Back4blood Video June #1

[Hennessy]

Hey man!

Glad to hear you’re already getting the hang of Premiere Pro—that’s seriously impressive for just starting out! It’s a beast of a program, but once you learn a few tricks, it’ll save you so much time compared to Clipchamp.

A couple of quick tips based on your timeline:

• For blurring: I noticed you’re using a roundabout method. Premiere has a way easier way: just grab Gaussian Blur or Camera Blur from the Effects panel, then use the built-in mask tool (the rectangle/ellipse icons in the Effect Controls tab). Drag it over the area you want blurred, adjust the blur strength (I usually go for 20-30%), and you’re done. Bonus: you can copy-paste the entire effect to other clips! Saves tons of time.
• Music timing: Still tricky, but try this: drop your track into the timeline, zoom in, and use M to add markers on beat hits. Then snap your cuts/clips to those markers.

And yeah, Steel Hunter is just pain. Even with cheats, getting thrown into lobbies with maxed-out bots while you’re on a starter mech feels like a prank. I gave up after three matches—no shame in uninstalling haha.
Keep at it, and don’t sweat the small stuff. Your progress is already insane! 🚀

Seriously considering writing a full beginner’s guide for video editing someday—might save folks the headache we went through

[NotMayhem]

Yo!

So I actually ended up cancelling Premiere Pro, the encoder just wasn’t cutting it. It refused to play my Division clips properly no matter what I tried because its old framework, even tried fixing clips to cfr with handbrake but premiere engine is the issue not the clips. Switched over to DaVinci Resolve instead, not only is it free, but honestly, I think it’s way better overall. Way smoother experience so far even lets you use the premiere layout.

Also dropped ShadowPlay, turns out it switches to variable frame rate when the GPU’s under load, which was messing things up for recording. Went back to OBS but with more optimized settings, and it’s running much cleaner now.

The gaussian blur tip is huge manually cropping images was annoying af

Appreciate the help either way, been learning a ton just from trying different setups. Just need to wrap my head around the music and markers and i should have something decent up.