Are you talking about the shot where the camera is moving straight backward away from the sniper? I know there's some way to do a "zoom" effect where the FOV changes fluidly within the smooth but I felt lazy so I just did it in post. It is indeed a bit pixel-y at the beginning of that shot, is that what you're reacting to?

Tysm pyxelize! <3

Also, lots of respect for you for working with TFTV and consistently pumping out highlights, you're really good at using music to accentuate frags and I really enjoy it in your videos.

I was inspired by TFTV's match highlight videos to edit together one of my own. I had a lot of fun making this -- I know there's an official clip for this match already but I couldn't resist. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/oWVLB2dPeGw

Shoutouts to Deer and pyxelize for pointing me towards a couple plugins that were critical for making this video (hlae and CastingEssentials).

Also, cp_reckoner is a goddamn gorgeous map.

Hey, I'm trying to do some frag video editing and when I returned the crosshair to its default through the in-game options menu in preparation for recording, I found that the default crosshair was not switching upon weapon swap like it normally does.

How can I fix this and restore the crosshair switching functionality? I have some limited experience with scripting so I'd be willing to poke around in the back end and change code if necessary.

I've thought about just doing a clean install but if there's an easier fix I'd much prefer that.

Edit: after a clean install I've discovered that I just needed to select the "none" option under the ingame menu for crosshairs. I blame bad design.

Hey, the crosshair switching for the default crosshair is broken for me. Which files should I go to and what should I do to fix this?

How are you getting kill notices properly using what I assume are STV demos? Did something come along to replace statusspec?

Unless I'm mistaken pug/mixchamp servers are down as well

Pop Culture by Cla has 231k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDwu4uNTZc4

310k total if you add the views from the one that's actually on his channel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii4mWZRLHH4

Just watched the VoD; phat game, would reccomend. Lots of on-camera airshots

https://clips.twitch.tv/SpinelessDeterminedGoblinDxCat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJmbANMb0MM

https://clips.twitch.tv/sideshow/SmoggyAntelopeCougarHunt

https://clips.twitch.tv/sideshow/SuperOryxPipeHype

https://clips.twitch.tv/sideshow/FaithfulOstrichPunchTrees

I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. With the new HUD I find it much easier to accurately gauge player and team health at a glance, which IMO is really useful and outweighs missing like 5% more action happening on the very edges of the screen.

Ok, I feel I should amend my statement somewhat after a few days and after rewatching some old movies from the Funky Visions crew. Dissolves CAN work, but you should keep them significantly shorter than you have them in this video. A lot of your dissolves in this video seem to last a whole second, which makes it look kinda ugly since you can visibly see the clips superimposed on each other. (1:45 is a pretty good example of that). I like hard cuts, but I know that they are jarring if you don't cut on beat or at a moment that's otherwise convenient for a transition. If you want a softer transition, a short dissolve (maybe 1/6th of a second? I think that's a good benchmark but I haven't edited in a while) will get rid of the jarring nature of a hard cut without looking ugly because it goes by too quickly for the viewer to really notice the superimposition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkyzTu-Owd8&t=6s <-- there are a lot of good examples here of quick, unobtrusive dissolves

If you want more ideas for transitions I would honestly go and watch some of the well-known older editors in the scene - off the top of my head, NaF, Cla, Torn Productions, and ikpure come to mind. There's definitely more but those are the ones that pop into my head. Much better than reading my rather rambling thoughts.

P.S. Watching that video again, I saw that you have some dissolves that actually work quite nicely, but I didn't notice them the first few viewings because I didn't notice them (because they were short (and therefore not visually jarring(and therefore did not break my immersion in the video)))

/endnerdessay

Solid movie. Color seems fine to me. This seems more like just a nice fragshow than a frag movie to me because of the minimal editing, but well-executed minimal editing will always be better than badly executed complex editing.

Basic Feedback:
-Intro/outro text looks really nice
-Turn the killfeed off when you do smooths and other thirdperson shots (example: at 0:36 - 0:38)
-What's with the sniper clip at 2:37 having a really wide FOV when they're scoped in? Try to fix that
-Your use of slo-mo is effective and well-timed

Advanced Feedback:
-If you're going to transition between two entirely different plays, hard cuts>dissolves because dissolves imply continuity. Since you used dissolves so much, I had to second-guess if 1:10 - 1:17 was part of the same sequence or two completely different plays.
-On that note, have some more variety in your transitions in general. When you use a smooth or a third person shot to introduce or close out a play it's generally more interesting to watch than a straight dissolve. I guess what I'm trying to say is to, in general, avoid dissolving from a POV clip straight to another POV clip because it almost always looks ugly. If you had to only use one kind of transition for a whole video I would much prefer you to cut or wipe between POV clips than to be constantly dissolving.
-Dissolves between third-person/smooths and POV clips look nice though. IMO a dissolve at 1:06 would have been a better transition between that particular third person and POV shot since the hard cut is rather jarring.
-The best parts of this frag movie are when you're able to sync the frags/editing to the music. Keep doing that as much as possible -- I really enjoy it when there's a flow and rhythm to frag movies, and in a few parts of this you really nail that. This will come both from the way you arrange the clips in relation to each other within the movie as a whole, and from the editing choices you make within a specific clip (such as deciding to use slo-mo, etc.).
-The best way to practice all these things is just to keep making videos, so keep it up! :)

P.S. Using an editing software that's more advanced than iMovie will give you more options to use when editing. You may or may not want more options.