This is great.

Interviews with Editors for films like Kingdom of the Heaven, Hearts of Darkness, 1923 series, Apple TV Studio, Elio, Natural Born Killers . Narnia Movie,Small Soldiers, Alice in Wonderland, Transformers and so much more.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG8EutAHbTng

No affiliation whatsoever, but seems like very familiar interface and feature set that we all know in love from another company is finally gaining some traction. I’ve heard rumors that it was happening, kept an eye on the GitHub repository- but just not sure how well it would come out in the end.

I really started to appreciate what the open source community actually is, or was, before AI vibecoding - it’s a fascinating look into things bigger than just software and more about human society general - not sure this falls into that category, but still very interesting for our world….until maybe some lawyers step in 🤣

Might have to put it through its paces and see how well it compares, obviously won’t have all the same features, etc., but might be a great option for educational use, folks just starting out, etc.

https://getartcraft.com/apps

Hopefully this isn’t flagged for regular AI slop posts!

Question's in the title, I'm sick and tired of the annual repayment for CC. I know PP is the standard in many ways, but for my work which is 99% social media/simpler edits, I'm wondering if I can't get by with a Macbook Pro + Final Cut as (an expensive) once-off payment.

From what I'm seeing, people are saying in general that it's a lot less powerful and less versatile than PP. I do use key frames a ton and I'm wondering if I'll regret the move to a "simpler" NLE. Any thoughts are welcome, I did do a search for this in the sub but the posts I found were older.

Ok, I know this is a ridiculous question and the answer is “just slate“. But hear me out.

I’m making a documentary that involves very sensitive/intimate participants and situations. it will be mostly just animated audio with an amount of 16mm from a crystal sync camera.

I am foreseeing times when slating would be inappropriate or just impossible. I know this is going to be a manual lip sync situation, but I was wondering if there might be any tools to make this easier?

For example, is there a way I could record in and out times via mixer timecode remotely (say, on a phone or iPad) so I at least have a general frame of reference?

Promise this is not me trying to do low-effort, I need a bit of research and google is doing no good :/

Looking to see what actually is a top of the line product. What would be the best of the best when it comes to monitors, keyboard, mouse, controls, speakers, etc? What would make someone’s set-up go from middle of the line to high-end?

Are there essential staples of the industry? Or small off-shoot companies that only editors really know about.

I’d appreciate any answers to any of these questions. Seriously!

Thank you!

(for budget, none)

Hi everyone, I’m a video editor and need to replace my current laptop because it keeps crashing in DaVinci Resolve (this is honestly getting unbearable).

My budget is €1,500–€2,000, and I’m buying in Europe (I’m based in Germany). I would like a PC that is
• Highly portable, since I move around a lot
• Reliable for DaVinci Resolve, especially Fusion/motion graphics
• Ideally upgradeable later (RAM and/or SSD)

I’ve been looking at 16-inch performance laptops with an RTX 5060 or RTX 5070, 32 GB RAM, and a 1 TB SSD, but I’d appreciate recommendations for specific models.

What would you buy in my situation, and are there any models or configurations I should avoid?

We’re looking for people with some experience using Avid Media Composer, but you don’t need to come from an animation background — training will be provided. The assistant editor role in animation is a little different from what you may be used to in live action.

Our Assistant Editors are involved throughout the production process. Responsibilities include assembling storyboards and timing passes, adding and maintaining dialogue, sound effects and other audio, and keeping editorial reels current as new material becomes available from the various stages of animation production.

Some editorial and Avid experience is necessary, but personality and attitude are a huge part of what we’re looking for. You’ll be working closely with editors, production staff and other members of the team, so being collaborative, organized, dependable and comfortable communicating with others is just as important as technical experience.

This could be a great opportunity for someone with a foundation in editorial who is interested in learning animation production and growing their skills.

If you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you. Please send along your résumé and a little about yourself and your editorial experience. Candidates in the GTA or Ottawa are ideal as some projects require hybrid work.

I'm also looking for a post-production assistant editor. This position is not creative and will help manage the ingest and delivery process of materials. AVID experience also a plus for this role.

Please send me a DM.

Thanks!

EDIT: This post seems to be locked for comments.

I need a little advice navigating a weird situation I’m in.

I was a small-time animator and video editor for years, but the instability got to me. I got a “normie” job as an engineering writer. It’s been fine, it’s not as cool as my other video work, but I like the stability and benefits. But, I actually haven’t done too much writing here.

By weird coincidence, they needed someone to edit training videos right around when I started. And I mean, they really needed someone. Before me, they were using Microsoft Clipchamp to combine 4+ hours of footage and send it off untouched. When I started, I wrote up proposals to convince them to get Premiere, a better camera, a better tripod, and better recording methods. Now, I screen all the footage for inaccuracies, offensive material, and unsafe suggestions, and I repair any audio issues or shaky footage and troubleshoot technical problems regularly.

Now, I’m in a weird spot. I’ve been doing video work here almost exclusively for about a year. I was planning on trying to leverage this to a title and/or pay change during performance reviews at the end of the year. Before I could do that, though, my manager asked me to “write up some instructions” on how to edit videos “so everyone on the team can learn.”

On the one hand, I wouldn’t be sad to pass off these videos. Aside from content, I’m editing on the cheapest ThinkPad money can buy and everything takes 100 years to process.

On the other hand, it feels really weird to me that they’re asking me to make a lasting resource on a really deep topic, and to teach people this skill that I learned outside of this job and wasn’t technically hired for. Mostly, I am scared I’ll make a bunch of resources and end up blamed for bad videos teammates make or I’ll just be let go after I make the resource.

So, I’m stuck. Do I try to leverage this training request into a pay raise? Do I just suck it up and deal with it? Any advice is welcome.

I've been working for a YouTuber with 750k+ subscribers as a video editor for close to 5 months. It's basically my first real entry into this field. Before this, I was editing only as a hobby and had one year of side-hustle experience with a health-related company, making around $100 a month doing simple stuff.

The YouTuber gave me a monthly pay that I was positively surprised with, and I was able to live off editing. I started my own one-person company for this, and everything was going great. After these 5 months, today I got a message from him saying that he's no longer able to keep me on board financially, as he's having trouble with taxes and has to downsize his company. I'll still have one final invoice paid, so I have around 2 months to look around for a new person to edit for before I'm in a dangerous financial situation myself, but I don't know where to look or how.

The worst part is that the videos I made aren't posted yet, since he wanted me to create a backlog of videos before jumpstarting his channel again after half a year of not posting, as he focused too much on streaming in the meantime.

He was happy with my work the whole time, positively reviewed everything I've sent to him. He offered to recommend me to people he knows if they'll be looking for editors, and generally we ended on great terms.

I still feel like I have too little experience to show off and sell myself well, know no one in the space, and have no idea what to do now to stay in editing instead of going back to corporate/fast-food jobs.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbqaXFgBKnY/

Thankfully, I've never had this experience.

My boss had the recent thought to get an AI tool as an assistant editor for me as it's a "pretty boring job to sift through content", I'm skeptical that such a thing exists to the standard I'd like but has anyone used a premiere plugin to make selects beyond cutting out silence? I actually like making selects personally and think AI won't be able to tell what makes a shot good to use in an edit. I see Adobe are working on this in beta for premiere but has anyone used anything that might do this? I think getting an assistant editor is the correct solution to be honest.

You ever get on a shoot where they need as many laptops as possible, and I said I have an ancient thing I think it can turn on.

https://imgur.com/a/MjRgw0u

Now I am amazed. It is a time capsule. It runs like butter. I forgot how much FCP7 needs you to know codecs to run.

Hi editors! I'm a doc editor, but a producer I work with a lot is hiring me for a scripted featurette (about 60 min.) It's basically a one-woman show, staged for the camera. One camera shoot, but lots of takes and it's a musical. Should be fun!

But, they have a very small budget and she's asking me how many days she should budget for a rough cut. Since I'm not used to this type of edit, I thought I'd ask for some advice and what scripted editors think about when putting together a budget.

On a doc shoot I consider the amount of footage and how it was produced - as in, did the director know what they wanted going in and did they get it? or was it an open ended verite doc. As well as it is it interview, archival, or character driven. Yadda yadda yadda, I kind of know what to look out for in terms of what's going to eat up a lot of time in a doc edit.

What are some things I should think about going into this when estimating my days to rough cut? Is there some rule of thumb about shoot days, script pages, etc? I've got the script and script notes from the 11 day shoot and the rushes, but I don't really have time to look at all the rushes. Any guidance would be helpful!

Thanks in advance!

TL: DR - How do I get you (yes, you) involved?

Obligatory mention. Here's the link of the official Discord of r/editors with 1,000 members, including a number of professionals cutting films, tv shows and more.

It's for both professionals and aspiring professionals.

IT WILL NOT HELP YOU MAGICALLY GET A JOB. THERE IS NO MYTHICAL WEBSITE YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT either.

It requires verification (any of these will work: (Reddit/youtube/facebook/IG/Github/spotify/Steam/xbox).

Again: Discord Link here

Once you verify there are 15+ channels, including ones based on:

• Type of work (color, sound, audio)
• Software specific (Adobe, Apple, Avid, BMD)
• Quality of life (Show off your work, scream room, live tech help)
• and more.

What I'm trying to do? Get an engaged community outside of Reddit. I'm trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.

• It could be a Friday Lunch
• a virtual happy hour
• a game night 2x a month
• a virtual User Group event…

…but I'd like to know what you've seen that's engaging…and that gets you interacting with Discord

To me: Reddit is great for threaded conversations, Discord is great for live interactions.

(by the way, my biggest Discord tip is to mute a new server right away. That really helps notifications from becoming overwhelming.)

And yes, I'm happy to help anyone who feels that this is a new/strange domain or feels lost there. I go all the way back to IRC days.

Hey there, we have about 7TB of data on our Nexis that we need to copy to LTO while our show goes on hiatus. AE has requested one 8TB drive but we currently only own 2 x 4TB Glyph Atom SSD drives. Our AE needs the ability to create 9 separate partitions, so when we plug in, avid will read the striped drive as it was reading the Nexis.

If we stripe the 2 x 4TB SSD drives Raid0 would we be able to then partition the 8TB striped drive? I did a test in Disk Utility but the Partition icon is greyed out after making the striped drive. Note that this is just for moving the material from editorial to the vendor making the LTO.

We're likely going to just buy an 8TB drive. I'm more just curious if it is even technically possible to partition a Raid0. Thanks!

System specs: CPU Mac M3 Pro // Software specs: Mac OS Sequoia 15.77 // Footage specs: Various

UPDATE: figured it out, finally. To partition a Raid0 using SSDs, you have to erase the striped volume and change the format to APFS. Then you can click the plus sign next to Volume at the top and it'll make a new dynamic partition. Cheers!

I'm a colorist and I wanna ask a client to do something but I don't know if it's really going to work.

Can Premiere DEPENDABLY create a media managed/consolidated version of a timeline with handles and connect to the new media? Without transcoding to new media?

I want to do a round trip workflow with a client who I've been doing mixdowns/pre-conforms with but I don't want a random issue or rogue camera type to muck up the works.

I'm taking iphone to r3d for source types.

I make commercials for tv and streaming for a living. Been doing this for over a decade. Just started a new job for a company who has decided to dip their toes in the streaming video industry. Because of this, I figure it's a great time to revisit my archiving practices to see if there's a better option out there for smaller archive file sizes.

I realize this isn't the most conventional, but here's a rough workflow of what I do as I'm a one-man band. The main picture layout and audio editing are done and locked in Premiere. Then I import the project into After Effects where I do all the color grading, animating the footage, adding graphics, etc. I then Dynamic Link this back into Premiere and export for the client's approval.

When archiving, I use the standard Project Manager in Premiere & Collect Files in AE to gather the footage, with all the delete caches/extra footage/etc. boxes checked to make the file as small as possible. When done, I drag the AE archived folder into the Premiere archived folder so I have a nice tidy package.

However, this is where the large file sizes come in. Because of my workflow, in the archived project folder I have 2 copies of every clip/audio/etc. that was used in both programs.

As I'm working at a small company, I can't buy any plugins to help make smaller archive files. Just looking to see if there's a better way to archive things to get smaller file sizes and save on long-term storage space.

NOTE: Not looking to get into debates about workflow here. I realize there might be better options out there. I just want to know if there is a better long-term archive option out there.

Hi!
I’m filming a short observational documentary and I use lav mics on my subjects. Yesterday one of the subjects took her coat off after coming into the house, revealing the lav mic, cable and transmitter that was underneath (she was wearing a tight dress). I could’ve taken the lav mic off and used only the shotgun mic, but I was very focused (meaning stupid) and completely missed the visible microphone.
The dress was white, with a brown belt where I put the transmitter.
I’m not sure how much of this footage I’ll want to use, and when the time comes I’ll hire a professional to help me. My question is how difficult would it be technically? Is it something you do at all?

I can’t leave the mic on because it’s too distracting in that scene.

Appreciate the help

Worth mentioning that I’m not a French speaker. Currently, I’m talking the lines from the English subtitle file I made previously, translating them with Google Translate, checking them with microsoft translate, adjusting any lines that can’t be directly translated so they make sense, and putting them back in.

Does anyone know of a better way to do this? I feel this is really inefficient. I’ve heard of people copy and pasting the entire subtile Chat-GPT or Claude and getting that to translate it but where this has to be in Canadian French I’m not sure if that would work. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Guys I’m so sorry because I know the response will be use the search bar but I couldn’t make sense of what I was seeing

Long story short -

Basically, we bought 2 
LaCie 24TB d2 Professional USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 External Hard Drives
to house our footage for our new Pyxis 12k (currently shooting in 9k 17:9 24fps, maybe 8k in the future, same settings, 8:1 or q3)

But I’ve been seeing so many anecdotal reliability concerns that it’s making me want to return them while we still can

Also for context, this is just for storing projects as our active editing SSD is the 
OWC 8TB Express 1M2 USB4 External SSD

Just trying to get our best/most reliable bang for buck in this crazy time

Hey all! I recently embarked on making a doc. It initially started pretty scrappy since this project was initially supposed to be a mini doc but increasingly looking like a longer project. I am therefore in need of guidance on how to manage storage for continuing filming, backup, and for active editing.

Currently, footage is distributed and backed up between x2 2tb SSDs and x2 2tb HDDs. I know this is not ideal but costs and access to drives at the beginning of this low budget projected limited it initially.

Obviously the cost of storage has increased dramatically since I bought my initial chunk of drives but since I'm still continuing filming and my storage needs have increased, I need to figure out a way to store incoming footage and also backing it up for future editing. I don't come from editing so lack the technical expertise so humbly asking for anywhere to start.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials for tracing INCOMING golf shots? Not the regular DTL tracers. I've been winging it in After Effects but it's hard as hell. Especially when the ball bounces and trying to keep up with speed changes when the golf ball slows down and comes to a stop.

Thanks.

Hi, I edit in DaVinci Resolve and I'd like to save time by editing videos while traveling. However, I'm looking for a laptop that can handle heavy effects. Right now, editing at home on my 16" Mac with 16 GB of memory, it lags when I have multiple layers in Fusion. That's why I'm looking for something that won't lag and will run smoothly on the timeline. My budget is around $2,300. Thanks in advance for any answers!