#edit: deleted the post this is referencing cause i just dont want to be that negative

[bananonbinary]

Are you old enough to use this website

sometimes adults are disabled and poor and live with their also disabled and poor parents so they can take care of each other

this is an extremely common living situation, stop infantilizing disabled people jfc

[neopuff]

hello, i hope you're having a good day!! i was wondering, do you have any tips for making amvs? like, what programmes you use, how you handle the timing, etc. thank you for all the fun edits you make!!

hi!! sorry for the delay in answering this, i just wanted to take the time to answer it thoroughly and i kept forgetting lol & thank you! i already typed this once and tumblr made it disappear so i apologize if anything i say comes out short ‘cause i’m just trying to remember all that i typed before lol

ok so ill just go through my general editing process in Vegas, i dont know any other program well enough to talk about it at length:

(disclaimer: this is just how i do it, i dont watch tutorials and my editing friends and i don’t watch each other edit often so i would assume that my way is very different from other ways you’ve probably seen! i might even do something in a very stupidly hard way, please feel free to tell me if theres an easier way to do anything lol)

1. Song: So skipping past the “choosing song and ship/character/show” theme, I’ll dive straight into CUTTING THE SONG! I’m not about that Editing The Entire Song life, and neither is most of the editing community anymore, so I cut it up into a shorter thing that I’m better equipped to edit to. I’m just using a random example but here I’ve taken this long ass song and turned it into this:

(the next step just kind of depends on my mood, or ill do both, doesnt matter)

2-A. Subclips: if im making a shorter video or a video where i’m not 100% super familiar with the footage, i will immediately start making subclips using the episodes ive already pulled into the project. if it’s a ship/character that i’ve edited before, i’ll just go to Import->Media from Project and import the subclips i made previously. either way, subclips are there! 

2-B. Sheets: for ships that i know very well/have a lot of footage/im concerned about potentially repeating something, i will go to Google Sheets/Excel and take the lyrics im editing to and put them in column A, separating by pauses in the singing. then i put corresponding footage i think will go well in column B! im often not super specific because i know the beats are gonna be different than i remember, so i usually stick to referencing whole scenes instead of specifics moments. here’s an example:

3. Clip placement: Then I start placing clips down! Below is how I organize my timeline tho I know a lot of editors who put the music on top, this is just how I like it. I also keep a single muted audio layer in between for the video footage’s audio and then I’ll delete that layer when I’m done (or sometimes I don’t, it doesn’t really matter)

I think it’s good to hit the beats as much as possible, it makes for a more dynamic audio-visual experience! In general I try to make my videos so that, if I didn’t add any zooms or typography or coloring, it would still be a good amv. And don’t limit yourself to just one layer, you can have as many layers as you’d like and put clips on top of each other (cookie cutter/changing the layer to dodge or add or screen or whatever) is a good way to mix things up

when I zoom in you can see I’ve got some variety already in my transitions, I know I use that motion-blur-zoom a lot these days but I still try to mix it up and keep my brain invested

4. Typography: After all the clips have been placed (or most of the clips, ofc sometimes I’ll want to add more later) I move on to typography! I’m lazy so the first thing I’ll do it just put down unedited text where I think I’ll want it to go. It just helps me organize myself. Then I’ll pretty up the text afterwards.

Typography isn’t necessary for a good AMV, but really nice typography can really spruce things up. I’ve only very recently gotten confident in my text editing skills, and I just kept watching typography done by editors I really like until I figured out what they were doing. My recommendation is to just KEEP ADDING EFFECTS! Convolution kernel, gaussian blur, mask the text so it appears from angles that the transitions wouldn’t be able to do - of course there’s gotta be a limit for taste, but just add stuff until you like how it looks. Also changing the blending style of the text layer is good, dodge and difference are my go-tos for typography layers.

5. Transitions: I don’t go crazy with transitions, but it’s fun to mess around with them. You don’t want too many crazy/different transitions, you want them to match the mood of the song and the type of beat you’re hitting. I usually ensure that all similar beats in the song have the same transition type on them, bbbbbbut that’s cuz I’m overly obsessed with parallel structure. There’s plenty of fantastic AMVs where they just go ham and do whatever types of transitions they want to in each part of the song and they make it work just fine

(next step, once again, kind of depends on my mood lol)

6-A. Zooms: Time for zooms! I usually just use the pan/crop for zooming, but often I’ll incorporate Sapphire FX BlurMoCurves or NewBlue AutoPan, especially if I’m trying to zoom typography with the footage at the same rate. I try to keep my zooms short and slower, I mean obv it just depends on the song but yeah. There’s a lot of different ways to do zooms so I recommend experimenting and just playing around with different effects

6-B. Zooms...but different: Another way that I’ll do zooms which is definitely pretty different (but this is what I do for crossovers like 95% of the time because I am laaaaaaaaaaazy) is I’ll drag the project into a new project timeline and start editing it there. It’s similar to how After Effects works and it makes it easier to put effects overtop of multiple layers without having to pre-render anything.

So you can see I’ve just pulled in the .VEG file and popped it in the timeline! So this way I can add zooms and transitions without worrying about layers. And if I see a mistake I need to fix, I can just go back into the original .VEG file and edit it, and it’ll be edited when I come back here. So it’s much easier than pre-rendering or trying to do zooms on a lot of layers. To be clear tho, this doesn’t work well if you have a lot of fade transitions, it’s best for sharp transitions and it’s great when you’re using Sapphire FX BlurMoCurves a lot.

7. Overlays: After that I’ll add more typography (or if you didn’t add any earlier, you can add some here overtop of the new project file) that kind of goes on top of everything. And then I’ll add any overlays or objects or whatever else I wanna add! I’m not someone who uses a lot of backgrounds cuz I don’t have a background-creative-brain so I stick to simple overlays at the most.

8. Coloring!!! This is very sad but I only JUST learned a few weeks ago that you can add coloring/effects to your entire video with this button here, so in case anyone else hates watching tutorials as much as I do here’s where I’m talking about:

This shit would’ve made my life so much easier throughout the years lol But alas. Anyway so for coloring there are some effects that are popular for any colorings you’ll find on YT (but you can certainly just download some, Riverdale editors in particular share a lot of really great colorings but you’ll find them anywhere in the live action editing community):

Channel Blend, Color Curves, Color Blend, Color Balance, Convolution Kernel (best for live action footage or footage that isnt very crisp), Color Corrector Secondary

These are all just fun to mess with. Channel Blend in particular is something of a mystery for me, I haven’t studied it fully to understand what I’m doing so I mostly just mess with it randomly until I like what I see lol

9. Render time! First render, anyway. Usually there’ll be some random problem in the footage or something and I’ll have to either go back into the project and fix it OR if I’m feeling particularly sour (or maybe if I’ve rendered like 3-4 times already) I will just take the finished render and manually remove any errors, stretching out the good footage to cover my tracks. You’d be surprised how often I end up doing that lol

And then it’s good to post! I primarily render as .WMV but I also go for .MP4s every once in a while. If I want to upload it to Twitter I’ll do an .MP4 but it’s a new thing for me so I’m still stuck on .WMV mostly.

Anyway I hope this answered your question at least a little bit, I can go into more detail about certain parts of this if you’d like!

[btsandvmin]

I was reading your recent post on the Christmas song and you questioned why other members are able to sing romantic songs together while Vmin can’t. The other members did song covers so it may seem less intentional to be romantic while the Christmas song was made by Taehyung possibly for Jimin to sing together which is very romantic. I think BH supports the producers decision based on the lack of Vmin subunit. I hope they just do a vlive and sing it.

Ok, so I got a looooot of asks on the Christmas song and I will adress the ones I have left all in one go. I also realized my mistake of not mentioning in my post The Vmin Christmas song that I do suspect that the difference between Tae’s song and other romantic collabs between members is likely that he wrote it himself. I talked about this in my original post when he mentioned it the first time, and I thought referencing that post (Big Hit, BTS, Vmin and LGBT) and recomending you all to read it might have been enough. Since I mostly wanted to focus on the new vlive, Taehyung’s feelings and some additional things I didn’t mention last time. I didn’t want to remake the same post too much.

But yes, I agree with you that that is likely the reason why he didn’t get to sing it. But I also think it says a lot that Taehyung brought it up, as we haven’t heard of a case like this before between any other members. Thanks for the ask. :)

On the song : as a vminie I'm upset as I'm sure a lot of us are but I kinda noticed something. Most of the romantic sounding songs between the members come from outside sources. Whether it's the already made english songs or an ost  that doesn't have anything to do with BTS or bh personally. If you get what I mean. This song is written by Taehyung so singing it with a member might have caused the "panic" in the producers that it's too personal to sing 'about' another member. Still fcked up 😒 

I don’t think it caused panic, but they are obviously cautious. They can be careful for many various reasons but as you say it does make a difference that this is a selfwritten song. If the same would happen to other pairs in BTS we might never know, but for now at least we know in regards to Vmin that there are some lines their company (or at least that one producer) are afraid to cross.

It's possible that producer rejected Xmas song bcoz it was written by Tae I mean other pairings did sang together but they were cover songs but this was written by Tae and it was romantic so maybe that's why he rejected tae's song, right? But in the end I've lost the hope/image of bighit being supportive towards LGBT "two men can't sing romantic song" is the most homophobic thing and that shows Bighit is just another selfish Kpop company that don't care bout non straight members if there r any:(

Honestly I think you should be a bit careful, because Big Hit is a company and BTS are “a product they need to sell” being careful might be for BTS own sake more than anything and we have seen the members be careful about LGBT statments as well. There are sadly still a lot of Korea (and the world) that isn’t as open towards LGBT as we would wish. But I really recomend you read my post Big Hit, BTS, Vmin and LGBT because I go into lengths there why simply getting angry at Big Hit and calling them homophobic is a very simple way to adress a complicated issue. Of course it’s still a homophobic act, but there might be reasons behind it that we don’t know. In fact I would like to claim that Big Hit still is one of the most PRO LGBT companies in Korea.

Probably controversial, you can ignore and delete this, its ok: if ji k o ok was the one with the duet, do you think bh would let them release it? Two guys and all?   (Yes I'm still angry about it and no I dont think I could ever let it go, the vlive revived my feelings���) 

It’s ok to be angry and sad, I am too… Especially since Tae brought it up again and clearly seems to care a lot about it. I have no idea if Big Hit would let another ship release it. I know they have been careful about shipping moments being too much for other ships, so it’s possible it would be the same for all ships. But the fact that it did happen with Vmin still says a lot, so I don’t think it matters that much if it would happen to other ships as well. There can be a lot of reasons why, but Tae told us specifically that the song was too romantic in nature for him and Jimin to sing together. He let us know that himself. So speculating about other ships will always just remain speculation. :P Thanks for the ask and let’s try to support Tae no matter what even if we can still be upset. <3

what are your thoughts on the xmas duet, why did taehyung bring this up again ? I know it's almost xmas but there wasn't really a need to talk abt it again, knowing that he won't propably ever release it 

I think he brought it up again because he cares about it more than he wants to say. I wrote a longer post speculating about it and how I think Taehyung feels and why. The Vmin Christmas song

Again, I also thought it was weird for him to bring it up again despite it being so close to Christmas, and the fact that he despite again stating he will likely not release it did at least to me show how he does like and care about the song. But if he can’t do it the way he wanted to it kind of lost it’s meaning to him.

About tae's vlive and the christmas song just the day after in the muster jimin went to sing next to tae and people think the lyrics was in reference to tae's vlive did you see that ? on twitter: /i/status/1206145252345688064 what do you think ? 

Ah yes, I saw that. The timing of it is interesting, because they usually don’t interact much during Love Maze for obvious reasons. But Jimin went across first to Namjoon but then to Tae and was there for a while. And after they sang those parts he went back. It does look a bit like a statment. But as usual it’s difficult to know anything for sure.

“Whatever others say, let’s not listen. Just let them talk.” It could be about the christmas song, but it could just as easily be about something else. But at least it does seem like Jimin wanted to in some way comfort Tae with those particular words. As just fanservice it doesn’t make sense since they don’t have a part together but simply side by side. Jimin also made sure Tae looked at him and listened right at that part, so yes, he definitely did it on purpose at least.

Thanks for the ask! It’s another perhaps small moment but that really shows off Vmin’s support for each other.

Hi,  (I'm the same person who talked about your analysis) Actually I wanted to know your thoughts and opinion about something that is making me curious,the "Christmas song" that tae produced for both of them to sing together but since BH didn't let him do it,he decided to not release it at all? I've so many questions about this situation? And sorry if you replied to this kinda question already. 

It was such good timing with this ask, because I got it the day BEFORE Tae’s vlive. Did you know he was thinking about it too? Haha, no but really I was going to answer this but then Tae decided to talk about it himself again, so I had to write a longer post rather than just answer your ask. Sorry.

But yes, he does raise a lot of questions. I hope you have gotten the answer to most of my own thoughts and concerns regarding the Christmas song in my post about it as well as in the asks I have answered now. :) Thank you for the ask, sorry it took a while to answer.

So, thank you all for these asks, and sorry for not being very clear in my post about the song... I have edited it now to add the part about him writing it himself. :) Happy Holidays everyone!

[savnofilter]

okay so im just gonna my tingz and whatever since people can believe what theyd like.

whoop its more drama. 😅

so if you hadnt already seen it, great if you havent great. ahh im literally shaking oops but this is serious so i'll only what i have to say, and she blocked and deleted all my apologies and explanations.

i wasnt going to post anything because i replied and had said my words and left it at, if you dont want to like me thats fine, i'll live.

i one, would like to say that she even removed it so like rip me. uhhh i would make a video really to talk it because im bad at words and me typing it makes it worse ahahah.

essentially it was just a bunch of screenshots of me being mean so yeah that was it. er um wooph this is too much for me, the only account i can properly say was that i can say i was harsh was that christmas thing with someone who i havent spoken with in months and its that i said i hate people who celebrate it mad early. and yeah i can harsh because ive already explained that sometimes im blunt about it and when im in a bad mood i dont care.

on the other accounts let me say which i dont remember cause she had all the screenshots and i deleted all the chats because it was turning my already sour mood, even more sour.

so she said i didnt greet her properly which i even talked to you once before so idek what she was trying to get at there. 😅 ahh i asked who she was because i had been having on and off issues with a writer and that was already in the server. she suddenly added her to the discord after it being open for many months so naturally that added suspicion and i also have a great deal of knowing when something was up so yuh... call my instincts right cause it was in the messages that were sent to me. 😅

ahhh (ignore my many ah's when i get anxious it just happens ahahah) but those were taken out of context and like were set up to make me look bad. and even just in the whole post, the whole reason why they talked to me was to venge for something to bring me down LMAO.

just like before ive cooled down tremendously so im done from my mental breakdown to properly say this:

1) i didnt know it was even a slur. i just thought it meant dumb and it was only yesterday i had found out that it was bad.

now i'll say this again because people like being on this sav hate train to even read my words LMAO, im sorry for the words i said.

literally the person that i used it on doesnt even fucking like me so the fact thatd they were rude to me and then get shocked that im rude. i even said that day i had not been fine, i was not well. and if you got your secret santa friend you could also get screenshots saying that i said at the point in time i did not care what i said to people because i was planning on killing myself so i didnt care what i was going to say because you know id be dead.

2) may i say again, i had suspicions of other party friend talking about me because she even messaged me on many times and even brought up one situation that i took piss poor shit in handling. 😂

and may i mention she (christmas person) left because she didnt speak up about other issues that couldve been talked out with and decided to leave.

not only that i thought we were talking about our opinions on celebrating christmas so stop trying to feed word into me mouth m8.

AND ALSO, YOU KEEP SAYING THAT I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS LIKE THAT WASNT EVEN THE THING. 😂

and also the conversation had lack of communication so everything was jumbled up, and i didnt even know she was actually leaving the server i thought she was going "tata" for a bit and i was going to talk to her, i eventually did but we do not speak anymore.

3) the main reason why she spoke to me was to basically catch me red handed LMAO. and she got what she wanted. 👏🏽i literally had people message me, asking why she was even asking for peoples ages.

one how do you even know i was referencing you?! i... but anyways... again you want to make me out to be a bad person lmao. i have bad moments just like everybody else. but because i like to be nice and uplift people i cant make mistakes? like what flawed logic is that?

how am i supposed to grow if i dont make mistakes and learn from them. it woudve been a whole different story if i used it multiple times and didnt give a fuck. and no, its not every day that im a "dumb fucking cunt" to people.

4) you legit deleted my responses and apologies. 😂 and people are just jumping on this and dont even

know me.

ever talked to me.

not even in the server.

so now the "brought to tumblr" again i was just sharing my damn sadness dude. your call-out post makes no sense. trying to make it sound like im out here trying to ruin peoples days is not even close to the truth... i myself hate making people feel bad about themselves.

im not some sociopath, and youre mad because i was bummed i realized that someone that i thought was amazing doesnt like me??? like youre telling me that you snapping at me everytime we talked im just supposed to take it? i just...

and ive said it on my blog, im not in the best place. youre gonna get me off on my off days. i even said that me even interacting is not even a good idea but i choose to make the conscious decision to even talk to people just makes me feel even worse because someone was mean to me first.

you cant take me being my worst and saying its my fucking whole. you dont care about me wanting to "fIx My WaYs" you just want to fucking embarrass me and have people hate me.

if youre trying to show character, youre doing a terrible job at it.

i tried adding you as a friend to even talk to you but you had even BLOCKED ME on discord. you dont care. at all. stop pretending youre some knight, if all i was even trying to talk it out to you and youre response is "youre mean you suck" like what the fuck...

you and your friends and your followers my "followers" who havent asked for my side just show how much you guys really want to pUrIfY this erotica for anime community,,

and also you were a massive prick to my friend because she was sharing her own thoughts so i dont even know why youre trying to act like youre an angel. unless you can tell me that you have never been wrong, i will just crucify myself on the cross and apologize to jesus for being such a sinner.

the more i type, the more i get spiteful so i will stop myself here. have a wonderful night/day/whenever you see it dude or never see it cause you blocked me lol.

EDIT: also i never even hinted that it was you so it just confirms this was only for malicious purposes... and i now just feel like you made it because you feel like i shouldnt have feelings either.

~

apologies if its all over the place, i wrote this in a state of panic to a slow burn of being mellowing out.