Artist Evolve · Edit tool 05
Polaroid GlitchBreak on the beat
Upload a video of yourself. The app finds you, glitches you into blocks on the beat of your track and frames it like an instant photo, with any title you want.
Your clip, glitched on the beat
Film yourself with your track playing. The app cuts you out, breaks you into blocks that shift and stretch with the music and puts it all inside an instant-photo frame with your own title. No editing skills needed.
A walking selfie works. Keep yourself near the middle of the frame, close up or full body.
Let the track play while you film. The app hears it in your video and lines you up with the music on its own.
Light on you, no bright windows behind. The more you stand out, the cleaner the cutout.
Upload the track too. It’s what plays in the final video, at full quality.
Video
- Selfie or tripod. Walking with the phone in your hand works. Keep yourself near the middle of the frame.
- Play the track out loud while you film, so the app can line you up with the music.
- Lock exposure and focus (iPhone: hold your finger on the screen until AE/AF Lock shows).
- Stand out from the background with even light on you.
- No HDR: on iPhone, Settings, Camera, Formats, Most Compatible, and turn off HDR Video.
Find you
Clean background (optional: for the Clean background view and the PNG)
Use the Silhouette view to tune it: white is you, black is the background.
Effect
Blocks of the image shift and stretch on the beat of the track, like a glitched print, and land on you. Everything sits inside an instant-photo frame. Press play to see it move.
Export
Click or drag on the waveform to pick where the music starts (yellow line). The shaded part is what gets exported. Yellow lines are bars. Typed seconds are used exactly, without snapping.
To set it by hand, pause on the frame where you start (the first move) and press “Current frame”. That frame lands on the start of the music.
It takes a while: the app builds the video frame by frame. A 30-second video can take a couple of minutes. Keep the tab open.
In Premiere with the silhouette: V1 your video, V2 whatever goes behind, V3 your video again, V4 the silhouette. On V3 apply Track Matte Key, matte V4, Composite using Luma. Turn off V4’s eye.
In After Effects: put the silhouette above a copy of your video and on the copy pick Track Matte, Luma Matte. Anything below sits behind you.