#how do people gif studio choom?!

[niki-phoria]

Hi hi hi !! Can you do a scenario where chishiya's gn! s/o (who's normally sweet and sunshiney) finally snaps and cusses someone out or smth? I thought it would be p funny lmaosjsks (also unrelated but like who's ur txt bias)

i'm so obsessed with doctor chishiya you don't understand

pairing: chishiya x gn!reader (they/them pronouns used once) genre: fluff word count: 1.3k

warnings: not canon compliant, pretend this is before chishiya also starts sacrificing people ig ??, canon typical violence, death, cussing, i can't actually remember how arisu arisued his way out of this game so this could've actually gotten all of them killed lmao, i am incapable of writing fics if they don't end in a confession idk

a/n: thank you for requesting !! i couldn't really figure out how to make reader sweet so i just made them super cooperative (if that makes sense lmao) i hope you like it !!

also i am a beomgyu stan at heart but kai has had a GRIP on me since cysm something in that studio choom fancam changed me idk

requests open !! read my rules first

a group of people are already awkwardly standing around when you approach the building. a ‘ding’ chimes as soon as you enter the doorway, confirming your participation. you grab one of the phones on the table and sign in before moving to lean against the wall. chishiya stands next to you, subtly judging the people around you. 

“registration closed. game: dead or alive. difficulty: three of clubs,” the announcement begins. “rules: players must choose between two doors to exit the building. game clear: players exit the building safely within the time limit. game over: players enter the wrong room or run out of time.”

a clock hanging on the wall lights up with a timer counting down from two minutes. the people around you begin to panic. 

“life or death?” a woman reads. she’s wearing an apron covered in flour, nervously looking around the room. “how do we know which one to choose?” 

“just pick one,” a man argues. he’s in jeans and a stained shirt that reeks of alcohol, even in the borderlands. his words slur together a little. “we’re all gonna die anyways.” 

“nobody has to die,” you interrupt. “we can work together to win this one. we still have one minute and forty seconds left.” you glance between the two doors. they both look the same- artwork printed on the top half of a door labeled either “life” or “death.” 

“it’s life,” a man wearing a business suit says. his voice is deep and confident. there are no wrinkles or imperfections in his clothes though he looks tired. he peers at you through thick glasses perched on his nose. 

a high school girl nervously runs towards the door, swinging it open and stepping inside. less than a second later, a laser shoots through the ceiling and her body falls to the ground. your body stiffens next to chishiya. you stare at her corpse in shock until he starts pulling your arm, shoving you through the death door and slamming it shut behind himself. the room sets alight as soon as he does. 

“why would you do that?” the woman wearing an apron yells. “she was just a kid!” 

“these are death games,” the businessman apathetically responds. crooked fingers raise to push his glasses up, staring at you. “sacrifice is always necessary.” 

“we’re running out of time,” a teenager mumbles. he still has a bike helmet strapped on. “we need to choose another door.” 

time continues to tick down. panic engulfs the room. the woman nervously glances between the two doors before she closes her eyes, placing her hand on the handle of the life door and swinging it open. after a few seconds she lets out a relieved gasp. you’re quick to follow her out of the room, shutting the door behind you. 

the next room looks exactly the same as the others. a gray room with two doors, one labeled ‘life’ and the other ‘death.’ the timer is becoming faster now. 

“we should take turns choosing doors,” the woman suggests. “i picked the last one, it’s someone else’s turn.” 

“that sounds fair, right?” the high school boy anxiously fiddles with the clasp of his helmet. he glances at the time before turning to you. “i think they should go.” 

you flinch a little from the sudden suggestion but nod. “okay.” before you can leave to open a door chishiya pulls you back by your arm, leaning in to whisper in your ear. 

“pick death.” he has no expression when you look at him but gives you a small nod towards the door. your hand shakes a little when you set it on the handle, swinging the door open and stepping into the room. after a few seconds of nothing happening, you let out a small sigh of relief. 

“who goes next?” you ask, looking between the teenager and the businessman. 

“your friend should go,” the businessman says. “he said something to you before you picked the door. what was it?” 

“why does that matter?” 

“he hasn’t said a word since we got here. for all we know, he could be a part of the games.” the woman shrinks back away from you at his words. you scoff. 

“you really think whoever is running these games is sending in spies?”

“he’s right,” the teenager says, moving to the other side of the room next to the woman. “how do we know who you are?” 

“we’re running out of time,” chishiya says. only thirty seconds remain on the timer. he grabs your hand, moving to the ‘life’ door and opening it. after a few uneventful seconds, the others rush into the room behind you. 

“he’s gotten every single answer right,” the businessman argues. “how?” 

chishiya sighs. “the building is shaped like a square. there’s one room in the middle and eight rooms surrounding it. the girl who opened the first door led to the room in the middle. if we stick to the edges of the building we’ll be able to complete the game.” 

“how long have you known how to win?” the woman yells. “why did you let that girl die? how can we trust you?” 

“i wasn’t sure until the second room.” 

“if you’re so sure, then open the wrong door.” the businessman says. “if you’re right, then the middle room will have more than one door and we’ll be able to see inside.” 

“are you a fucking idiot?” the words leave your mouth before you realize what they are, only spurred on by the anger coursing through you. “seriously, who do you think you are? you’ve done nothing but guess your way through the game and now that we have a strategy you’re complaining about the plan working? shut up and listen for once. he’s saving your lives!” 

you take a breath to calm yourself, almost shrinking back to chishiya’s side. he glances over his shoulder at you, silently reaching over to take your hand into his. the group stares between you, chishiya, and the businessman but you ignore them. the warmth of chishiya’s hand in yours calms you. 

“it has to be death,” he says, turning back to the group. “open the door.” nobody moves until you drag him with you to the door, swinging it open and entering the next room. 

you follow chishiya through the rest of the rooms until you end up at the final room. “wait,” he pulls you back, next to his side. there are only ten seconds on the timer. “the ‘life’ door leads to the middle room but the ‘death’ one goes back to the original room.” 

“the entrance and exit must be the same.” you rush to the door, quickly throwing it open and running out of the room. the fire barely misses you as it scorches the room, setting it alight in flames. you pant, leaning back against the wall of the original room. 

your phone chimes in your pocket. “game cleared. congratulations.” 

chishiya’s hand remains in yours, leading you out of the building. the cool night air feels good against your skin. he squeezes your hand, letting himself slightly relax. “thank you,” he whispers. “for standing up for me. for trusting me.” 

you nod, pulling him into a hug. chishiya stiffens a little, awkwardly standing in front of you before hesitantly wrapping his arms around you. “of course i trust you. i love you.” 

chishiya presses a kiss against your forehead, pulling you a little closer. “i love you too.” 

[svt-nari]

fun facts about nari !

— she got ranked #1 three times in a row in the 'top15 female idols chosen by lesbian korean girls' list, nari's really famous amongst the female audience of kpop.

— people say she's one of the prettiest 3rd gen idols, she's often praised by her beauty and how effortlessly pretty she is. that's also one of the main reasons she's called eternal nari and maknae noona, she's had the same face ever since their debut. she doesn't age in people's eyes.

— nari appeared on the episode 174 of 'the king of masked singer', using the identity of 'cheomseongdae', singing the song 'observatory'.

— she also did a studio choom 'artist of the month' performance, with the song 'mushroom chocolate', in 2021. she went viral for it, being one of the most watched performances.

— during seventeen's first appearance on 'knowing bros', suju's heechul asked nari out during the filming, the members immediately declined it and told him she couldn't go out with him. then, when asked why, they answered that their noona couldn't date unless it was someone they truly knew and approved of.

— all her past partners had to go through a type of test, in which the members would secretly analyze them and either approve or say no to the relationship.

— all the hybe 4th gen groups love to talk about nari and how sweet she is to them. she often sends coffee trucks and small gifts for them whenever they are having comebacks or doing something different to congratulate their work.

— her solo song became a hit due to the fresh and cool choreography. people loved how it fit her image and her song, the members love to mimic her dancing whenever they can.

— nari has a lot of idol friends in the industry, she's especially close to loona's yves, the twice members, fromis_9's chaeyoung and jiheon, the got7 members, blackpink's jennie and jisoo, somi and a lot of other idols.

— during the 'game cateters' with the hybe groups, nari was often praised by the other idols by how effortlessly pretty she was. she also used it for her advantage since she's close to them and know their soft spots. it was also one of the few times she used aegyo for her own advantage.

— she's a big taeyeon and snsd fan, she cried lots when they reunited to release a new album after years. she was also seen at various snsd concerts, being it either solo or group concerts.

— her english name was given to her by joshua when they first met, since then, whenever she goes to the us, she will definitely introduce herself as julie.

— if she sees someone crying, she will cry too. especially if the one crying is either her mom, dad or her members. nari has a weak heart for crying, she empathizes with people a lot and tends to cry easily too.

— her favorite food is spaghetti and her favorite drink is starbucks’ pink drink. she isn’t a big fan of coffee but she does drink it from time to time.

— her favorite color is probably purple, she isn’t really sure but she loves the color.

— nari loves to receive flowers as a gift, usually at fansigns, carats tend to give her tulips, sunflowers and roses.

— her representative emoji is a butterfly due to her nickname ‘nabi’, which means butterfly in korean. this nickname started during her trainee days and lives up until now.

all rights reserved © svt-nari, 2023

[chrstphrbng]

⏤ BEFORE & AFTER COLORING CHALLENGE

i was tagged by @strayz and @hoeranghaee, thank you both 💖

all the original colorings are in the circles. as you can see i don’t really have any sort of consistent coloring style hjdkjfshj it mostly depends on the video! i don’t have base psds or anything like that, but i do mostly gravitate towards some core elements: deepening blacks (and more often than not making them soft or “matte”), trying to strike a skin tone balance that is lively, not washed out, but not too pink or too yellow, and getting rid of cyans (but again the last gif clearly has cyan in it so i guess it just depends how i’m feeling that day 😶‍🌫️)

my favorite layers are selective color, curves, and hue/saturation, sometimes i’ll use color balance and levels, and on rare occasions i’ll throw a vibrance or contrast layer in there! i love experimenting and learning new things about coloring and i’m consistently inspired by the ccs on here, you are all wizards ♡  

i think most people have already done it but i am going to tag @seo-changbinnies @hyunebear @hanjisungz @bangzchan @agibbangs @yonglixx ​if you already did it and i missed it please send it over to me, i would love to see!! 🥰

here are the original posts: 

3racha track unveil 

case 143 backstage

felix at btob kiss the radio

han studio choom

chill mv

give me your tmi mv

[bu99erfly]

XIAOTING @STUDIO CHOOM

[littletxt]

okay don’t overwork yourself with this request its just a drabble idea hehe, so write little reader being with taehyun in the dressing rooms getting ready for his performance with Lee mujin and him being nervous and though y/n is drifting between both headspaces they can see he’s nervous, so they hold his hands and reassure him that it’ll all go well and just fluff. basically small fluffy drabble of little reader taking care of their daddy ! - 🍰

💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙

💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙💛🎙

Wc:650

Taglist: @pinkheadflowers @sweetiehyuka @woonie-muffin @desatando-me @ethie @djdudjdjkw @chariottie

Nervous Daddy

Though Yeonjun had walked him through it repeatedly, having experience from his AOTM work with Studio Choom, Taeyhun still broke out in a cold sweat. Clenching and rubbing his hands together, trying to keep them in his lap, he continuously giggled nervously and wiggled around in his chair as the makeup artists dabbed the smallest amounts of BB cream over his smooth skin, getting him ready for his solo appearance on Lee Mujin Service. It was his first time doing anything without his Hyungs present and he was just thankful they allowed you to tag along. How he performed could mean a lot of things for his group, and while usually confident, he was nervous. All the reassurance he'd received from his members was now shrinking in the background.

Even though it was ridiculously cute, you pouted at the distraught state your Daddy was clearly trying to hide, you first handed him his coffee, giving his hands something to hold on to. Shaking his head no, he gave you an appreciative smile for trying as you set the drink back on the table nearby. Daddy looked especially pretty all dressed up this way and it was hard to maintain a clear head, you felt small and your mind was fuzzy. But you couldn't very well nuzzle up to him right there while they recorded the behind, you still wanted to help. So, wordlessly as he talked into the camera, you took ahold of his shakey hand with both of your own, squeezing a little 'i love you' squeeze. The action seemed so small to you but that little squeeze helped ground him so much. His baby was right there and you'd be right there behind the cameras if he needed somewhere to look, he had his anchor. 

When the cameras were finally put away and you had a moment to speak you gave him another little squeeze, having nearly slipped entirely over the way you could hold one of his hands in both of your tiny ones.  

"Daddy is the best singer... you'll do so good.", you whispered to him, looking at him with big eyes, completely sure of yourself. A little caught off guard by you being small right then he immediately went into Daddy mode and you could see in his expression he was worried and wanted to care for you.

"Don't worry about Daddy, baby..."

Huffing, displeased with that statement you brought his hand to your mouth and bit it just hard enough to make him yelp in surprise. Though it shouldn't be a surprise by now with how often you're found nibbling on the people around you whether it was in displeasure, a form of affection or just a baby with an oral fixation.

"What was that for?", he chuckled, his shaking had stopped a bit, your new distraction method working. 

"Daddy will do gweat.", you nommed on his hand once more, "Can we get strawby ice cweam after??"

The promise of one of his favorite sweet treats, which would be well deserved after all this anxiety, sounded lovely. But not more than your big puppy eyes, such a cute and welcome expression as you pouted and waited for an answer.

"Are you gonna watch Daddy??", he cooed, your hands still tangled with each other, a comforting feeling as it had always been his favorite form of skinship. 

Nodding proudly, you nibbled on his hand once more.

"Okay! Yes, we can get ice cream as long as you stop trying to eat Daddy when he has to show his hands on camera.", he laughed and pulled you into his arms for a quick hug after noticing the staff wave him down, respectfully giving thee two of you privacy, but it was still time to go.

"Are you ready??", he stood, hand still in yours.

"Daddy's gonna wock it!", your giggling exclamation finally seemed to give him back his usual confidence as he stood proud with that shining, slightly-cocky grin and pulled you along gently with him to where they'd be shooting.

"Don't I always?"

🧸End note: I was feeling awful for going so long without writing so I looked through my requests again and this seemed to be an easy enough one to start with. I wonder if people actually read my end notes. currently listening to Heaven's Cloud by SVT. 💕

🧸Masterlist🧸

[woozi]

Hey I have been thinking of making gifs but i have no idea where to start so I thought y not ask a fellow carat who makes awesome gifss❤️

A little guidance would mean a lot!!

aww, anon!! thank you for coming to me for this. i love talking people’s ears off!! DFJKJDFKDF but that being said, i’ll keep this under a keep reading since i’ll go through things quite thoroughly!

there’s really a million and one ways to make gifs, but i’ll show you how i do it and the basics in general (+ maybe some alternatives). keep in mind that i use windows though, so i’m not sure how helpful this will be if you’re on a mac. anyhoot, i’ll be dividing this tutorial into 6 parts, namely sourcing, choosing a program to resize/import with (vapoursynth and/or KM player basics), photoshop basics (KM Player tutorial extension), sharpening, coloring, and exporting.

the primary issue with sourcing is that the videos we want to gif come from different sources, and not all of them are conveniently downloadable. i’m going to list a few different sites/programs (that are free! <3) which allow me to download them!

4k Video Downloader: this program allows you to download from multiple sites, but i mainly use this for youtube. it’s better than other online alternatives (such as y2mate, which you can use if you can’t download this!) since it allows you to download above 1080p and also allows you to download subtitles if you want to. make sure to download it as .mkv though because options above 1080p will not show up if you’re downloading in .mp4!

Soshistagram: this is my go-to vlive downloader! it also allows you to choose the quality of your download.

Twitter Video Downloader & Instagram Downloader: exactly as their name implies, lol. twitter and instagram don’t really provide HD videos so i don’t mind downloading them through these. (the 2nd link also enables you to download from a number of other sources!)

Inspect Element: when worse comes to worst and if you're incredibly desperate to gif something that cannot be downloaded from any of these, you can (almost) always rip it off from the source code, lol. i won’t get into too much detail about this since so much information about this is readily available on the internet!

as you may have noticed, i’ve been mentioning quality for a lot of these. while being able to download content may be the priority, it is also really important (maybe even equally important) to download high quality resources. it’s not a very good idea to gif from anything below 720p as they usually don’t come out as nice, so to get videos like these, i usually go to either the sources themselves (e.g: their official youtube account, music shows’ respective youtube accounts, studio choom, etc.) and if i won’t be able to find them there, they’re surely on our beloved and reliable rosebay (who provides almost every svt content out there! people usually go here to get performance stages and huya streams, but almost everything is literally here, lol). you can also find performance stages on kpopexciting and kpop24hours (which requires membership, so watch out for when they open registrations up!). that being said though, it’s quite hard to find sources for chinaline, but legohouse is the best for this!

when sourcing from fansites, always check if they allow editing first! if it’s not explicitly said, you can always ask them. (most of them reply :D) if you don’t know how to, here’s a good guide for such! thank you @hanwooz for making this guide. <3

it’s also worth noting that performance stages and a few other high quality content come in .tp/.ts files which you might need a different media player for. for this, i use vlc for everything! this is also available for mac.

sometimes, you might also need to extract files (as sources compress them to take up less space during upload). i use peazip to do this! it’s a great AND FREE alternative to winrar.

you might also encounter download limits on gdrive. you can simply make a copy of the file, put it in a folder, then download the whole folder.

on to the more interesting part, we finally start making our gif! for this, i use photoshop cc (i downloaded it here lol) and vapoursynth OR KM player. these aren’t the only programs you can use, but these are what worked for me and my old 32-bit laptop, lol. you can find 64-bit and mac alternatives on the links as well i believe, and if not, you can just do a bit of digging around those sites!

(additional notes: another alternative for photoshop is GIMP but i don’t really remember how to use it. photopea’s also a web-based alternative, but i can’t say much about it since i haven’t dabbled there yet. there are also add-ons for photoshop such as topaz, but i (again) cannot use those, but i heard that they help a lot with making gifs look clean! avisynth is also an alternative to vapoursynth, but vapoursynth has added features i believe)

gifs are basically just moving pictures, so you can either capture moments you like as a video or as a series of images. photoshop accepts both, but as for me, i cannot import videos directly to photoshop so i do them frame by frame. to capture these images, one method is processing them through KM Player.

km player is basically a media player with a feature that allows you to get snapshots of videos continually (therefore, the series of images).

step 1: simply go to the timestamp of the moment you want to gif (i usually watch the videos first and type out all the timestamps of all the moments i want to gif) and press CTRL + G

this window would then show up. you can choose where you want your snapshots to go by changing the folder that’s highlighted. keep in mind that you need separate folders for each gif! if you don’t change the folder, the new screencaps would overwrite the frames you previously captured. as for the image format, i only use either PNG or JPG/JPEG, as they capture the best quality from this media player. PNGs take a lot longer to capture though. the numbers to extract tells you how many frames it would capture. i set it to ‘continuously’ so gifs don’t come out choppy/look like they’re skipping. it’s almost the same principle with the other panel named frames to extract. as for the rest, just make sure to follow every setting on screenshot! (you can always explore/experiment with the rest of them later on)

step 2: afterwards, click start, and play your video. your laptop might get quite slow when this process starts.

step 3: when you’ve gone through your timestamp, press 'stop’, and go to the folder you previously chose!

your folder should look similar to this:

simply erase all the frames that you don’t want to be included in your gif, and you’re ready to import! we’ll be keeping these aside for now and learn another way to get frames.

another alternative is to use vapoursynth. to me, this is a whole LOT easier and basically does all of the work for you. i really recommend this! ever since i got it to work just a few months ago, i can never really make gifs without it anymore. i use the old version though (rip </3), so i won't have the new preprocessors, denoise filters, and sharpening. i suggest you always take the most updated one because i heard they make a lot of difference output-wise!

bear in mind that vapoursynth uses python, so if you encounter some errors, it might just be that you don’t have it downloaded yet. just follow the instructions here! (for the longest time i couldn’t figure out why my vs wouldn’t work and it was because of this.... lol)

it’s very important to know tumblr size dimensions when it comes to gifs (whether you’re going to use vapoursynth or not), but i’m including it on this part since it’s crucial to how vs (vapoursynth) works. your gifs may look good on photoshop, but if they’re the wrong size they’ll inevitably end up blurry on tumblr unless someone clicks on them. here are the dimensions (image made by @dazzlingkai):

you can use any height for these gifs, but these are the width dimensions you need to follow! **UPDATE: the middle gif for a 3-set is now also 177px!

nibreon has a video on how to gif using vs, but if you like text better, i can also provide it step by step for you.

step 1: to get started, simply drag your file to the vs shortcut (entitled “vapoursynth (drop video file on me)”). and this window should appear. (i’m using hoshi’s spider mv for this tutorial btw!)

simply encode your chosen timestamp (in this case mine is 00:02:02) and press enter. (i don’t really trim my videos as other CCs do and just send them straight to vs, haha.)

step 2: this second line then asks you how long you want the video to be trimmed/previewed for. if your timestamp is 00:02:02-00:02:08, then what you’ll encode on this line is 00:00:06. (basically the duration of the video/part of the video)

step 3: after it processes, this resizer will then show up in your default browser.

this is where the size dimensions become important! choose the size of your liking and resize the video as you want. i find resizing much easier with vs as you have more control over the size with real time feedback.

additional notes:

opacity: just allows you to view the area outside of your size width. doesn’t really matter much, but i love it as it helps me precisely resize gifs especially when i don’t want to include captions/subtitles.

preprocessor: refers to how vs would process (lol??) your gifs frame by frame. this is crucial to how your gifs would look! it is explained very well and thoroughly here, but basically, it tells you the speed and the manner in which the images/initial video of your gif will be exported in. this one doesn’t matter much on regular videos, but for performances (.ts/.tp files, etc.) it does make a lot of difference. i usually use qtgmc 60 slow on performances. for the rest, i use qtgmc 30 fast (or 60 fast when there are very few frames just so they would run smoother). i’m also always on resamplehq (the second part of preprocessing)! a lot of CCs don’t use preprocessing for regular videos though (.mp4, .mkv, etc.). if it’s still unclear for you, i’ll include more tutorials and examples (although very few) at the end, dw! **UPDATE: i’m now on the 64bit ver. as i’m using a new laptop, my preprocessor is now debilinear (instead of resamplehq). i also am now a changed woman and discovered that you really don’t need to use the fps preprocessor for regular videos BECAUSE they’re not rendered “splicely”, it just takes more of your time. they look exactly the same. <3

denoise filters: smoothens out your gifs. very useful especially if the source is grainy! i always use KNLM for this but you can try BM3D as well. bm3d takes much longer to process though!

sharpening: pretty self-explanatory. it just makes your gifs look clearer/sharper! i use finesharp almost always set to 1, but it really depends on your preference. i also do additional sharpening on photoshop most of the time though! **UPDATE: recently changed how i make gifs and i don’t use this sharpening anymore because my preferences have changed, but it’s still a good place to start if you’re just beginning to make gifs!!

step 4: after this, go onto the vs window. the lines of code initially look like this:

but in order to process the video for gif purposes, we need to use vapoursynth’s plugins. you can modify this later on (which is really unnecessary, but it’s possible if you want to experiment more fjdjkdf), so for now, just open up the included script from the vapoursynth folder (gifs).

if you’ve downloaded vapoursynth directly from their site and not from the link i’ve included, this won’t show up in the folder and you’d have to assemble it all yourself. this is what i meant when i mentioned that you can modify vapoursynth’s plugins yourself! i’ve never seen anyone do that, but just so you know lol.

your code should now look similar to this:

note: you can also lessen the ram usage of vs so your laptop won’t lag as much!! just follow what line 9 says <3

step 5: then, copy and paste the text that’s in the upper right corner to vapoursynth. you must paste it after the 13th line! it should look similar to this.

step 6: just press f8 (or go to script, then encode video). this window will show up.

this is what you’ll usually do if you want to save it as a video, but since i can’t import videos, i change the preset to ‘export to png sequence’. some CCs like trimming the video here (as you can see at the bottom, there’s a label for the number of frames), but just like what we did with KM Player i just export it all (by pressing start). make sure your header is also set to Y4M if you’re exporting to PNG!

step 7: you’ll see all of your frames on the vs folder and if you didn’t trim (like me jdsjdskj), you can just erase unwanted scenes (just like what we did for KM Player)! if you’re making more than one gif, transfer these pngs to another folder (or rename them) as in the case of kmplayer. you need separate folders/names for each gif as not changing the folder/name and exporting again would overwrite the frames you previously captured.

and this is where it ends for vapoursynth!

now that we have all the frames ready, we’re going to be using photoshop and get all the fun stuff going!

KM Player is a lot more tedious (can’t believe i used this for more than a year omg), so we’re gonna have to do a few more steps and pick up from where we’ve left.

step 1: import your frames by going to file, scripts, then ‘load files into stack’

step 2: click browse, select the folder you saved your frames in, select all the frames, click enter, and then press ‘OK’.

step 3: your workspace should look something like this. click create frame animation (if that doesn’t initially show up and your window says ‘create timeline animation’, just click the little arrow beside it and switch it to frame).

(additionally, if you don’t see the timeline below, you can enable it by going to window, then check the timeline option)

step 4: make frames from layers.

step 5: reverse frames.

step 6: the trickiest part of giffing from km player!! (thankfully, we’re only making 540px gifs for this tutorial) estimate the area you want to include, then crop your canvas by pressing ‘C’ on your keyboard or selecting the crop tool on the toolbar (it’s the 5th icon here on my screen).

**UPDATE: you can also crop by ratios using the crop tool as seen on the screenshot below!

after cropping, your workspace should look similar to this.

step 7: and now we FINALLY resize like barbarians :D i always like shortcuts (which you can prob tell by now) a.k.a the easier and more convenient route, so just click ‘CTRL + ALT + I’ so the image resizing window can pop up. alternatively, you can go to image, then image size.

now set the width to 542 (which is 2 pixels larger than tumblr’s required width) and press ‘ok’.

step 8: as you can see, there are weird white/kind of faded pixels on the outer edges of the gif, and that’s the exact reason why we needed those 2 extra pixels from the last step. you can remove this the hard way by zooming at 1800% and removing 2 pixels per side or we can always go the easy route and press ‘CTRL + ALT + C’ (or go to image, then canvas size) and then resize the canvas width to 540 (don’t forget to remove 2 pixels from whatever height u have too!) <3

step 9: now we have a clean and sexy gif. you can completely stop here, and start exporting, but coloring and sharpening make all the difference (to me at least)!

as for vapoursynth, you only need to follow steps 1 to 5 (aka importing <3)

these steps aren’t ‘necessary’ but these are the essence and what makes tumblr gifs tumblr gifs (aka prettie <3).

there is so much potential with sharpening alone! usually, if they haven’t used the sharpening settings on vs, CCs may choose to do it through photoshop (although i personally always do additional sharpening on ps even if they’ve already gone through vs) by converting these frames into a smart object. you can do so by:

step 1: press ‘CTRL + ALT + A’ on your keyboard. this will select all of your frames IN THEIR LAYERS (not the ones on the timeline)

as you can see, they’re all highlighted on the bottom right panel.

step 2: place all of them in a folder by clicking this one!

step 3: then, convert your frame animation into a timeline by clicking the tiny icon beside the ‘forever’ loop.

it should look like this afterwards:

step 4: now we finally convert to smart filters by clicking filters, then convert to smart filter

which turns out like this after being converted

step 5: now sharpen to your liking! go to filters, sharpen, then smart sharpen. these are the settings i use, but i usually just play around with them until i like what i see. i won’t go in depth about this because there are a lot of tutorials that talk about this (which i will link some of below!!). the most important part to adjust is the amount and radius though!

again, you can stop here, but i like adding a bit of glow to my gifs, which is done by adding gaussian blur (another filter)! i learnt this method from this tutorial. i don’t think i can add any more to it as it’s perfectly complete as is, so i won’t be elaborating anymore!

additionally, if you don’t want to do all of that manually (although i suggest you learn how to do it manually first), there are available sharpening actions you can see around the internet. just choose one that’s to your liking! here are a few of them. you can also save your own settings as an action if you don’t wanna do them repeatedly.

my personal favorite! this is what makes the giffing process so rewarding for me. for coloring, adjustment layers are your best friends! you can try messing around with all of these.

i usually use selective color (my beloved <3), levels, curves, saturation, exposure, vibrance, color balance, photo filter, channel mixer, and gradient maps (not specifically in that order). i won’t actually do a specific tutorial as coloring extremely varies from each gif (one psd/coloring might work for another but may look absolutely horrifying on one lol, this applies even to frames that are from the same video!!) but i’m just going to give a few tips and refer to a few tutorials that might help you out!

generally, the more colors there are in your gif, the bigger the gif size will be. this is also important when you are exporting! (gifs that have very few frames with a lot of color and gifs that have up to 200 frames but have very few colors in them can actually save as the same size)

if you wanna lessen the file size and noise, gamma, and off-set are your best friends! (make the gifs a bit darker) you can also delete a few colors as shown in this tutorial!

i used to be unaware of this when i was a new gifmaker, but be careful of whitewashing! dreamy (@scoupsy) has an excellent tutorial that combats this. annie (@imjaebumaf) also touches a bit more on this!

resources are always available for you to learn! one good way of learning how to color is by seeing how others also do it, and that is through their psds. i really love izzie’s (@coupsnim) colorings, and she recently put out a set for her blog’s anniversary too, so you can check that out! <3 i’ve also seen a lot of psds here from tumblr resource blogs, and deviantart has really good ones as well.

i don’t really have things i keep in mind other than those. just have fun and i’m sure in time it’ll turn out great! again, practice is everything!

last but not the least, we address the speed of the gif before we export! it’s the decimal places under the frames on the timeline. make sure that you select all frames if you want a consistent speed! you can always play around with it though.

for 30fps gifs, i usually do 0.03 to 0.035. photoshop shows 0.035 as 0.04, but i’m pretty sure it isn’t the exact same speed as 0.04. as for 60fps gifs, my speed ranges from 0.01 to 0.025.

and finally, we go to the settings themselves! i used to take exporting settings very lightly, but lately i have realized that it also impacts the way your gifs look by a lot! to export, press ‘CTRL + SHIFT + ALT + S’ on your keyboard, or simply go to file, export, then save for web.

there are so many ways you can play around with it, but here are my current settings.

the color reduction algorithm (i.e: adaptive, selective, etc.) is one of the most important things as this determines the quality and color table of your exported gif! it really differs for each gif, but lately i lean towards the adaptive setting as i like the way it has been making my gifs look.

also very important to remember that tumblr’s current gif size limit is 10MB so make sure to keep your gifs under that size!!

you can also remove a few frames/skip every nth frame to lessen size if you’re running over the limit. :)

to show you how different each process will make a gif look, i’m including some examples (actually the ones we were working on during the tutorial!) to demonstrate a bit better.

this is specifically for an mv, but this tutorial has been really long now jdkjkfdjkfd so i will link down resources that show examples of it w/ performance stages (you can see a much bigger difference here)! also note that the vs one has slightly lesser frames (they could have the same frame number and size but i didn’t wanna redo it lol 😭). again, the .035 indicated is the speed used.

i know this is a bit much for an intro, but i wanted this to be a one-stop guide so you won't have to scramble for more resources. however, if some parts are hard to understand, here are a few tutorials that might help! (1, 2, 3 by @jinims, 4 by @soonhoonsol, 5, 6 is another general tutorial but i find the sharpening part especially helpful!)

and a few more resources that helped me out when i was beginning

sparkle tutorial

sparkle action

blurring captions

**UPDATE: my own sharpening tutorial <3, update 2

**UPDATE: my own color reduction algorithm tutorial

i hope this was helpful, and i can’t wait to see your gifs! <3

[yeunjun-archive]

CREATOR TAG GAME POST SOME OF YOUR GIFS BEFORE AND AFTER COLORING!

i was tagged by some lovely people who i look up to so so much. ily, @huneingkai @minki-s @wabisaba @baekhycn

let’s begin with how i have no particular style i think and that i will find it soon. hopefully. and that i looked at these enough to now hate the above gifs  (posting this before i hate it so much i want to delete it). i usually never save the videos, gifs, or the psds i do and consider my blogs to be like some museum curated by me lol

i usually just move the sliders till i find something i am really really happy with. and if it were not for, curves, selective color and hue/saturation, i’d have struggled. i usually don’t do anything with studio choom videos because as much as i hate how they heat up my laptop as if it’s running on a temperature, it’s bae

i love love how some people actually do color here because god, their gifs turn out beaaaaautiful. so, also taking this moment to say, ily

tagging | @woosohn @lisafilm @ryudaeng @jungyoonz @haknew @ljaebeom @sangyus @3tbz @jjyubi @saltys @sangyeon @chrisbangs @christopherbanq @wowego @sanshine @seo-changbinnies // i’m sorry for tagging you again, if you’ve already been tagged and have done it! and if it’s not a hassle, i’d be grateful if you’d tag me in what you post so i can rb and shower you with love 🌺💘🌺💘🌺💘

[ggukkiedae]

[vlive 210522] Seri’s Seritonin 🥝🐱

9pm kst

italics = english; seri answering questions!

the vlive starts with seri logging on and waving

she’s playing new rules in the background and staying quiet for the first two minutes

“moa! how are you all?”

she smiles and reads through the comments

she reads a few out loud and sees a few comments asking her to say i love you in different languages, to which she complies to

she turns off her music first and fixes herself in her chair

“bet you guys are wondering why i’m live today, huh? we’ll get to that in a bit. for now, let’s answer questions”

she looks through the comments carefully until she reads one out loud

Seriiiiiii! 5 Beomgyus or 5-year-old Beomgyu?

she laughs at this

“maybe a five year old bammie. he always makes a big deal of being older than me by a few months, so it would be good pay back”

she then pulls out her phone and scrolls through it before turning it towards the screen. it was a picture of beomgyu as a kid

“see this? he sent this to our groupchat the other day. tiny gyu is cute”

how are youuuuuu?

she claps her hands together and smiles at the live

“i’m doing great, thank you! i’ve been practicing harder, and i feel pretty good”

she scrolls through the comments again and takes a sip of her drink. she lightly mixes her drink around and places it back down

“you guys should try peach tea. it’s a godsend. oh, what’s this?”

shall we go on a date?

“you didn’t turn up at our last date”

she pouted a little and laughed

“i waited at the rooftop for a while, but you didn’t show up! but i guess we can go again because you’re moa”

she shifts a little and shakes her head amusedly at her own words

“do i sound like gyu?”

Hi Seri! I have a couple questions 😊 What has been your favorite era music wise and style wise? What hair style/color do you want to try? What's your current favorite song? What are you looking forward to most?

her eyes widened a little before she looks up trying to come up with answers to the series of questions

“oh, wow, i guess you could say i really liked our songs from the minisode album, but my favorite title track is run away for sure. actually, i take that back. i like the songs on dream chapter magic the most! in terms of style... dream chapter magic as well! i really like new rules’ styling especially”

a small smile makes its way to her face as she’s about to answer the last question from that comment

“right now, i’m really looking forward to our new album, and i hope you’ll like it as well! so far, the tracks are amazing!”

any plans for a comeback with the royals?

“i don’t know” she laughs and looks off camera “what do you think?”

yoonmi’s giggle can be heard while seri just laughed

“you exposed me! anyway, we’ll see when the three of us get an opportunity again” “you guys heard yoonmi”

seri takes the live and points it to the side, revealing the magenta-haired girl peacefully sitting in the dance studio near her while working on something on her laptop

“yoonmi is working on school stuff even if she just released a song yesterday” “responsibilities”

Seri baby are you aware that Seri sounds like berry? Therefore you are now berry Seri or Seri Berry 🤔

“oh, that’s cute! seri berry... i love it! i’m a berry now! i can replace strawberries, i don’t like strawberries”

she wrinkled her nose at the thought of the red berries as the sound of a chair moving came up. seri looked off camera and waved to, supposedly, yoonmi

“yoonmi has a meeting right now, so she’s off. anyway, back to our live”

Hiya Seri how are you liking the new building? What do you think has changed the most about you since you became an idol? And out of the members who do you think has changed most since you debuted?

“the new building is actually the best thing ever, i swear! there’s a lot of space, and the facilities are all high quality! honestly, i’m the only txt member who doesn’t get lost, so it’s pretty funny when the others have to ask for my help to walk around”

she then pressed her lips into a tight line while thinking about her next answer

“since becoming an idol... i think i became more confident. the others tell me this a lot. they say every comeback my stage presence gets better, and i look more comfortable? i also became a better dancer for sure. not the best yet, but i’m working on it. also maybe kai? first of all, he’s gotten way taller now. second, he’s been more mature. yes, he’s still our baby, but he handles things a lot more maturely now. sometimes he acts like he’s older than me as well”

hi bestieeeeeee! what do you think you’d be doing if you weren’t an idol?

“hey, bestie! musical theatre for sure!”

seri immediately perked up at this. she jumped back in her seat a little with the biggest grin while remembering her experiences

“i loved it back in school! honestly, my parents were pretty supportive about my involvement in theatre and my little brother kinda brags to his friends that his sister goes on stages to perform. it’s kinda cute”

would you consider acting? or maybe starring in a musical?

“oh for sure if i were given the chance!”

you dance amazingly! your artist of the month video with studio choom was absolutely perfect!!!!

“oh my god”

she covered her face and groaned before pulling out her phone and looking for the video on youtube. before pressing play, she looked back to the camera

“thank you, but i’m a little embarrassed about this. i wore red lipstick on stage for the first time after debut, and i showed a side of me that’s pretty different…”

she pressed play and watched the video, cringing at herself. it took a whole 20 seconds before she gave up and hid her phone behind her

“nope. nevermind, i can’t watch that. thank you, i’m glad you enjoyed it”

thoughts on the people you’re being shipped with? 👀

she burst into laughter upon reading this

“ah, yes. shipping. i see you guys on stan twitter with your little edits and headcanons and aus! honestly, it’s amusing. apparently most of you ship me with gyu and seungmin? and a few other people, too?”

she was quiet for a while like thinking about who moas shipped her with. she shook her head with and began talking again

“gyu... well, bammie’s my best friend, and i love him a lot. it’s been us from the very beginning, so i like to think we’ll be as close as ever until the end”

“seungmin is the bane of my existence”

she laughed at this before waving her hand

“kidding! he’s actually really nice, and i love hanging out with him, it just so happens our friendship is based on bickering. we do support each other though. seungmin, if you see this, you did well on love poem”

she then lit up as if just remembering something

“some of you guys ship me with chaeryoung! interesting considering you all see me as ryujin’s sibling, but please, i’m not worthy of the queen herself. i love chae with all my heart honestly she’s such a sweet child”

her phone buzzed and she glanced at it a little bit before turning back to the live

“perfect timing because hyunsuk just messaged me and some special ship mentions are hyunsuk and jeno oppa. i think it’s because i hang out with hyunsuk’s little siblings a lot. but jeno oppa? we just met earlier this year, it’s a little funny how apparently a lot of people ship us when we haven’t really shown our friendship much”

she typed something one her phone before chuckling and shutting it off once again. she looked through the comments until she found the topic she was looking for

What’s up with you and Dino? 👀👀👀

“ah, this. this brings me to the reason i went live. recently, you guys have seen me and dino oppa hanging out, right? well, we’re not dating. i wanted it to be a surprise, but he’s helping me with something for my birthday, and i agreed to do something with him for their youtube as well”

her phone rang, and she laughed before picking it up and putting it on speaker

“hello? you’re on speaker” “seri-yah! how dare you deny our relationship?” “oh? you’re watching?” “look up, stupid. i’m standing by the door”

she looked off camera and laughed

“yah! oppa, what are you doing here?” “miya told me you were gonna talk about the scandal, so i thought why not come early?”

dino appears next to seri in a mask and a hat. he nudged seri over to the side so they could both be centered on screen, making her raise her eyebrow at him

“meet my new dance partner” dino points towards seri whose eyes widen as soon as he said that

“they don’t know yet!” “you said we were working on two things together!” “but they didn’t know one of them is dance!” “might as well tell them so we can clear up this rumor before i get attacked by moas”

she sighed at him

“i’d get attacked by carats. anyway, fine. dino oppa’s helping me with a song, and he’s making me dance with him for a video. you can look forward to this in july”

dino adjusted his hat and leaned forward a little

“no need to panic, we’re not in a romantic relationship. she’s too tall for me”

“... you’re literally taller than me though?” “not by that much. if you wear heels, we’d be the same height, and i don’t think i’m up for that”

she playfully rolled her eyes

“looks like i’ve discussed what needed to be cleared up now. i’m single. single.” “yes, they get the point” “oh, would you just go already?”

she was pretending to push him away while he laughed at her failed attempts. he moved off camera but stays in the room

“no way, we’ve got to work the choreography out today”

“this is gonna be a while,” she muttered before smiling at the live once again “well, time for me to go. i’ve got a lot of work to do to be on par with a member of seventeen’s performance team”

dino’s groaning could be heard from the side

“this again?”

she laughed

“bye moa! hopefully that cleared things up, and hopefully you enjoyed this little tmi session”

-end-

[angels-of-hades]

@niceferatu tagged me in this so I guess I gotta even if no one cares 😅

Name: Bri

Pronouns: no pronouns, just Bri

Zodiac sign: too complicated 4 me, I only know Scorpio

Height: for many years I thought I was 5ft6 but either that’s wrong and I’m 5ft4ish or I implanted the memory of someone telling me I’m wrong

Current time: 11:11pm (no I did not wait a full minute to get that outcome)

Birthday: Nov 19

Nationally: Aussie

Favourite bands: Stray Kids, Ateez, Mother Mother

Favourite solo artists: rn it’s Jhariah also always gotta love Jessie. I’ve also been listening to Bad by Christopher on repeat cause Ateez’s Wooyoung did an amazing cover dance for Studio Choom and I crave the serotonin

When you made your blog: uhh lemme look it up… apparently it was “Thu, 15 Sep 2016 07:24:01 -0400 about 5 years ago” (according to postlimit.com) but I definitely was on tumblr before then and had like three or four different blogs at one point that I got rid of

Why did you choose your url: don’t remember

Last show I binged: Haikyuu!! (Finally convinced my sister to watch it and got her hooked) also Jujutsu Kaisen was the last one I watched over several nights

Following count: 171 thought there would be more honestly but I think I culled fairly recently

Follower count: 154 no clue how many of those are bots but probably most of em

Average sleep time:

Other blogs: uhhh I had some at some point but I don’t remember their urls

Last thing I googled: now I don’t think this was the most recent thing cause I like using incognito for the dark browser but oh no wait yeah it was the last thing it’s just “fushiguro megumi” cause I saw something referencing his shoes and I googled him to see what shoes he wears (it’s these btw:

)

Lucky number: 8!

Currently wearing: a crop and undies cause it’s bed time

Instrument: nada but I do subject many poor poor people to my off tune singing

Dream trip: I wanna go back to Japannnnn also I wanna see South Korea and the Maldives also I wanna go back to Peru

Fave food: my mum’s Sri Lankan curries (even tho she’s the white parent she knows what she’s doing 🤌🏼🤌🏼)

Fave song: uhhhhhhhhhhh Ateez’s MIST? I love many songs but this is the one I always repeat cause I feel like I don’t appreciate it enough the first time around

Top three fictional universes: does Star Trek count as a fictional universe? I know the the bnha universe is Fucked but I kinda like how batshit insane it is andddd my own fictional universe that exists in my head but is yet to be written on paper

I don’t really like tagging people in these so I’ll just do a few @tairneanaich @vulpesaphrodite @alcego @duzcare @deans-67-impala @oh-boy-am-i-gay @grey-edges @readysetgofuckyourself @thetragicallynerdy @hanhan5545

Okay peace out ✌🏼

[yes-hello-yehet]

Happy Birthday Choi San!! 🌸💜

Given how much of this blog is Choi San gifs I couldn’t go without doing a big gushy birthday post. I’ve not even been following Ateez that long but they, and this lil guy in particular, instantly made me fall in love with them. He’s wonderful and so much more talented than he gives himself credit for. He has the BEST smile and he’s always his members’ biggest cheerleader. And he has the best jawline in kpop??.... Anywho, I hope he has the best day celebrating and that he’s happy and healthy and will continue to grow not only as an individual but part of this amazing group of people. Happy Birthday San. We love you <3

~ Gifs are mine, taken from Studio Choom & Ateez Vlive

[bunnie-the-lighthouse]

It’s Wooyoung Day!

Happy Birthday Wooyoung!!~

Today is our lovely lovely Woo-Young’s birthday, everyone! I am once again late to the party — sorry about that, but as always, the important thing is to celebrate the day he was born in!

Everyone brings this up, but honestly, like Seonghwa said, Woo-Young truly is a guy you cannot not love (if that even made sense)

You’ll eventually see yourself falling for his personality! That happened with me actually. At the beginning, I’m sure this happened to some people but, I found Wooyoung a bit loud. But honestly. I am glad that he’s that way.

I really like how he is — kinda tsundere yet openly shows that he loves a person. He really is a sweetheart, and you can see it with how he cares deeply for his members. And for us too!

He’s amazing. He has great visuals, great singing voice, great dancing, great personality — he’s just awesome! Wooyoung really deserves more recognition for his voice y’all…

He’s already shown us his moves in his Artist of the Month performance in Studio Choom. We need more vocal flexing lolol.

But do you guys know what else has he showed us that’s really sweet? I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: his personality.

What I want to say it that Wooyoung really is a person that you cannot not love. He can be loud and sometimes can be a bit too extroverted for some of us. But his happiness and positivity is contagious.

In moments where we feel down or we feel like there’s no hope — he’s always there to cheer us up. He cheers up his members, and cheers us up every single moment that he can interact with us.

Wooyoung, you truly have a great personality. Don’t let others talk down on it. I’ve seen nasty comments regarding how you are, but don’t listen to them — we love you just the way you are!

Thank you for deciding to pursue this career, this dream of yours. You bring happiness, laughter, and hope to our stormy days and always guide us out of it through the rocky and slippery roads.

On behalf of others, we hope that you are able to reach your goals — at your own pace and liking, of course. We’ll always be cheering for you and we’ll be here whenever you need us, just how you’ve been there for us.

Just like you told us in One Day at a Time; “Thousand miles it don’t matter” — “Even though we’re apart / Won’t be for long, won’t be for long”, we will always be there for each other, no matter the distance!

Thank you for being you, Wooyoung!

(GIFs are under the line break)