anybody mess with databending?
grandpa_shig
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anyone? a while ago i uploaded a file to vimeo and as usual, when it comes to computers i really dont know what im doing. the file got jacked up cuz i think the bitrate was wrong and i was also using the wrong codecs. it looked pretty cool tho. i want to emulate it and there are quite a few folks messing with it but it seems that you need to know computer pretty well to fudge the data. theres some quick and easy tutorials but they dont seem to work. help plaese!
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PPU fuxed with it a bit on the video party joint.
Also does anyone know how to create short loops from AVI movies to use as a full screen web page?
http://butdoesitfloat.com/1625725/-a-fetish-made-of-crystals-and-electricity-animated-by-our-wishes
they seem to be on a similar databending vibe...
I like thiseffect. I didnt know it was called databending. I think kanye or kid cuddy had a vid like this. I have seen other videos on mtvu that use this effect pretty well too.
Also not of any help but, you can achieve an effect similar to this if you xerox or scan a photo and move it down as it being copied. Just something trippy to do to photos. Dope video BTW
there goes my productvity for the day!
::digression::
In general I'm not a fan of the bending scene, as most of the people I met involved in it were complete knobheads. But this is mainly based on the whole glitch electronics bending thing that was popular a decade or so back. A lot of the 'art' produced by these people seemed heavy handed and formulaic.
::end rant::
I like the whole manipulation of old video and messing with the digitising process though. There seems to be a lot of it about these days. Tumblr is full of that ish.
I'm a fan of these dudes work - http://www.aavv-videos.com/ - he gives a short explanation of his process on the first page.
I've been messing with this a bit, p & i frames are the key. you cut out the frame(whichever one it is) with the new colour info at the start of the cut & the movement controlling frames continue with the previous cuts colours overlayed
This three part tutorial on youtube with links to the free software you need is all I needed to get started. A little confusing at first but great to play with if you like geeking out video-style
it is possible to use audacity to databend as well, but still, the output is unreadable by all the picture editors i have.
if you run his song "equation" [off the windowlicker album] through a spectrograph, the visual representation of the tone waves actually show a picture of his face.......
5:27 for the money shot
edit: the song was clearly made for this exact purpose, because it's otherwise unlistenable.
yeah, someone just sent me the pc build of ffmpeg. its meant for macs tho. gonna work it out tonite, hopefully.