the_claire•12d agoMost Upvoted

My daughter laughed at my video editing style so I switched it up

I was making little clips of my garden blooms for the family chat, using those slide transitions and fade effects. My 19 year old watched over my shoulder and said 'Mom, that looks like a PowerPoint from 2004.' She wasn't mean about it, but she showed me how kids just cut clips with no transitions at all. So now I do hard cuts with no music and my videos actually look cleaner. Has anyone else gotten style advice from a younger person that actually worked?

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val_shah12d ago

Man, I feel this so hard. My nephew saw me using dissolve transitions on family vacation photos and literally asked if I was trying to make a funeral slideshow. So I tried his way - just hard cuts, no music, no fade in fade out nonsense. Now my vacation videos actually look like someone in this decade made them. Still can't figure out how to make the kids stop rolling their eyes at me though.

patricia3211d ago

My brother taught me the hard cuts thing after I spent three hours adding star wipes to a birthday montage, and honestly he was right because now my clips don't look like something from Windows Movie Maker 2007. Still refuse to give up my fade to black though, that's where I draw the line.

young.michael12d ago

@val_shah that "funeral slideshow" comment is too accurate, I got the exact same look from my daughter when she saw my fading flower montages. The hard cuts really do make everything feel more modern and I notice people actually watch the whole video now instead of scrolling past. I still use slow fades for old family photos though, some things just feel wrong without them.