Digital Glitch Effect

[Mike Wheeler]

Hey..

The closest I can figure would be the “TV Malfunction” effect in the “Delirium” plugin pack by Digieffects… I’m sure with some tweaking you could get it to look like that glitch effect….

https://www.digieffects.com/products/delirium.html

….if you do find some other way of doing that glitch, please let me know….

[Littlebrittle]

Thanks for the reply. That effect looks pretty similar, and I think a combo of the TV Malfunction and Channel Delay effects could do a pretty good job. I also found Bad TV which is part of The Foundry’s Tinderbox 3. Unfortunately none of these really distort the edges of the layer, but I guess I could pre-compose the title on a large blank canvas.

[Sean Emer]

it would be tedious, but a displacement map might help with the actual translation of pixels in the distortion… then you could just use a color correct adjustment layer and maybe a touch of blur using the displacement layer as a track matte. Keyframe it to last a frame or two, and you should come pretty close.

-Sean Emer

[Mike Clasby]

Don’t have TV Malfunction and Channel Delay effects, so I got a similar look with the following on a text layer.

Pete’s Plugin Smear.
And a random expression on Smear’s Position (as in position within the plugin):

random([thisComp.width,thisComp.height])

random([0,0],[thisComp.width,thisComp.height])

x = random(thisComp.width);
y = random(thisComp.height);
[x,y]

x = random()*thisComp.width;
y = random()*thisComp.height;
[x,y]

You can do the same thing with CC Scale Wipe, and the expression on Center.

I added a slightly bigger than the text, inverted mask on a solid above so the smear didn’t go all the way across the screen.

You could manually animater the position or center if you wanted it to turn on/off.