<p>The easiest way to get this kind of effect is to use <a href="https://aescripts.com/data-glitch/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Glitch</a> - a plugin from aescripts.  It's not going to let you properly combine two sources, but it will go a long way towards giving you "broken" looking digital video...</p>

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tomh
<p>I am trying to replicate <a href="http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/datamoshing" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Datamoshing</a> with After Effects. I'm close but I need to link the displacement map to motion vectors rather than just colors and brightness values. I know AE recognizes motion vectors as it uses them for motion blur. If there is a way to extract and move P/B-frames and apply them to other I frames that would be perfect but I haven't found that yet.</p>

<p>I figure if i could translate motion vectors into shades of black and white i could apply the displacement map to that layer using luminosity. Is there any way to do that? Perhaps extracting motion blur as a separate layer with an alpha channel?</p>

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After Effects P/B-frames aka motion vectors for Datamosh replication
zander
# After Effects P/B-frames aka motion vectors for Datamosh replication

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-11-27)

I am trying to replicate [Datamoshing](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/datamoshing) with After Effects. I'm close but I need to link the displacement map to motion vectors rather than just colors and brightness values. I know AE recognizes motion vectors as it uses them for motion blur. If there is a way to extract and move P/B-frames and apply them to other I frames that would be perfect but I haven't found that yet.

I figure if i could translate motion vectors into shades of black and white i could apply the displacement map to that layer using luminosity. Is there any way to do that? Perhaps extracting motion blur as a separate layer with an alpha channel?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-08-03. Score: 0

The easiest way to get this kind of effect is to use [Glitch](https://aescripts.com/data-glitch/) - a plugin from aescripts. It's not going to let you properly combine two sources, but it will go a long way towards giving you "broken" looking digital video...


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