I believe this idea came to me from a sudden spur of motivation to edit with MGS2, especially Raiden in that game! Aaaand this is my first AE edit in quiiitee a while!!
Currently playing MGS2 and it's definitely one of my favorites right now!
I had decided on finding some edit audio that someone else has already made, to make it easier for myself. I found this one through a compilation on YouTube, and at one point it was between this song and an edited audio of Art Gang Money. I had decided on this one, as the latter felt a bit too badass, but this game feels like it's more dark, mysterious, and has moments that feel like it's hinting towards an identity crisis. This song is also very dark and sad, so it captured the vibe of what i imagine Raiden to be feeling at points, or maybe how i see the game at points.
I had thought about replacing this song with an instrumental version, but i realized that that would take some more effort on my part to sync it to what i already had and slow it down just enough. So i decided to keep editing with this audio.

I decided quite early on that i wanted to use AE for this one. I wanted to befriend the program again (even if 1-2 months ago i needed to use it on a daily basis, basically), and i wanted to muster up the patience to watch some glitch tutorials that felt helpful to me.
It took a bit of effort to start working with the program again, but i got the hang of it again quick enough. As i was listening to the song, i knew i wanted to work with melty transitions and fades to black, and shape transitions. So i followed my ideas but deviated when i saw fit, and actually, this result ended up being better/more interesting than what i had in mind.
I really got into it and it was fun trying to think of ways to make the shape transition work. Took me about one day (the same day that i started this project on) to finish setting the clips and finish the part from 0:09-0:13 and the overlay in the bg and zoom out at 0:14. The rest I did and finished the next morning.

I also wanted to add some slightly cryptic text, like something that could describe the mission that Raiden has been put on. And in general i wanted the clips and the idea of this to ''pull on the heartstrings'' just a little bit.
Ah, and i added one short bit/transcript of a codec call from the game in the intro.
And then when i looped the edit, i wanted to try out an effect called ''posterize time''.

Ah and while making this, i learned about some tools/a plugin called ''EZ tools'', and so i downloaded that one and tried to get the hang of using it, and it was rather useful for some areas~

Had one small issue after rendering twice. This was the first render that succeeded, however, during the loop, there is a section that ''glitches'' into one of the clips of Raiden (it's just a static image of him entering the room) and that is not supposed to be there. This same image appears at the veeery end of this video too, which also isn't supposed to be there, but it's rather amusing lol
i tried to render a higher quality version and wanted to see if that could fix it, but no, that made it worse. In that render, the beginning also had weird glitches like this with other clips, but i didn't want to make the render any worse than this and i didn't want to render again. So here's this slightly lower quality, but comparably less glitchy render.
The render time itself wasn't bad. From what i recall it could have been like 22 minutes.

Overall I'm very happy with the result of this edit. Though i feel like the composition could have been better at points, it was really fun to make, so i think that, alone, is good enough too.

Oh oh right! and as for MGS2, waahh i really like this game! it's the next game i'm playing after MGR, and it's really interesting to see how Raiden once was. I find it very interesting to think to myself what exactly could have caused him to slowly develop into who he became in MGR. Well, one thing is that he hadn't lost his human body in this game yet, i think.
I'm really enjoying my experience with the game, and while it's hard to not get spoiled for it, this game iiisss 11 years old, so that is to be excepted.
Not too far into the game yet, but that's okay.

That is all i wanted to say! i really hope that y'all enjoy this, and have a very good day/night! ^^

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Song: [ Ссылка ] (audio edit credit to fyoaku)
Program: Adobe After Effects CC 2021
Media: Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
Time taken: 1 day

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Cutscene credit:
- AdamSpencer87 ([ Ссылка ])
- Gamer's Little Playground ([ Ссылка ])

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