Recreating the VHS colour bleed

Looking a screenshots and videos filmed on the good ol' VHS, I'm wondering how to recreate the colour bleed. It was mostly red and yellow, but some overlapped others depending on the quantity of that colour. How can this be recreated in After Effects?

Could you not lay your project off to tape? Then capture it back in? That'll give you a genuine VHS look. It's a techinque I've seen some use it for mockups of junctions to great effect:

A link to a clever mix of Dancera + Balloon idents would be here, but I can't find it.

That was a test of mine from 5 years ago:

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Burned to DVD > Cheap Sanyo Mono VCR > Old WinTV Cap card via composite. Was mainly a test of the effects of dubbing to VHS and sound editing - I enjoyed composing the music; that Tumbler track is my personal fave of those three.

Easier to see at larger sizes but in addition to chroma bleed, it usually creates a sort of ghosting to the right hand side of objects - white objects carrying dark smudges and vice versa, like a thick over-sharpening halo, not nice. I think it is more severe on VHS than Betamax.

Can't remember seeing that mock first time round but it's fantastic! By far one of the, if not the best mock I have ever seen!

Well that's very generous of you James, glad you like it!

Sorry about staying off-topic, but I don't recall ever seeing that either and it's very clever indeed! The music in particular is great apart from the last ident, the ballet one, the music seems a bit too upbeat for the mood of the ident and the balloon sticking out behind the wall is comical at the least!

Thats the one I knew it had been done in a rather nice analogue way, but couldn't for the life of me recall who made it. Well done Paul, great stuff

I've tried a couple of times in the past to give something a VHS look with video editing programmes, but nothing can do as well as actually sticking it on a tape and re-capturing it.

If we still had our VCR and some tapes, I would give it a try, but in the meantime, I should search up those terms and try on modern day footage..... STRAIGHT TO YOUTUBE!!