CIRCUIT BENT
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A glitch box, a mixer, a CRT — no hardware.

Eight presets, full manual control, running live in Final Cut Pro.

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Mode LAVENDER Energy 0.40
0.45

Why this exists

CIRCUIT BENT, Contour preset, real render, pinned beside the letter
CIRCUIT BENT

CIRCUIT BENT started as a question: could the exact look of a circuit-bent glitch box feeding a video mixer, finished on a CRT, be captured without keeping that hardware plugged in and powered on every time it's needed.

The chain is built as a simulation instead of a filter. It runs forward in real time: tone jumps, torn frames, rolling picture and stutters keep happening for as long as the clip plays, driven by a random seed, the same way the real hardware never did quite the same thing twice.

The part that took longest wasn't the look. It was making that simulation deterministic: the same settings at the same point in the clip always render the same way, so scrubbing, rendering and re-exporting all match. A hardware glitch box never had to promise that. A plugin does.

It ships as one plugin, two templates, and a license key emailed directly after purchase. No subscription, no phone-home, no account to create.

CIRCUIT BENT
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One simulation, eight different ways to break it.

Contour · destr .45, stripe .85, screen on
Wobble
Random horizontal wobble, calm and wild bands, with the occasional band that snaps sideways.
Stutter hold
Holds a frame for several frames by asking the host for it again, a freeze that still reads neighboring frames.
Determinism
The same settings at the same timecode always render the same way, so scrubbing and re-exporting match.

Every control, exposed.

CIRCUIT BENT — Inspector

Bend

Wobble0.40
Melt0.20
Tear seams0.20

Tone

ModeLavender
Hue0.62
Auto toneOff

Damage

Line glitches0.40
Edge streak0.30
Regional hits0.50
Crush ↔ blow0.00

Mixer

MirrorNone
Multi grid1×
Stutter hold0.10

CRT

CRT textureOff
Scanlines0.50

Signal

H. bandwidth0.60
Dot crawl0.30
Grain0.35

Timing

Chaos1.00×
Tone family hold30s

Reactivity

Rate4.61 Hz
PulsesDestr · Melt · Wobble · Stripe · Neon · Streak
Mirror
Left/right, top/bottom or quad: the video mixer's own symmetry tricks.
Reactivity
A tempo pulse set in Hz, not audio analysis. No plugin host gives a video effect real audio to listen to.
Seven tone curves
Including an inverted mode and a measured night-vision curve, switched by hand or on auto.

What happens after you drop it on a clip.

Drop CIRCUIT BENT on your clip.

CIRCUIT BENT template thumbnail, Final Cut Effects browser
CIRCUIT BENT
CIRCUIT BENT Quick template thumbnail, Final Cut Effects browser
CIRCUIT BENT Quick

Choose one of eight presets.

Contour default
Comeback selected
Wrecked —
CIRCUIT BENT, Comeback preset, real render

It keeps generating damage for as long as the clip plays.

00:00:04:12
00:00:18:00
CIRCUIT BENT, Wrecked preset, real render at full destruction

Tested, not assumed.

Real numbers from the actual test suite and stress runs below — not marketing copy.

12/12
Engine unit tests passed: determinism, NaN safety, parameter ranges.
15/15
Licensing unit tests passed: key codec, trial state, activation.
10,000
Random frames rendered with zero NaN, in an 89.8s stress run.
8/8
Presets verified live in Final Cut Pro, matching spec exactly.
0
Crashes across blading, parameter extremes, and media-mode switches.
4K60p
Playback stayed smooth at native 4K60p, past the 30fps target.

No subscription, no upsell.

A perpetual license, bought once. Works offline — the license check never phones home — and keeps rendering old projects correctly after you update.

$49once
One-time payment, perpetual license
Works offline, the license never phones home
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Common questions.

Does the trial watermark my footage?
No. The 14-day trial renders at full quality. It simply stops working after 14 days unless you buy a license.
Does it need an internet connection to run?
No. License activation is offline-friendly and doesn't phone home on every launch.
Does Reactivity analyze the audio in my clip?
No. There's no audio API available to a Final Cut Pro video effect. Reactivity is a tempo pulse you set with a Hz slider, not real audio analysis, and it's labeled that way in the plugin.
Will my projects still render if I upgrade later?
Yes. Versioning follows Apple's guidance for plugin updates, so existing projects keep rendering with old versions until you choose to update.
Which hosts does it actually run in?
Final Cut Pro and Motion today. After Effects and Premiere Pro run the same real engine, Mac only for now; a Windows build doesn't exist yet.
Does CIRCUIT BENT Quick exist on every host?
No. It's a Final Cut / Motion template limited to Preset, Destruction and Mix. After Effects and Premiere use the plugin's own collapsible parameter groups instead.
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