What is datamoshing? Check out some examples and learn how to use the effect in these tutorials.

How to datamosh videos. How to Datamosh, in Plain English. Asap Mob - Yamborghini High Music Video Effect (Premiere Pro & Avidemux Tutorial) - YouTube. 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. Datamoshing is a cool new art form that takes uses digital videos to create original artistic works by combining them together using software. It takes advantage of the way that digital video is encoded to make one video appear to dance across and destroy the other video is a very psychedelic way. If you use a Mac, all you need are videos and two programs, which you can get in one.zip here.

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Datamoshing. First off, what is it? Perhaps you’ve seen it in glitchy videos by mistake, or perhaps you’ve seen it used for a stylized purpose in videos by ASAP Mob and ASAP Rocky. (Or perhaps you’ve even seen some of the viral datamoshed videos like Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball.”) Wherever it comes from, datamoshing has become a popular style that can make a video stand out.

So, how does it work? Datamoshing is basically a technique of damaging video clips to create a glitch effect wherein frames that should change don’t. It’s most noticeable between cuts and across motion. According to datamoshing.com (which is a great resource on the technique), “datamoshing is the process of corrupting, removing or replacing I-frames, causing P-frames to be applied to the wrong picture.”

That being said, there are several different ways to create this effect. Let’s jump into some of the most accessible techniques and tutorials to show you how to harness the glitch for your stylized purposes.

The Basic Concepts of Datamoshing

In this datamoshing tutorial series (be sure to watch all three parts), an anonymous YouTuber who goes by the auspicious moniker of datamosher gives one of the early iterations of a breakdown of what the technique is and how it works. It’s a great place to start understanding how I-frames and P-frames work — and what happens when you get them not to work. The programs he uses are free to download, but they are essential for a few outdated options that help the process.

Datamoshing for Stylized Effect

As inspired by the datamoshing in Asap Mob’s Yamborghi video, this tutorial by Justin Odisho breaks down how to recreate and add some of the style into the datamoshing effect. He uses some of the basic concepts from the tutorial series above, including some of the same free programs to create the corruptions; however, he takes it a step further by showing how he can take the glitched footage into Premiere Pro to stylize with colors and other effects.

Datamoshing in After Effects

If you’re looking for a little more control of the effect across the board (and tentative about using multiple programs), Frikanih FX shows how to create a similar datamosh effect in After Effects without using any additional plugins. While this process is a little more painstaking and less authentic, it does allow more customization from the get-go as you create the glitches more precisely — in regards to how much, when, and where you’d like to apply the effect.

What are your thoughts on the datamosh effect? Let us know in the comments. You might also want to check these distortion elements to give your videos a dramatic edge!

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Datamosh Studio is a datamosh video editor. You can use this program to perform datamoshing on videos in a quick and easy manner. Find out more about datamoshing here.

This software is currently in beta and it may contain bugs. If you find a bug please report it here.

Features

• Supports importation of AVI, WMV, MP4, FLV and MOV formats

• Allows frame by frame editing of video

• Exports to MP4 format for easy playing

• Takes care of placing an IFrame at the beginning of the exported video

• Allows customization of the format imported videos are imported to

You can't mix videos without audio with videos that have audio. Adding a silent audio track to the video before importing will allow you to use it with videos that have audio.

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Xvid 1.3.4
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