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CatBus said:
Having seen the VHS transfers more often than any other transfers of these films, I think I understand the aesthetic you're shooting for here, and I think you've mostly hit the target. However, I think the one thing that's "off" is the compression. Everything about these screencaps exudes nostalgia for those happier times when the SE's didn't even exist... except the giant blocky compression artifacts that are straight from the glory days of YouTube videos of cats falling off television sets.
Both aesthetics are extremely cruddy, I grant you, but they are from two very different cruddy video eras, and combining the two is a little anachronistic (the screenshot in the preceding post is the worst offender). NTSC VHS, for all its many faults, had zero compression artifacts. If needed, a softening effect can be created using a blur filter instead.
Yes the compression was mainly just in order to get the thing under the vimeo 500mb limit (488mb was the size file i ended up with and from which those screencaps come from) I also thought members would be much more likely to check out what is essentially a bit of an oddity if it was quick to download. One side of effect of the compression seems to be though it makes the colours less rounded and more like the uncomplicated colours of vhs, but as you say the artifacts then muddy up the picture.
