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I have been proficient with the editing program Sony Vegas since middle school.
My friends and I were always making fun videos for ourselves.
But it did have limitations.
I would have to render, re-render, export, and use the exports to layer all of them.
I was learning so much as I was making the video.
After you learn a certain sequence, its like,Okay, I can repeat that.
Its not as hard when you know what youre doing.
I started editing longer-form comedy sketches, which led to short films, web series, and music videos.
And I never really thought of myself as an online video creator.
Same with the guy playing a tennis racket.
When I started editing, I realized I hadcrossed the linefor a couple of shots of the coverage.
I desperately tried to fix it.
I couldntpunch in.There was no way to really salvage it.
There was a lot of manipulating in the edit, really precise zooming in.
So we have to go bigger.
The way me and Ron edit is we always want to outdo each other.
We always want to make each other laugh.
We were like: Whats the craziest thing that we can do?
In every single scene, we pulled out all of the stops.
Anytime I can murder either of them, its fun.
Every time I see that, it cracks me up.
Its one of those things that you would never write.
Its so twisted and weird, its only something youd come up with after the fact.
That ends up taking the longest searching for the right stock footage.
I wanted it to be a shot from the point of view of the killer.
But I couldnt find any stock footage of a point-of-view knife shot.
Then, I cut out my own hand and the knife.
Sometimes you get desperate and you have to create the stock footage you need.
JM:I immediately called Ron and was like, Thats your hand?
And hes like, Yeah, and Im like, Because theres no way you found stock footage.
Well both just start being like, I dont know if this is good.
I dont know if this is working.
This was the most technical one Ive done so far.
I was a little more ambitious than with theprevious Internet Drama ones.
This is the first time we really had to cut down the actual meme its based on.
Theres a part later on where she talks about how they got the horse from prison.
I just wish I could have fit that in.
If you go back further in my archive, there are more layers in my videos.
There are ones with all these different heads doing different harmony parts.
I wanted everyone to see every detail.
But what Ive been learning through TikTok is its always better when you keep it simple.
I searched some different 3-D-asset websites to find a horse.
We decided to have the horse grow and shrink to inject humor into the drama.
With each video, I watch a few more tutorials.
I feel like a TikTok try-hard.
I wish I could just do a quick thing.
Maybe one day Ill get there.
The Challenge: Moving Tom Cruises Mouth
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And bubblegum?!
With a lollipop, youre actually interacting with an object.
When he puts it in his mouth and he pulls it out, thats the difficult part.
Tom Cruise doesnt have these expressions.
Jim Carrey probably would have these expressions in his data set, but Tom Cruise doesnt.
I had to tweak some motions in his mouth.
To me, it still doesnt look perfect.
Even his face looks too young, so Im not quite happy with it.
Its going to open up so many creative possibilities in the movie industry alone.
When they started makingThe Irishman, the deepfake technology wasnt even close to where we are now.
Its evolving so rapidly.
The Vampire Diarieswas a show that lived rent-free in my head for a while.
There was so much to it, and I had all these observations and inside jokes about it.
But, other times, I would go into my folder.
Theyve gone viral with their signature spiraling shots, using natural light orglow-in-the-dark effects.
Pax:This video was kind of a remake of aprior one that we did.
Q:We animated them.
It was definitely a lot of time.
We mainly edit in After Effects.
Some of these things really need planning.
P:And precision.
Once were locked in on editing, we just edit for hours.
This one took eight, nine, ten hours.
Q:We basically just merge it together and it comes out really nice.
It gets annoying at times he is my husband.
P:Yeah, and those particular ones, thats our language.
Thats just how, naturally, the art flows through us.
Q:Its amazing.
At this point, its not even about the numbers anymore.
We realized this is who we are, so this is what we gotta do.
We just wanna have fun with it.
I get dizzya lot.
And then it took me two weeks.
I went into Logic which is what I use to edit audio and I isolated all the quotes.
There were more than 100 of them.
I put them together, and then I recorded a video of myself speaking to no one.
And if they say apples or something, Ill make a note to animate an apple over it.
Sometimes I look at it afterward and think,Theres not enough happening.
My bang out of humor is pretty self-deprecating.
So I kept dialing it back.
My email chain with the company had like 100 emails back and forth.
There was one scene where it was Christmas, and I gave a kid a cup of coffee.
And Im like, No, thats the joke.
Youre not supposed to give kids coffee.
But usually I just Google for whatever setting I need.
And then I crop it to be vertical, and have it be as high-res as possible.
I do all my green screens through the TikTok app.
I want to learn how to do actual green screens; those always look dope.
So I do all my editing and sound on TikTok just to make things easier.
TikTok basically launched my career as a creator.
Im spending hours watching episodes of the shows.
So, hes filming five or six hours straight a day.
I go in and distill these days and countless episodes into something thats funny in a few minutes.
Its all out-of-context stuff.
I really wanted it to feel like its a regular conversation.
Hes not complaining about abortions to him.
I wanted to fit in Lori talking about these bottles that will filter radiation.
Its the only bottle on Earth that will filter radiation.
Thankfully, I found a part where shes talking to Mike Bickles grandson.
I wanted to build toward that.
She gives his whole family these bottles.
Ultimately, for this video, I was trying to show that these are con men.
Nobodys off-limits when it comes to who they will use to promote themselves, even their own grandson.
Who knows if the bottles even filter out radiation?
I would assume they dont.
I hope it doesnt come across that Im mocking this kid.
The kid is innocent.
Jim Bakkers grandson is a fan of mine, so theres hope for Hudson.
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