Make any video look like a VHS tape
Filmina puts VHS effects on the videos you watch in Chrome, live on the picture: VHS Tape for tape grain, color bleed and a warm glow; True VHS for scanlines and a rolling tracking bar; and VCR Display for the PLAY and date stamp of an old recorder. They work on YouTube, Twitch and most other sites.
Filmina is free to start; these effects are Pro, with 3 free picks a week. No account, nothing uploaded.
Try it on a canal bridge
Pick an effect and set its Amount, then switch to the animation to see it on a cartoon.
Now showing Effect: True VHS
Video: Tears of Steel (© 2012 Blender Foundation) and Big Buck Bunny (© 2008 Blender Foundation), licensed CC BY 3.0; Tears of Steel cropped to 16:9. Graded in your browser by the extension's own renderer; nothing is uploaded.
Three ways to VHS
The same frame with each effect, drawn by the extension's shader.
The tape itself
VHS Tape
Grain, colors that bleed past their edges, and a warm glow on the bright parts.
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The tape on a TV
True VHS
Grain and color bleed, plus scanlines and the tracking bar that rolls up the screen.
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The recorder
VCR Display
PLAY, the tape speed and a date stamp in the corner, with a tracking band now and then.
Make it your tape, not a filter
Turn the Amount down for a tape that was looked after and up for one that wasn't: the grain keeps its size and only gets fainter. Effects sit on top of looks, so True VHS over the Home Movie look gives the warm, faded color of an old home video.
On Netflix and other protected services
Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and HBO Max don't let an extension read the picture, so the parts of a VHS effect that have to, the color bleed and the glow, sit out there. The grain, scanlines, tracking bar and VCR Display are drawn over the video, so they stay.
Free and Pro
The VHS effects are part of Pro. On the free plan you can apply 3 Pro looks or effects a week at no cost, and hover any of them in the rail to preview it on your video as often as you like.
Turn it on in three steps
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Add Filmina to Chrome
It is free and needs no account. Edge and Brave work too.
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Show the rail on a video
Play something, click the Filmina icon in the toolbar and press Show rail, or press Alt+Shift+S. The rail sits beside the player.
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Pick a VHS effect
Open FX and tap VHS Tape or True VHS under Combo, or VCR Display under Camera. Its Amount is at the top of the flyout.
Questions
Common questions
- Yes. Filmina adds VHS Tape, True VHS and VCR Display to YouTube and most other sites in Chrome, drawn live on the video. They are part of Pro, and the free plan can apply 3 Pro effects a week.
- Partly. Netflix protects the picture, so the color bleed and glow sit out there; the grain, scanlines, tracking bar and VCR Display still draw over the video.
- Yes. The Amount slider at the top of the FX flyout fades the effect from 0 to 100%; the grain stays the same size and only gets fainter.
- No. Filmina only changes the picture; the audio plays as it always does.
- Yes, with Pro: frame capture saves the filtered frame as a PNG where the site allows it. Filmina does not record video.
Try it on your own videos.
Install Filmina free and preview every effect on your video. The free plan applies 3 Pro effects a week; Pro unlocks them all.