With Prisma, You Can Turn a Video into a Painting1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minutePrisma’s migration to video was inevitable. Pretty much anything you can do to a still image you will eventually be able to do to a video image; it’s just a question of how long it’ll take for software and hardware to catch up. Or, if you are the band Drive Like Maria, you can decide not to wait and to push your music video through an app only designed for still image processing.
Prisma, if you haven’t heard of it, has been getting a lot of attention lately, and it might be behind some of the images you’ve seen on your Instagram feed that look like paintings (but are based on still images). The processing isn’t fast, since the app uses the graphics processor of a phone (instead of, say, a computer with a powerful GPU), leading to a processing time per frame in the seconds. This has led to some frustrations from the apps users but poses real challenges for a filmmaker, and is the primary reason that the app doesn’t do video yet. Not only would the processing time be prohibitively long, even on a 5-second clip, but also the likelihood of overheating the phone is large and not worth the liability risk if you are a programmer. In fact, a competitor app, Artisto, which describes itself as “Prisma for Video,” has just been released, and early reports are that it’s buggy, crashes mid-filter application, and the visible results don’t look quite as good as what we see in the music video below:
via: No Film School
Image and Video Credit: Drive Like Maria
