making of Requiem for The Future: A.I. video

The biggest part of creating this video was to generate satisfactory glitched material. I researched various ways how to glitch images using SoX tool and a glitch in pre-3.0 ffmpeg’s jpeg-le codec. Below is a BASH script which worked through all .mov videos in the current folder, extracted frames, glitched it and stitched back the videos from frames. Here’s the gist of all glitches in a summary:

 

Here’s a full bash script: