At OffKai, Panel 4 How YOU Can Edit VTuber Content https://www.offkaiexpo.com/event/how-you-can-edit-vtuber-content/
- Title slide reads “How To Edit For VTubers or Yourself”
- Presented by:
- @sonotseth, uses Davinci
- @7thLargestShad, uses Davinci
- SunWon, @SnshnWngstr, uses Adobe Premier
- @hawupup, uses Davinci Resolve
- Basic fundamentals:
- There are ethical responsibilities for editors
- Thumbnail and title should be truthful
- Clickbaiting makes the community distrustful of you
- Use appropriate, respectful titles and thumbnails
- Respectful to the creator and community
- Respects the creator’s wishes
- Understand what kind of modifications can be made to the avatar in thumbnails
- Don’t clip vulnerable moments, sensitive content (like dox information), paywalled content, or slanderous content
- Clip entertainment, stories, informative, announcements
- Upload after the stream, not during. wait until the stream is uploaded so the full stream doesnt encounter automatic copy protection issues
- Check to see if streamer has policy for clip uploads
- Make clips because you want to, not for validation or that you can become friends with the streamer.
- Being a clipper/editor doesn’t make you better than other fans.
- Compare to improve, not to put yourself down.
- Editing structure: workflow for editing
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- Extract clip
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- Determine landscape or short form
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- Make a thumbnail
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- Pick a catchy, appreciable title
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- Credit the streamer
- free clip downloaders: ytdlp or twitch downloader
- free editing software: capcut or davinci
- find your editing style (png animations, sound effects, memes, cuts and zooms, subtitle) you do not need to be perfect
- focus more on posting instead of making it perfect, so you can keep learning and getting better
- consider changing the format to suit the social media platform you are uploading to
- vtuber discords tend to have dedicated clipping channels
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- Finding work: Portfolio, networking, and professionalism
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- Build up a portfolio
- Use ytjobs or carrd
- Set up rates, terms of service
- make an editing reel
- put yourself out there
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- Networking
- Meet people on social media
- Loopd discord server focuses on editing
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- Professionalism
- Remember that this is a job — you are getting paid to do video work
- Be polite!
- Communicate your workflow, timelines, set deadlines (and keep them!), follow the NDA
- Be wary of taking on too many clients, unrealistic expectations, and undervaluing your work
- You will not have constant work, you might have months where no work comes to you
- make sure you charge what you need to be comfortable
- Do not tie your work to specific clients, your work should stand on its own
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- Resources
- Free assets: Irasutoya, Videezy, OKUMONO, SoundeffectsLab
- Paid assets: Adobe Stock
- OKUMONO, Epidemic Sound
- Free tutorials: Casey Faris (highly recommended), Peej ENT
- Don’t forget that you can reach out to any of the presenters or editors you might know. Just be respectful of their time.
- Advice:
- Star2D2: Editing can feel overwhelming, so focus on one or two things at a time
- Jun Mitsui: Be more open to connecting with like-minded editors and dont stretch yourself too thin.
- OrangeHenge: Don’t chase numbers and trends. Focus on what you enjoy the most and add your own unique touch to it.
- They will post this presentation and more advice on social media.
- QA
- What do you do to get out of burnout?
- Focus on what you like the most about editing. Do less videos, focus more on creative work.
- Find something to do that is separated from editing, like a hobby, music, or walking.
- Find a better balance with the work itself. Take on different kinds of work, keep doing a variety of things.
- Find what works for you. Burnout is more common than you think with editing.
- Do you give yourself deadlines regardless of what deadline you have been given?
- Yes, setting a deadline yourself so you can have days reserved for yourself where you don’t do any work (like weekends)
- Use a speedrun timer during work to help focus and know how much time passes
- Know how much time it takes for you to make something and try to make it consistent. For example, it might take you 5 hours to make a short form short and you might need to figure out what is taking up your time if it takes longer than that.
- How to do editing when you are doing it for yourself? What do you do during stream? How do you find good clips?
- Focus on posting consistently; algorithms eat that up.
- Mark timestamps while you are streaming
- Fugi has a tool called autoclip. it is shutting down, but there’s an open source version. It shows you when chat was activr and that can help you find good moments to clip.
- How do you develop a good eye for good moments to clip?
- It depends on what you want to put out there. You could keep in mind trends that people are talking about
- Think about what moments you enjoy, like ehen the streamer tells a story or explains something. Know your preferences. Each editor has their own lens. Editing is an art.
- Where should I find content to edit? How do I get into editing?
- Find a streamer you like. Look for moments that you like, things that make you laugh. They don’t have to be amazing; you can still share it.
- You can get a lot out of good pacing and trimming. You don’t need a lot of fancy effects.
- On twitch it can be as simple as pressing the clip button.
- Who is your favorite editor?
- There are so many editors and different styles that it is hard to pick.
- What do you think of Sony Vegas?
- If you can make your work in it, it’s fine. Some people have made great work in a web browser editor.
- Of all the time you’ve spent editing, what are you most proud of?
- Learning how to use the fusion page. If you can use it, you are unstoppable
- Had the honor of making the closing video for a graduating vtuber.
- Whenever I am able to take things to the next level.
- What do you do to get out of burnout?