Alright y’all, let’s break down how I put together that Dwight Howard Atlanta highlights reel. Started last Tuesday night after digging through my old external drives – swear that thing sounds like a lawnmower booting up. Found my Hawks game folder gathering digital dust since 2017.
The Game Hunt
First mission was picking which games deserved spots. Watched every single minute Dwight played for Atlanta while chugging cheap energy drinks. Took three whole nights because my laptop kept overheating – had to put ice packs under it like some ghetto cooling system. Settled on four bangers:
- That Miami heat game where he grabbed like 20 boards while sweating through his jersey in five minutes
- The Toronto overtime thriller where he posterized three dudes back-to-back
- Charlotte playoff game with the meanest blocked shots ever
- His last Hawks appearance – kinda sad but dude balled out
Editing Nightmare
Tried using that free editing software everyone recommends. Total disaster. Crashed four times after I’d already spliced his best dunks together. Threw my mouse across the room – poor Logitech didn’t deserve that. Finally dusted off my nephew’s cracked Vegas Pro version. Spent eight hours straight just syncing dunk sounds with bass drops until my eyeballs felt fried.
Pro tip: never try color-correcting old ESPN footage at 3AM. Made Howard’s skin look either radioactive orange or Smurf blue before fixing it.
Audio Drama
Wanted raw commentary but the original audio had announcers slurping coffee mid-play. Found this kid on Reddit with clean arena recordings – sent him $20 via CashApp for like ten games worth. Still had to manually mute all the cuss words when Howard got fouled. Dude drops F-bombs louder than his dunks.
The Final Stretch
Upload took forever with my garbage internet. Hit refresh on YouTube studio fifty times waiting for HD processing. When comments started popping up I nearly cried – some dude recognized the exact rebound sequence from the Raptors game that I thought nobody remembered.
Lesson learned: always back up project files BEFORE your cat steps on the power strip. Rip two hours of alley-oop edits.
