STATIC DRIFT

Description

STATIC DRIFT does not filter your image. It corrupts the timing of the video signal, scanline by scanline, the way a sync breaker circuit does on real hardware. When the sync pulses go, the monitor loses lock and the picture tears, rolls, skews and flags.

What it does

• Sync destruction — horizontal tearing, rolling frames, diagonal skew and tape-flagging at the top of the frame.
• Head switching — the authentic horizontal displacement and noise band where a VCR’s video heads change over.
• ARCH warp — the geometric bend of a picture whose horizontal timing is drifting.
• STATIC COMPOSITE — luma-only signal-interference texture, exclusive to this plugin.
• Intra-line stretch and time-base collapse — a macro that drags the whole line structure apart.

Workflow

Five macro knobs in SIMPLE mode, the full timing / geometry / signal parameter set in ADVANCED. Eight curated presets. Every parameter is keyframeable. Pin the effect to a region of the frame, gate it with the NTSC processing block, and mix it back against the clean source.

Native C++ for After Effects and Premiere Pro, built on a scanline-first engine: no heap allocation in the render path, thread-safe, fast enough for interactive scrubbing at 1080p.