Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Woooooo! After about a year of editing this on and off, and 85 layers, this is finally finished :3
This is a remake of an edit i made near when i first started editing - an edit that i made in early December of 2011. With Windows Movie Maker sadkjhaskjsa owo
Finally doing my username justice XD It's been three years since my last R&C edit, i think- :o

So then!! A year ago or so i sent my girlfriend a bunch of my old edits that i had deleted previously but was able to recover - this being one of them, and then!! She said that she would love to see this particular one in my current style, and that immediately gave me the thought of remaking this - plus the idea itself made me really excited - so big shoutout to her for this suggestion! uwu Honestly i think this is one of my Better old edits for me to remake, as well XD
I finished the b&w intro with the ''hide your face forever'' and whatnot last year, and only had set some clips. I was feeling intimated by the amount of work i had to do, so i didn't really get beyond that much XD'' However, this year, during my second semester, i made it my goal to finish this edit over summer of this year, and look what ended up happening ^w^ Once school was basically over for me this year, i intently got to setting more clips, the coloring, and effects, slowly. My ideas were trial and error at points, as i don't edit with this kind of music too often now. But i knew that smth that i wanted to unite everything with would be the tv simulator effect to simulate the sound of the guitar :3 And i wanted everything to be purely what i would define as my style - arial, scratch overlays, bounciness/floatiness, and precision, being some to mention. I knew everything should come into place, once i finished setting the clips!
Every now and then i looked at the original to decide if i like something there and want to carry it over too. I also took a separate day to fiddle around with masks bc those take quite a bit of energy from me XD"'
And every now and then i checked and compared what i'm doing so the flow would be okay. On some days when i was away from home i would also loop this song, when able, and just envision as many ideas as i could, that i could later make when i get home. I really got into making this!
Oh, and i wanted to add a comparison at the end c: It was super exciting to watch the comparison when this was done, i think i've come quite a long way in editing in these nearly 10 years :o

This has got to be the most amount of masks i've done in a video in quite a long time, plus it's the longest of my edits in quite a while, hands down owo I generally am not friends with masks, but i really tried to get myself together and do some for this video - some are a bit half-assed, but there are others like the one at 1:03 that i tried a little harder for ^^

I made some ''quality-of-life'' improvements to this edit while remaking it, such as improved timing and added masks ^^ Some effects i intentionally made similar to the old edit, some i did unintentionally :o And during the bridge, i didn't use that exact clip from the game that i used originally, because i remember my original idea being to play the video in reverse at that point, but since reversing videos isn't a thing (not conveniently anyways) in wmm, i went with the next best thing and used that clip - so i essentially completed my original idea there :3
I added the warning on top of the video at the start so my adjustment layer keyframes wouldn't get displaced ;w;

A fun fact about making the original video - though i don't remember much of my emotions while making this, i remember that i didn't know the lyrics, and i based my clip choices off my misheard lyrics- XD For instance, one of the lyrics is ''proud like a god'', but i misheard it as ''bow like a dog'' or something- XD

However, at points i did wish that my past self would have chosen some better clips ;w; (like, what am i supposed to do with 1:01- XD) quite a few were also rather long in length, as you can see owo''

I had to reinstall magic bullet looks while editing this bc i installed another plugin related to it, and it caused p much all of the video to get a black/blue screen as a watermark, but after reinstalling that fixed the issue. The editing process itself was rather alright, tho i feel like my pc was getting tired of my shenanigans with time, bc the ram previews got very, very slow XD"' i guess that's understandable given how much i shoved onto the clips tho XD''
Speaking of getting slow - my gosh - the render time XD'' This took over an hour to render for the comparison, and over 2 hours to render the second time *with* the comparison included, and that is by far the longest render time i've had on this pc so far XD''

I really, reeeally hope that y'all enjoy this thingy, and i wish you all a great day/night uwu

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Layers: 85
Time taken: ~1 year on and off (Total render time: 2 hours, 16 minutes, 59 seconds)

Finished on: June 20th, 2021