Thursday, July 25, 2024

How 2 Datamosh

Hello.

I used datamoshing a lot in my latest film. It was pretty hard to find good tutorials (especially text tutorials) on it, so I’ve decided to make both a video and a text tutorial myself.

I love datamoshing because you can achieve some really cool effects very easily, and there’s a lot of room for experimentation :)

This post is a work in progress, so stay tuned!

Table of contents

  1. Preparing videos (encoding)
  2. Transition between videos
  3. Further reading

Preparing videos (encoding)

Video for datamoshing needs to be encoded in a specific way. This applies to every datamoshing effect.

  1. Open the video in Avidemux.
  2. On the left, there is a section called “Video Output”. [Read more...]