Cross dissolve aka fade is the best transition really, I use it 90% of the time. Cuts when you want to accentuate something, has to be perfectly synced to music. Linear wipe is also pretty good, if you can make it work. Really, the key to transitions is using just the basic ones but tweaking the settings until they're perfect, I would avoid all those fancy transitions with all sorts of weird effects that come with Premiere, or any editing software really, they are simply bad and it's usually the company trying to impress potential customers with the amount of transitions it comes with.

Of course there is more room for error with that, and yes he did do the safe thing, but doing the safe thing is not always doing the best thing. Well-made colours go such a long way to improve the watching experience imo, and people shouldn't be scared to experiment just because they might ruin the video if they do a bad job.

Actually really nice, the smooths have naf written all over them (not that it's a bad thing), flows really well most of the time. One aspect that could use improvement are the colours, a bit too basic and boring imo. Most of the jumps were on pretty looking maps too, so there was potential for great colours, oh well.

Dangerous Photoshoot is my personal favorite

You know on the topic of 2fort, maybe if Valve saw a competitive game on 2fort they would realize how bad the map is and potentially make tweaks (huge tweaks) that would make it an actually viable map? I know the chances are astronomical, but I like to be optimistic.

I feel like I explained this a million times already, the frag clips thread is meant for those kinds of videos with little to no editing where it's literally just a player dumping all his p-rec bookmarks into a video one after the other with his favorite song in the background. Edits take way more effort, somewhere around the level of effort needed to produce a frag movie, which is why I think they deserve their own thread.

Not to mention the frag clips thread exists so that there aren't 10 new threads a day of people posting their frag clips. However, as edits aren't really being posted that often there is no risk of the section getting spammed with them so there is no real reason to not make a thread for them, it actually helps the section be less dead if anything.

afaik it isn't. Valve is pushing the idea of everyone's game looking pretty much the same, which is why there is a much smaller difference between highest and lowest settings than in TF2 for example and there are also no real fps cofings, as setting everything to the lowest in the options menu is the lowest graphics you can really get.

no, just please no

Your diffusion settings aren't the best and i feel like you need more colour contrast too. Did you edit the fog? It feels like you did, especially on process it doesn't look that great. But yeah, i've noticed that people who don't know a lot about colours tend to use "too bright" or "too dark" as the only criticism whenever anything feels off to them. Just be aware of that, and don't just decrease brightness in your next edit because it won't solve anything.

Thanks! Glad to see so many people like it. (and so many osu players too haha)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY2RoK3mekU
Warning: It's meant to show off editing rather than the frags. If you don't like those kinds of videos, you won't like this one either.
I made a new thread because 5 months work on this, no hate pls. That aside, enjoy!

ikpure is king of smooths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgFYjpI2GM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfTsqfW41tU
and all his other videos basically

not tf2, but the smooths are really polished and the guy really knows how to make them flow together
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKlrHKYd790

Also can help with SFM if needed

I think you guys are definitely overestimating how much siN is making. I looked at my channel on the socialblade thing and compared my actual earnings with the estimates there and let's just say that the lowest number in the range is just a little bit more than what I actually earn. The highest number is just fantasy and in no way a realistic representation. siN is trying to make a living with YouTube and that is not easy. I miss his older videos as well, and I don't think uploading hacking was a good idea either, but I just wanna say that he is not bathing in money as some people here are suggesting.

Perhaps I should have made it clearer. What makes me sad is not the clean edited frag videos themselves, but rather when they are praised by the community for their editing, while videos that focus on the editing get hate and cheeky shitposts. I mean, take the movie that you posted as an example. Is it well edited? Yes it is. However, most of the editing is really basic in all aspects. Is this a problem? No, because it does it's job well and that is highlighting the frags. But is the editing amazing? Far from it. Whereas, this video for example is something that I can call amazingly edited. Does it highlight the frags well? Not as well as the one before I guess, but that's not the point of the video. Videos that highlight the frags have a different purpose than those that highlight the editing and comparing them is kind of stupid.

I'm late to the thread and about to be controversial too but oh well. For me it's all about the editing. I have seen hundreds of frags of all kind. They just don't impress me anymore, I don't go "woah, nice airshot" after seeing one for the 500th time. And I am sure there are people here who have seen 10 times as many frags as me and I am quite honestly surprised how is it fun watching them anymore for the sake of frags.

You might find the following cheesy, but w/e. I spent some time thinking whether frag videos could be called an art form and if yes, what kind. I came to the conclusion that frag videos definitely have many aspects of art, such as that the enjoyment differs based on the viewer's personal taste, but at the same time not anyone can edit well and a beginner editor's work is going to be unpolished and less enjoyable than that of an experienced editor. As for what kind of an art form it is, I think it can be very closely compared to dancing, where the editor is the choreographer. In other words, a dance performance and a frag video are both someone adjusting the movement of some people (dancers, fraggers) to fit into music.

That's why I enjoy solid flow, interesting colours and innovative effects all assembled to form a theme fitting with the music. Many here might and will find such works "overedited". I think that "overedited" is a meaningless term, as it basically says "you put too much effort into the editing", when what people really mean when saying that is "you made wrong choices in the editing process which made the video unenjoyable for me". And because just by saying something is overedited, you don't specify which choices you didn't like, the term is basically the same as "bad", or "lame" and others - 100% opinion, that you don't even properly explain. Also, the amount of effects used is also irrelevant. The way they are used is important. An editor can use only a single effect but make it so in-your-face that it ruins the whole video, but one can also use 15 effects in a single shot that are so subtle you're not even gonna notice them until the 5th time you watch it.

Of course even I have a limit and at some point I say that it's just too much, and I have no clue what's going on on the screen. But for some reason, my limit seems to be quite different from the rest of tf.tv and the movies that I see praised the most I would call basically fragshows/clip dumps with maxquality config and the occasional smooth. Little to no velocity editing, syncing only to the most dominant drops/beats in the song and colours that are limited to subtle brightness and contrast adjustments seem to be the formula for a 10/10 frag video in the standards of this community (provided that the frags are good and from high division competitive matches). This saddens me deeply as I see either editors afraid to get creative to avoid harsh criticism or creative editors getting underappreciated.

TL:DR; Pls don't make your videos follow the same barely-edited "clean look" formula that every tf2 community-praised frag video follows and actually get creative ffs even if it means "overediting"