David Vanevski
Your footage. Their attention. I am a video editor
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AI can generate it. But can you actually build it?
I made this transformation completely from scratch. No AI generation, no AI video, no shortcuts.
Just editing, compositing, tracking, VFX, patience and a stupid amount of time staring at keyframes.
And honestly, I think we're entering a weird era where having the right tool is becoming more common than actually knowing how to use it.
AI can give you an impressive result in seconds.
But when something breaks, the camera moves differently, the lighting changes, or the effect needs to behave exactly the way you imagined...
That's when you find out who actually knows the craft.
Made this one from myself into a Shinobi with Sharingan + Rinnegan.
What do you think? Is AI making people more creative, or just making it easier to look creative?
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MUSIC, BUT VISUAL
What does a song look like?
For this motion graphics piece, I treated the music as the visual direction — turning rhythm, energy and atmosphere into movement, typography and animated compositions.
Instead of simply putting visuals over a track, I built the animation around the feeling of the music, making the visuals react to its rhythm and create their own visual identity.
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THE MAN WHO NEVER BENT
Before the undefeated record, the championships, and the fame — there was a fighter shaped by discipline.
For this documentary intro, I wanted to build tension before information. Rather than immediately explaining who Khabib is, the edit gradually introduces his world through pacing, sound, archival footage and cinematic transitions.
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NOBODY OWES YOU ATTENTION
Attention isn't given.
It's earned.
This Reel explores a simple idea: nobody owes you their attention — so if you want someone to stop scrolling, you have to give them a reason.
I edited the piece around that idea itself: fast pacing, intentional cuts, visual emphasis and sound design designed to keep the viewer engaged from the first second to the last.
What I worked on:
Short-form video editing
Pacing & retention-focused cuts
Captions and kinetic typography
Sound design & music
Visual effects
Hook and storytelling structure
The irony was intentional:
a video about earning attention had to earn mine first.
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