A video processing system receives a user input, retrieves a video element, constructs a processed video element from the video element using the user input and delivers the processed video element for display. The user input identifies one or more portions of the video element and/or objects from the video element. The user input also identifies one or more visual effects. The video processing system applies the identified one or more visual effects to the identified portions and/or objects from the video element. Thus a processed video element is generated. In one embodiment, the video element is selected from multiple available video elements by a user using a video guide. The video processing system has a storage system for storing multiple video elements and a list of visual effects.