databending synced with music

NO VIDEO EFFECTS USED, ONLY AUDIO
See how it works: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETJLO_oJ2w
Since this technique involved transforming a video into audio, I used some audio effects with it. I noticed that, as the video went through a fade out, it steadily became more distorted and chaotic. With that in mind, I attempted to run a compressor through the video with a low cut off so that the compression corresponds to the kick drum of the music. Unfortunately, it turned too much digital data into chaos, so I manually "compressed" the audio via envelopes.
I'm about writing a program that lets you control the amount of glitchiness over a period of time, but I'm gonna have to look into how videos are encoded, first. Maybe throw in a compressor as well.
Music: Maximalist by Baths
Video: "WIldlife" in "Sample Videos" for Windows.

EDIT: Whoops. When I said "compression," I meant side-chaining :|

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• databending
• glitch

[Zvox]

Do you think you could possibly do a tutorial for this? I've recently gotten into databending and I'd like to know how exactly you got the audio to affect the video without breaking the file.

I was trying to do something similar to this earlier and I've managed to be completely unsuccessful bending video, let alone audio into video.

[TheConundrumer]

@Zvox It's really hard to get the audio to directly affect the video. That's why I gave up and manually edited in fade-ins in the video waveform, in rhythm

[Zvox]

@TheConundrumer Oh, so did you have two separate video files? A non-glitched one and a glitched one and then use the audio waveform as a guide to manually edit the glitched video to come in on the kick drum?

[TheConundrumer]

@Zvox Okay, here's what I did:

1. Make sure the video you're databending uses the Microsoft Video 1 codec (this one causes blocky glitches).

2. Import the video into Audacity as raw data, U-law or A-law, I don't know about endianess.

3. Use Audacity (or export to some audio file for your audio editing program of choice) to envelope small "fade-ins". The more you reduce the amplitude, the more distorted the video gets. The way I got it to sync with the music, I estimated when the kick happens

[TheConundrumer]

@Zvox

Make sure to apply the envelope in the body of the audio. Be careful not to touch the beginning bits since that's the header. If you envelope too much, the video would freeze for a few seconds.

4. Go back to Audacity and export as other uncompressed files as headerless RAW, U/A-law

5. Edit the video to fine tune the synchronization by splitting up the video and speeding up/slowing down clips.

[mmmpie466]

Glad to see that you're putting videos out again!

[Purtle28Patrick]

funky

[celticguy08]

Nature and music. Fuck yea.