Zach King
Zach King
Hi friends, my kids keep watching Zach King videos on the tablet, they love it, so I thought why not tell me about this magician who uses video editing to perfection. It is indeed nice to watch his videos and he has a sense of humor.
Zach King is born February 4, 1990. He is an American Vine star (Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch), filmmaker and YouTube personality based in Los Angeles.
He is most known for his "magic vines", six-second videos digitally edited to look as if he is doing magic.
He calls his videos "digital sleight of hand".
He began posting videos on YouTube in 2008 and in 2013 he started posting videos to Vine.
King won the Hewlett-Packard commercial contest in 2010, and got a trip to the red carpet at the London Film Festival. In 2013, he won YouTube's NextUp Creators contest.
Early life
King was born and raised in Portland, Oregon.
He is of half Chinese descent from his paternal side, one quarter Austrian and one quarter Nicaraguan descent from his maternal side. He made his first film when he was seven using a home video camera.
The Biola University graduate got his start in filmmaking at the age of 7 when his parents gave him an old Canon camera. He later upgraded, toying with various mini DVD cameras and teaching himself about the craft.
“I remember reading all the manuals over and over, learning what aperture and ISO meant and all the different buttons,” King says. “I was definitely using those buttons wrong until very recently.”
When he was fourteen, he purchased video equipment including a Mac computer, cameras as well as a tripod and started making and editing videos.
he was 16, King’s grandpa planned on getting him an old beater car. Instead, the ambitious teen asked for a Mac computer and got Final Cut to learn how to edit film. He learned the program via online tutorials.
While at Biola, King got a scholarship at the music school to study classical piano. He grew up playing the instrument three to five hours a day. But eventually he began enrolling in film classes, unable to shake his love for the camera. He wasn’t officially a film major until his last week at the university.
As for his team, it’s made up of two guys he met in film school along with two guys he knew from his past life as a musician. When creating his videos that border on the line of sorcery, the team starts off with brainstorming.
“I’ll bring up an idea or theme like, ‘Hey, guys, let’s work on a video about a childhood fear.’ That’s where we got those ideas like getting sucked up into a vacuum or cracking open an egg and there being a chick Inside.”
He graduated from Biola University with a Cinema and Media Arts Major in December 2012.
Career
King started his website, FinalCutKing.com in 2008, to offer training and tips about using the editing software Final Cut Pro as he was unable to find tutorials for the software on the Internet.
At the same time, he started using his YouTube channel to give tutorials for visual effects using the Software. After gaining an audience for his website, he began selling training seminars and used the money to pay for his college.
In 2011, he posted a video titled Jedi Kittens on YouTube that he produced with a college friend. The video showed two cats fighting with lightsabers. The video gained over a million views in three days and went on to have over 14 million views.
A sequel of the video titled Jedi Kittens Strike Back gained over 17 million views. A third part of the video, Jedi Kittens with Force was posted in 2014. King's official YouTube channel is FinalCutKing.
He was named by YouTube as one of the 25 most promising young film-makers in America in May 2013. YouTube awarded King $35,000 as well as a trip to New York City for a four-day YouTube Creator Camp. His submission to the contest was titled Contest Entry Gone Wrong. In the video, he appeared to dodge an assault by airstrikes and ground fire as he pleaded his case to be selected for the YouTube award.
Vines
King made his account on Vine on September 9, 2013, when he saw that many of his friends had an account on the social media website. After creating an account on Vine, he decided to create one Vine each day for the next thirty days. After the success of his first few Vines, he decided to continue with creating and posting new Vines.
He appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on January 29, 2014. And made several Vines with the crew of the show.
As of 2014, King creates Vine videos for a living and works out of his garage.
In an interview with The Independent, he said that he would want to direct feature films, preferably action-adventure movies, in the future.
In an interview, Zach said that producing a Vine usually takes upwards of 24 hours, with three to four hours of filming.
Yes he is a really genius. The very first time when i watched his videos i could not believe in my eyes.
he has done well using visual effect and cool editing to make some of his videos look so real, i like his vids and a big follower of his work
amazing video king of magician Zach good shearing @lndesta120282
Zach King is the Shiz!
I did not know this person :) it may sound strange, but it's because we have different coverage areas and different languages, in the Russian YouTube absolutely different people.
But after reading your article, I admire this person and must necessarily post his content.
Thank you @Indesta120282
Wow what program do you use to edit this videos? they are amazing bro
Incredible.sucha a wonderful.thanks for sharing with us.keep it up
I know how you did the one with the water bottle :P
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this guy is crazy, I see every video that goes up and I'm always impressed, you always get new things that people just say wuaaaoooo