"Thanks i'll check that. You're also on Windows buy the looks of it, I think recent Mac versions are broken since the movie layer actions are all to pot and greyed out most of the time, and speaking of time... Time is a bit limited curently but i'll…"

"Both layers are movies but only Layer 1 (to be displaced) plays, Layer 2 (to displace with) stands still on the first frame.
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"Trying and getting so close but struggling to ge the movies to play together. The displacement layer just stays at one frame argh. What Version of SA are you using?"

"great this is close! I'm getting somewhere by using a blend mode (Replace Odd Field) on Fixed image to add a sort of glitched out feedback effect. I think i've come up with datamoshing as if it were possible in DV codec! he he
Will post a video soon…"

"Thanks for this i'll give it a go :)
I saw this today - it's After Effects but the the effect is exactly what i'm looking for, it's so close to a SA Displacement but coating the original video. The masking in SA is very powerful so who knows?…"

" Thanks i'll have o go at this, might teach me some stuff as you suggest.
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