#apparently you can make them longer on Capcut

[kickingshoes]

social media is so annoying lol why is it so focused on doing everything on the phone.

You can't add audio to Tiktok videos on desktop, or save tiktoks as drafts on desktop, or make Insta reels with sound on desktop, so I thought I could game the system for Swordtember by making an Instagram post on desktop, then make it a reel on my phone (so I could add music). Then I download that reel to my phone and then upload it to Tiktok.

I've done this for 7 days only to find out today that Insta has a limit of 30 sec reels, so all the videos we've made so far have cut off half the video and I never noticed because Insta never said "oh yeah btw we're cropping the post cuz it's too long" :/

#bless everyone that's liked them anyway I'm sorry you only got half the experience #apparently you can make them longer on Capcut #but I am kinda done adding yet another hoop to post a 60 sec video #like this shouldn't be that hard #idk if I'll even fix them or maybe I'll just delete them and people can watch the videos in silence lol

[air--so--sweet]

Made my first fan edit in over a decade (in my day they were called fanvids). Apparently you can't use copyrighted music longer than a minute on tiktok (it was easier to get round copyright in my day also) so this one is just for you tumblr. Also let's ignore the clips with logos in because I'm not getting clean versions to re-edit it, it's 8am and I haven't been to sleep (thanks ADHD hyperfocus stopping me from literally noticing the sun coming up!)

Edit: Had some sleep so now time to write a ridiculous number of words about a 3 minute edit! This was a lot of fun to make, I forgot how fun video editing is and capcut is a dream compared to windows movies maker and sony vegas (which was what all the cool kids were using for some reason in the mid 2000s but I never got the hang of it).

It also reminded me how fun some of the dance numbers are. Like I love Dancing in the Moonlight and Twistin' the Night Away. I know for the latter they originally had a choreographed routine but it was scrapped and and they were told improvise and have fun. It's something that definitely comes across in the final scene and it makes it feel more authentically like three siblings messing around.

Also in editing the video scenes I noticed stuff I wouldn't have otherwise. Emmy breaks multiple times because she's having so much fun (it's left in because it makes sense for her to laugh in the moment but Emmy's laugh is very different to Allison's).

The weird dance Diego does with the sword during Another One Bites the Dust, and the fact Lila has to fully step back at one point to not get hit in the face! I always thought Lila was just pulling Five in by the hand for a hug in the same scene but you can see them dancing together in the background throughout. I knew they danced together at the wedding but Five was blackout drunk at that point so it's fun to see him dancing with her at a time when he's...well not sober, but definitely less drunk.

Also as an aside, in the first draft of the script for S1E1 it's shown explicitly that Five is uncomfortable with touch after years in the apocalypse. Though the scene in question didn't make it into later drafts, it still feels implied to me throughout season 1 and it makes me feel happy to see how far he's come, seeming genuinely comfortable with Lila's affection. Also if anyone is interested in the idea of him struggling with touch @soshadysoquiet has a great fic exploring this (though rather than my view that he's become accustomed to, and comfortable with touch it posits that he's dealing with so much due to the apocalypse he doesn't recognise touch as the cause of his distress).

I also think there's a sort of theme happening in the partner dances during Footloose, rather than the characters being paired randomly but that will take long enough to explain it needs it's own post, even if this one wasn't already obscenely long.

#the umbrella academy #tua #tua dance numbers #the umbrella academy dance numbers #the wombats #lets dance to joy division #the hargreeves #fan edit #fanvid #this took like 7 hours #still love this song though #capcut it so much easier to use than windows moviemaker was and it didnt crash once