40. my trip to Mexico and how I became a capcut wizard

 40. my trip to mexico and how i became a capcut wizard


okay, so I MAYYY have click-baited you a little. Doesn’t every successful micro-internet celebrity at some point? (I have 2 views on my last blog post.)

 

but the Mexico part is true! Now, if you’re some kind of weird, talented hacker who has been tracking my location based on my blog posts, you may be wondering what the heck was up with the period of time when I was posting from Mexico. Well, creepy friend of mine, I went back home for a week to celebrate my cousin’s graduation from her career! In Mexico, we study specifically for our career, for 4 years, instead of the multiple degrees we have here in the states. And when you graduate from your career, you get a prom! The only one you’ll ever have, lol. You can invite family, too, so that’s how I ended up over there.

 

And I know you’re probably thinking “how does this relate to becoming a wizard for a video-editing app?” so I won’t bore you much longer with the technicalities and personal details. Basically, the beautiful woman who gave me life has this tendency to ask me to take a video of literally every single event we go to. So, no surprise when she began bugging me as soon as we were sat at our table. And, being the most sweetest daughter I am, I obliged. However, my mother had a request. She wanted me to make it pretty, and add some music in the background of the video. Which leads me to… Capcut.

 

I’ve used Capcut a couple times before, back when I was a wannabe gacha life youtuber, or when I tried to make k-pop edits in like… 2018. So you would think no biggie, right?

 

No. it was a very big biggie, a hugie, one might say.

 

Somehow, I had forgotten how to operate anything on that cursed app, so I had to go about figuring it out. And I couldn’t exactly throw holy water on it and say a quick prayer, no I needed something stronger.

 

Youtube. So, there I sat at the party, busying myself with watching some fellow teenager explain to me how to navigate the app. And, with some encouragement in the form of sodas and yummy treats, I rose like a phoenix from the ashes of my failures. I swear, I felt like Dumbledore or something, how wise I suddenly grew. But anyway, the moral of the story here is that there’s always room to improve, and its okay to forget things, as long as you’re willing to learn again. And, in case you’re curious, here’s the video.


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