Data Glitch is a native After Effects plugin that creates awesome realistic digital image glitches with total ease. Something you would see during a satellite transmission or a cable broadcast or from a damaged disk. Bad TV plugin is great for analog TV look, but this is 2010 and you hardly see anything that’s analog anymore. This plugin simulates a realistic digital glitch effect.
In real-life most of the glitches occur due to problems in encoding/decoding and sometimes data corruption. This plugin does exactly that. It encodes the data, glitches the data and then decodes it similar to the real life situation.

Features:

1. Create Awesome Transitions with Ease.
2. Compression Artifacts on the Fly
3. Create Audio reactive animations with expressions.
4. Control over the Glitch pattern.
5. Image Type and Strip Type Glitches with quality settings.
6. Compatible with both Mac and Windows.

Install it in the Plugins folder. Inside After Effects you will find it in the Effects menu under the Gutsblow category.

Native AE plugins are compatible with AE7 and above and Pixel Bender plugins are compatible with AE and Flash CS4 and above. Important: Only install one or the other, installing both the native and pixel bender plugin will cause a conflict.

Version history

• 2.6 CS5 64-bit native version – May 2010
• 2.5 Made it a native AE plugin and added two new features: blur individual channel and blend each channel with original – Jan 2010
• 2.1 Fixed a little bug with the opacity settings – Dec 2009
• 2.0 Initial release on aescripts.com  - Sept 2009

Features:

1. Automatically creates distortion based on the input parameters.
2. No displacement maps are required.
3. Creates Vertical Sync offset which causes the jumpy effect seen in Old TVs.
4. Creates scan lines of varied thickness to give a DV Tape effect.
5. All the source code along with detailed comments are available.

If you are using the plugin in After Effects and you have an OpenGL 2.0 video card (most machines made in the last few years have them) then use the native plugin, otherwise use the pixel bender version. If you are using it in Flash, then use the flash version.

Native Plugin Usage:

1. Apply the effect from Effects > Gutsblow > Bad TV
2. Change the rest of the parameters according to your wish.

Pixel Bender Usage:

1. Apply the effect from Effects > Gutsblow > Bad TV Pixel Bender
2. Alt-Click on the Time parameter and insert the expression ‘time’. (Since it’s a Pixel Bender plugin, you have to input time manually.)
3. Change the rest of the parameters according to your wish.

You can also use this plugin for Photoshop CS4. For Flash CS4 install the pixel bender version labeled for flash.

Version history

• 1.2 64-bit version for CS5 – May 2010
• 1.1 Release native AE version – Apr 2010
• 1.0 Initial Release – Dec 2009