Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Digital Glitching

Saw this music video by Kanye West over the weekend:


KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Interesting how its using the errors produced by missing keyframes for artistic effect. I saw a few experimental videos like this, but to see it on A-List music videos is interesting. It the video analog to audio glitching artifacts being used in music. Interesting, but unless you are a codec master, you have little control over the effect, so this technique may have limited scope for expansion. Still cool - wonder if and encoders get confused encoding it :) ? Also, how many geeks give their satellite box a smack, thinking that the MTV feed is playing up ....

1 comment:

Mechanical Marksy said...

Yeah, i remember you talking about this in the days of divx/xvid!

Encoding this video wouldn't have any affect on the encoder, though.

I think they probably just rip out keyframes (as you say) without re-encoding as mpeg-4. Maybe rip out keyframes, and record the line-out. Composition would be a big thing here, too.. Not sure pure keyframe thwacking.