Wednesday 28 February 2024

How I Created The Thumbnails For My 406 Economy Videos.

I have finally finished the 406 extreme economy mini series. To say this was a difficult video to edit would be an understatement. Very heavy on extra graphics throuout I have underestimated how long it's going to take me to finish it. I have not even intended this to be split into 3 separate videos and planned to release just 1 video, but the shear amount of time it took me to edit this changed my mind.

Thumbnail was also quite a journey, it started by a simple shot I pulled out from the video which looked very promising and clean.. and as you can see bellow I was keep adding to it until it became very convoluted mess.. Eventually I realized this and managed to cleaned it up, deleted all the extra elements with the mini map, even the 2000km text.. and was left with pretty clean image similar to the initial screenshot with just me, the car and 2 bubbles of text. I have also added a bit of artistic filter to the whole image which not sure will help the performace but I sure like the colours so I decided to go with it for the final version.. also made the font a bit bolder and zoomed in a little bit to make it bigger. The final full video will be released Tomorrow as a premiere.

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