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Max
Nov 30, 2002

I recently started investigating glitch art, specifically with videos. A friend of mine in grad school specialized in this, and I've always wondered how he did it.

I looked up a lot of examples on how to make programs glitch out videos. Using FFmpeg and Avidmux seemed like a good starting point, but it didn't feel like it was doing enough for me. So instead I just downloaded a hex editor and went in that way.

I've found that different codecs give you different results, and also unfortunately contain different file structures, so finding the actual frame information is . . . aggravating.

Anyway, here's the result of going into an .mp4 clip from the shining and replacing some of the code with my name. I recorded the result off of VLC using a screen capture program so that I could get a clean video file out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSvKdm3LKlE

Apologies for it not being edited down.

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Max
Nov 30, 2002

toiletbrush posted:

I've rewritten the rendering part of my time distorter and now it runs in silky smooth realtime!

Download Processing if you haven't already, and then run the script which I've uploaded to paste bin here.

To use it just save the script somewhere and create a folder called 'data' in the same location and put your movies in there. 'maxdelay' controls the max number of frames back the script will go in a movie, and other than that the only param is the name of the movie to load.

The code is a bit of a mess and probably riddled with coding horrors but hopefully makes sense enough for you guys to get some fun out of it!

Thank you so much for posting this.

I made a quick and dirty video using this, pulled from the film "Jeanne Dielman," which is appropriately a film about duration. It came out kind of cool. I imagine this would be really interesting if used on a far more action packed clip. https://vimeo.com/87705019

Max
Nov 30, 2002

There are people in this thread that absolutely must submit to this. The Tate is asking for people to openly glitch their art to display.

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/special-event/open-call-submission-all-glitched

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