MSU-1 Platform Theme Video (16:9) 1.0.0

 Nice work CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT! Like the music and the fades between the games.

Thank you! Hopefully one day I can make some really cool effects like those Start Up videos.

1 hour ago, CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT said:

Thank you! Hopefully one day I can make some really cool effects like those Start Up videos.

What did you settle on for your editing software? Did you go with Sony Vegas or Adobe?

12 minutes ago, dcsdiver said:

What did you settle on for your editing software? Did you go with Sony Vegas or Adobe?

I went with After Effects since the here-and-now entry fee is much more palatable at $20 per month (I'm comfortable sticking with GIMP for image editing for now). I'm not a big fan of paying for forever, though, and I won't buy any extra plugins; want to figure out how to make the effects with what is available. I like to draw, so I might upgrade at some point to the $50 per month tier to get access to everything available, but I've got plenty to learn yet with After Effects before I can validate adding more software and expense to things. I do want to learn how to do those really cool animations and lighting effects. A friend who is a graphic designer sent me a link to a YouTube channel that puts out tutorials, so I've been watching those like crazy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUSgx9qc_NydrOL59xbJIA

56 minutes ago, CTRL-ALT-DEFEAT said:

I went with After Effects since the here-and-now entry fee is much more palatable at $20 per month (I'm comfortable sticking with GIMP for image editing for now). I'm not a big fan of paying for forever, though, and I won't buy any extra plugins; want to figure out how to make the effects with what is available. I like to draw, so I might upgrade at some point to the $50 per month tier to get access to everything available, but I've got plenty to learn yet with After Effects before I can validate adding more software and expense to things. I do want to learn how to do those really cool animations and lighting effects. A friend who is a graphic designer sent me a link to a YouTube channel that puts out tutorials, so I've been watching those like crazy

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSUSgx9qc_NydrOL59xbJIA

I hear ya. What did you end up using to edit your latest video? AE can be a real time suck as it can get pretty deep, but the results can be phenomenal if you put the time into it. Good luck!

That first hacks video I did was only around 20ish layers, but this one was closer to 70 :D. It definitely becomes a bit to manage, so I save every time I do something I'm good with. I wanted to add a special effect for when the song does that kind of spiraly sound effect a few times, but couldn't figure out anything that I liked and I figure I can wait till I do the Super Gameboy video to try some other stuff (no point trying to cram every idea into one video). I just used the Gausian Blur, a mild amount of Fractal Noise, Matte Choke and Ripple effects for the backgrounds (the song kinda reminds me of water) to give some animation throughout and I used the Gradient transition for going from one game to the next. I added some Drop Shadows around the videos, too. Decided to keep it fairly simple this time, so I didn't look into anything advanced (mostly because I had all those dang layers!).

This is so good, sad that there isn't one of these for all the consoles. Nice work!