“video-editing” is a very modern phenomena. “film” has existed for a long time, but it was by definition a series, any series, of pictures that conveyed a story. captured through camera, drawn through animation or whatever.

Edited videos are its evolution, but still somehow, very different. The focus of “video-editing” isn’t on on the timeline, but the canvas: images are placed on any of its parts, either cleanly in grids or overlapping, as a series of moving pictures or still, and for any duration of time.

But unlike film which had one dimension, the timeline, video-editing has two:

the timeline… and now, the canvas.

and it is that exponential explosion of creative possibilities which has led into the art form we know as video-editing today.

And that art-form I tried to experiment with to learn, how much of it can be a repeatable workflow edited by Claude, and how much of it completely original.

I should mention that my theory on this is my own. Actually original. I intentionally block out and avoid research when theorizing or thinking deeply, to avoid polluting my headspace with ideas only occurring as a result of external reinforcement.

theory is complete. So we begin.

How the original footage was transformed

    I don’t know what to say after. I don’t have the energy to complete this article, so it’s time to publish and move on. Maybe later I will come back and tie together the pieces left untied.