Seeing most editors are on twitter nowadays and the potential it has to bring you inbound leads of clients, I decided to join but ofcourse I don't have much people to connect to hahaha. So I'd love connect with you guys if you're there and create a good connection of editors.

Here's my profile link. https://x.com/LJhambani61004?t=vNAUTKixBtyBwXXd5OfFAQ&s=09

Hey guys, im currently an editor for a youtube channel with over 2 million subs. I get a paid a great wage (around 65000 take home a year) for roughly 60 hours of work a month. Hours are flexible and im a freelancer and the guy I work for is an amazing boss! But I was wondering if you guys could reccomend any side gigs or posibbly any commercial jobs i can work that wouldnt be a mindnumbing amount of work. My main goal is to just further my expertese in a different niche while making more money. I was thinking of applying to sports teams and their social media crews but am unsure about how that goes. Any inputs here guys? Last time ive asked for help you guys didnt dissapoint!

Hi! I would like to know and hear from other people opinions about being procrastinated while having ongoing work and always feeling boredom when you guys about to do the project.

As me, a fulltime freelance video editor keeps feeling that and overwhelming too fast when getting a job 1-2 and unable to finish the project before the deadline and have to pass it to someone else! Feeling frustrated and anxious at the same time because this type of behaviour.

Hello Everyone. I have edited a feature film on Davinci Resolve using standard proxy workflow. While exporting timeline for grading which is being carried out on a baselight system, I'm sending FCP 7 XML (V5) files.

But the conformist complaints about it's not coming properly and has a lot of time slippage issue.

I haven't used resolve's own speed ramp feature. At instances I have sclied the clip and then retimed the clip. So each individual clip has it's own speed in the XML metadata file. But still it is not translating as expected.

Secondly, I also tried importing the same XML in premiere pro. And yes the issue stay there too. I.e. if a clip on resolve timeline has speed set at 250. The same clip has speed 250.9 on premiere timeline. This causes the frames slippage by two and three and won't match with the reference video taken from Resolve.

Is there any other options/ work-arounds / workflow that I should try?

Thank You.

Hello,

I am editing my first feature at an industry standard and working with a senior colorist.. I just provided him with the first AAF of our Fine Cut and all my scaling & position adjustments have failed to import into Resolve:

"Effect type 'Video Position' is not supported in this release. Plain clips will be imported."

There's also hundreds of instances of.. "Effect type 'Unknown effect' is not supported in this release. Plain clips will be imported." too.

Is there an alternative method in Premiere for position/scaling that is compatible with Resolve?

Thank you!

So I recorded 2 videos, 20 minutes of 4K at 60FPS footage (20GB each). I honestly wish I lowered the quality before recording it, I underestimated how big the files would be. I NEED to get that footage to my PC asap so I can record more, storage space on my iphone has ran out cause of those 2 videos.

Uploading the videos on Google Photos is taking ages, is there any other way I could transfer it over faster?

Okay, this might be a hot take, and I'm definitely venting a little bit, but I AM genuinely curious to know... TLDR, is it common for editors to not have, or not be required to have basic computer skills, or are my expectations just too high?

I've been a post-supervisor for the past almost-decade. I built my first computer and downloaded adobe in 2001 at 17-years-old and began to teach myself editing at that point. I was working in production/post starting at 18, went to film school and got a film degree (working in post production that whole time) and haven't had a job unrelated to production/post since I graduated high-school.

So yeah, I know my expectations are high, but in the past 5 years it feels like 9/10 editors I work with don't know how to execute so many things that I feel like I had to learn just to feel confident in getting work in this industry. Things like basic file structure, how to import/relink media, how to login to servers and reconnect when connections fail, how to troubleshoot audio hardware outputs, how to clear and maintain their own caches, how to keep their computer hard drives from getting to full and halting their progress, how to iterate project files in premiere or productions, how to keep their project files organized after receiving a fully prepped and organized project file from an AE, how to find auto-saves, how to manage recovered auto-save files so they don't lose that work again, did I already say how to relink media?, how to relink media correctly when working with proxies, how to correctly import sequences and work from other projects without duplicating media, keeping media downloaded from other places stored with the project instead of in desktop/downloads/documents... I'm sure I could name more. But in 5 minutes of jsut brain-dumping, but of all of the things I just named, I could say that every editor I've worked with in the past 5+ years of post-supervising is guilty of more than one of these things and in some cased 5 or more of these things.

Again, might just need to vent here, but I do want to know from editors, if these are things that are commonly known or unknown, and whether or not it affects your work or ability to have work? And if for any reason you feel called out by this, I hope you know I should also say that in my position I spend a lot of time and effort trying to share as much of my knowledge and experience with others because my philosophy is definitely "if you teach a man to fish." So I don't expect everybody to know everything, but I get a little jaded (after the fact) when I have to jump on calls or sessions to troubleshoot basic things with editors making a day rate that is triple, sometimes quadruple what I made at points in my life when I was doing similar work that I often had to carry the creative AND technical burden of being an editor.

I am currently post-sup for a boutique production company in NYC and we work on everything from branded content, to digital series for Discovery networks, and independent feature films. And for context, some of my issues are with the hiring practices of certain productions.

Please let me know your thoughts based on your personal experiences as editors. And thank you for taking the time to listen to my rant.

Ok sorry if my question is stupid, but I just made my company buy a WeTransfer account because we will be requesting videos from people over christmas and while we are away we dont want any links to expire.

So my question is, if I am on a paid plan, and someone sends me a thing on WeTransfer, can I download it whenever?

Hey everyone,

I'm working on optimizing my workflow in Premiere with multi-camera editing and would love to get feedback from professionals on this process.

When I receive raw footage, it’s typically organized into separate folders (e.g., Intro, Middle, Outro), and within those folders, there are 5-6 different camera angles. The footage is usually shot in chronological order, but not always.

Here’s an example of how the cameras are used:

• Camera 1: Might be an extra camera that captures different angles or additional content throughout the video.
• Camera 2: Might be used as a fixed camera capturing one angle for an entire scene, but may also focus on a character in another shot.

The challenge is that since the footage is mixed between different scenes and shots, I can't just drop everything into a multi-camera sequence and sync it up. So, I’m looking for advice on how to approach this efficiently.

How would you suggest organizing and working with this kind of footage for multi-camera editing?

Having trouble doing this at 2:18 when he drags the multicam seq into the timeline and it shows the stacked clips. I've tried toggling the insert/overwrite button and holding option etc. Nothing seems to work.

System specs:

2.9 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i9

Premiere Pro V 24.5

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I'm about to buy a new machine and, within my budget, I'm still deciding between a Mac Mini with a M4 Pro with 20 core GPU and a Mac Studio with a M2 Max with 30 core GPU, all the other specs are equivalent, RAM, SSD and so on. I Do editing, basic color correction and some basic After Effects (although I'm trying to improve my AE game). Thank You.

Hey everyone, I’m about to start a feature film and would like update my M1 max Mac studio before I get started.

Is there anyone here using the latest version of media composer and on the latest OS? How is it working for you?

Thanks!

hi, so my editor works on resolve I work on premiere pro, I asked him for to FCP7 XML from Resolve so I can do some changes
When I import that XML, the clip name and file name is different, basically the path url has V1-0006_A001C028_241117_R1FH.mov & V1-0007_A006C004_241203_R1FH.mov like this prefixes has been added, so I am relinking manually..
how to solve?

So I'm an Adjunct Instructor and while I'm fairly confident I know the answer to this I cannot seem to find a straight forward answer.

My boss has asked for my opinion on replacing our editing machines in our lab because I'm pretty tech savvy, been building my own rigs for years etc.

But the quote he got for 21 computers comes with an RTX A5000.

Now I'm not an IT expert, but Adobe doesn't rely on the graphics all too much for alot of tasks (obviously it does on some especially GPU accelerated plugins), but isn't the RTX A5000 meant more for like Nuke, Maya and extreme computational cad and Dune style thinking software and would be a waste of money in computers with the heaviest software they will see being After Effects?

Wouldn't some 4080 ti's be more cost efficient? For computers running Adobe products and focusing that money on more ram and CPU?

Hey, I'm somewhat new to the avid and resolve pipeline and I've just done my first roundtrip however I've had some issues I'm not sure how to fix.

The initial process I went thought was Import media into resolve and transcode into mxfs for avid, I then created a timeline in avid and did my picture lock before exporting as an xml and putting that back into resolve for grading, however I've hit a roadblock where the mxfs aren't relinking to the original clips. My current workaround I've found is that I can individually link the clips via a left clip and relink, however when I do this it then turns the audio into the scratch. The solution I'm going with at the moment is just to mix all my dialogue and export it as a long track and then relink individually , however this isn't the most ideal thing for making changes in the future. Is there another solution to this problem or am I just a bit screwed for the moment. Thank you!

Hi fellow editors

I think Avid finally succeeded in pissing me off soo much that I have too leave them behind, and look at other options.

So too you that may not have lasted as long as me, do you have any good or bad experiences with working on shared projects with Davinci resolve project server, with larger amounts of projects and people involved? 50-100 projects, 5-8 editors(not in the same project at the same time).

Any insight are appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I’m on a pretty large feature documentary. The archival producer sent me this request when prepping the timeline for an EDL:

“Remove all synced audio from archival clips - leave only unsynced audio and just one track, delete duplicate audio tracks from unsynced audio.”

I’m not understanding synced vs unsynced when it comes to archival clips?

I have a client that is hoping to copy this 2D text animation for their video. Does anybody recognize this as a buyable Mogrt for premiere? Many thanks!

Is this Lacie d2 Professional (Seagate) drive reliable?

https://www.seagate.com/products/creative-pro/lacie-d2/

I'm searching for a good reliable editing hard drive in the 16-20TB range for around $500. I know there's probably more professional RAID or OWC ThunderBay solutions options, but that's much pricier.

TL/DR: I need help finding an external hard drive that is reliable and near the price of WD Elements 16TB drives ($280.00 USD) to use for project and footage archival.

Editing on Mac.

Currently have been using a series of 4 different WD Elements 16 TB external drives for archival purposes. However, the continue to produce "File System verify or repair failed (-69845)". I'm able to transfer the data to another WD Elements 16TB drive, reformat the old one, and create a duplicate, but within a few months it'll happen again to a different drive. Same song and dance again. I'm done trying to make these drives work as they continue to fail on me, but I have no clue what else to use.

Does anyone have a suggestion for reliable external drives for archival purposes that are more reliable than the WD Elements 16TB, but sticks around that price range ($280.00 USD)?

I went to open a production file but the only .prodset option there is the document version (not readable by premiere) l. I was able to open the production directly through premiere and when I 'reveal in finder' it just points me at that .prodset document which again I can't directly open in premiere. Anyone know how I can get back the actual .prodset file?

I always edit my client projects in Premiere Pro but sometimes I would like to give it the last 10% edge and do the final color grade of my videos in Resolve with something like Dehancer.

But since there is almost never a thing such as a "picture lock" for short form anymore, I am searching for a way to quickly send my clips over to Resolve without actually having to conform everything there. What current way is the best way if I use effects and time remap on my projects a lot?

Just wanted to warn everyone that relies on OMF that when exporting OMFs every audio clip is just the first audio clip repeated over and over. An AAF didn't seem to work either.

This has been reported on the Adobe site but not sure if its been acknowledged.

Im on Mac

OpenAI just released Sora to the public yesterday. I really don't know what to say about it as an editor, but I can definitely expect to be getting a lot of generated footage from clients so I figure it's good to just be aware of the tools.

Personally, I'm less interested in the generating from a prompt than the additional tools they added. A whole set of tools to extend video, generate from an image, create seamless loops, other things. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOXw6I10VTv8q5PPOsuECYDFqohnJqbYB

You'll have to have the $200/month plan to get 1080 clips up to 20 seconds. And there is a lot of weirdness even in their released demo shots. It's not production ready, but that doesn't mean it won't get requested or sent to us.

Here's the full release announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKVx2vyZOY

Just shot my first documentary and I'm working on it with 2 friends who will help me structure the story (really excited). But I do have a roadblock:

THE ROADBLOCK: How do I figure out an effective workflow for all of us to work on this? I'm very experienced with all editing softwares. At the moment I'm editing with DaVinci, and would consider making a local server within DaVinci and teaching them how to use it, so that they can leave comments in there, but this would require my computer to be on at all times and me teaching them how to use the software, so it's not ideal. I've researched Frame.io which seems like a great option that can integrate both with Premiere Pro (which I don't use as much anymore) and also DaVinci.

At the moment my free and temporary solution is to upload all of the interviews and talking head parts in a Google Drive, and they can leave comments there with what they think is most important to include (the B-Roll they don't need to see as much...I think). At the end, I definitely have creative control over the editing and storytelling, but need an effective workflow, so that they can leave comments and give their inputs. What do you think? Do you have any experience on working with others on a project like this? Any feedback is welcome!

Thinking of buying one of these two for video editing! On Best Buy, the M3 Pro base model sits at $2,300 with tax whereas with an education discount directly from Apple, the M4 Pro bass model sits at $2,600.

My OG budget was around $2,000, I’ve gone up to $2,300 for the M3 Pro, but is the $300 leap between the 3 and 4 worth it for the M4Pro?

I mostly currently edit short narrative and documentary films, music videos with effects, and hour-long live sessions of 4k footage, but also want to think about the future.

Any tips on a $2,300 CAD budget? Cheers:)

I’m 23, degree in film, and pretty much done trying to make a career out of video editing, lol. I’ve landed one internship since leaving college (June of ‘23), and no other luck since then. I know that continuing to try is an option, but I’ve also discovered that I just really don’t have a passion for video editing or production at all. I don’t know why I got a degree in film at all! I don’t even like watching movies!

Anyway, has anyone successfully made a career doing something different after getting a film degree/mostly having media related jobs? What do you do? Did any of your media skills help you? Do you regret trying to make a film career work?

Hey everyone,

I’m thinking of applying for a video editor/motion designer role at a marketing agency, and I could really use some advice on how to position myself and build a portfolio that stands out.

For context, my background:
I started learning Premiere and After Effects around 10 years ago to make some fun YouTube projects with my friends. I later went to film school, where I studied cinematography, but I still ended up taking editing classes and learned DaVinci Resolve, since we had to handle our own color grading.
After gaining some set experience as a camera/video assistant, I worked as a camera operator and editor at a casting studio, handling editing and basic retouching.

For various reasons, I had to quit that job, but at the moment, I wouldn't mind continuing to work as a video editor, even in less creative roles. When I saw some job openings in my area for video editors in marketing agencies, I thought it could be a good opportunity. Obviously, these job offers require a portfolio: my current plan is to build one using my film school shorts, maybe even creating two versions, one focused on editing and another showcasing motion design elements.

My main question is: Should I bother? Would this approach make sense, or do marketing agencies care only about who you’ve worked with rather than what you can actually do? Any tips would be much appreciated!

Just posting to see if others have had the same experience or not. I just received a very beautiful Glyph Technologies Blackbox PRO 44TB 2-Bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID Array with Hub (2 x 22TB) from B&H last week and plugged it all in... to find that DISK 1 was dead..

According to Glyph they test these drives before they are sent out, but I don't see how that's possible if the drive itself is DOA.

B&H told me to create the RMA for a replacement, which I am doing now. Will update with more information when the saga continues. In the meantime, it's hard to find other people who've had experiences with these products, so I'm hoping to hear from someone who has had a good experience and I just got a lemon (which I know happens).