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Editing Project

Hello! This is my new sideblog for my editing project, Lattice Edits.

So far, I have been doing DSMP (ETA: and now Lifesteal) video edits, mostly either taking one relevant lore scene or set of scenes from a much longer VOD or editing a long VOD where significant and insignificant or out-of-character interactions are interspersed to try to just get the most relevant parts. The primary purpose of this is to make it easier and more efficient to show things I or people I know think are interesting or important to others, and to make it easier to check what happened during those scenes.

I am new to this and not sure what the relevant tagging and other etiquette is; I am doing my best and open to feedback!

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(2023/04/16) - ItzSubz_ talks and thinks after meeting with Vitalasy

Apr 16, 2023:Subz has feelings about Vitalasy and Zam after talking with Vitalasy, who plans to put Zam in the prison. He stays in the area

I did edits/cuts of just everything in ItzSubz_'s 2023/04/16 Lifesteal S4 VODs, "First Quarter Moon" that was at all lore or lore-relevant or interestingly characterizing.

The first edit (13m) is Subz talking to himself and Vitalasy before the meeting, mostly just resource grinding.

The second edit (22m) is a simple cut of the meeting with Vitalasy, where Vitalasy says he wants to finish the prison to put Zam into it, and Subz has reservations and feelings but does not object, and then Vitalasy asks Subz to avenge him if he is killed in his upcoming meeting with Mapicc, Roshambo, Spoke, and Parrot. (This has almost complete overlap with Vitalasy's VOD, so I have it as a separate video to make assembling Eclipse Federation playlists with minimal overlap easier.)

The third edit (35m) is Subz having feelings about Vitalasy and Zam after the meeting, and reacting to Vitalasy getting bookbanned and not responding to his messages asking what to do.

The fourth edit (27m) is Subz mostly mining quartz and talking to Vitalasy and Zam and having feelings about all of their relationships, around the time of Vitalasy's prison podcast. At the end, he visits his own sign rooms and talks to chat about feeling like his relationships with Vitalasy and Zam are doomed.

The original VODs were 8h3m long; the edits total 1h38m long.

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I just finished and published this edit! It’s specifically a lore edit of the part of Tubbo’s first VOD after the exile verdict in which Tubbo and Dream played chess! (This is the same VOD as when Tubbo visits Logstedshire with Ghostbur and gets the Your Tommy compass, and talks about New L’Manburg treaties with Dream. I have the rest of it edited down here [link], but cut out most of the chess game because it was long and hard to follow.)

I added an overlay with a diagram of a chess board (made with the chess puzzle editor from the Apronus Online Chess Publishing Project [link]) to make it easier to follow what was going on in the game.

Thank you to this analysis post [link][alternate link, mobile with tags copied] by shrugofgod and dayables for drawing my attention to the characterization and symbolism in this chess match!

Under the cut is a (non-looping) gif of just the chess diagrams of the game.

They set up the board incorrectly, in two different ways, but catch that the white king and queen were swapped relative to the black ones and fix that early in the game. They each get one undo for blunders.

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Oh also, I don’t usually post about when I just cut the Dream SMP section of a longer VOD and post it (or the lore section of a much longer VOD when there’s a discrete difference), but I did recently cut to just the Dream SMP part of some Foolish VODs from this March, which had new Egg stuff and Sam Nook, and I am going to post about and link these, because the original VODs are less accessible. This was while Foolish was doing a lot of reacting to videos, especially Gordon Ramsey, and the VODs were taken down from the Internet Archive and blocked in many countries on YouTube.

These are everything that happened on the Dream SMP in those streams, not edited down at all for being lore:

March 7, 2022: Foolish gathers building supplies and talks to BadBoyHalo and Sam in chat. He finds Bad's new griefs at his summer home and complains. Bad and Sam Nook come in-person, and Foolish hires Nook to help him clean up the statue, and considers hiring for future work. (38m)

March 8, 2022: Foolish works on building DoozerHQ and finds a piece of growth that looks like blood vines from the Egg. (56m)

March 10, 2022: Foolish confronts BadBoyHalo about all the new Egg growth and hires Sam Nook for landscaping and to investigate the Egg. Bad and Foolish continue their prank war. (2h9m)

March 11, 2022: Foolish and Sam Nook investigate the blood vines at Doozer HQ, and elsewhere, and discover that the original Egg is not contained. Nook shows Foolish his moss and azalea farm, and Foolish worries about whether DreamXD would be opposed to the Egg. (58m)

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I’ve just finished and published this edit. It’s of Phil’s December 22, 2020 VOD, which was originally about 4.75 hours long and which I got down to about 2.75 hours, but which people might want to watch less of, depending on who all they’re interested in.

In this video, Philza is under house arrest and builds a basement. Ghostbur has him pet-sit Friend and is anxious. Tubbo visits and makes him wear a curse of binding ankle monitor, and tries but fails to make him wear a matching helmet, while Ghostbur tries to help Phil and threatens Tubbo. Tubbo takes him to visit the guardian farm and then back to his house while tries to break his boots and messages Technoblade. Techno sneaks into his basement and fights Tubbo, and they escape together. They cure zombie villagers at Techno's snow house with Ranboo. They go back to New L'Manburg and have some more lighthearted fights with people who are around, for content, and then Techno shows Phil his wither skull room.

However, this video has wildly mixed levels of people being in character. The first ~50 minutes have everyone solidly in character, but then Ghostbur logs off and cc!Wilbur stays in call, but still affects the things that happen. Tubbo spends a while going in and out of character while showing the guardian farm, but Phil stays in character the whole time, while messaging Techno. cc!Tommy joins vc and also affects the plot, especially by accidentally distracting Tubbo from Phil’s escape attempts. Near the end, there’s some lighthearted filler content violence, except it also has Fundy having characterizing interactions with Phil and Techno about the house arrest and attempted murder. Depending on what characters and types of interactions you are interested in, I would recommend checking the timestamps to decide which parts of that you might actually want to watch, although the first 50 minutes are pretty solidly in character.

Also before people joined vc, Phil had a lot of interactions with other characters in chat, while leaving text-to-speech donations on. I did my best to mute them where I could, because I found that they sometimes led to confusion about whether the plot happening was in the audio channel or just the text onscreen. I’ve also started trying to zoom in on chat (leaving faces visible) more often when important things are happening there, because at default size, it can be pretty illegible when someone is watching at low-resolution because of bad internet or not enough storage space. I did leave the voice call unmuted when there was distracted out-of-character conversation happening aloud and secret in-character conversation happening over chat, because the voice conversation was important context for the success of the secrecy.

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This is a bit belated an announcement compared to when I uploaded, but I spent a while doing a sequence of editing VODs down from early New L’Manburg. This was the first, from November 17, 2020.

This was a really exciting video to edit down, and I don’t think I could’ve reasonably edited it shorter. It’s got some really sparkly stuff in it.

The background activity for most of this is cleaning up the debris from Manburg’s destruction and recalling things that happened there.

This (literally the day after Nov 16!!) is the day Quackity first proposes the butcher army! To both Tubbo and Fundy. Tubbo doesn’t accept the proposal until the exile verdict, but it was proposed really soon after! (Also of note although not visible from Tubbo’s POV: Quackity gets engaged to Karl and Sapnap the same day) Fundy is onboard with this plan basically immediately, after it’s pointed out to him that he is an orphan. In general there’s a lot of conversation between Tubbo and Quackity and Fundy about whether to try to be peaceful and avoid provoking enemies while rebuilding.

Later, Ghostbur joins the server for the first time! He’s very clearly a ghost and not unambiguously the same person as Alivebur, but he doesn’t have a new name yet. This is the first time he’s introduced, and he’s very clearly having particularly erratic memory issues. Fundy has a conversation with him and has a lot of feelings about being orphaned now, and Ghostbur talks to everyone there about a few different versions of what his experience of death was like. Also they sing the anthem, and teach it to Quackity. Most people there agree that Wilbur is probably in hell.

Puffy joins and talks to people. Tommy talks privately to Tubbo about finding out (from reddit) that Tubbo suspected him of being the traitor, and gives him Mellohi to show that he still trusts Tubbo.

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I edited down ConnorEatsPants’s recent VODs from May 21, 2022. I left in literally everything where anything of note other than the passage of time was happening, and got it down to a bit under two hours from about five and a half hours.

Honestly it was some kind of an Experience to watch the whole thing at 4x speed.

In this video, Connor stood on Eret’s tower with nice shaders, and sometimes looked around a little bit. He had TTS donos on and did not seem to be moderating his chat. He briefly did not have mediashare disabled and this caused some audio to play. People did a fair amount of walking up to Connor’s unmoving body and doing weird things in front of him while he was mostly-afk. Some people were chasing each other around in the distance, also.

Fundy walked up to him and built and then fell off a partial bridge, which he later destroyed by hand. BadBoyHalo, Sapnap, and Dream fought each other near him and placed some signs talking to him or his chat. They eventually mostly wandered off, but BadBoyHalo remained, occasionally placing quirky signs. Eventually he also made himself an invisible platform of barrier blocks and showed off some op powers. Antfrost showed up and joined him in this.

In his third stream, he came back a few hours after the second stream crashed, and walked around and talked about what he’d been doing, and confirmed that it was all canonical to the server.

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Finally finished this video, an editing down of Foolish’s June 6, 2022 VOD "WORKING ON HANGING GARDENS THEN WORKING ON PARKOUR THEN WORKING ON REMAINING CALM WHILE DOING PARKOUR!" to the most plot/lore-relevant parts that were on the DSMP.

This included building (... collecting resources for) a tree with SAM NOOK (!!!!!!), being informed that he was out of immortality by DreamXD and would have to do some murders, attempting to murder Sam Nook, and also talking to Dream and Sam when they showed up at his base. Foolish also does a lot of privately monologuing, considering murder, and trying to figure out what is going on in the world.

I edited down a lot of Foolish’s building and gathering resources and talking to chat, but I kept in the parts where he was saying things or taking actions that seemed most interestingly revealing of his thoughts, and also I left in a lot of his conversations with Sam Nook. I kept the entire section with Dream and Sam because it was lore-dense enough to not be worth trying to edit down. (I did also do a much simpler cut of just that section of it, for a friend’s lore playlist, [link])

The original VOD was about 8.5 hours, of which about 6.25 were on the DSMP, and I got it down to about 2.25 hours, about 50 minutes of which were the interaction with Dream and Sam, and about 85 minutes of which were other interactions.

Honestly probably if I were made of sterner stuff I would have tried to cut down the privately talking to himself about DreamXD and murder a bit more, and would probably have cut down some of the less-subtext-laden interactions with Sam Nook, but they were imo at least all interesting, and I did include timestamps for the major sections.

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Just published this video, December 15 2020, as part of my sequence of edited-down Tubbo VODs from exile era. (I haven’t yet posted about the backlog on Tumblr.) Got it down to 20:55, from the original length of 2:52:05.

In this video, basically everything important is just Tubbo, Sam, and Ranboo talking while they work on the Guardian Farm. This was the day before the Butcher Army went to go try to kill Technoblade, but the only real hint of that was that Sam mentioned a few times that he thought they should respect Techno more, and that Tubbo and Sam discussed feeling like Techno celebrating in chat every time he noncanonically dies makes it feel like Techno wants him dead.

Also of interest: Tubbo and Sam continue to disagree about the ethics of killing mobs; Tubbo is confused by his chat’s emotional Attachment to random slimes and tries to have just one as a pet so that they can kill the rest without upsetting his chat. Ranboo wants to run for president in February 2021, and Sam thinks he should be ready to run for president earlier just in case, because L’Manberg goes through presidents pretty quickly. Sam is really really secretive about the prison redstone. Tubbo keeps getting annoyed with Sam and Ranboo for not being helpful enough, even though they are objectively being extremely helpful, because he’s just been really irritable lately for no reason obvious to him.

For the first time ever I had to (“had to”, nobody but me is making me do this) include a flashback to a bit of a previous VOD. it wasn’t anything major, but it was really interesting to me, and I hadn’t included it in my edit of that day’s VOD because it didn’t seem significant at the time. In this stream, Sam complained about the nether roof ice boat path having some sections patched with dirt and cobblestone, and asked who would be so irresponsible, and Tubbo deflected the question by saying that the bridge is just generally not in good condition (“in absolute tatters”). This would be pretty unremarkable except that Dream specifically mentioned to Tubbo during Tubbo’s December 11 2020 stream that he had patched it. I think it’s really interesting that Tubbo knew that and didn’t tell Sam.

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This is a cut of Tubbo's Dream SMP VOD "Dream SMP | Manburg Festival Seting Up!" on October 13, 2020, originally streamed on Tubbo’s twitch, cut taken from the archived version.

This stream was shortly before the Manburg festival (October 16, 2020). Tubbo and Karl work on festival decorations and Wilbur joins their call to talk about thinking Pogtopia is the side of villains (and Tubbo is so proud of his festival decorations and wants to tell Wilbur about them). After Karl leaves, Wilbur tells Tubbo about the TNT under Manburg, and his plans to blow it up at the festival.

I’ve seen this relevant to conversations but couldn’t find this particular set of scenes available separate from the longer (2:39:00) video. I think this is a really interesting interaction for seeing Tubbo and Wilbur’s relationship, and where they’re both mentally at during this time period.