Emily Kolsevich

@MarkEting24

I'm newer to video editing on this scale, and took the essentials course, then dove straight into the advanced course. Still learning and definitely had to go back and re-watch some things throughout to try and achieve a neat and all-encompassing final project. Took a creative route and tried to evoke excitement after dark - in lieu of my city winning the Superbowl this year. As the sun goes down oh Philly, the fans come out to celebrate! The quote from the sports fans in the city is "No one likes us, and we don't care". Philadelphia sports fans have a bad reputation for being obnoxious, but we still love them because they're actually, surprisingly, deep down inside, some of the nicest people you'll ever meet! I tried to get out of my comfort zone and make a reel-styled video at a 9:16 ratio. I used footage from Pexels and music from Envato Elements. I animated a few of the videos to make it interesting as things popped up on the screen to the music. I added spoken audio to the second half of the quote which was almost the most difficult part! I don't have fancy equipment, so my computer mic is sub-par. To achieve an almost no-echo sound I had to run across my room, yell, and come back to stop the voiceover! It was comical, but fixing that sound to be "normal" spoken audio was so hard because the voice over treated it like a sound effect, so I feel I lost some of the editing elements because it wasn't recognized as "dialogue" in Essential Sound. With de-reverb and de-noise effects, I think I was able to make it more normal than what it started as. Color - the video was supposed to look like a day to night transition, I tried to fix a few of the videos to make it more cinematically dramatic. I used a few different scopes and grades to get a "green" look across the board because of the Eagle's team colors, I think it gave it a nice "vibe". I used dip to black on the ends, and cross dissolve transitions in the middle. There are a variety of different speeds in the videos throughout to keep the viewer's attention. And I spent a ton of time animating all the text, specifically the credits at the end, only to realize the last bit of the video Dan shared was "how to roll credits"! So, I went back and tried using that instead, but it probably goes way too fast. Very fun project and a great course - I hope it evokes a smile from people and possibly some fun competitive vibes. Let me know what you think!

Simon Wardle

@simonWardle

Transitions: struggled as I'd done some time-re-mapping and re-sized the 2nd video. Scratched my head for a while then nested both clips so that they matched size and frame-rate - worked fine after that. Biggest struggle was finding good clips to use! Colour Matching / coding - initially I used the blue scene at the beginning as the comparison but everything, obviously became too blue so went off the second clip, fixed that with Lumetri scopes (I prefer the red / green / blue to the vector scope) then matched the other clips to that, with some tweaks. Still having problems with creating Graphics in PP 2025 - it either doesn't work or works very differently. Happy to keep using 2024 though. Really enjoyed the course - I've been using PP for years but entirely self taught so some stuff I didn't now at all and some stuff I just did without understanding. It filled a lot of gaps! So thank you

Renata György

@renataGyörgy

Hi Community I have chosen "Joy" as the mood range. We are heading into spring, so I decided to follow the light ;D Rabindranath Tagore`s poem about light perfectly fits my concept on 9:16 aspect ratio. It took almost 2 days, (as was mentioned) but between long hours of searching footage and music and surviving a mental breakdown ;D, I am happy with the result. Please consider, that I am not an English speaker, so, don't be too hard on me on the audio. The result is a bit busy, but I wanted to max out on ideas and techniques, in this small time window. Please be honest, I learn better from constructive and professional critic. Thank you

Emona Dimitrova

@EmonaDimitrova

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Tomas Linden

@tomasLinden

Here is my project for disticion. All of the material is shot by me going out one day with my kids to the Botanical gardens i Warrnambool Australia. I've used to transistions, one light flare from the water going from the bridge to the tree and one from the tree roots to the climb. I've used slomo on one klip in the tree. The voice over is my daughter who is also in the video. The emotion is happiness. There is credits to my self in the end. Have used a mogrt to create the intro as well as the end. Hope you like it. Thanks for an awesome course! Tomas

Mykyta Kononevych

@mykytaKononevych

Super, as expected I learned a few tricks, the most important and appreciated is the color work - thanks Dan! Overall super and thanks a lot!

Jonathan Herrera

@jonathanHerrera

This was definitely a challenge incorporating everything I've learned. Thanks BYOL!

Melvin Kraan

@melvinKraan

It was hard to pick an emotion but happiness is something i always want to bring while making videos. The process with editing the video was easy for me but the voice over with ai was a bit hard to choose witch voice was the best to use and what really picked up the emotion happiness

Fatian Saoli

@Albeetch

Motivation. Determination. Discpline.

Tian Van Den Berg

@tianVanDenBerg

Really enjoyed this project I used fear as a emotion and because its Halloween soon I though I'd give it a Halloween theme. Feedback welcome.

Guillermo Enrique Blanco Galeano

@imdaedreaming

Hello, everybody! Here's my distinction project! I had the opportunity to be part of the first three episodes of a podcast called "Radiantemente" by these marvelous girls called Ayaviri Robles and Karenny Marimón: Venezuelan entrepreneurs and my colleagues in film school, I dare say. This is an extract from episode one, in which they talked about Self-Esteem from the feminine and Venezuelan point of view: talking about hardships, wins, blessings, and everything in between. All that while having a conversation between to girlfriends. Many thanks to Dan, Edgar and everyone from the BYOL team. See you on the After Effects course!

Mohamed Abuohagar

@mohamedAbuohagar

I chose 1920x1080 size for my Final Project. I put a logo in the top right. I used some of my own videos taken with my Pixel 8, so you might find that some clips are not the best quality in the world :). I color-corrected most of the clips separately, then I used an adjustment layer to color-grade all of them and I made them a little bit warm to make the video feel serious. I added a quote with a fancy motion graphic. I added music and I mentioned the source in the credits. some of the clips are slow-motioned. At the end, I added credits. Finally, I want to thank you a lot for this course. Note; English is not my first language so that you might find some mistakes :)

Simone Fernandes

@simoneFernandes

I really enjoyed this!!. I kept the opening text/quotation animation simple due to the length of it, but I did animate the short story title "CHASING THE DARK” further (and the end credits). I didn't want to go too crazy with transitions...subtle speed ramps - I kept it all very calm as that's the feeling I wanted to convey with this. I'm very happy with the colour correction and grading. I found the Lumetri Scopes/Parade/Waveform + Color Wheels and Match very helpful with this. I had a slight issue of banding when watching via the tv but I've managed to reduce that by tweaking the balance (refering to the Lumetri scopes) and adding a slight bit of noise to the adjustment layer. For the voice over I utilised an AI tool (as I sound awfully boring doing voice overs!). I had to tweak speed, emotion and trick it with certain punctuation to generate the best results for it which took a fair amount of time but it was an interesting learning experience (In hindsight, It would have been quicker to hire someone). The music and SFX I selected is intended to aid in the emotion I want to convey which is that of contentment, calmness & gratitude.

Brian Evans

@brianEvans1

As is always the case with this type of creative project, the hard part is selecting the video footage and music that I want to use. I also seemed to spend a lot of time looking for an voice over. Once all of this was gathered a nice 'relaxed' project. Hope all of you like it...

Shiraj Udin-Sloan

@shirajUdinSloan

Really happy with how this came out. I chose determination as an emotion, and knew I wanted to use videos of athletes and the poem "Invitctus" as the foundation for this. I found the videos on Pexels of the athlete featured, and felt they uniquely related to the theme of determination and overcoming the odds. For the colour grade, I wanted to do something that didn't drown out the original colours of the video, but made it feel a bit grittier - I was thinking about the colour grade in David Fincher movies. The transitions were some free light leaks I found, I wanted to use them thematically by having the firey ones reflect the runner finding his determination, and the film reels to reflect him losing steam (like what we're seeing is off-camera). I'm really happy how well the music and poem went together, as well as how I used the ending of the song in time with the text animation at the end. I wanted the initial text to look a bit like the ending of a Nike commercial. followed by one more dot falling down to change it to a dictionary definition. I think my only regret is I didn't use speed ramps as much as I would have liked, I use it halfway through to extend a video slightly to fit the music. All in all, really happy with how this came out, and I owe it to this course giving me the tools to know how to compile something like this. Thanks!