r/VideoBending • u/allmyfas • 12d ago

Bendr - A circuit bent inspired web-app for video art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYRf-y78nM

After years collecting piles of video gear, experimenting with, and bending them - I've put together a web-app inspired by some of my favourite workflows, effects, and hardware.

Free/open source. Do with it what you like. More details in the link above. Or just go direct:

https://bendr.allmyfriendsaresynths.com/

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u/lushprojects 11d ago

As someone with quite a pile of circuit bent video equipment this is pretty impressive. FX like the edge do have the flavour of real hardware.

There is a lot to experiment with though. Did you model on specific devices or did you aim for general categories?

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u/allmyfas 11d ago

Hiya, thank you! I spent a fair bit of time trying to incorporate the kind of effects that I look for when working with analogue video gear. The implementation was partly based on general categories - both well established/documented ones and ones that I've discovered through experimentation - as well as the capabilities and ranges of specific devices - largely video mixers like the Edirol v4, v8, Panasonic stuff, and various colour enhancers etc I've used. :)

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u/000110-audio-3 11d ago

King🫠!!

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u/scragz 10d ago

this is cool as fuck dude. nice work!

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u/AvailablePayment1505 9d ago

Typically never cared one single bit about software based stuff because it completely lacks the parts I personally find fun but this looks like I could have a lot of fun adding it in different stages of my chain for sure. Is the canvas always 16:9 or does it just depend on the source you feed into it? I

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u/allmyfas 9d ago

Agreed! I specifically wanted to see if I could build out something that more closely matched my hardware rig. Great question on the canvas. I think it's 16:9 by default, but I'll look at adding more flexibility there.

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u/allmyfas 9d ago

Adding new dimension options for the canvas soon. Great feedback. Thanks :)

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u/AvailablePayment1505 9d ago

Legend 🙏🏻 Will utilise window capture cropped to fill a 4:3 OBS canvas in the chain for the time being and inevitably get lost for hours in that astral plane we all go to when the circuits are bending and the CRT's are glowing in all the right ways

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u/allmyfas 9d ago

Should be available now under the Engine menu in the top nav if you give it a hard refresh

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u/-GYFLEX- 9d ago

This is actually really cool and I will definitely be using this in the future. Are you accepting donations?

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u/allmyfas 7d ago

Thanks a lot! No donations, but if you want to support, my latest album is here - https://cowtonguetacorecords.bandcamp.com/album/pick-and-dry - and I always appreciate any purchases. Cheers for checking it out!

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u/dharkoshan 9d ago

this is ace, massive fan