The second (and more exciting) kind of data moshes takes a certain kind of key frame from one video and replaces the same kind of frame in another video.

I’ve muted the audio in this upload, but as output from the script it still sounds pretty good. Here’s an example of one such video, glitching up Beyoncé’s incredible Countdown video with itself. The first takes a single video as a source and rearranges some key frames to glitch it out. The script I wrote can create two kinds of datamoshes. (Side note: it’s possible and awesome to actually create animated Magic Eyes, but that’s beside the point.)Īs you’ll see, I fell a little short of that stretch goal, but still managed to make something that looks pretty cool. The holy grail would be to use all the motion from one video over all the stills of another, to make sort of an animated Magic Eye effect, but without the eye focus requirement.

My goal for this project was to use two separate video sources - to make a “mosh-up,” har har - and to completely automate the merger. In those cases, and in the tutorials and techniques documented since then, the glitches are typically introduced to a single edited video, and done manually in a visual editing program. It became popular several years ago when it was used in near-simultaneous music videos by Chairlift and Kanye West. Making mosh-ups: automated datamoshing from multiple video sources ĭatamoshing is a glitch art technique applied to videos to intentionally create “pixel bleeding” and other digital motion artifacts.

Datamosh a video