💈📼 The premiere video editing Mac app for clipping and cleaning converted VHS, lovingly crafted by Joby Bednar. Learn more https://videobarbershop.apphttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mpmnb4kh3k2hBeen having a blast learning about various deinterlacing algorithms. I’ve got a great UI where you can apply line reconstruction on a 3 sec sample to compare results. It all mentally clicked and I think of it like segments on a Rubik’s cube you compare. I’ll include a ton of incremental variations.01 Jul 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpmnb4kh3k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mph5vflv6k2pWorking on some polish of the text overlay system. More control of padding and the background, as well as adding text outline and grouping controls in four separate collections, Text, Layout, Readability and Background. Also adding a welcome message and onboarding popup for first time users.29 Jun 2026 18:52 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mph5vflv6k2phttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mojcui2aec2zVideo Barbershop Lite is now available... and FREE! Fully featured, you can now try out everything Video Barbershop can do for free and see if it's right for you! It simply watermarks your exported videos, but if all you need is to digitize your family movies (that is not watermarked) so try it now! https://apps.apple.com/app/video-barbershop-lite/id677385006617 Jun 2026 22:01 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mojcui2aec2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mmwo4r2l622vv1.4.0 added the ability to capture video in Video Barbershop. In this video I detail exactly how it works... and a bug in audio capture that I discovered while making this video... so that was fun... but important to be aware of at 15:50! https://youtu.be/dUA9kvmEOPQ28 May 2026 18:37 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmwo4r2l622vhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mmubuhbokc2dStatus update: started work on Video Barbershop Lite. A free version with mostly all the features of the paid version, to let you see what it can truly do and try it before you buy it. I expect it to come out within the next couple weeks.27 May 2026 19:52 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmubuhbokc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mmhoehz7hk2gv1.4.0 is now available! Be sure to update. It's a good one!22 May 2026 19:31 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhoehz7hk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mmhcmgf5uk2gFriday's Tip of the Week shows how you can create simple animated transitions across clips using screen shots, watermarking and keyframing. Video Barbershop was not designed for multi-track editing... but that doesn't mean you can't do some really cool stuff quickly and easily! youtu.be/Sx7Pq2A_ank https://youtu.be/Sx7Pq2A_ank22 May 2026 16:01 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhcmgf5uk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3ml4dniftr223Next update is going to feature a new utility to capture video piped into your computer. Video Barbershop will then be a complete end to end solution for capturing, editing and exporting your VHS collection!05 May 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4dniftr223https://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mksuhcnpgs2jv1.3.4 is Now Available! What's in it? I made a video so you can find out if you should update... which you should... because it's a really good update. Improvements to the commercial break detection system, a new pop out window for dual monitors and a number of bugs squashed. https://youtu.be/-tgTw2P1p7U01 May 2026 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksuhcnpgs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mkqzimbtxs2mv1.3.4 is in review with Apple and should be available soon! You now have the ability to detach the video preview player. Besides a number of bug fixes (all detailed on the website) the big update is commercial break detection is MUCH FASTER!01 May 2026 01:54 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqzimbtxs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mkkwtmkrzs2lTaking a break from trying to get the word out and shifting back to bug hunting and optimization. Although the commercial break auto-clipping tool is far better than it was in early development, I'm focusing on speeding it up! Hoping to get these addressed this week, expect an update early next week28 Apr 2026 15:51 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkwtmkrzs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mk4gedpv4k26v1.3.3 has been sent to Apple. Fixes for clip background coloring, as well as clip merging. Cleaned up some UI and made the Audio to Video utility far more efficient and reduced the file sizes orders of magnitude by switching from .mov to .mp422 Apr 2026 21:19 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4gedpv4k26https://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mk4fvx64ps26Say what you will about AI, but they know you can’t talk editing VHS on a Mac without talking about Video Barbershop! videobarbershop.app22 Apr 2026 21:10 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4fvx64ps26https://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mjqk4wgtp223Thank you everyone that beta tested Video Barbershop. Hopefully you saw the message posted to the build in TestFlight that it was coming to an end. I didn't see a simple way to send a message to the testers in TestFlight... preventing spam I guess? Seems like that would be a nice feature.18 Apr 2026 03:54 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjqk4wgtp223https://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mjk4yekumk2iVideo Barbershop is now available on the Apple App Store! The best damn VHS editing app out there! Spread the word, please, I need all the help I can get to get it on people’s radar. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/video-barbershop/id6754299238?mt=1215 Apr 2026 14:43 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjk4yekumk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mi2guv6z3k2aAlright! v1.3.2 is out and there is a very good chance this will be the final ship build. Looks like it's pretty solid and I'll submit for official release on the Apple App Store next week! It's been about 9-10 months in development, and I'm really proud of how far its come in that time.27 Mar 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2guv6z3k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mhemgj5jds2mI realized I could speed up commercial break detection. I don’t have actual stats on the difference but it’s looking like it’s pushing 25x faster 😬😂18 Mar 2026 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhemgj5jds2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mhbtwhwols2yv1.3.0 has been pushed live, with it a much needed boost to loading videos and background audio caching, dramatically speeding up your editing!17 Mar 2026 20:49 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhbtwhwols2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mgbiolybek2lWas able to track down some performance crippling bugs dealing with clips and audio, as well as timeline scrubbing slowness. Hopefully should be cleaned up this week.05 Mar 2026 00:03 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgbiolybek2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mg4j3g4ons2wv1.2.9 is live… some additional metadata template functions, and some tweaks, but the main addition is finer control of audio and video bitrate on export. Before I was just letting the OS calculate the best quality but that’s a bit silly with fuzzy SLP VHS. 😂03 Mar 2026 00:26 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4j3g4ons2whttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mf3rfq5x5s2oOne of those days. Thought v1.2.7 was about to go live then noticed a big bug. Had to fix and resubmit so maybe Thursday? Anyway, work for 1.2.8 creeped in, but we’ll just call it 1.2.7. 😂17 Feb 2026 23:58 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3rfq5x5s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mepmxuetdc2av1.2.6 is now available! Helpful transform buttons and a total revamp of the template language. Was actually approved faster than I expected, but I’ll get new videos up about the metadata grammar shortly.13 Feb 2026 04:06 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mepmxuetdc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mem5dwohus2bv1.2.6, which should be available shortly, adds helpful buttons to automate common VHS video transformations, like correcting the aspect ratio of an upscaled video, or fullscreening for social media. I also show how you can pan and track subject matter after cropping. https://youtu.be/0sDkYNEQxZw11 Feb 2026 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mem5dwohus2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3me5oxx4hyk2hToday metadata in Video Barbershop officially turned to plaid. I got recursive parsing working, which begged should I add branching logic, and things got so silly with embedded braces that I put Lisp to shame… so now I’m working on a macro system. Metadata templates might be Turing complete.06 Feb 2026 00:54 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3me5oxx4hyk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3me2voksfuc2gGreat day bug fixing. Finally fixed an annoying video preview bug that was not playing nice with anchors and changes to resolutions and aspect ratios. Next weeks update should also contain a couple helpful details related to video scaling as well. Making strides towards launch! 🚀04 Feb 2026 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3me2voksfuc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mdyn672zfk2vExcited to have made this video in Video Barbershop, including the thumbnail. Really digging my new intro and outro for the channel. [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Feb 2026 00:39 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdyn672zfk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mdtmdxv7xc2uBig update hitting this week! Really excited with this addition. Tools for managing/cataloging your videos after you edit them! Metadata & Report Templates in Video Barbershop v1.2.4 Beta youtu.be/iUiawPFa58w https://youtu.be/iUiawPFa58w02 Feb 2026 00:41 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdtmdxv7xc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3md5436mnoc2lThis week I got working metadata management and output logs! Still some polish needed but talking to @faroutvhs.bsky.social about cataloging inspired this addition. Fully customizable. Doing things like YouTube chapter markers for merged clips is trivial. Really excited with this feature! Next week!24 Jan 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3md5436mnoc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mcwzcl5v6k2wv1.2.0 Beta has been approved and is live on TestFlight! The big addition is keyframes added to most of the clip editing controls. I just finished timeline zoom controls, v1.2.1 Beta, and will be getting that in the queue for hopefully a Friday update.21 Jan 2026 15:45 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwzcl5v6k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/videobarbershop.bsky.social/post/3mcvg7o4ewk2xStarted working on timeline zooming and slider UI. Got the sliders working with the video timeline… clip timeline is going to be a beast but hopefully get working in the next couple days!21 Jan 2026 00:31 +0000at://did:plc:qdfpy2462pb2yijia72vbfce/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcvg7o4ewk2x