Assassin's Creed GMV - Cut the Cord

I've missed video editing .

 

It's been awhile, so I decided to try my hand at editing again. Thing is, it's been a while because I haven't really been inspired to make anything. So I was watching a bunch of FMVs (which is why I decided that I really want to get back into video editing) and I came across this 47 minutes YouTube video with trailers from all the Assassin's Creed games up until Valhalla.

And, well, since one of the more annoying parts of video editing is just getting all the footage together I figured I'd use this and make a GMV 'cause why not? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

The only thing is, usually when I'm making music videos I would start with this song and then kind of half edit it in my head with something before I even started, so doing it the other way around means I was kind of stuck. I came across a song from Shinedown “Cut the Cord” which has lyrics that includes “Switchblade on the edge of your wrist”. Which means of course this is definitely been used for an Assassin's Creed GMV before but I couldn't really think of anything better so I decided to go with it.

That's not to say this didn't end up sitting 1/2 done on my computer for a couple of weeks but oh well.

 

I used DaVinci Studios for this. I only did like a few seconds editing on the software that I already had and I couldn't stick it so I went looking for something better. I must say; I have missed being able to see waveforms when editing. I've only done the bare minimum of tutorials from YouTube so I'm probably missing a load of little tricks but this seems to have worked out.

 

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There's a lot of invisible edits here, like slightly speeding up or slowing down clips just so it'll hit the beat where I want them to. It's one of the hazards of working with existing footage rather than raw footage. I also flipped a few of the images just so it flowed better with what I had. There's also one bit where I speed up a really horrible slow mo that was in the original Assassin's Creed one trailer so I think I fixed that. Though if I’ve done it right you won't be able to tell. Especially the ones where I just changed the order from where it appeared in the original trailer. There's no way anyone's gonna notice it unless they, like me, were going through footage over and over again for editing it.

 

Anyway it's done now.

Didn't that too bad I suppose.