Uploaded May 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This is something of an edit which i put my mental state at the time into. It's not supposed to be ''conventionally'' pretty or even make much sense. Sometimes you just gotta make something that reflects the way your mind feels ^^''
For me, it was this chaotic mess. Complete disregard for what is aesthetically pleasing, and it was something of a rebellion of mine against what i have learned over the years about what is considered to be good in a video. I got so sick of trying to make things look pretty, i got so tired of my editing style that i just didn't like it anymore or didn't have much fun editing anymore. Plus i was feeling really overwhelmed by my workload at the time and how i literally don't have a single bit of motivation to get started on it. I suppose all of that combined itself into this video.
And the song i decided to use was this one - i had heard it earlier that day and i wasn't sure if i really liked it, mostly bc of the lyrics, but in this moment, this song and its sound felt like exactly what i was looking for. And so, as i was editing, i grew to really like this song!
however this was also the beginning of when i understood that i loved editing in this style! i refined it with time, and now it's still something i like coming back to, but yes ^^ i felt like this style was something completely fresh and different, and it was definitely fun to work on this ^^
So far i've finished 3 projects in this style, and with each one i've refined the look of this style to something more cohesive but still a part of, what i like to call, this ''2007-ish'' style.
This is the first of these, so it's the least understandable. In fact i feel like this edit might look better on smaller screens than it would on big screens.
In any case i definitely tried some new things in this video, like using the pan/crop tool instead of s_blurmocurves (i sometimes mixed the two as well), or using s_timeslice. Plus using preset transitions that i normally wouldn't use!
I wrote most of the text very quickly with disregard for proper spelling, and at points i made the text fit the "emo/scene" aesthetic. I picked my fonts at random.
I used Mo Dao Zu Shi bc it was the first media to pop into my head/the one that inspired me the most, i feel like it's quite easy to edit with, too ^^
i left a little surprise inside joke between me and my best friend in this video, as we were on a discord call when i was making this- XDD It's a little Changbin from Stray Kids, i feel like y'all might be able to find him- XD
i like to think that maybe this style is like, a continuation of what i started last year with the highly saturated, broken style, except this style is even more 2000s and pixelated, no added cuteness mostly, just 2000s aesthetic and text, and also it's generally more de-saturated than saturated ^^
I feel like i should have some more time to post now and also make stuff more frequently. and i really want to, as well!
sadly this school year went rather rough for me on an emotional/physical level, but in general things have gotten better by now, i feel.
have some little things i've made during this time that i will also be uploading/making public with time ^^
i suppose that's all i wanted to say!
i hope y'all enjoy this very chaotic and random experimental video ^^
I wish you all a good day/night!
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Song link (please support this artist!): youtube.com/watch?v=W5KkhldMoQc
Layers: i don't think i have the project file anymore
Time taken: maybe a couple hours
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Made on: April 9th/10th (finished/rendered past midnight, already on the 10th)
This is something of an edit which i put my mental state at the time into. It's not supposed to be ''conventionally'' pretty or even make much sense. Sometimes you just gotta make something that reflects the way your mind feels ^^''
For me, it was this chaotic mess. Complete disregard for what is aesthetically pleasing, and it was something of a rebellion of mine against what i have learned over the years about what is considered to be good in a video. I got so sick of trying to make things look pretty, i got so tired of my editing style that i just didn't like it anymore or didn't have much fun editing anymore. Plus i was feeling really overwhelmed by my workload at the time and how i literally don't have a single bit of motivation to get started on it. I suppose all of that combined itself into this video.
And the song i decided to use was this one - i had heard it earlier that day and i wasn't sure if i really liked it, mostly bc of the lyrics, but in this moment, this song and its sound felt like exactly what i was looking for. And so, as i was editing, i grew to really like this song!
however this was also the beginning of when i understood that i loved editing in this style! i refined it with time, and now it's still something i like coming back to, but yes ^^ i felt like this style was something completely fresh and different, and it was definitely fun to work on this ^^
So far i've finished 3 projects in this style, and with each one i've refined the look of this style to something more cohesive but still a part of, what i like to call, this ''2007-ish'' style.
This is the first of these, so it's the least understandable. In fact i feel like this edit might look better on smaller screens than it would on big screens.
In any case i definitely tried some new things in this video, like using the pan/crop tool instead of s_blurmocurves (i sometimes mixed the two as well), or using s_timeslice. Plus using preset transitions that i normally wouldn't use!
I wrote most of the text very quickly with disregard for proper spelling, and at points i made the text fit the "emo/scene" aesthetic. I picked my fonts at random.
I used Mo Dao Zu Shi bc it was the first media to pop into my head/the one that inspired me the most, i feel like it's quite easy to edit with, too ^^
i left a little surprise inside joke between me and my best friend in this video, as we were on a discord call when i was making this- XDD It's a little Changbin from Stray Kids, i feel like y'all might be able to find him- XD
i like to think that maybe this style is like, a continuation of what i started last year with the highly saturated, broken style, except this style is even more 2000s and pixelated, no added cuteness mostly, just 2000s aesthetic and text, and also it's generally more de-saturated than saturated ^^
I feel like i should have some more time to post now and also make stuff more frequently. and i really want to, as well!
sadly this school year went rather rough for me on an emotional/physical level, but in general things have gotten better by now, i feel.
have some little things i've made during this time that i will also be uploading/making public with time ^^
i suppose that's all i wanted to say!
i hope y'all enjoy this very chaotic and random experimental video ^^
I wish you all a good day/night!
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Song link (please support this artist!): youtube.com/watch?v=W5KkhldMoQc
Layers: i don't think i have the project file anymore
Time taken: maybe a couple hours
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Made on: April 9th/10th (finished/rendered past midnight, already on the 10th)
![[ ONE FOR THE MONEY ] | FINAL FANTASY VII { Kadaj & Reno }](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HLeEveICz3w/mqdefault.jpg "[ ONE FOR THE MONEY ] | FINAL FANTASY VII { Kadaj & Reno }
Please watch in HD! c:
Eeeeee Im very happy with the result of this edit, actually! ^w^
So, I started making this 3 days ago, after finally getting home after nearly an entire edit idea in my head. Earlier that day, I saw this fantastic MEP with this song and it had a whole lot of Final Fantasy clips in it, especially ones from FFVII Advent Children. Aaand it all seriously inspired me! My reason for choosing this combo of characters is because in that MEP, parts with these characters came one after another and these two parts were the ones that inspired me the most :3
I took some inspiration from like 2 text effects used in one of the parts and I decided to play around with something similar, but create it to my liking, and see if I can find anything that I would like to continue using onwards :3
I also took some inspo for the some of the clip selections and placements x3 (Also the little closing black bar near the end ^^)
I was already happy with the look of this after adding clips and a coloring, and when I got to editing, I had loads of fun trying out these little things that Ive never tried before - like adding a soft fade to the lines that I usually do, using the screen blend mode more often for text, and I also found a new preset transition that I came to like :3 Its sorta like the flash and blur transition that I usually do without presets ^^ Its called uni.Exposure blur! :3 I also thought of some new ways to do typography :3
Given that the typography is very active, I kiiind of wanted to make the background more calm, but I couldnt really help myself, and ended up making the clips match the intensity as well! Although, I intentionally made the clips and effects more calm and less active towards the very end, so it wouldnt be a constant strain of a lot of things to pay attention to, throughout the whole video ^^
Okie, now I would like to talk about my ideas!
I would like to say that there was an effect similar to the one I did here with the first its three, three get ready lyric in the MEP I watched, for that same lyric, so thats the one I took inspo from for the first pieces of text aside from the first its two, cause two is for the show. The other text ideas came to me after looping this part of the song many times and thinking. Im especially surprised at the outcome of the lyrics that I added during Renos part!
I used After Effects to make that part, and, man that was some trial and error XD Buuuut! I was able to do it completely like I imagined it in my head!!!
This brings me to my next thing! This edit turned out to look PRECISELY the way I thought it would look in my head, if not better! owo
I literally felt like I broke my own patience while making this. I generally dont have the patience to completely perfect my work or to put too much effort into it.
I did notice some little things I wouldve liked to improve on after it first rendered. (which it did in 33 minutes and 33 seconds, might I add lol) After seeing these things, I decided, since Im already quite dedicated to this edit, I might as well first every little thing I dont like about the render, mainly the outro screen. And so I did, and then it finished rendering after 31 minutes and 44 seconds ^^
However, even if I went a bit out of my comfort zone with this project, Im kinda glad I did.
Aaaaa and I think thats all I have to say for now!
I really really hope that yall enjoy this edit, and that yall have a really great day/night as well x3
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Time taken: 4 days (including today)
Layers: 30")
![Chazz Princeton / Jun Manjome ;; [ BOOGIE ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HffIrBTra2Y/mqdefault.jpg "Chazz Princeton / Jun Manjome ;; [ BOOGIE ]
HD is a friend! ^w^
I must say, I think Chazz/Jun is my favorite character to edit with, when it comes to comedic edits XD
Aaand thats what this is supposed to be - a comedic edit ^^
I think I began this on the 20th of July, this year?
This was the first thing I got to making when I found the name of this song after hearing it in an Instagram edit.
This is heavily inspired by that edit. It was an edit made by miaouamvs, I believe.
I also found myself laughing as I was setting the clips, namely the very first clip here, which I had added later down the road XD
I was also trying to make the clips fit the lyrics somewhat ^^
After I had set those clips in Vegas, aaand gotten to editing in AE, it was a lot of fun to try out these kind of transitions, bc theyre done a little different from how I would usually do them, and honestly, I think this is now my fave way to do transition curves in AE ^^
It was also fun learning how to make text follow a path, and therefore making the two lyrics you see here ^^
Now, rendering this was a bit of a chore. Im not quite sure why, but at a specific clip, which is the one at the part where the lyrics go grow up like a-, Media Encoder always stopped rendering and showed that it failed. After many failed attempts, I tried to think of an alternative way to render this. Eventually, I had tried to render straight from AE in a lossless avi format, which resulted in a huge file size (like, 6 gb). After this, I converted the video with Handbrake, and it did so very quickly - it also left the quality still looking nice, and being able to find an alternative like this made me really happy ^^
Ah, regarding the video, I def feel like my fave part here is the spin transition, and I also like how the text turned out to look ^^
Heck, I think Im happy with this edit, in general XD
The only thing is that I wish I had extended the fade out for the today piece of text a little more. Oh well.
Soooo! I reeeally hope that yall enjoy this! ^w^
And III also hope that yall have a great day/night x3
Ive also finished editing and rendering 3 edits today - Im on some kind of roll XD
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Song: Brockhampton - Boogie
Programs: Adobe After Effects CC 2018, Sony Vegas Pro 14
Layers: 26
Time taken: ~5 days? (that I actively worked on this)")
![Aki Izayoi ;; 성인식 [Coming-Of-Age Ceremony]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/I1eOcR_SM7Q/mqdefault.jpg "Aki Izayoi ;; 성인식 [Coming-Of-Age Ceremony]
Please watch in HD ^^
Huh, I think Ive figured out that editing with pictures like this is my fave way of editing in AE^^
Aaanyways, I started this project 2 days ago when I felt like I really wanted to edit with Aki in some way, but I was absolutely clueless as to what song I could use. First I remembered about a rock song that could maybe fit her, but I didnt feel any inspiration for that song. Plus, I didnt feel like I wanted to edit with anything too lyric heavy since I wasnt feeling up for trying to find fitting clips to download from YT again. I was looking through songs and I remembered about this one which I had seen in one Instagram edit. I started contemplating that maybe I could use this, but I definitely wasnt confident in this choice at first. However, this changed with time.
As I was editing this in AE, it felt like all of what I was doing was happening so smoothly, and I didnt even need to put thought into what I was doing - it was just happening, really.
This is, of course, after some trial and error after coming back to the project and nearly breaking the flow of it. I added about three pictures with effects and transitions after the one at 0:04, and none of them appear in this final video here. And the effects and transition styles I used werent kept, either. I was trying to make those clips work, but it just didnt feel right, so I went ahead and deleted what I had done there, and then began rethinking what could go with the flow. Thats when it started feeling fun again.
In general, It was a whole lot of fun editing this, especially in AE. I had some trouble with the Twixtor however, bc it wasnt working the way I wanted it to, with the third anime clip I used here, but eventually I got it to work in some way.
Speaking of those - I actually got the clips from YT, once again, so I apologize for the quality of them. Another thing that bothered me a little was that I hadnt realized that I could mask out the subtitles that were on the clips I used. These subtitles arent visible when the clip is done rolling, but they could or can be seen as the clip _is_ rolling. I tried to fix this later on, but Im a bit worried that it looks messy ^^
By that, I mean that once I felt like I was done with this, and I had rendered it, I put it into Vegas - mostly to add a coloring, because I was worried that adding MBL would mess the rendering process up in AE.
I made a coloring specifically for this video, instead of editing an already existing coloring I had made, and I feel like its quite nice. There were a lot of points where I had to fade the video in and out of it because some parts were a bit too bright, so I had to go in and decrease that part alone.
To hopefully make the subtitles less visible, I added a lot of RSMB as well as blurs and flashes on the anime clips. But maybe the RSMB was a mistake to add on some of the clips, bc they just dont have subtitles and it wasnt really needed XD
There was something that I forgot to do before rendering this thing in AE before, so thats why I said that I _felt_ like I was done. I wanted to add a glitch effect, but the kind that can be done with S_TVDamage. I tried to do the effect the same way it would be done in AE, in Vegas, but the result was different, so first I searched for videos, but after finding nothing I just decided to make the glitch effect, myself, so I could use it in Vegas and wont have to re-render the edit again. I feel like the result of the glitch is good ^^
The last thing I wanna say is that this took 2 hours and 51 minutes to render, and I waited through all of it. I was a bit horrified when I saw it show that there were 42 minutes left to render when it first stopped, but as you can see, that was definitely not the case in the end XD It was nearly 1 AM by the time it was done, and I feel like rendering messed the clips up a bit, bc it still looked fine in Vegas preview screen, and I have no clue what happened to the bass shake at the end. It didnt look that bad before XD
A little disappointed that I didnt render the edit in 60 fps in AE, simply bc I forgot it was set to 30 fps (and rendering this in 60 fps in Vegas would not be the best idea), bc I feel like then this couldve looked a bit more smooth, or nicer, but oh well.
IIII hope yall enjoy this? XD
I also hope that you all have a good day or night ^^
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Layers: Maybe 16 in AE, 5 in Vegas
Time taken: 2 or 3 days (if you count the render time going over midnight as a 3rd day)
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Fanart credit:
- https://www.zerochan.net/203568 (artist name is in the tags)
- https://www.deviantart.com/ryairyai/art/Black-Rose-Dragon-524445395
- https://www.deviantart.com/alanmac95/art/Akiza-Card-sleeve-2-474605302
- Im not sure about the source for the fanart at 0:07. If you know, please let me know.")
![[MMD] Cloud Strife ~ Gishinanki](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ifj0enAnJXY/mqdefault.jpg "[MMD] Cloud Strife ~ Gishinanki
Just a very simple MMD video I decided to throw together to try out this model of Cloud.
I really like how this model looks, and I thought that the animations here look nice here, so ye ^^
I rendered this with a green screen and then cut it out in Vegas to add some extra effects.
I originally wanted to try a stage, but I dont quite know how to use like, animated stages correctly and whatnot, so I stuck with this.
Maaaybe I should have removed the soft focus in this coloring. Oh well.
Welp, guess I dont have much to say about this, so on to the credits. Hope that yall enjoy this random thing ^^
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Credits:
Song: Da-little - Gishinanki
Model: MMDKasumi2140
Camera: DG-RINER
Motion: 曇＠のあき
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Programs: MikuMikuDance, Sony Vegas Pro 14
Media: Final Fantasy VII")
