Process

What I first did was I replayed Undertale while recording my progress using Camtasia, which took about five hours. Unfortunately, there were a couple issues: First, due to some issues with free memory on my computer, about an hour of footage didn't record at all. Second, I made a mistake in the game that stopped me from getting the preferred ending (Undertale is very choice based, and since I didn't make friends with one character soon enough, the king was killed by a flower. Shame on me). So I had to replay the entire game again, which worked better the second time around, thank goodness.

While I played the game, I made a list of songs to potentially use for the crack video. I settled on 41 songs that I thought could be effective. I had already downloaded some of these songs, and the rest were obtained using videograbby.com. I trimmed all the songs to obtain the section I wanted to use using mp3cut.net. Eventually I had a few videos containing my gameplay, but they were all an hour to four hours long. This prompted me to use QuickTime to create smaller snippets that Windows Movie Maker could handle, each being around thirty seconds to a minute long, though some that were compilations (Facebook Uh Oh Oh and Heathens) were around a half hour long. I used this software to trim the video down further and add in the music clip accordingly with correct timing. For some videos, I thought it best for comedic effect if the characters spoke for a bit before or after music played (Soldiers of Love, Why Can't We Be Friends, I'm a Joker, and Kiss the Girl), and for those I added audio files of the characters' speech sounds. 

Once I had all the clips, I made the static transition classic to crack videos using a static sound effect in the Undertale game files. The opening sound was used directly from the game as its opening title sequence. I arranged the clips in the same order that the scenes would appear in game, simulating the viewer experiencing the story of the game in a new way. The only time this couldn't happen was for the segment during which Facebook Uh Oh Oh plays, which was a mashup of characters using social media. For that, I placed it according to the first clip in that segment while keeping everything within it in order. I then ended the video with a character demanding an end to 'plaguing my life with incidental music,' which is taken directly from the game, and I thought made an extremely fitting ending.