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Glitch effect

RGB Shift

RGB Shift is a glitch video effect in FRCTL, the browser VJ studio. Simple red and blue channel offset.

Runs live on video, images, a camera or generated art. Stack it with any other effect, and route LFOs, envelopes or any of ten audio bands to its controls so it moves with the music.

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The untouched demo art: an eye inside a triangle over wavy teal, blue and peach lines — Source

The eye-in-triangle with red, green and blue copies of every line fanned slightly apart — RGB Shift, default settings

What RGB Shift does

Red slides one way along the axis and blue the other while green holds still, so every dark line gets a red fringe on one side and a blue one on the other. Red and Blue push their own channel further out, which makes the fringes lopsided. Angle rotates the split through a full turn, and Spread drops green off the line so the three copies form a triangle.

Using RGB Shift

Where it works: Logo stings and cover art that need to read as signal damage without losing the type, since no channel moves more than a few percent of the frame.
With the music: Nothing moves until you route something. B1 (kick) on Shift makes the channels jump apart on each kick, and a slow BPM-synced LFO on Angle walks the split round so the fringes change side every few bars.
Starting point: Shift at a quarter, Red and Blue at centre, Angle hard left, Spread at a quarter, then raise Shift until the eye's outline visibly doubles.

Controls

Shift: Core lateral RGB separation.
Red: Extra red channel offset.
Blue: Extra blue channel offset.
Angle: Direction the channels separate along. Hard left is the horizontal split, and it walks a full turn.
Spread: Fans green off the axis so the channels make a triangle instead of a line.

Pairs well with RGB Shift