Uploaded October 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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*flash and flicker warning!*

This one took a long time!
Also finally another hxh edit!
I believe I started this in uuuhh late September of last year, and I wanted to use this song after hearing it in an insta edit and immediately liking it.
I wanted to capture a psychedelic, vaporwavey(!), and vhs look in this one. Something that could fit the vibe that the song gave me.
And honestly, the result here is quite a lot more different than what i originally wanted!
I originally wanted to animate vaporwave related things(?), animate a spinning vinyl record like in the song's video on yt, i wanted to do wavy bounces, lots of slides, pictures and clips zoomed out on a solid color layer, ''grid-flip'' transitions, and i wanted to use a dotted texture over all of this.
Needless to say, i barely used any of that at all. The only thing that for sure stayed around during the making of this was my idea of a purple/pinkish coloring with a vhs effect!
In fact, i was insecure about how this was looking, as i started editing. I figured i'd need to fix this a lot for me to feel happy with it. However, as i continued editing, i kind of disregarded the notes i wrote for this project, and started improvising.
One instance of this improvising came when doing the clip at 0:06. I actually quickly placed that clip there as like a ''i wanna use this clip somewhere, let's place it around here for now'' and then i played it back and realized that it actually could fit the music really well at that point. I opted to also leave the blank areas that were surrounding the clip, blank. And just put text there instead.

But in general, my clip choices were based on how confident/badass they looked, as i wanted them to give that vibe. And i wanted them to fit the lyrics just a small bit.
I chose these characters because they're my three favorite characters in hxh uwu
I wanted this video to look super colorful and have a pseudo feeling, but still be pleasant to look at.
As i was editing, i noticed that parts of this video have a change in speed. Perhaps that's alright.

This edit is a little different to my usual stuff in the sense that i didn't use scratch overlays in it. I suppose that's one thing i would usually use otherwise, and, while i didn't use much of the Arial font here, i have also had other times when i used different fonts.

For the longest time, this edit was stuck in Some kind of state. And this evening, i somehow was able to sit down and finally finish Kurapika's part, and add the loop, and some other little things. And thus, i finished this.
This was a lot of trial and error and working with s_blurmocurves, as well as s_shake. loads, and loads of those two.
And also figuring out what effects i want, and which could continue the flow well enough.
Oh and of course, while i still edited this on my laptop, it was an absolute nightmare to ram preview. I can tell y'all right now that my laptop hated the part at 0:05-0:08 and maybe took at least one minute to ram preview that. And 0:11-0:13 felt like it took even longer to ram preview, it was just terrible to sit through.
Ram previewing on this pc also wasn't the speediest thing at points, but it didn't feel as, horribly slow. However, before i upgraded my cooler, this project used to make my cpu heat up like all heck, and even made vegas crash/force close itself. Plus, of course, my pc started sounding like a jet engine. With my setup now tho, it was still pretty quiet during the whole time, even when it got slightly hot while rendering.
Maybe something that was causing the issue was that i put an rsmb effect over everything else in an adjustment layer, as opposed to just adding it onto clips separately.

Regardless of these troubles, i'm so happy that this is done, and that we can all see the result!
This is one of the projects i kept around from the time i used Vegas Pro 14, bc i used effects that are no longer supported by Vegas Pro 18 here.
I have some more projects like this that i've kept around and hope to finish sometime as well :3

Ah, rendering this also went well, and it rendered in only 34 minutes and 30 seconds.

I believe that's all i wanted to say.
I hope y'all enjoy this video, and have a very good day/night, too!

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Song: INDICA - INTOXICATED
Program: Vegas Pro 14
Layers: 45
Media: Hunter x Hunter (2011) / Hunter x Hunter (1999)
Time taken: ~1 year and 1 month (on and off)

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Credit for the twixtor used during 0:00-0:05 (and the respective clips in the loop), as well as the one scene at 0:08: luna xxii (youtube.com/watch?v=Dp_e3Qrab6w)