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PATCHCAM

BY JASCHA SÜSS

PatchCam turns your iPhone camera into a live effects rack — slit scan, point cloud, film, blob track, datamosh, silhouette, pixel sort and more. Realtime effects with creative control at your fingertips.

Record in realtime, import Footage or send the output straight to TouchDesigner, Resolume and OBS

THE RACK
Film effect example
FILM4K
Grain, halation, trails and dither — up to real 4K. Pinch out to the ultra‑wide.
Difference effect example
DIFFERENCE
Frame‑to‑frame difference — strobe, trails, grain and dither. Movement draws, stillness fades.
Blob Track effect example
BLOB TRACK
The image is thresholded and tracked live — outlines, coordinates, connecting lines. Detect mode names people, animals and objects.
Slit Scan effect example
SLIT SCANLIDAR
Time slices through space — near is now, far is seconds ago.
Depth Heat effect example
DEPTH HEATLIDAR
A thermal‑camera look driven by real depth data.
Point Cloud effect example
POINT CLOUDLIDAR
Your scene as a navigable 3D particle field. Touch a point, orbit around it.
Scanlines effect example
SCANLINESLIDAR
The image redrawn as sweeping row and column segments in 3D space.
Datamosh effect example
DATAMOSH
Compression motion smear on demand. Hold a key frame and let the image melt.
Displace effect example
DISPLACE
The image liquifies and warps over its own trails — colour or mono, with a slow wobble.
Pixel Sort effect example
PIXEL SORT
Live pixel sorting — runs of bright (or dark) pixels sorted along rows or columns, with grain.
Silhouette effect example
SILHOUETTE
Person segmentation on the phone — matte, outline, trails and blur. The figure over the scene, or the scene inside the figure.
PATCHCAM LINK — PLUGINS
RESOLUMEARENA · AVENUE
PatchCam Link — Stream the feed from PatchCam directly into Resolume over the network. Realtime control over all the settings: change the patch, tweak the settings and MIDI map everything.
macOS 12+ (Apple silicon + Intel) or Windows 10+ · Resolume 7 · PatchCam build 12+ with Pro
MACOS1.2 WIN1.2
TOUCHDESIGNERCOMPONENT
PatchCam Link — Take control over PatchCam directly from a custom TouchDesigner component with realtime controls, and stream it over the network as a custom TOP.
macOS 12+ (Apple silicon + Intel) or Windows 10+ · TouchDesigner 2023+ · PatchCam build 12+ with Pro
DOWNLOAD1.2 · macOS + Windows