Hello everyone,

I have a nooby question about video editing.

I’m using a 4-bay DS923+ NAS with 16TB of storage.

When I start a new project with a client:

1. I offload the video footage from the SD card directly to my NAS.
2. To begin video editing, I use Premiere Pro and edit directly from the files on my NAS (my MacBook is connected via 1Gbps Ethernet).

The problem:
->When I want to edit videos while traveling (on a train, in hotels), I can’t.
->When I try editing while connected to Wi-Fi (instead of Ethernet), I experience slowdowns.

Could you let me know how to handle this?

I’ve thought of this alternative workflow:

1. A client requests a project, let’s call it "Project A."
2. I offload the footage from the SD card for Project A to an SSD connected to my MacBook via USB-C.
3. I edit the project using the files stored on the SSD.
4. Once the project is finished, I transfer the footage for Project A back to the NAS and delete it from the SSD.

Two issues I see with this approach:

1. If I want to add old video footage from a previous project to "Project A" and I’m not home, I won’t be able to.
2. If in 6 months I want to modify "Project A," I won’t be able to because the files in Premiere Pro will no longer point to the SSD (it'll show me "Missing files").

Can you guys help me?

Thank you !

Do you guys have any good TV sizing tools you can share for sizing a display for client viewing in an edit suite?

I'm building out an commercial edit suite for hosting clients at a new location and wanted to just triple check with other industry pros whether I'm sizing it correctly and if there are any industry recommendations or rules of thumb I should follow.

The way we're setting up the room, the clients will be about 10-12ft from their client display. I'm thinking 65" OLED, but wondering if I should just push for larger because according to the calculators I've found online, they are saying I should go 85"-90" which seems pretty massive.

Here are some of the calculators I've used so far:

• RTING TV Size to Distance Calculator
• Inchcalculator.com
• Samsung TV Buying Guide

Thoughts?

I’ve been asked to create a presentation sizzle for a tech startup. Their product is a software as a service and they currently only have a white paper, meaning no working product, prototype or visuals for me to pull from. They are fine with creating something entirely out of graphics and mixing in a bit of stock/generated video. Has anyone created anything like this before? Or have any suggestions as to where I can go for inspiration? I plan on outsourcing the graphics to an animator.

I am thinking to get the intro course from Master the Workflow, since it is only 27 dollar and seems like I could learn a great deal on professional workflow and mindset for assistant editor.

I am wondering that if the Feature Film Assistant Editor Immersion is worth getting, since it is almost 1000 dollar. It seems like this course get more in depth and with practices than the intro course, and it also offers a referral database for people who complete the course.

Hence, I am wondering is it worth getting the Immersion course? How effective was the referral database, and if there is a cheaper alternative to learn and practice course to learn professional assistant editing workflow for feature and TV.

Also, I think I consider myself to be pretty familiar with Avid (shortcut, basic sound mixing tool/effect). However, I am interested in things on how professional prep/view dailies and build reels etc.

Thank you!

Hi - Hope everyone is doing well. Question – how can I label specific tracks in an audio file with names? The mixer did not do this and the editor would find it helpful. What metadata Editor can get this done while keeping the integrity and quality of the original clip intact? Thank you.

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Don't worry if you're not good at Discord. We're all learning.

To join: https://discord.gg/hhuZFq2PZZ - you have to verify with one of four other accounts.

This week we're going to do it on Friday at Noon (EST) and the topic is a discussion of Freelancing in real time - based on this wonderful post: https://www.reddit.com/r/editors/comments/1hgkdfr/starting_out_freelance_guide/

Direct event link https://discord.gg/rjy7urkc?event=1319013990671847545

We're thinking of having a virtual end-of-year hangout (likely on Zoom vs. Discord, where we can have breakout rooms, likely Friday the 27th at 9 pm EST (6 pm PST), and have a virtual beer before the end of the year. Interested? Let us know!

Hi Everyone,

I’m working on post-production for a feature film and trying to figure out the best workflow for scenes shot with 4-5 cameras rolling and 6 tracks of audio.

Multicam editing seems like it might be the way to go, but I’m unsure how to handle the 6 audio tracks effectively alongside it. Also, everything I’ve seen about multicam editing focuses on real-time editing, which doesn’t quite fit my needs since this is a fiction film, not live-to-tape. There are some real-time elements in the film, but I don't want to be locked into only that.

Can I use multicam editing to refine and edit out large chunks of material, or would I be better off with a different approach? I’m open to using either Premiere or DaVinci Resolve—whichever offers the smoothest workflow for this setup.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

Looking to see if someone has a magic solution I've yet to find.

For many years I've edited a music show for broadcast, and captions are always my struggle bus. Fortunately I have a great person who does captioning service for me - does it well, if anyone wants a recommendation. But there are times where I have to caption a song or two for immediate turnaround.

Auto transcription has improved dramatically for regular speech, but not even close for lyrics.

So here's what I need - a way to quickly and easily caption the lyrics I already have, timed out with the song. In a perfect world this is automated - here's the text of the lyrics, here's the song, line them up in captions format. Or I'd even be fine with manually attaching line by line, but what I currently have to do is go back and forth from document to editing program and copy paste one by one. My caption person delivers me SRT files, so that would be the ideal format but I'm flexible on that end. Thanks everyone!

Just want to rant but I'm getting really tired of being an editor. This is my 10th year and I finally feel very confident about my skillset and can really feel my career building well but lately, I'm really tired of how editors and post production folks are treated in general. I've had great collaborators before and my fair share of not so great collaborators but I'm tired of being a fixer for so many directors and barely getting recognition for all the work. Editors should be credited more especially since we generally re-write scripts whether it's in narrative or even commercials. I see so many directors that aren't talented but just got lucky to get their project made and hired really good crew. Anyways, anyone else make the switch out of editing? Should I try my hand seriously at directing? I've directed at least a handful of commercials/music videos and know the work isn't necessarily easier but at least I can own the work more. Not to mention the payment in editing is always less even though we're glued to the chair at least 10 hours a day. Thanks for listening to my rant, maybe I'm just getting more sensitive the older I get and feeling more left out when I work on bigger projects. I'd love to hear from others who still find excitement in editing after 10 years, or who have made the switch from editing to directing. I'm feeling really down about editing even though on paper I'm fairly successful.

not sure if this is the best place to ask but i wanted to make a quick video for my friends and while im editing, the previw shows the cuts perfectly fine if i have proxy on. the problem also happens when i export the video, the jump cuts do this weird freezing frame thing until it catches up. i tried playing with resolutions, frame reate, format but everytime it does the same thing. is it the editing software or my pc? this is the full video (parts like 1:03 and 2:05) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j8tIA_k7LA (pls dont judge, im not a profesional editor/ content creator)

When editing live speeches (like ted talks or comedy) does anyone have any tips for cutting to the audience. It's like its always awkward. One shot is too little and two shots look terrible together. What do you think?

Especially when what's considered "mainstream" content these days is a video of a guy commenting on a guy discussing a controversy involving a guy whose profession is to comment on guys who watch other guys play video games.

How is everyone ripping all this video from Twitch and Youtube etc. Do you just have to pony up and buy actual ripping software? Or are there still any good free web services that don't try to put porn and viruses on your computer? (YT5s was pretty bad already, everything I can find now is even sketchier/doesn't even work at all)

Hello, my name is Alex. I am a 23 year old based in the Inland Empire.

I am currently an editor for a non profit organization and have cut many things for the org. Including: political ads, short form advertisements, interviews, and more. I work mainly as a volunteer for this non profit, and I don't bring in much money as a result.

The lack of money has caused great strain on my personal relationships, and I have been officially unemployed since late October (besides from the small gigs I get from the org). Because of this, I am having doubts upon myself as making it in the post production field.

However, I feel like I have built my background as a strong editor for this organization and I have even been seen as an asset for them as well. I also acted as a runner on their bigger projects and have some PA experience. I have been able to network with them and really show off my skills as a editor who can quickly turn around projects, and as an editor that can handle various projects from different projects at the same time.

Regardless, I am hoping that I can start my career at a post house as a PA starting 2025. I still want to go through the "Traditional" route of working your way up as a Post PA as I had an internship at the beginning of the year and got to witness the chain of command.

I still have a looming questions in the back of my mind. Is this all for nothing, and if I should call it quits?

I have seen various posts about people being laid off left and right, many people leaving the industry entirely, and really no signs of hope. I witnessed how terrible things were getting in this industry too during my internship.

I am still young, and most people around me are pressuring me to find something else to do. Should I listen to them, or should I stick with the hope that things will (hopefully) get better next year?

Thanks for letting me speak,
-Alex

Context: I freelance, I have a few recurring clients, and most of my work is one man jobs, so I rarely find myself in highly collaborative environments. Recently I assisted an Editor in a bigger project with assets creations, such as graphics, texts, and roll credits. I haven't used Avid in a long time, but that's all he works with and he said he could not export footage with alpha channel or roll credits to deliver to the post facility that managed the final export. I didn't bother to verify but basically that's why he needed a collaborator fluent in other softwares. I also delivered .srt subtitles in various languages anyway.

So the point is the job is done, but the director asked the facility to deliver a version with a specific subtitle language burned in for whatever reason, and they told her they can't do it with the .srt but they need a "XML DCI compliant" format to be able to do it. I'm familiar with the terminology but I never had to produce and deliver such a thing.

Sorry for the long intro, my question is:

1 - Whose responsibility would be to produce such a file? I have a "collaborator" credit on this so I'm not even technically an AE, but I personally know the director and this is the only reason I'm doing this, she asked me and if it is no big deal i would be glad to help. Also I'm pretty early in my career so I always feel I want to look ready and prepared for anything, but maybe knowing for sure when something is not my responsibility is even better. If I can do it and it is not strictly my job, anyone else from the actual editor to someone in the post facility could, right?

2 - How would one approach this? I work with both premiere pro and Davinci Resolve at the moment, but I have the feeling I would need additional software. Is a conversion from .srt even enough? Am I thinking of this in the right terms or would I need more specific indications?

I’m in charge of checking all the backups of a production house. They recommended using Free File Sync to compare the original drives with their backups to see if throughout the years stuff was added o only one drive, etc…

I noticed the backups were made with Timemachine and read that it is not very compatible with FFS (can even be dangerous).

I also didn’t like that when I was doing a disk catalog using DiskCatalogMaker it wasn’t able to catalog what was in the TimeMachine drives.

What would you do in this situation?

I’m using 2024 MacBook Pro 128gb sequoia 15.1.1

The drives are mostly 8TB SEAGATE archive HDD

Thanks a lot!!

So here I am again talking about this thing. Some people here have probably already seem a few posts of mine. I've been researching a whole lot about this topic but still quite unsure.

I need to level-up the workflow / storage / archiving process of the production company I work on and as I know a NAS is probably the way, budget is VERY limited.

So basically we need as much storage as we can get and everything has to cost a maximum of 6 grand, which I know for that kind of stuff is nothing.
Well so my boss knows the director of a well known HBO series around sports and they use a Thunderbay 8 on RAID 0 + computer using JumpDesk to make it accessible remotely.

I have actual texts from him saying that this is a faster setup than a NAS in terms of working off the drives. He does say though that if more than one user is jumpdeskin into that one computer things slow down quite a lot. But that option would be more budget friendly.

I am not sure what to do, given that our budget of 6k for a NAS is quite small.

We need to achieve basically two things with this:

To have all the data centralized and organized; To be able to access the data remotely for downloads and uploads (work on it as if we're in the office but remotely)

Thanks in advance.

Bonus points if it uses a practical lighting rig to simulate the movement of the sun / shadows / time passing.

It's for a show I'm cutting next year.

Thank you.

This person got a panic attack out of this world. Like, ok. So word of advice: don't show the rough cut to people who are not familiar with the process!

I can't do anything but laugh. It's just so ridiculous the entire situation. We should never have involved them in the process. We thought maybe it could be fun to be involved. Well, nope. It went from 0 to 100 real fast.

So yeah. I had the next few months planned, and now I am left with nothing to do. I turned down other gigs, ofcourse, since I was supposed to be busy.

I just needed to share. Both serious and fun replies are welcome.

Clients asking for free work upfront to "see if I am the right one" is still considered unprofessional, right?

I sometimes receive such requests and of course always decline as I think no editor would do that who does it professionally and full-time (except in some rare circumstances). But lately I got a few more of these requests and I asked myself if perhaps I am in the wrong or too snobby to decline them every time?

Any opinions would be appreciated before I gaslight myself too much o.O

Context: I'm a full-time freelance editor, mostly within the corporate and social media space

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EDIT and Update:

I have replied to my most recent request of a client asking for free work, by telling them that I'm a professional who does this full-time, and hence simply isn't able to do any free work. I also sent them the video which u/Hosidax shared...

Hi everyone,

I'm currently being tested for a position at a post-production house, and I’ve noticed something during the sessions: the editors often have color bars displayed on their second monitor.

I understand that color bars are used for calibration and quality control, but could someone explain their purpose in simple terms? Are they just for ensuring the monitor is calibrated correctly, or do they also play a role in meeting broadcast standards?

Additionally, if anyone could clarify how color bars tie into the overall process of preparing content for broadcast, that would really help me wrap my head around it.

Thanks in advance for any insights! 🙏

Hi there. In-house editor here - I’ve been given the choice to go with one of these as they work with our budget.

Does anybody have any experience using both, that could suggest a preference?

We make charity fundraising videos, so lots of powerful cinematic music would be a bonus.

Doing my own research too but would love any advice from longer term users

Since Adobe updated to V2 of their podcast enhancer, my latest enhanced audio files have included some bonus content: other people! Any stretch of silence (of which there are many, since it's a podcast) got filled with other voices speaking a few different languages with varying degrees of clarity. Most sound like garbled nonsense, but in a few spots the strangers' voices are literally clear as day.

Has anyone else experienced this since the update to V2?

I'm concerned about this bleed not just from an audio quality perspective, but from a privacy perspective. I've already reached out to Adobe and sent them clips, and I'm really hoping it gets fixed promptly.

Edit to add specs (?) CPU: 11th gen Intel i9-11900k RAM: 128gb Software: Adobe Podcast Enhancer v2 + Premiere Pro v25.1 Footage: .wav

I'm a cinematographer and editor with 4 years under my belt. I'm currently based in a creative production in Russia, not Moscow, and I make around $1000-$1500 a month after taxes (no rent to worry about), which is higher than average for the city, but it still doesn't leave me with much extra cash.

We're a small team - me, the scriptwriter, an assistant, and the producer - but we've got a lot of freedom in terms of schedules and access to equipment, so I can put my creative ideas into action. I've been with this agency for 4 years now, and over that time, we've built it up from the ground up. In the last year, we've done 12 documentary shoots across the country, a few big ads for local businesses, and lots of smaller projects and gigs on the side.

A few days ago, I got an offer from Dubai for a job with a salary of $3,200. In Dubai, I'd have to pay rent of about $1,200-$1,600 per month. The job involves creating vertical content for one or two clients in the company's own in-house, and sometimes horizontal content too. There's also an opportunity to pitch ideas and help bring them to life. The amount of work doesn't affect my salary.

I'm thinking about taking the offer. My ultimate goal is to work with big brands in Europe or the US, maybe even do short films or documentaries. Right now, it's hard for me to break into the foreign market because of sanctions and the cancelation of Russian culture. But if I take the job, I worry that I might get bored doing the same stuff over and over again, with no one to share it with because of NDA.

Any thoughts? I can provide more details if some of you interested in helping a fella make a right decision.

Most people know there are issues with videos looking faded after export from Premiere. The fix used to be to add the QT Gamma Compensation LUT on export, but then it turned out that would make everything look dark when not viewed on a mac or iphone. Now I have seen people recommend changing the colour space to Quicktime in the Lumetri Colour section of Adobe Premiere, but I wonder if that has the same issue. What's your take on the best way to export so colours will look the same on YoutTube as they do in the project window in Premiere?

Hello,

I'm clipping some moments from a stream and would like a video player that has both speed controls and the ability to make clips easily. The Windows ones all seem to be missing one function or the other, and so I was wondering if there were any other stream editors/clippers that had any recommendations for software, or if just importing the entire vod into the editing software is the way to go. Thanks

Hey all, just wondering if anyone can help me to meet these export specs for a project? While I'm fine editing in resolve i always use the same export settings (1080, mp4, 30fps etc) for client work (normally just put on their youtube or socials), but this time the client has been sent these specs and forwarded to me. It's a 15 sec TVC to air in a regional area on channel 7 in australia.

I'm currently running resolve v18.1.4 if that helps

Thanks!

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• XDCAM HD 422 format
• MPEG2 Long GOP codec, 50 Mbps
• 422P@HL profile, GOP: M=3, N=12, first GOP must be closed
• 1920 x 1080 resolution, 25 fps (50i)
• Interlaced scan, Upper Field First
• MXF container, OP1a pattern partition status: Closed and Complete
• 16:9 display aspect ratio, & the aspect ratio must be indicated properly in the MXF metadata.
• 2 or 8 channel audio, 48 KHz, 24 bit
• Uncompressed audio, constant bit rate

I am starting on a new show and they're being extremely cheap -- typically, we have an Avid per editor/assistant editor/apprentice and then an additional catch station for exports and to use for dailies transfers. For whatever reason, in the interest of cutting costs, our post supervisor feels we don't need to install Avid on the catch station.

I have a personal Avid subscription, but I don't want to screw over the rental facility. Would it be against the rules of most facilities to use a personal Avid subscription on their catch station? I mean, we are technically renting the edit bay and the catch station. Seems stupid that we can't have Avid on there. Want to hear you all weigh in!

I'm all for a streamlined workflow. Currently my SFX SSD is "somewhat" organised, but I feel like I'm missing out on so many great SFX files I build up during the years. For ease, I go to my favorite's folder where I keep some of my mostly used sfx's like whooshes, hits, etc etc. Instead of really searching deep for some new stuff.

Using the default windows indexer can be pretty slow at times. Even on an SSD, it's a pain to go through 100's of audiofiles to find the right one. Then there's the occasional browsing on artlist/freesound/and even YouTube for a sound I don't have in my library. Also a pain.

I need a program that has a huge cloud library of amazing sounds (such as Boom Library) that I can drag and drop into Premiere Pro. Bonus points if the files I drag into Premiere get transferred to my local project folder so I can work offline if needed. I don't want my projects to rely on cloud files or something that might slow it all down.

Thanks

Exporting an audio only embedded AAF, choosing consolidate with handles. The AAF exports fine, but the media ends up in an MXF or OMFI folder, depending if I convert the audio.

Isn't this the same as choosing 'Folder' instead of 'Embedded in AAF'? I could have sworn I recently exported an embedded audio only AAF, without having this issue.

I have no problem handing over the media folder, I'm just wondering why 'Embedding in AAF' is creating/populating an external media folder, instead of attaching the media inside the AAF. TIA.

MC 2022.7 / Windows 10 | Exporting to Nexis

EDIT/SOLVED: The media had been Embedded all along in the AAF. I had forgotten that local media also gets created / duplicated for reference, so I was assuming there was no media embedded.

I've seen some posts here regarding Avid EOD, LucidLink, Teradici, etc., but they all seem a few years old. I have a TV series with 8TB of proxy's to be cut into 6 hour long shows. I am using 3 editors remotely and 3 producers as well. What are the systems that works best for this and at what price? Any glitches or tech issue to be aware of? Thanks.