Slit-scan · Mac app
Bend time into trails.
A slit-scan app that faithfully recreates the original slit-scan camera rigs — made by VFX artists, for VFX artists. Those rigs build a single frame from thin slices of time, so movement stretches and smears across the image; GHOST rebuilds that same geometry, then adds what the old rigs never could. You shape the time displacement yourself, live, and drop points on the frame so the effect follows your subject instead of running straight across it.
- Real slit-scan geometry, not a smear filter — time captured slice by slice
- Shape the time displacement yourself: trails, freezes, spirals, and depth
- Drop points so the effect follows your subject, live as you watch
- Feed it a saved clip, a camera, or a live signal
- Exports a clean clip that drops into any editor
- Apple Silicon Mac · macOS 14+ · pay once, no subscription
- Commercial-use output
Safe checkout · Mac app · Updates free forever
raw / ghost
Drag across the effect.
Same frame, before and after. Move the divider while the footage plays to see exactly what GHOST is doing.
the looks
Time has shape.
Real slit-scan geometry, reshaped: stretch movement into trails, smear it across the frame, or make the effect wrap around whatever's closest to the camera.
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depthPut the effect exactly where you want it. Drop points on the frame and drag them around. The effect bends to follow them while you watch.
A bit more
Your points steer where time stretches, so the effect follows your shot instead of running straight across it — something most tools like this can't do.
the app
A real Mac app.
Shape the effect, watch it move live, and save the finished clip — a real Mac app, not a plugin.
Under the hood
One frame. Many moments.
Slit-scan bends time across space. Instead of every pixel sharing one instant, GHOST assembles each output frame from a different moment in time · a read-surface sweeps a window of frames, so motion smears into a single continuous image.
Hold a window of frames as a volume in space and time · x, y, and t.
A gradient decides which moment each pixel is sampled from. Direction, shape and speed are yours.
One output frame, built from many times at once. Freeze the front and it latches into a still.
A real time-displacement engine with directions, gradients and freeze modes, not a one-knob preset.
Same engine, whether you run the Mac app or the After Effects / Premiere plugin.
before you buy
Clear on purpose.
Every clip here is real output from the app. Buying is simple: one Mac app, one checkout, and what you make stays yours.
What do I get?
GHOST is a Mac app. You shape a clip in it, then save the finished clip for your edit.
Is it a subscription?
No. Pay once and keep it. Updates are free forever.
What Mac do I need?
Any Apple-chip Mac on macOS 14 or newer.
Can I use it in paid work?
Yes. Use what you make in client work, music videos, social posts, and personal projects.
What makes it different?
It bends time live, and you can drag points so the effect follows your subject.
ready when the clip is
Get GHOST and start bending footage.
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