ZIBA Effects

The frame is cut into vertical or horizontal lamellae, or a grid of them. Each lamella acts as a cylindrical lens that bends, stretches and splits the image. The subject stays recognizable but flows, repeats and carries on from one lamella to the next. Highlights bleed, color smooths out with the refraction blur, and in motion the distortions glide without flicker.

• About thirty settings: lamella count, width variation, angle, curvature, grid offset and origin.
• Six lens profiles: Lens, Parabolic, Sine, Sawtooth, Triangle, Flat.
• Refraction, stretch, directional and edge blur, chromatic dispersion.
• Separation lines, specular highlight, tint, inner shadow, highlight glow.
• One global amount from 0 to 100 %: at 0 %, the output is identical to the source, bit for bit.

Free for good: no watermark, no resolution or length limit.

The effect finds the subject, turns it into a heat field and colors it with a palette: the subject becomes a thermal silhouette wrapped in a living aura. Motion echoes leave trails behind it, a liquid distortion ripples the image, and analog grain and flicker add the texture of an old sensor.

• Looks: Ultraviolet, Ice Mint, Neon, and Custom to build your own.
• Palette of 3 to 5 colors, blended in Oklab, linear RGB or sRGB.
• Three quality levels (full, ½, ¼) to keep playback smooth.
• About sixty settings, grouped: general, color and palette, aura and glow, distortion, motion echoes, film.
• About 20 ms per 1080p frame on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro.

The subject's silhouette and light are analyzed, then filled with countless 90s computer cursors. Retro computing, UI glitch, modern ASCII art: strong contrast, a tight palette, organic against virtual.

• A living swarm: the cursor grid regenerates every frame and wriggles to follow the subject.
• Scatter: on fast moves, edge cursors break away, fall or fly off, leaving a trail.
• Direction: arrows can point the way the subject moves.
• System elements: blue error screens (English, French, modern stop screen, hex dump) and retro pop-up windows.
• 20 built-in sprites (arrow, hourglass, hand, cross, window, folder, floppy disk, trash, heart, star…) plus a mix mode. Use a video track of your project as the texture, or as a mask to choose the area to fill.
• Three looks: Desktop 95, Night BSOD, Vaporwave. A setting you change by hand always wins over the look.
• Built-in grading (including Vaporwave and Terminal), grain, CRT screen pattern.
• About 13 ms per 1080p frame on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro.

A full effect with an intensity slider, and its own tab in the panel with a preview thumbnail for each LUT. Click a LUT to apply it, then set how strong it is.

• Some LUTs are free, the others are PRO.
• The final LUT selection will be announced at launch.