Video editor and software developer. Focused on building high-performance web applications, video processing utilities, and creative tools for editors.
My Journey
It All Started with Kinemaster
My first editing app was Kinemaster. Back when YouTube was booming and everyone was rushing to become a YouTuber, I made Minecraft content and edited it in Kinemaster. Around the same time, when Musical.ly and TikTok were trending, I also tried slow-mo trends ala Video Star with Kinemaster — though I never uploaded any of it. Childhood trauma: I got bullied just for posting videos on IG, all I wanted was to express myself.
Transitions & Beat Drop Era
In 2019, transition editing — aka TCC — was booming. I started using CuteCut for transitions. It had no built-in motion tile, so I hacked around it with an Instagram-style grid app to make mirror grid photos as a motion tile effect. I used CapCut for simple stuff like school assignments, and even tried the jedag-jedug style (it was terrible). I also tried other apps like Funimate and Node Video. Node Video wasn't my thing because of its caching system, but Funimate? Loved it. A VideoStar-meets-CapCut combo — honestly powerful: a full effects and 3D library, plus proper 3D controls like 3D view, nulls, even cameras. Too bad on Android you can't import your own 3D models.
The Alight Motion Glory Days
Approaching 2020 — the corona era — I got into Alight Motion. Jedag-jedug edits on Alight Motion just looked way more proper than CapCut or Avee Player back then. I got my first 5k followers thanks to my Alight Motion edits, and yes, I had a bit of star syndrome — I was shocked I pulled 5k followers from such simple edits. One of the edits that blew up my account is this one. Ever seen it? Yep, that's my old edit haha
Potato Laptop & After Effects
Armed with a Lenovo S145-14AST laptop with 4GB of RAM (yep, you heard that right), I decided to move to After Effects. My first version was CC 2021 — the HEAVIEST version ever; even compared to CC 2022, 2021 remains the most absurdly heavy one. Honestly, I doubted I could edit in Ae at all — until I found out a lot of people used CS6, the lightest version, super smooth even on potato laptops. I just hated the RAM preview: waiting for everything to render before playing was so annoying. Eventually someone shared CC 2018 and I switched — and surprisingly it's super light, even lighter than Alight Motion on my Redmi 9.
I was still editing without plugins, since getting Sapphire back then was painfully hard — I didn't know about software from the high seas yet. My first plugin was Twixtor, and even that was a trial. Eventually I got my hands on every After Effects plugin through the piracy route lol.
Time went on and now I use a laptop with a processor that can actually handle After Effects. It's actually an MSI Modern 14 C11M, but my little brother really wanted a laptop for Roblox, so I bought an Axioo Hype 5 AMD and gave him my MSI. A downgrade? Whatever, as long as he's happy.
But decent hardware doesn't mean zero problems — besides crashes, I genuinely HATE people who sell plugins at insane prices. Fine if it's one-time payment, but this is a per-month subscription for tools that are literally just simple shortcuts. In my opinion, everyone — rich or poor — deserves to create without financial limits. That's why I built a plugin (well, an extension lol) called OpenFishTools.
It's 100% free and open source. And don't say "it'll become paid eventually" — nope, never. I'm not like that stingy red crab; these tools will be free forever. At most you'll see forked versions of it, or some random person on Shopee selling After Effects tools for like 10k lol.
