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Haha, that just happens to be the very first video camera I ever bought. Ah, nostalgia. For starters, the image quality of a Hi-8 tape is better than that of a VHS tape.

I'll leave out the technical details as to why Hi-8 was better and where it held its place among S-VHS and was eventually replaced by the superior MiniDV tape format. Hi-8 cameras also recorded 8-bit audio at 32kHz, so if you're really trying to be true to the format, your audio specs should match the video. Anyway, to get this look inside of Premiere natively (without 3rd party plugins), it is possible but it will take some effort. The easiest thing to do would be to edit your film in a proper 1080p/24 sequence first, and then drag that entire sequence into a NEW sequence set up for NTSC DV. This will give you that very nice 4:3 square-ish shape.

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Language arts games. Scale up the size to get rid of any letterbox bars. Now you'll need to do a bit of color correction. The old Hi-8 format recorded images in 4:1:1 color space.

This translates into color not being as saturated as you might see from a larger HD sensor. You could also add a sharpen filter and slowly crank that up to get a more old video-y look. Hi-8 records a higher resolution of luminance compared to VHS, so that translates to a crisper and sharper image on screen. When you go to render, you'll need to create an interlaced image to really sell it. Select one of the NTSC DV export presets.

Hi-8 tapes are more difficult to erase than VHS tapes due to how they're made with the idea that this would make them more durable and resilient over time. So, while their image will degrade over time just like any other tape based media, they should hold up at least a little bit better than your typical VHS tape. For glitches and dropout simulations, Trapcode has a decent plugin and Digieffects has one too. Can't remember pricing off the top of my head, but I think the Digieffects one was about $100 and the Trapcode one was more. That's probably WAY more than you ever wanted to know.

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I have an old mini-dv camera that has analog input/outputs on it. I would use it as my analog/digital bridge and go firewire out of the computer, through the camera, into a VCR and the reverse to bring it back in. It depends on the look you're trying to achieve though. If you're looking for just down-ressing the footage and giving it basic VHS qualities, that would work. If you want it to look like VHS that's been transferred and played back too many times, damaged (bad tracking, etc.) then a plugin might work better for you.

Going the analog route, copying it back and forth between two VCRs a dozen times could also achieve it. Major issue: VHS is 50i (or 60i in the US) which cannot be reproduced using a 24p source. There are simply not enough frames per second. A high framerate is one of the things that makes VHS look unique. So what you should do is record at 50p/60p, then downgrade/downscale the resolution and add effects. In addition: If you wish to cut between HD and VHS and be true to the VHS format, your project has to be in 25p/50p or 50i (interlacing won't matter if you shoot at half the framerate as long as you stick to the right upper/lower field first.) A different solution is to play the VHS video on a CRT television and film that, making it part of the narrative, e.g with a super slow zoom or tracking. Could look cool.

Edit I just reread you question and apparently you have already shot it. My advice will then be a little different. If we are talking about a minor part in the film, I would start working on a 50p timeline instead, increase the frame rate 4% from 24p to 25p and then add a frame doubler of some sorts (pixelmotion, twixtor or similar) and then downscale and downgrade the whole thing with effects. To be fair, if you see 'found footage' type films of the vhs/digicam style that are more than 5-6 years old, the frame rate has most definitely been converted to 24p to fit with the projection rate (this was just before proper digital film cameras and way before digital projection).

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You can get away with it if the subject matter is interesting enough. There will always be some suspension of disbelief on behalf of the audience anyway.

If you really want to emulate VHS closely you have to double the frame rate, but I'm quite sure you can get away with 24p in most cases. It's been 10-15 years since people regularly watched home videos in 50i/60i on CRTs and most young people never have at all.