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Datamosh.
Let the picture melt into its own movement, like a broken video file.
Drag to compare. Left: the original clip. Right: the same clip through data.mosh, rendered by the app.
What does it do?
Datamosh keeps the movement of your video but drops the picture that should come with it, so pixels smear along the motion and shots bleed into each other.
Creative ideas
- Melt one shot into the next at a cut.
- Turn a camera move into a flowing digital texture.
- Make the drop of a song fall apart on screen.
How to use it
- Open the Effects tab.
- In the left rail, under VIDEO FX, click data.mosh.
- Use the inspector on the right to choose the mode and push the amount.
Level: medium. Undo anything with ⌘Z.
Example preset
- data.mosh — default settings
The exact settings of the demo above. Save yours with presets › save in the inspector.
Render notes
Needs movement: on a still shot there is nothing to smear. Rendered on demo footage: someone walking past a car.
Rendered by @@ennuienoir (headless export) from a single shot of our demo footage, encoded for the web: H.264, no sound.