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Bixy · Boot Joined: 11 Dec 2009 Posts: 38 Location: Ithaca, NY

Video distortion?

**Posted:** Sat Dec 12, 2009 12:42 am

jww · Kilroy Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 2

Funny you sould ask...I was recently looking into video distortion myself and I have Sony Vegas (something like $600). It has all kinds of great video distortion filters built into it but the static type effect I wanted was not so easy to do. I posted to the main Vegas forum and someone had an interesting suggestion - render it, play it, mess with the analog signal, re-record it. If you manually jiggle the plug you can get all kinks of easy static for free.

O.k., not exactly what you asked for but think about it - if you want to hash a video signal then there is no better way to degrade a signal than first turn it into good old analog and then mess with the signal path.

To do exactly what you were asking for, however, is probably going to take some $$. There are a bunch of home video editing tools out there for around $100 but I'm not sure if they'll do what you want. You can do most of that with the over $500 tools but sounds like that's a bit over your price range.

**Posted:** Tue Dec 22, 2009 11:42 pm

Lieoften · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2008 Posts: 125

Funny thing about the internet... you can find pretty much anything for free... Money's not a problem on the internet.

**Posted:** Mon Dec 28, 2009 3:32 am

Nerd42 · Boot Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Posts: 22

I used to have a great program that created television snow and it was a free program from the demoscene but I can't find it now! Sad

**Posted:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:06 pm