The Skyborne Movie

No, not an actual movie. You'll have to settle for this

An Introduction

The [Failed] Idea

This project started a long while back as an endeavor to create an edited masterpiece of clips from my, Rareform's, shadow replay collection. The problem that quickly arose, was the sheer amount of replay's stored on my drive and the amount of time it would take to sort through them all.

Windows Explorer showing 722 GB Folder

At first, I decided to sort through all of [what was then] one thousand and twenty-one files. How? Grab a PowerShell script to load them all into a giant Excel sheet of course.

The idea was to open each video and take some quick notes on its contents (who appeared in it, what was said, etc.), and group it into a potential video 'set'. These sets would then become different segments in the Skyborne Movie. As you might imagine this rather quickly became quite the tedious task, and I gave up about 370 videos in.

Very large excel sheet

So, I moved on to editing what I had sorted through, "learning" Adobe Premiere as I went. The early videos are quite clearly made by a novice, but would occasionally make up for it in the thought put into the assembly of different clips. As time went on and more clips piled up, and I started just editing them soon after they were captured, rarely piecing together clips that were not recorded on the same day.

The Product

All this work amounted to only a dozen or so edits (lol) with enough completion to be considered something worth watching. More were made, but some were lost between many a transition of HHDs on my machine over the years.

Editing all I had planned for would take too much time so instead you get this... a list of YouTube videos. Enjoy.


Here they all are, spliced into separate chunks and mixed with some explanatory lore...


1. Intro Sequence

I think this was rendered as a demo, but here you go, let's pretend it is a final product...

2. The OG Edits

Early edits, made with little style or grace... "He has no style, he has no grace."

2.1 Backwards Galleon (2:34) New

I think I didn't save enough clips from this one, so I kinda just threw a bunch of shit together and called it a video? It's a little long, and rather skip-worthy. It's more of a telling of the infamous Skyborne tale of the 'Backwards Galleon,' than it is an "edit".

2.2 MLG Pro Mortars (0:48) New

One of, if not the first edit I made for the Skyborne Movie.

2.3 Sundström Makes a Tier List (1:30) New

One of those "could get Sundstrom fired from his job" type videos. Please do not distribute to his employer as that would not be funny.

2.4 Rareform, Sundstrom, and Dmitrij play Age of Empires (3:18)

Rather than the usual problem of having too few replays, this time around I had too much footage. Recorded a full session of us playing AoE2, chopped it down into this simple edit.

3. I Take a Break and Learn How to Edit Videos (and Make Thumbnails)

IDK; I took a break. I came back. I learned how Adobe Premiere Pro worked. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


3.1 The SkBo Rank Each Other in Halo (0:28)

A very old-clip, with a mix of some old and new edits came together to make this one. Includes a rare audio-recording of an unknown Skyborne's voice.

3.2 Dmitrij Tries to Come Out (2:43) New

Title. This is a favorite of mine.

3.3 The SkBo Play Tabletop Simulator (6:15)

IIRC this one as a bitch to edit, as my push to talk would zoom me in on what I was hovering over, so I had to edit around chunks where I was talking and covering the screen, in order to make the video more watchable. Also, it was a long session and I only had a couple 1min 30sec clips to work with.

3.4 Dmitrij Being Dmitrij (2:51)

This one sprouted from the OG spreadsheet and actually contains a lot of compiled clips of Dmitrij doing his thing.

3.5 Pico Pico // Pico Park (10:18)

A video entitled "SkBo Game Night 1," as if there was ever a "SkBo Game Night 2". I had fun with the subtitle tracking in this one though.

3.6 A Fast SCS, and the Woes of Stardew Valley (3:52) New

Whipped up in a record-breaking two nights, this is a recent one that I quite like! It was originally going to be just the stardew content, but then I learned that Sundstrom had lost SCS.

3.7 Check the logs (0:45) New

A hastily (but not effortlessly) made re-edit of an old clip I rediscovered. IDK if it belongs here or further up with the old videos.

Outro

Yup. I might add more here in the future. Was going to make a credits sequence, but no. Hope you enjoyed.

While you're here, check out some essential Skyborne clips, or view the playlist for this page on "The Skyborne Movie" playlist.

Check out some random ass unedited clips that might have been for the Skyborne Movie in this unedited since 2019 playlist, here.