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Flowmania commits to:
Edit one video every weekend until the end of May 2018.

The videolenght must be minimum 3:30min long.

- I have to at least take 4 hours time for it!

Terms of "4 hours for a video":
-cutting video material
-searching songs (Monstercat only)
-making a videoconcept on paper (storytelling included)
-Using Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere for editing
-create own video-effects and transitions
-tutorials

DON'Ts:
-NO MOBILE PHONE!
-NO YOUTUBE
-NO FIVERR
-NO 2nd VID within this time
-NO INTERNET
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Flowmania
Flowmania
May 27, 2018, 8:49 AM
Yo! This week was exceptionally good.
Took me less time and I was done on saturday morning before 10am. This was the best I had done. It was the longest vid I did, too.
Music is nice, I was pretty fast with the decisions. Because I didnt use transitions this time and I didnt edit the song pretty much.
I was faster with the intro and outro, too. Just decided faster.

Also: I did subtitles for the very first time!
It turned out pretty well with the timings. Though I didnt subtitle EVERYthing, I did it on the funny moments. This is a good progress.

I am glad, I did this challenge. Even though it was stressful on some days.
That only means, I not only have to decide PRO something.
Next time I instantly have to decide what I wont do anymore from then on, so I have the time for the prio.
Also it has a LOT to do with preparation!
-BLOCK TIME
-prepare routine
-prepare place and equipment
-prepare gratification
-celebrate the wins! (be proud of it when talking to other people)
Flowmania
Flowmania
May 21, 2018, 8:08 AM
Edit:
Improve next time: subtitle voices. (timing, size & good texture)
Flowmania
Flowmania
May 20, 2018, 6:37 PM
This week was totally screwed up.
Long story short:
I procrastinated through saturday. Procrastinated through sunday. Started late on sunday (6pm). Started the video, after 1 hour I just deleted all and started from scratch again. Finding songs was not hard. Cutting the video, wasnt either. I did it pretty fast and did a new concept. The total lenght is about 7mins.

I just focus on giving the kill-scenes more attention. Until now I just over-painted it with my editing so much that the whole perception was changed. Now I just take all the video-material (we have wayyyy more than I could ever edit with the old concept) and just show that.
One: because else the material is never used adequately.
Two: we want to show their gaming-talents. I dont want to focus on becoming a well-known editor. I just want to get into the habit of editing and getting better. For that, I need to be calm. Not stressed all the time. Today was a stress level I couldnt handle. Maybe a large part is due to a personal conflict I have right now. Although this will inevitably disappear with time, it was an alarm to myself that I shall prioritize differently. Right now I am doing almost all the work with this project, when essentially the plan was to get a team so I can PURELY focus on editing. And just that.
Right now I am editing, looking for their kills-parts, managing the uploads, doing SEO, working on the concepts, designing logos, communicating with freelancers to do our logo and other work e.g. banners and other stuff. I am pushing the team to meetings and it stresses a lot. I have to stick to the essential plan: better my editing through this youtube-project. Instead of stressing about it's success online. That's not my prime intention. It's a nice bonus, when there, but in the first place it shall remain a side-hobby where I want to learn consistently about though. I dont want to sacrifice my fitness for that, nor my book-reading or coming short on realizing my personal values and sharing them with the world.

So, in order to do that:
Focus more on the initial gaming-scenes. Dont change too much from them. Just put one after the other with some music. Change music-volume here and there smoothly, cut-out some dumb voices when not fitting. Get a good overall design with intro and outro. That's it.
-> USE what you have. WHEN I shall be too fast with editing and using too many parts, the NEED is created to get out there and talk to people to send us their own parts. That's where we could grow and start our collabs with other people. That's where we would grow.

In order to realize that, I will cut out:
-hyper intensive editing
-cutting so much out, that the 20-40secs scenes are about the 0,5sec-scene of the kill
-using so many different songs in one video and dj-ing them together
-using more transitions than fps

-> make around 5-10mins videos. but with around 10-40secs video-scenes. Some good background-music. And let the fun begin.
Flowmania
Flowmania
May 13, 2018, 4:01 PM
YO!
Just finished a video today. This time was pretty hard to do. I started on friday a little. But then slept longer than usual (until around 9am), and went to the gym saturday in the morning right after waking up. Stayed there for quite a while and had one of the best workouts within the last years. But after coming back at around 12, I had no fun putting myself to editing at ALL!
I see that it is ABSOLUTE essential to wake up BEFORE anyone else can talk to me to get shit done. Else I find myself thinking wayyyy too much about decisions and I get intrerupted wayy too often. Also it puts me into a morally-thinking-mood and that costs me SO much energy.

Well, I didnt manage to do the video at saturday as I said. But later during the day I told myself, that I wanted to prepare songs and the videostart for the next day. So I did.
And THAT was a very good idea. I was happy with myself and couldnt wait for the next day to start work (because "now its not that much work anymore"). I was pretty relaxed with it and in the next morning too.

But then after starting it took me sooo long. I needed MANY breaks. Did little stretching, sports, massaged my gf and ate something during the breaks. The main reason was, I didnt know WHEN to cut. The SONG was not clear enough. The drops were kinda confusing and I didnt manage to make clear cuts, that fit with the videolenght of the minimum lenght of a kill-scene, so it was pretty hard to do!
--> NEVER EVER will I take a song that has no clear drops.

Improvements today:
-flashback in black and white
-audio in slow-mo (properties-> "lock to stretch")
-audio-fades ("v")
-learned to cut shorter sequences. (even though not all the needed footage is there, the overall video suggests perfectly what happened)

Future:
-60FPS render might work if I download all the programs again from the sources of "ProEdits"
-Concept as "LezBeEpic" for fortnite with my editing should fit perfectly. Just ONE song from then on. Videolenght about 1min-1:30min. PURE ACTION
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Displaying 1-4 of 8 results.
May 20 to May 27
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Therayd
Therayd
- Referee approval report
Flowmania
Flowmania
- Committed user success report
Yo! This week was exceptionally good. Took me less time and I was done on saturday morning before 10am. This was the best I had done. It was the longest vid I did, too. Music is nice, I was pretty fast with the decisions. Because I didnt use transitions this time and I didnt edit the song pretty much. I was faster with the intro and outro, too. Just decided faster. Also: I did subtitles for the very first time! It turned out pretty well with the timings. Though I didnt subtitle EVERYthing, I did it on the funny moments. This is a good progress. I am glad, I did this challenge. Even though it was stressful on some days. That only means, I not only have to decide PRO something. Next time I instantly have to decide what I wont do anymore from then on, so I have the time for the prio. Also it has a LOT to do with preparation! -BLOCK TIME -prepare routine -prepare place and equipment -prepare gratification -celebrate the wins! (be proud of it when talking to other people)
May 13 to May 20
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Success

Therayd
Therayd
- Referee approval report
Flowmania
Flowmania
- Committed user success report
This week was totally screwed up. Long story short: I procrastinated through saturday. Procrastinated through sunday. Started late on sunday (6pm). Started the video, after 1 hour I just deleted all and started from scratch again. Finding songs was not hard. Cutting the video, wasnt either. I did it pretty fast and did a new concept. The total lenght is about 7mins. I just focus on giving the kill-scenes more attention. Until now I just over-painted it with my editing so much that the whole perception was changed. Now I just take all the video-material (we have wayyyy more than I could ever edit with the old concept) and just show that. One: because else the material is never used adequately. Two: we want to show their gaming-talents. I dont want to focus on becoming a well-known editor. I just want to get into the habit of editing and getting better. For that, I need to be calm. Not stressed all the time. Today was a stress level I couldnt handle. Maybe a large part is due to a personal conflict I have right now. Although this will inevitably disappear with time, it was an alarm to myself that I shall prioritize differently. Right now I am doing almost all the work with this project, when essentially the plan was to get a team so I can PURELY focus on editing. And just that. Right now I am editing, looking for their kills-parts, managing the uploads, doing SEO, working on the concepts, designing logos, communicating with freelancers to do our logo and other work e.g. banners and other stuff. I am pushing the team to meetings and it stresses a lot. I have to stick to the essential plan: better my editing through this youtube-project. Instead of stressing about it's success online. That's not my prime intention. It's a nice bonus, when there, but in the first place it shall remain a side-hobby where I want to learn consistently about though. I dont want to sacrifice my fitness for that, nor my book-reading or coming short on realizing my personal values and sharing them with the world. So, in order to do that: Focus more on the initial gaming-scenes. Dont change too much from them. Just put one after the other with some music. Change music-volume here and there smoothly, cut-out some dumb voices when not fitting. Get a good overall design with intro and outro. That's it. -> USE what you have. WHEN I shall be too fast with editing and using too many parts, the NEED is created to get out there and talk to people to send us their own parts. That's where we could grow and start our collabs with other people. That's where we would grow. In order to realize that, I will cut out: -hyper intensive editing -cutting so much out, that the 20-40secs scenes are about the 0,5sec-scene of the kill -using so many different songs in one video and dj-ing them together -using more transitions than fps -> make around 5-10mins videos. but with around 10-40secs video-scenes. Some good background-music. And let the fun begin.
May 6 to May 13
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Therayd
Therayd
- Referee approval report
Flowmania
Flowmania
- Committed user success report
YO! Just finished a video today. This time was pretty hard to do. I started on friday a little. But then slept longer than usual (until around 9am), and went to the gym saturday in the morning right after waking up. Stayed there for quite a while and had one of the best workouts within the last years. But after coming back at around 12, I had no fun putting myself to editing at ALL! I see that it is ABSOLUTE essential to wake up BEFORE anyone else can talk to me to get shit done. Else I find myself thinking wayyyy too much about decisions and I get intrerupted wayy too often. Also it puts me into a morally-thinking-mood and that costs me SO much energy. Well, I didnt manage to do the video at saturday as I said. But later during the day I told myself, that I wanted to prepare songs and the videostart for the next day. So I did. And THAT was a very good idea. I was happy with myself and couldnt wait for the next day to start work (because "now its not that much work anymore"). I was pretty relaxed with it and in the next morning too. But then after starting it took me sooo long. I needed MANY breaks. Did little stretching, sports, massaged my gf and ate something during the breaks. The main reason was, I didnt know WHEN to cut. The SONG was not clear enough. The drops were kinda confusing and I didnt manage to make clear cuts, that fit with the videolenght of the minimum lenght of a kill-scene, so it was pretty hard to do! --> NEVER EVER will I take a song that has no clear drops. Improvements today: -flashback in black and white -audio in slow-mo (properties-> "lock to stretch") -audio-fades ("v") -learned to cut shorter sequences. (even though not all the needed footage is there, the overall video suggests perfectly what happened) Future: -60FPS render might work if I download all the programs again from the sources of "ProEdits" -Concept as "LezBeEpic" for fortnite with my editing should fit perfectly. Just ONE song from then on. Videolenght about 1min-1:30min. PURE ACTION
April 29 to May 6
Successful
Success
Success

Therayd
Therayd
- Referee approval report
Flowmania
Flowmania
- Committed user success report
DAAAMN This video might be my best one ever. I took so much effort into cutting on the little mini-drops and bass-boosts. The new thing I did this time was to cut stubbornly every 12 frames on serveral parts of the video and then I did many many many of those 12-frames-cuttings next to each other. It matched the songs perfectly and likewise I edited the video-material. I put more focus on getting the flow/12-frames right, than the video-material. (Put more importance on song & feeling this time than the visual) and I thing that way might actually be better! Sometimes a scene fits perfectly, I just need to cut 2-3 times here and there and I let it that way. Without realizing that the previous scene was cut pretty fast in many parts and then this one almost not at all, although in the middle I did 2-3 fast cuts there and then let the video run further... This time I managed to get video to the song more synchronized. That means that you have to sacrifice here and there on your video-material to get the flow right. (In my opinion an upgrade to my editing and I can't wait for it to finish rendering). What was not that good is that I slept until 9am this weekend, so I started pretty late. That way I couldnt finish the whole video on Saturday! I edited until around 2-3pm and then was pretty tired and the weather was around 25+ degrees, so I enjoyed the day (which I looked forward to all day long). And today I got up that late too! (couldnt sleep last night and was on my mobile phone until late..maybe I should grab a book next time instead of reading manga on the phone) Also, we did a team-meeting on friday night as most of the fridays. Though, I didnt do anything at all. I had no material and nothing. So I told the boys to pre-cut in a way, that I have material on fridays already and can start editing. (Maybe I can finish them on fridays then...Dunno...But my editing-speed goes up in a huge way and my quality too! It's less exhausting for my brain and I am in a deep flow more of the times and for longer. I think the habit begins to unfold its potential. Also I dont think about the money consequences so much anymore. I mean, I dont forget it either haha. But it's usually just a sidething. Not like in the beginning when I knew "I MUST DO THIS NOW OR I'M DONE FOR." Now it's more chill and I have an almost unshakeable confidence that I will get done what I expect of myself. That's a pretty valuable life experience in my opinion. I think in the future I will focus more on finishing the videos earlier in the weekend, so on sundays I don't have to think at the still potential negative consequences at all. Also, the boys will improve with the pre-cutting habit too. The videos get better and better. I am really confident of that improvement. I just focus 100% on improving my videos. We have like zero views. Still. After 1 month of constant uploading. Though, it doesnt make me lose hope at all. I am seeing that my videos are getting better and better. That's fact. Getting no views is a YouTube thing. It has to do with SEO. As long as I am not learning about this, I don't expect any massive change there. I just totally focus on getting more and more reliable and better with the editing-habit. Just double down on that. More and more. -> Because producing value is the most important part! Also producing regularly! Like a force of nature that will inevitably happen! And whenever I find myself to have time for learning in my free-time, I do it! For example I did a better Call-to-Action for the videos when I had the time. Next weekend I have a longer weekend. That's where I have the time, next to my usual habits, to watch through the video-courses I bought about SEO and YouTube. (That's when I will see results in our views on YouTube). You have to just strictly separate one from the other. Editing is editing. Seo is Seo. Just view it separately and improve on both! Separately! And dont lose hope on the other when its not working the other yet. Just focus and attack one after the other! Might be "slow". The more reliable and confident you have to attack them then! Also, to have more energy throughout the day, I focus much on nutrition. So I am less tired after work and have the patience and motivation to learn some more! I start realizing that eating less doesnt cost your body so much energy. We eat a lot of bullshit, that just goes through our bodies and dont do good at all. It just makes you age faster and dont give you energy. 01.07.2018 will be the day when I move into my own appartment. That when I will change my nutrition and even filter the water I drink. I want to focus more on absorbtion. More on that than on macros. Am really curious how this will turn out. Will be pretty expensive though. I almost wont have any money, spending everything for the rent and for nutrition. -> I view it as a necessary investment for focus and energy. The thing with which I will produce a better future afterwards will be exactly this energy. And my location-independent work on the Internet. (as for example this project right here.) To sum my feeling up: I'm more confident, sometimes totally in a flow-state for 1-2 hours straight, am laughing when editing and feel nice about what I produced. My comrades are pretty proud of our work and happy about the videos too. And also my girlfriend is super proud and happy about the fact that I do this so consistently. I feel good about myself and my 1-3-year lifeplans. I am more chilled and take more time for myself in a relaxing way. I feel good. I dont know if its coincidence, but at my job I feel pretty good too, for the past 2 months approximately.
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