Here I was, 8 years old and my dad bought the family computer. We had a work computer, but I wasn't allowed on that much. I watched my dad do videography and edit videos in Adobe and everything, so with an 8-year-old mindset, I looked up "video editor" in the Microsoft search thingy, there it was: Microsoft Photos, the easiest and most limited video editing software known to man. I loved it, mainly because we also had a webcam on the computer too. I would record myself doing dumb things with terrible acting, and then I would edit it.
Adding in explosions with the crazy 3D feature was amazing to me at the time! Oh boy, it had music presets too that synched your video clips with the music. I was obsessed with doing those videos anytime the computer was free. Then, when I got my hands on Paint 3D, which I surprisingly still use for a lot of my graphics. Oh boy, my videos were next level, with the coolest looking scribble artwork you've ever seen. And amazing Comic Sans designs no one could ever match to.
(In case you didn't know already, I'm being extremely sarcastic.) It was amazing for an 8-year-old to have this power, at least that's what it felt like. Being able to record stuff in the real world, drag and drop it onto a simple timeline anyone could use, and add text, music, and effects with the click of a button. Now let's fast-forward 2 years to 2020. Now I'm 10 years old, we've moved once, nearly 1,000 miles across the country too. And of course with moving, everything we ever owned was in $3 home depot boxes in the back of a semi-truck.
I didn't get back to video editing until about 3 months later. Which by then, the room the computer was in was quite small, and I was older, so the embarrassing webcam shenanigans were not continued. But there was hope I would reignite my spark, I found RPG Playground...
