Specifically, Avidemux 2.5.4, which was released in 2010 and is the version referenced in Weisz’s tutorial, has been superseded many times and is currently at version 2.7.0. Y’see, in the 8 years since I came across datamoshng there have been a lot of changes. Sure, I couldn’t datamosh back in 2010, but since then I have become way more competent in creating glitch art, learning how software works and programming in general, so learning this widely practiced process didn’t seem impossible. “This will be easy” I thought as I would just dig up Weisz’s tutorials and teach that.

Recently as part of my lecturing role at Staffordshire University I was asked to do a workshop on datamoshing. Most times the video I created would be completely broken and not in a good way! And so since them I have used semi-automated datamosh scripts for my needs, like Autodatamosh from grampajoe. Ever since I came across datamoshing in around 2010 via Bob Weisz‘s infamous datamoshing tutorials I have only successfully created a few datamoshed videos “by hand”.

Avidemux 2.6 mac