How I Started Making Analog Video Visuals (Glitches, Effects, Feedback)

This is a walkthough of how I started using analog video hardware mixers, VJ software, video synths, and circuit bent devices as an artistic medium. In 2018 I discovered how fun it can be to film on degraded Hi8 Video Cassettes with an old Sony Handycam, and more importantly I learned how awesome camera feedback is. Through a series of fateful circumstances I ended up building a setup where I could project visuals on top of bands and manipulate them live to the music. Learning how to perform with these tools was also foundational for me in learning how to create music videos.
Though my experience might not be exactly the same as yours, I figure my story will get some gears turning. This is probably the best way for me to "tell you what to do and what to try" without holding your hand and telling you exactly how. I also provide a lot of explanation of basic concepts that seem to confuse people. I know it's hard being an absolute beginner, so I hope this helps you.
00:00 Intro
00:58 Discovering Tape Glitches
03:17 Discovering Camera Feedback
07:42 Using a Video Switcher
09:06 Using Clean Video Mixer
11:33 Using a Dirty Video Mixer
13:38 Using Resolume VJ Software
15:00 Hardware Video Synths?
15:37 Circuit Bent Devices, Enhancers, & Color Correctors
17:19 Routing
18:12 Final Thoughts
Extremely Clear Guide on Video Feedback: andreijaycreativecoding.com/g...
(This description is a Work In Progress)
If you're just here to learn how to use a circuit bent device you bought and don't know how to use it on your footage and capture the results, the process is so simple I can easily write it in 4 steps:
1) Convert your computer's output to RCA Composite video using a downscaler ($10-30 on amazon)
2) plug the RCA cable into your glitch box's input
3) plug the glitch box's output into a CRT TV
4) record the TV screen with a camera
I still highly recommend you watch this whole video. It is to your benefit and you will get a better understanding of what is possible with analog video as an art form.
#glitchart #analogvideo #vj

[@psensibil]

Don't get me all misty. Top yovozol stan since day 1. Great work as always, man!

[@Blumehaus]

Gracias! Me sirvió mucho

[@pcprobot]

I did that stuff when I was 17 years old back in 1991. We had a public access show back in the 90s when we were in high school called, "30 minutes of madness." We never did live projection though.

[@dotdotw]

I stumbled into this stuff around 15 years ago, and had a great time performing on live shows in Leicester, UK. Wish I'd kept it up, I've recently been exploring my old kit again, purely for recording these days, and this video is an inspiration!

[@mothbyte98]

imagine casually admitting you made experimental cinema when you were 17 lmao i'm 25 and just getting into it

[@Skarlet_Overdrive]

I laughed when you mentioned the "analog video rabbit hole" because someone pointed me in your direction when I asked about analog video editing, and ever since I discovered your videos I've been down the same rabbit hole Fast forward about 6 months now I have a v-4ex, mx-1, two camcorders, two VCRs, a projector, resolume on my PC, a melted electronics strange loop, and a lofi future t-420. I haven't been doing this long and already Ive had a stack of commissions. It blows my mind how high the demand is for analog video art right now. Thank you so much for being such a valuable member of this community and teaching us your vast knowledge that made it easier for artists like me to explore the community too

[@2lexander]

Hell yeah. I started my interest in analog video with that exact camera, coincidentally my dad's old camera also.

[@Running_minds]

Love hearing your thoughts! Thank you for all this!

[@heeeyyy2947]

exactly what I’ve been looking for thank you so much!

[@habasescuandrei8145]

Really appreciate the effort you put into all of these, keep it up

[@tony89tur]

Great story bro… thanks for hook me into analog visuals.

[@KattKirsch]

Really love this. I love the idea of weird visual synthesis, and this is so exciting.

[@zephzoota]

thanks, bro, this is appreciated for sure.

[@indimateta]

Incredible! Thaaanks!

[@tedd3713]

I'm kinda entering to this world and wow this is Gold, thanks man

[@Flowmo911]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on this, I really appreciate it!

[@goochtwain]

Thanks for sharing your experience man! Very interesting!

[@MrsDoorhandle]

Amazing. So so cool. One more down the rabbit hole.

[@robertmasonofficial]

inspiring all of this! Thanks for sharing your gifts :)

[@crissanchez1950]

Yo great video. Your channel has extremely helpful during my foray into glitch art. Keep up the good work.

[@neiro314]

insanely insightful video. much love man you know what you're doing

[@neckbomb9693]

Love your talking to the camera videos man, super informative and inspirational!

[@SlimeMage32]

Great job as always! I'm looking to get into analogue video art and you're currently my #1 source of info on the topic

[@TreyCounce]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! This was hyper helpful.

[@applemarkwantsvids]

Hey Kid! You're pretty damn good! Thank you for all of your videos and the passion that drives you to create your shows, and then turn around and teach others! I fell down this rabbit hole, when I was looking for an Edirol deck that was popular about 15 years ago, that had V-LINK technology, to fire off video samples synced to music, via a sequencer. Clearly I'm going in the right direction, and I love hearing your explanations. (Didn't mean to insult you with the Kid comment) :D Thanks again, dood!

[@leethompsonart]

Cant believe I have not seen your channel yet. I am an instant fan.

[@CattonArthur]

hey thanks for making this. I got a bunch of old broadcast equipment for cheap at an auction and I wanna make music videos with CRTs. this is really helpful to start out

[@antneybodean]

i stumbled upon this video at the perfect time in my life when ive been trying to wrap my head around creating cool analog video effects for music performance live streams... thank you!!!!!! amazing info and funny delivery A+

[@CHISROSE20013002]

Dope af video you explain stuff really well. I’m a video guy but I thought this was gonna talk about some after effects plug in not using hardware. Mind blowing stuff man even to me someone with zero experience I found this helpful

[@gearlord1968]

i was so overwhelmed and you've helped so much

[@YOVOZOL]

so happy it helped

[@blendermen1070]

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I THINK THIS VIDEO WILL CHANGE MY LIFE FOR EVER THANK YOU

[@dreideldude]

This is totally my new favorite youtube channel, like, ever

[@chrismachabee3128]

Right on bro. You a very cool dude. I think you will be one of the best. Glad to have listened.

[@cbubbb]

This guy is a god send for a beginner! ❤

[@TakuForTwo]

This was actually super helpful and interesting STILL - glad to see you're still out doing amazing and fun stuff, keep it up man!

[@originalfallinggirl]

I could watch your videos all day!

[@werkingdadrecords]

Great video all around. I will definitely be getting into a small all hardware video setup to accompany and add video to my dawless creations. 🙏💯

[@francesco5482]

Thank you very much for this man!

[@dushedits]

great video, thanks and congrats for your work.

[@Kinetiphos]

You are a huge inspiration to all of my work, much appreciated man keep up the good work

[@YOVOZOL]

🥲

[@krockk63]

いつも参考になるビデオをありがとう！日本からチェックしています。

[@windmill7708]

Great video! I want to get into video glitch art soon and this video was very informative, thank you!

[@zekecorona1952]

This is the content I’ve been needing in my life

[@zekecorona1952]

And I like de bob

[@TheLunablackheart]

thank you so much for sharing your knowledge :)

[@sparkstron73]

Very good vid. I watched this a few months ago and now it finally makes sense after buying some equipment and circuit bending a sima pro3. Big thanks to yourself and other generous people sharing their knowledge . Alot of this stuff can be achieved as you say using a laptop and controllers but half the fun either way is working out how to achieve what you want to see and finding surprises along the way👍😎

[@YOVOZOL]

exactly, so happy it helped

[@oxbloodthefreeone]

this is exactly what I was looking for, super insightful! ✌

[@doggieye]

I just wanted to get into this analog video stuff and I came out with this video. Thanks for this info, this is what I needed.

[@jidganxd1jida385]

lol

[@20thcenturyfoxyoutube]

There was this video for the band called The Horrors (song: "A Sea within A Sea") awhile back maybe 11 years ago that did really interesting video mixing and now I think I have a better understanding of how they may have made that. Really cool stuff

[@arcadeages3917]

Great video bro!

[@zeitlin]

thanks a lot Yovozol! You helped me a lot with my development on video synthesis! Let's make it bigger (:

[@greyarea7181]

🔥 video man

[@blokmotion]

yoooo these videos are fascinating

[@austinrichard8046]

The editing in this video aside the vhs footage topics… is really modern and unique. Very funny inserts and clip art 🔥🔥 I aspire my own editing to be this good.

[@metodoludovicofilms]

Great video! I just found out about branches like live cinema yesterday. I must say, it's a beautiful fusion of art, visuals, and technology that's truly inspiring. This is the first video I've seen from you, and I'm excited to delve deeper into the rabbit hole.

[@YOVOZOL]

welcome!

[@Coreterra]

realy informative video thanks for the walkthrough!

[@viinikellari]

Goddamn. I can't tell how happy I am to see people are doing this. I've been wanting to do this feedback stuff live so the camera films the audience as well. Too bad life is always challenging me in ways these dreams just drift away, but I won't give up. Doing my own music and visuals finally. I'm also very happy to see the 90s and early 00s is very persistent : ) You ever get that feeling you're so hyped you going to explode? Greetings from Finland.

[@lolo-ou6sc]

IVE BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT FOR SO LONG, THANK YOU 🙏🏻

[@amirzaki3615]

Really I learn so much

[@philippethibault9730]

Thank you so much for this

[@OceanicTrancer]

Thanks very much!

[@hunterdwy1307]

THANK YOU!!!!

[@BearbearbearbearbearbearRarrrr]

This is great.

[@arktikfoxtrix]

Thank you for this! You're great

[@Treybradley]

found your vid while looking for inspo in advance of taking andrei_jay's video art course in bushwhick coming up...and then i see his tag at the end :) power to the community. thanks for these resources!

[@meichireichi3484]

Thank you so much ❤

[@Creador150]

amazing video mate thanks for the content! :)

[@0ooDT]

thank you

[@chickenbonelives]

Nice story! I got into lzx because I already own a monster eurorack. I love how much freedom you have with that specific format. Keep up the good work.

[@kishw0nky]

Great vid 👍 thanks for sharing! Nevrr heard of Cathodemer, def checkin that out! keep on glitchin bro 🥳

[@QUEST4SIX1]

Thank you! Very helpful!

[@trashlids4592]

Excellent !

[@portinarih]

wow, I'm really impressed with all this, there's a Brazilian artist called "Rollinos" He does this kind of distortion in several shows I've been to and I was delighted, a pity that all these cameras and other resources are expensive (at least in Brazil lol)

[@Xeno852]

What a great video

[@alekjovanovski3087]

dude you are a genius

[@JohnRollercoasterJr]

Really informative!

[@levitationfree6226]

awesome thanks bro!!

[@LonelySenpai666]

man I'm so glad i stumbled upon this video

[@aworldofweather]

KZbin doing u nice recommending this to me I just been looking into and finding a bunch of tape glitch’s to use as overlays, I’m definitely gonna try get a setup to do that tv projector thing that shits crazy

[@livcrew794]

this vid made my head spin, but this is only my first vid of many as i descend into the rabbit hole lol

[@ramens]

I needed this. thanks

[@CyberYarns]

I love it

[@nioniostopmo]

thanks so much

[@FluffyTalks1]

I bend casio and moog synths in my city and i am forsure adding this to my menu

[@silverface123]

Hey great video as always. I really appreciate what you do. Do you or Travis have a resource explaining the projector mount system? Would be very helpful.

[@KenHiroshi627]

dude this is EXACTLY what I was looking to get done. distort my old vhs video at my rave for a backdrop, swipe to live video of the dance floor, projected

[@YOVOZOL]

hell yeah! i hope you have fun

[@leomestre92]

graaaciiiiasss, me ayudó mucho

[@johnnyjam]

Nice! Sugar Candy Mountain are my buds out here in the bay!

[@prml_live8304]

Top!

[@timbetween]

Holy butts, man. This is rad

[@StephenMcLeod]

Always interesting to hear your chat!

[@YOVOZOL]

glad i could hold your attention!

[@StephenMcLeod]

@@YOVOZOL always

[@thedandelionranger]

You Sir, Legend

[@ClydeHoadley]

Wow! I really got a lot out of this.

[@djdenvor]

Bro you a really cool dude

[@Povilaz]

Very intersting!

[@jotr.9786]

i like how in the first alien they incorporate glitches also.

[@dylangoddard9367]

cool

[@flowermouthfilms]

you are a god

[@reaganbuzek5411]

I’m so glad I found your channel, I have officially fallen down the rabbit hole of video art and live visuals. The only thing I was wondering is how you manage to connect all of your equipment to the projector with analog wirelessly, or do you convert the analog to digital and connect that way through your laptop?

[@YOVOZOL]

a lot of times i didn't go wireless and my projector has analog video inputs so i'd just run a 25ft s-video cable. other times i use an upscaler and an HDMI transmitter/receiver.

[@Stoney3K]

One thing about those 'dirty' video mixers: If you plug them into a projector directly they often won't work because the projector will lose sync and drop the image. You're going to need some kind of video mixer or time base corrector behind them to recover the sync and offer proper video to the projector. If you're only displaying on CRTs, those are much more resilient and you can often throw random analog signals at them while they will still try to display some kind of image on the screen.

[@YOVOZOL]

yea what you just wrote is explained pretty much word-for-word in my other guide videos kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaCafp5na9x6qKM

[@dengyun846]

So, I'm fairly deep in modular synthesizers, crts (240p games and VHS spelunks), and got to this after watching an LZX video. I'm going to choose to maintain my current level of sanity right now and come back to this video later because I know what will happen to my other hobbies if I start down this road D:

[@FullScreenTV_]

literally didn't show how you actually do anything but cool, thanks for the vlog

[@isaacrnd]

top dawg

[@CyberYarns]

I fuckin love all this