these covers that I still have lying around.
Seeing all these VHS designs brings me back to a moment in time that is hard to re-live. From seeing Maxel cover from my grandparent's home movies to the Memorex tape that had my favourite movie recorded off the TV. Nostalgia always triumphs!
My grandfather recently passed away. We've been cleaning out his trailer home and have literally carried out thousands of pounds of blank VHS tapes (as in never recorded to), all makes and brands. He was a habitual TV show recorder from early on when blanks first became available on the market and recorded shows on VHS all the way up until a month before he died suddenly from hearth failure caused by an infection that brought on pneumonia. I have to say of all those brands, Fuji was an absolute beast. Those VHS were built like tanks and had some real heft to them and their cases despite having the same record time as the cheaper brands. Looking through all the blank VHS tapes plus the ones that actually had stuff on them, I was very much reminded of this video and just had to come watch it again. One little treasure I found was a TV recording of The Hobbit, the original cartoon who's sound effect reels were all lost in a fire years ago. The destruction was so complete, that when they released it on DVD, all the sound effects were missing. I am 100% gleeful to hear those amazing sounds once again, even if it is VHS quality.
