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I joined my friend's birthday in China and let an AI agent edit the whole trip 🎂🇨🇳
Primary effect: Bar reveal. Horizontal bars slide in and pull the daytime Guangzhou street over the night flight shot, right as the plane lands.
Starting footage: 94 phone clips from my trip, from Jessore to Dhaka, a night flight to Guangzhou, a bullet train to Henan, my friend's office, and his birthday dinner with his family. I trimmed them down to the best 60 before uploading them to invideo Editor.
What I asked the agent to do: I set up my timeline agent (I named it Luffy, One Piece fans will get it) and gave it the clips and the story order. Then I directed it in rounds:
- Build a rough cut. It moved the birthday to the front as the hook on its own, so the payoff became the opening.
- Add a travel track around 100 BPM and cut to the beat.
- Place markers on the key cuts and build a bar reveal on the landing shot.
- Add a shape flicker on the night city cuts.
- Add hand-drawn doodle spirals around the people at the dinner.
- Generate the X-ray shot.
What I refined myself:
- Tightened the birthday section by removing repeated table shots, and held the neon "Happy Birthday" sign longer before the toast.
- Changed the sketch effect. The first version covered the whole frame, so I asked for doodles only around the people.
- Added the text overlays by hand on the timeline.
Honest lesson: one 30-second AI generation ate all my credits halfway through 😅 Plan your credits before you go wild.
The full walkthrough video, from scrolling this feed to the final export, is attached. All effect building and the final edit happened in invideo Editor.
Thanks to InVideo and Contra for arranging this challenge it was a good experience using the InVideo editor.
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