Hello!
I'm Amy, a third year computing science student at the University of Alberta and this is a repository of all the previous video editing projects I've worked on in the past couple of years. I am completely self-taught and enjoy creating these projects either in my spare time or as volunteer opportunities. I mainly use Sony Vegas Pro for my video editing/animations and am currently learning Adobe After Effects. If I need custom assets for my videos, I usually create them through Photoshop, Audacity, Paint Tool Sai, Paint.net or use the talents of other people who are better versed in these areas than I am through the power of the internet. If you would like to know more about how I got into video editing and to see my earlier projects, click on the drop down menu!
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I first got into video editing and animation around the time when I was 12 years old through discovering videos of animated sprites on YouTube. People would use these sprites (which I later found out to be MapleStory game sprites) to animate stories or create animated music videos. It wasn't long before I got hooked on these videos and decided to try my hand at making them. Since this was in 2009 and YouTube was in its early stages (along with this animation community being very niche), I had little to no resources to learn from when creating my videos - this lead me to try many different ways and animation softwares (mostly the free online ones) to get my videos to look the way I wanted them to. It was later on that I found out (through multiple phases of experimentation) that the people who made the good animations used either Sony Vegas or Adobe Flash - I chose to use Sony Vegas and have used it ever since. Over time, I was able to improve my animation skills by meeting new friends in the community whom shared their knowledge and inspired me to push myself even further. 5 years later, I was doing the same animations but on a whole other level.
Unfortunately with the changing YouTube climate and people moving on, the animation community got smaller and smaller, and soon I left as well. My love for creating animation projects and well edited videos didn't change however and I was able to use these skills in other areas of my life. I wanted to share the last few videos that I created while I was in this community to hopefully share the good vibes and to encourage others to learn a new daunting skill because you will never know how much you will enjoy it.
P.S. Also keep in mind that I was 12-16 when I made these videos so they might be a little cringy.
Special Note: Since animations like these took a lot of effort and a long time to make, they are typically very short. To combat how short the content is, I joined a coalition of other animators (called NeotericStudios) to create longer videos by dividing the content into individual parts that would be joined together at the end. While I was a part of this coalition, I also did some freelance animation parts on the side offered by other creators.
In the selection of videos below, I have sprinkled my own animations along with collaboration animations I was a part of (my handle is iSilverRays, so look for my handle in the collaboration video descriptions to get the part that I animated). Hope you enjoy!
Otherwise, thanks for dropping by!
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| Date Published | Affiliation | Program(s) Used | Hours Used |
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| 27 December, 2018 | Ada's Team | Vegas Pro 11 | 5 |
This video was created as a recap of the events that occurred at the 2018 Canadian Celebration for Women in Computing (CAN-CWiC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Ada's Team (a student group at the University of Alberta focused on promoting diversity) was able to fund 11 students to go to this conference and this video was used to showcase to the sponsors a little snippet of the event and what they were funding along with being a promotional video for students to attend next year. The video was accompanied by a presentation of the participants sharing their personal experiences on how attending the event impacted their lives.
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| Date Published | Affiliation | Program(s) Used | Hours Used |
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| 4 Oct, 2018 | Ada's Team | Vegas Pro 11 | 10 |
This video was created as a recap of the events that occurred at the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration conference in Houston, Texas. Ada's Team (a student group at the University of Alberta focused on promoting diversity) was able to fund 9 students to go to this conference and this video was used to showcase to the sponsors a little snippet of the event and what they were funding along with being a promotional video for students to attend next year. The video was accompanied by a presentation of the participants sharing their personal experiences on how attending the event impacted their lives.
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| Date Published | Affiliation | Program(s) Used | Hours Used |
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| 26 Oct, 2017 | PSI | Vegas Pro 11, Paint.net | 20 |
This video was created as an introductory video for the Public Science Institute (NGO aimed at promoting science). The video outlines what the Public Science Institute (PSI) is along with what they do and serves the purpose of being the first line of contact between the public and the PSI group - the video is used during presentations to schools, events and can be seen on the homepage of their website.
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| Date Published | Affiliation | Program(s) Used | Hours Used |
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| 11 May, 2017 | PSI | After Effects 6, Vegas Pro 11, Photoshop, Paint.net | 150 |
This video was created as an educational narrative about the science behind vaccinations geared towards a younger audience. The purpose of the video is to educate kids about how vaccinations work from a scientific point of view whilst also providing tips on how to overcome the fear of needles.
