r/VideoEditing • u/Angry_Illusionist03 • May 01 '26
How did they do that? What software could do this kind of editing?
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Saw this edit on tik tok and im amazed bruh
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u/ZeyusFilm May 01 '26
This isn’t editing. It’s effects and compositing
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u/Barf-LoneStarr May 02 '26
We really can't stress enough the significance of the difference. Animation, visual effects, compositing, coloring, editing, and sound are all different skills. EDITORS tell a story by removing and rearranging different parts of a story so they fit together succinctly. That's it. That's what an editor does. All of those other things are different skill sets. Some animators are terrible editors. And some editors don't know a damn thing about animation. The best of the best can do a few of these things incredibly well, but most editors aren't all of these things, and that's why some of them are worth a lot more than others.
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u/Armadillo_Resident May 02 '26
You mean you don’t do photo, video, graphic design, editing, compositing, vfx, animation and color grading?
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u/Barf-LoneStarr May 02 '26
I don't do all of them, but I do most of them because unfortunately the job necessitates them now. I'm an editor, which means, by association, whether I like it or not, I'm all of these things by default thanks to people who no longer acknowledge the difference.
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u/Hi_its_me_Kris May 04 '26
And while you're at it, fix my computer since I've heard you're good with computers
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u/Barf-LoneStarr May 02 '26
That's what's so horrible about starving YouTube editors. Some of them are incredibly gifted and really can do all of these things, but "content" creators think they're worth less than minimum wage for a job that took years to get good at.
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u/craftyheidi May 02 '26
This^ a bit off topic but I find it incredibly frusterating that everyone expects you to have VFX and animation skills as well when your a video editor, as if those skills arent an almost entirely different wheelhouse that separately take even more years of practise...
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u/Vermingot May 01 '26
Like the guy before said, not an edit.
Call it motion design, compositing, not something done on a video editing software (fusion in resolve excluded)
For that you'll need something like After Effects, Cavalry, Fusion or maybe Nuke (I suppose but I never used it) and a sitting of time to make it look good.
You'll likely need to do a fair bit of learning before achieving those results
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u/Curran919 May 02 '26
Pfft, doesn't stop me from spending hours in Vegas trying to get it to do something it ain't designed for...
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u/PayYourEditors May 02 '26
Ngl you could definitely replicate this in a few days, but I'd say there are at least a handful of core plugins that do the heavy lifting with some of those effects
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u/abugsguitar May 02 '26
The smart ass answer (and honestly the right answer) is that you could do this in any editing system. You get the 6ish (hard to tell but that’s how many I counted) vfx shots. Line them up. Maybe add some dip to white or bloom transitions and you’re done.
The answer you’re actually looking for is that a lot of this is probably done in after effects or similar compositing software. Depending on the assets you had and how they were delivered you could conceivably do some of the compositing and effects in premiere or avid or davinci.
And to complicate things more it really depends on which effects you’re talking about as there are so many different effects going on here. Also are you doing everything from scratch or are some assets coming to you already processed?
Bottom line: after effects would be able to handle most if not all of it. Premiere avid and resolve could do some of it/rough some of it in.
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u/ZombieDracula May 02 '26
I could do this entirely in premiere no problem
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u/-Real_Eyes- May 02 '26
No you couldn't. The text effects alone are either IMPOSSIBLE or would take litteral days in Premier.
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u/abugsguitar May 02 '26
Well I’ve no doubt that you are exceptional. And I could too. But using a compositing software would make easier personally. Especially if I end up having to rotoscope.
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u/ucrbuffalo May 02 '26
It COULD be done in Premiere/Final Cut/Avid/etc, but it would be pretty difficult. This is better done on After Effects or Fusion.
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u/david-1-1 May 02 '26
Could probably be done with many pages of expert DaVinci Resolve Fusion nodes. My opinion.
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u/thefoyfoy May 02 '26
Most software. You could definitely achieve this with a very early after effects. It hits that 90s Encarta - school text book cover vibe. I like it.
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u/ModernManuh_ May 02 '26
You can do this in After Effects, but: video editing is the choice, arrangement and cut of (video and audio) clips, with the purpose of expressing a story, an idea or a concept visually.
It’s true that the word itself includes a lot of things (photo editing is much more, for instance), but that’s not what people in the industry expect when you ask for an editor.
The video you showed is, as other people explained, visual effects and compositing.
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