Does the glitch effect damage or distort my subject permanently in the clip?

No — each glitch burst snaps back to a clean, undistorted frame within the same clip, and the face or object stays intact between bursts.

Does it work on product photos, not just portraits?

Yes — our sneaker test showed the same tearing and color-splitting effect working cleanly on a plain product shot.

How many glitch bursts happen in one clip?

In our tests, three to four distinct bursts appeared across the five seconds, each lasting well under a second.

Will it change what's in my photo?

No. The effect only adds motion, light and atmosphere; everyone in the photo stays exactly as they appear in it. The default model doesn't filter photos. Some models you can switch to in Studio apply their own content filters and may turn a photo down.

Is my result private?

Yes. Your upload and the finished clip stay private to your account and never appear on a public page.

Each effect defaults to a five-second clip priced in US dollars on the Generate button. Before you run it, you can switch to a different model, adjust the length, or change the resolution in Studio, and the price on the Generate button updates to match. An ordinary failed or expired run normally releases the reserved amount. For a content refusal, follow the selected model’s billing policy.

Will this effect change how the person in my photo looks?

Your photo anchors the subject; the effect adds the motion and look described in its prompt. Check the face, hands and clothing in the result. If a gesture distorts them, try a clearer crop or a simpler movement.

Can I upload a photo of someone else?

Only one you have the right to use, and never to make intimate content of a real person without their documented consent. The content policy has the full rule.

How long is the Glitch clip, and can it be longer?

Glitch defaults to a 5-second clip. Before you run it in Studio, you can choose a longer length — the maximum depends on the model you pick — and the price on the button updates to match. You can also continue on the canvas from the clip's last frame.

Glitch AI Video Effect

Name: Glitch — Sample 2
Uploaded: 2026-09-28
Duration: 5 s
Description: The image stutters with red-and-cyan digital glitches and tearing bands, then snaps back to clean every time.

Styles

After Dark

Laser Room

Color Smoke

Silk Drop

Petal Storm

Slow Shutter

Candlelight

Behind the Hair

Call Me

Champagne Toast

Darkroom Red

Doorway Lean

Eyes on You

Join Me

Late-Night Dance

Club Strobe

Romance

Kiss

Camera moves

Tiny Planet

Transform

Molten Gold

Fashion

Mirror Glance

Atmosphere

Lace Shadows

Motion

Groove

Fun

Meltdown

Product

Ingredients Burst

Film looks

Film Burn

Glitch

Video templates

The Glance Back

Candles Come Alive

Silk Drift

Neon After Hours

Sway Under the Lamp

Mirror Moment

Morning Light

Passing Headlights

Whisper Session

Slow Push-In

Half Orbit

Drone Rise

This effect writes the prompt for you. Add one image.

We never filter your prompt.

Back to the studio

The image stutters with red-and-cyan digital glitches and tearing bands, then snaps back to clean every time.

MiniMax H3

Model: MiniMax H3
Length: 5 s
Resolution: 768p
Per run: $0.185
Type: Film looks
Also runs on: Seedance 2.0 Fast, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Wan 3.0, Vidu Q3 Turbo, MiniMax H3 Max, Kling 2.5 Turbo, Wan 2.6 Flash, Seedance 2.0 Mini

What this effect sends

This is the full prompt, word for word. Copy it, or open it in the generator and change anything you like.

The image stutters with digital glitches: horizontal bands tear and shift, color channels split into red and cyan ghosts, and blocks of pixels smear across the main subject for a split second before snapping back. The camera holds steady between the bursts.

Customize in the generator

Pictures that work best

It works on people and objects alike — a clean product shot on a plain background shows off the tearing and color-splitting just as clearly as a portrait.
High-contrast, well-lit photos make the color-channel splitting easier to see against the base image.
A plain or simple background keeps the horizontal tearing bands readable instead of getting lost in busy detail.
Expect several short glitch bursts across the clip rather than one continuous effect — pick a photo where the subject holds still, since the glitches do the work.

Models this effect runs on

The same prompt on different models. Pick by look and by price.

MiniMax H3$0.185 per run
5 s · 768p
Seedance 2.0 Fast$0.484 per run
5 s · 720p
Kling 3.0$0.336 per run
5 s · 720p
Seedance 2.0$0.76 per run
5 s · 720p
Wan 3.0$0.45 per run
5 s · 720p
Vidu Q3 Turbo$0.33 per run
5 s · 720p
MiniMax H3 Max$0.4 per run
5 s · 768p
Kling 2.5 Turbo$0.28 per run
5 s
Wan 2.6 Flash$0.113 per run
5 s · 720p
Seedance 2.0 Mini$0.265 per run
5 s · 720p

How it works

01
Add one photo
Choose the photo to match the example: include both people for a shared gesture, and keep the face and any hands involved clearly visible. Upload your own photo or start with a Glitch sample.
02
Check the price
Glitch defaults to a 5-second clip for $0.185. Swap the model or change the length and resolution before you run — the price on the button updates to match, and that's the whole cost of the clip.
03
Generate
Your Glitch clip renders in the background, lands in History and is never published.

Do the move yourself

Glitch keeps one version of this shot. To give Glitch your own motion or ending, write it yourself in Image to Video, starting from the prompt above.

Open Image to Video

What it does to your photo

Glitch layers a burst of digital corruption over your photo: horizontal bands tear and shift, the color channels split into red and cyan ghosts, and blocks of pixels smear across the frame for a split second before snapping back to clean. The camera itself never moves — it's the image, not the shot, that breaks.

In our test runs on MiniMax H3, a studio portrait took three distinct glitch bursts across the clip — red and cyan channel ghosts, horizontal tearing bands and white scan strips around one, two and a half, and four seconds — each snapping back to a clean, steady frame with no lasting distortion to the face or body. A product shot of a pair of sneakers on a plinth stuttered through the same kind of bursts: ghosting, a horizontal multi-image shift, and a pixel-block smear with a mosaic tear near the bottom, proving the effect works just as well on an object as it does on a person.

The bursts land as several separate moments rather than one continuous glitch — expect three or four short corruption events spread across the five seconds, with clean, steady frames in between rather than constant distortion.

It suits tech and gaming content, product drops and launch teasers, cyberpunk-styled edits, and any "something's wrong with the feed" transition where you want a jolt of digital chaos without losing the subject underneath it.

The prompt is public — for a single, subtler burst instead of the default several, change "for a split second before snapping back" to "just once, briefly, before snapping back for good."