NEW WORK: Squid Game: Season 2 | Global Fan Theories With Cast

I had so much fun working on this promo for Netflix over the summer.

It was the perfect excuse to dive deep into Squid Game Season 1 last July, and I found the series both delightful and surprising, even though I already knew all its twists and turns.


This Korean version is new to me because I only worked on the English version above. Ha

I look forward to share more Squid Game Season 2 promos to come, as we draw near to its debut on December 26th.


Hey, Netflix just dropped the teaser for the second season of Squid Game!

What's coming in Premiere Pro 2025(!)

Not to be outdone by the recent release of DaVinci Resolve 19, Adobe is showcasing its latest updates & features for upcoming Premiere Pro 2025(!).

It’s great to see that some of the Davinci Resolve features have made into Premiere Pro, like a crop tool as a part of clip properties, instead of applying an effect. Competition is beautiful thing.

I was apprehensive about this emphasis on color management in Premiere Pro until I learned that Alexis Van Hurkman worked on it. If you are unfamiliar with his works, his book is a must-read for any colorists.

Premiere Pro v24.3 is out (& AI preview!)

Adobe released new version of Premiere Pro and Premiere Gal did an excellent overview of its new features, as always.

However, Adobe seems to be more interested in teasing the Generative AI-everyone’s favorite tech buzzword, similar to what it did within Photoshop.

The demo looks promising, but will it be production ready? If you used the generative fill of Photoshop as of today, you know the answer.

It may be good enough initially as an ideation, a preview, or a quick fix for minor issues that required time or money. Generative AI is ultimately another tool in visual effects, but people seems to struggle with the idea of it, let alone define its usage beyond generating pretty images that look almost real. (uncanny valley, anyone?) More time & money is required for the development of this technology, more than the adoption at this stage in my opinion.

On a related note, I always thought that morph cut was a generative AI function; it is creating frames where there were none. And it waddles in the morally gray area like creating a Frankenbite, especially in documentaries, but not many seems to be bothered by it. I foresee this will happen with the generative AI when it’s more widely adapted and used.

In conclusion, we’re entering a whole new world/era of visual storytelling where you can’t be certain the image you see is 100% real, just like when Photoshop was introduced decades ago.

How Animated Movies Are Edited (featuring Batman)

Editor Andy Young presents informative & hilarious takes on how he utilized Adobe Productions for Premiere Pro to edit the feature animation, Merry Little Batman. It’s a must-watch if you are an editor aspiring to edit animations like yours truly.

I’m little surprised that he didn’t mention other Adobe programs like Photoshop or After Effects, that are often cited as another strong consideration to edit in Premiere Pro, thanks to Dynamic Link.

However, his interview on editing Harley Quinn season 3 do mention them, so he may have left that out in this presentation to focus on the editing parts.

Editing Billions Club featuring Jung Kook episode #TimelineTuesday

As you may know, I edited the latest episode of Billions Club: The Series, featuring Jung Kook for Spotify recently. This was a fun editing experience that posed interesting challenges because it’s a 9x16, vertical video. (I haven’t worked on this format for awhile, despite its popularity on Instagram, TikTok, Youtube Shorts, etc.)

So it’s my pleasure to share my first #TimelineTuesday of 2024, below.

The final Premiere Pro timeline of Spotify | Billions Club: The Series featuring Jung Kook

I figured this timeline setup requires some context because it’s not just cuts of videos & audio.

  • V1: A solid red background to check if a video covered 9x16 frame. If not, blaring red will be obvious in a simple glance.

  • V4: An adjustment layer for the temp Alexa LUT. All the graphic elements sit above this track.

  • Top Track: English subtitle track. The entire dialogue is in Korean, so I translated & subtitled them. There were four tracks of Instagram & TikTok UI guides underneath the subtitle track to position subtitles as well as graphic elements. The guides were removed before the turnover to a colorist.


I knew that this will be the most popular video that I edited by far, and yet the numbers surprised me.

44.2 million views on Instagram in 2 weeks! (14.2 millions views on TikTok as of today, 01/02/2024)

Fun Fact: As I was working on the first cut of this episode, Lisa’s episode dropped and saw that it starts with the similar shot that I had at the moment; the star pops out from left side of the frame. Because Jung Kook was the next episode in the series, I couldn’t start the episode with that shot. Haha…

So the first shot is his thumbs up as you see now, and his entrance shots start later in the episode after establishing NYC shots. I used more of his thumbs up shots to indicate an end of segment-like a period to a sentence, but they were removed as it felt repetitive and redundant.


All in all, I look forward to more shots at editing 9x16, vertical videos, as well as more projects with K-Pop stars in 2024. Fighting!