In plain English, datamoshing is an umbrella term for an array of cool effects you get by glitching, altering, or otherwise breaking the fundamental structure of video files’ data. This is a great introduction to datamoshing for beginners! What’s datamoshing? Learn how to make video glitch art by datamoshing with a variety of tools. I know the how of datamoshing but I can’t get a specific effect to work.Making Video Glitch Art: How to Datamosh, in Plain English.Someone used Audacity successfully to do datamoshing - Datamosh’d a screenshot with Audacity, came out pretty vibrant. GitHub - wayspurrchen/byebyte: Destroys your files (on purpose).GitHub - ucnv/aviglitch: A Ruby library to destroy your AVI files.GitHub - fand/node-aviglitch: A node.js porting of aviglitch rubygem by ucnv.GitHub - amgadani/Datamosh-python: Datamoshing scripts written in python.

GitHub - grampajoe/Autodatamosh: Perl script that automatically datamoshes MPEG4-encoded AVI videos.GitHub - happyhorseskull/you-can-datamosh-on-linux: it’s a script that makes datamoshing with python fun and easy.Making mosh-ups: automated datamoshing from multiple video sources.These are command-line tools for datamoshing and glitching videos: This is a comprehensive list of resources for making glitch art: Glitchet: Art Resources Scripts Using these settings, I was able to get some glitch effects, but they were hit or miss. Here are instructions for using a later version (> 2.7) of Avidemux: Datamoshing using Avidemux 2.7.0. That said, Avidemux 2.7.1 seems to be stable on a fully updated Mac. I tried downloading Avidemux 2.5.4 based on these instructions - TUTORIAL How to install avidemux for datamoshing on Mac OS X - Art! - Glitchet Forum - but it wouldn’t load on my system (OSX Mojave). Some people recommend using a different operating system (e.g. Many people report that Avidemux doesn’t work as well for datamoshing on newer versions of OS X (I don’t know about Windows or Linux). Other handy tools to have are VLC for viewing and converting a variety of video files and ffmpeg as a general command-line video utility. Here are some good introductions to Avidemux:Īsap Mob - Yamborghini High Music Video Effect (Premiere Pro & Avidemux Tutorial) - YouTube You can also do basic video editing with it, though many people edit the original videos in some other software (e.g. Datamoshing AvidemuxĪvidemux is a free tool commonly used for datamoshing. It has links to resources I’ve found helpful and code for manipulating video and running command-line scripts. I’ve made a video art repo to track my work.

In particular, I’m exploring how to make destructive effects with datamoshing and how to generate style transfers with deep learning.

I’ve started playing around with video art.

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