This alternates on Sundays

## Would you like feedback on your reel? This is the place to do it!

**An essential point to remember**: A reel won't secure you a job any more than a business card or website will. While it might be necessary, it is not the primary means of obtaining work.

**You gain employment through a network you develop,** not via any online job site. Building a network takes time, which is advantageous, as it allows you to learn the field.

## Rules

* **Rule 1**: Submit your reel *and its running time* as a top-level comment (meaning you reply to this post directly)

* **Rule 2**: *Specify your professional experience in years* (paying taxes = years as a pro, novice).

* **Rule 3**: Indicate how you're monitoring. Is it with a mini monitor + a LG CX?.

* **Rule 4**: You must review two other reels. **TWO**. You have seven days to complete this task, responding to two different reels. **Then** edit the comment where you post your reel: and put and put the two user names.

**Acceptable platforms for posting**: Your Vimeo site or an unlisted YouTube link. If we find a link to a channel or a video with 10k views, we want you to know that this thread is not meant for such content.

The moderation team will monitor this, and we are trying to encourage the community (that's you) to offer assistance. That's why providing two reviews is crucial.

Lastly, as someone who evaluates people's reels, if you start off with **log** footage, I expect to see the color work in passes. If color grading is a skill, and you transition from Log to finished grade, that's a definite red flag.

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* Reel Link: (don't forget the running time )

* Experience:

* Monitoring:

* Two reels I reviewed:

Yes, we absolutely planned having an editor of the show Wednesday do an AMA on a Wednesday!

I'm Jay Prychidny, CCE, an award-winning editor and producer for TV shows and film.

My latest projects include working with director Tim Burton on Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and both seasons of Wednesday, and directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett on Scream VI and Ready or Not 2: Here I Come!

I'm hosting an AMA, so if you're interested in anything about the post-production process, please come join and AMA! 

From Greenysmac: We're super exciting to have Jay join us. At events like the Editors Retreat, we'd ask questions about creative process (and problems), working with AEs, handoffs between different editors to maintain TV schedules, Directors cuts vs. Editors cuts and so much more!

While we've extended invites for this AMA to other subreddits, we're lucky to get a chance to talk professionally with someone at this level of post. And yes, we hope to do many more of these this year!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Devvit/comments/1tuzxbr/http_request_to_generativelanguagegoogleapiscom/

Basically, it looks like Reddit's own gatekeeper for outside internet calls said "too many requests, not right now" and blocked it before it even reached Google.

I ask, because I want to implement this bot…and maybe make some of my own - but this has been a month. Is there someone following/updating this issue?

We've seen an uptick in people gatekeeping in this community, often being not decent humans.

One of the easiest things you can do is to report somebody's post or comment if it breaks one of our rules, especially around "Don't be a Jerk"

>It's totally fine to disagree. Do so politely. Behave as an adult. Name calling, doxing etc is not okay here. Try not to be caustic. Life is hard enough.

>Treat everyone "as if" they're having a bad day and you'll be fine. Disagree if you like - just don't be disagreeable. Remember there's a human being on the other side of the keyboard

Any time we get a number of flagged items, it automatically gets pulled, and a moderator manually removes it.

Thank you for your attention to this community service note.

We return you to your regularly scheduled program.

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 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.

This alternates Sundays with our "Reel Review."

## Would you like feedback on your reel? This is the place to do it!

​

**An essential point to remember**: A reel won't secure you a job any more than a business card or website will. While it might be necessary, it is not the primary means of obtaining work.

​

**You gain employment through a network you develop,** not via any online job site. Building a network takes time, which is advantageous, as it allows you to learn the field.

​

## Rules

​

* **Rule 1**: Submit your reel *and its running time* as a top-level comment (meaning you reply to this post directly)

* **Rule 2**: *Specify your professional experience in years* (paying taxes = years as a pro, novice).

* **Rule 3**: Explain the reason/direction behind posting your reel. Are you new? Have you been working with clients for a decade? Give us clear direction of what you want.

* **Rule 4**: You must review two other reels. **TWO**. You have five days to complete this task, responding to two different reels. **Then** edit the comment where you post your reel: and put and put the two user names.

​

**Acceptable platforms for posting**: Your Vimeo site or an unlisted YouTube link. If we discover a link to a channel or a video with 10k views, be aware that this thread is not intended for such content.

​

The moderation team will be monitoring this, and we are trying to encourage the community (that's you) to offer assistance. That's why providing two reviews is crucial.

​

Lastly, as someone who evaluates people's reels: If numerous motion graphics are present, I expect you to either be capable of creating them and/or offering it as a service. If color grading is a skill and you transition from Log to finished grade, that's a definite red flag.

​

​

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​

* Reel Link: (don't forget the running time )

* Experience:

* Direction:

* Two reels I reviewed:

I just uninstalled Perplexity on my Mac. I'll still try/use the website.

I turned off auto login. I turned it off at the system level.

Guess what. It still started on Login and at the "you're out of credits". It's now uninstalled.

I've been using Perplexity over the last year - via a "freebie" for the pro level. Well, I guess that's downgraded. Still "pro" but not the same as the monthly paying tier.

Sigh.

Well, today, it went from "on startup" to invasive. It started up despite being turned off.

I'll still use Comet - as my gateway to perplexity, when I use it (less and less). But no longer is perplexity or their browser part of my daily use. And not as my main browser.

I like the product. My total guess? It's dying to find funding and paying users…meaning VC money is disappearing.

This alternates on Sundays

## Would you like feedback on your reel? This is the place to do it!

**An essential point to remember**: A reel won't secure you a job any more than a business card or website will. While it might be necessary, it is not the primary means of obtaining work.

**You gain employment through a network you develop,** not via any online job site. Building a network takes time, which is advantageous, as it allows you to learn the field.

## Rules

* **Rule 1**: Submit your reel *and its running time* as a top-level comment (meaning you reply to this post directly)

* **Rule 2**: *Specify your professional experience in years* (paying taxes = years as a pro, novice).

* **Rule 3**: Indicate how you're monitoring. Is it with a mini monitor + a LG CX?.

* **Rule 4**: You must review two other reels. **TWO**. You have seven days to complete this task, responding to two different reels. **Then** edit the comment where you post your reel: and put and put the two user names.

**Acceptable platforms for posting**: Your Vimeo site or an unlisted YouTube link. If we find a link to a channel or a video with 10k views, we want you to know that this thread is not meant for such content.

The moderation team will monitor this, and we are trying to encourage the community (that's you) to offer assistance. That's why providing two reviews is crucial.

Lastly, as someone who evaluates people's reels, if you start off with **log** footage, I expect to see the color work in passes. If color grading is a skill, and you transition from Log to finished grade, that's a definite red flag.

***Copy/paste this section:***

* Reel Link: (don't forget the running time )

* Experience:

* Monitoring:

* Two reels I reviewed:

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 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.

This might be contentious. Happy to delete if I'm off base.

TL;DR: Moderators and communities should not be paying to moderate.

A recent Devvit bot crossed my radar. Potentially super useful for mod work. (

But has premium features behind a paywall. I'm not naming the dev or the bot, because the work they do is genuinely good and their need to get paid is completely legitimate.

This is the first time I've personally seen a moderation tool ask mods to pay for it and it's a worrying trend.

Developers should be compensated. Mods should be too, but that's a longer conversation and not the point here. The point is: I should not be paying to do Reddit's moderation work more efficiently.

"You don't have to use it" is not the discussion I'm starting. The discussion is that this now exists, and whether Reddit management got us here intentionally or not, we're here.

And yeah, campground rules. Make the place better - don't just complain:

What would be very reasonable/smart:

If a Devvit tool for moderation carries a fee, that fee should come out of targeted ad revenue from the subreddit it serves. Advertisers pay to be in communities that mods have cultivated and maintained. That's the right pocket to pull from. Flat fee, maybe averaged over x number of months. Those are details

I can build out a more complete structure around that idea, but that's the core of it.

The discussion is about this, if the Admin side has seen this/discussed this and if this is going to the new trend.

We've seen an uptick in people gatekeeping in this community, often being not decent humans.

One of the easiest things you can do is to report somebody's post or comment if it breaks one of our rules, especially around "Don't be a Jerk"

>It's totally fine to disagree. Do so politely. Behave as an adult. Name calling, doxing etc is not okay here. Try not to be caustic. Life is hard enough.

>Treat everyone "as if" they're having a bad day and you'll be fine. Disagree if you like - just don't be disagreeable. Remember there's a human being on the other side of the keyboard

Any time we get a number of flagged items, it automatically gets pulled, and a moderator manually removes it.

Thank you for your attention to this community service note.

We return you to your regularly scheduled program.

This alternates on Sundays

## Would you like feedback on your reel? This is the place to do it!

**An essential point to remember**: A reel won't secure you a job any more than a business card or website will. While it might be necessary, it is not the primary means of obtaining work.

**You gain employment through a network you develop,** not via any online job site. Building a network takes time, which is advantageous, as it allows you to learn the field.

## Rules

* **Rule 1**: Submit your reel *and its running time* as a top-level comment (meaning you reply to this post directly)

* **Rule 2**: *Specify your professional experience in years* (paying taxes = years as a pro, novice).

* **Rule 3**: Indicate how you're monitoring. Is it with a mini monitor + a LG CX?.

* **Rule 4**: You must review two other reels. **TWO**. You have seven days to complete this task, responding to two different reels. **Then** edit the comment where you post your reel: and put and put the two user names.

**Acceptable platforms for posting**: Your Vimeo site or an unlisted YouTube link. If we find a link to a channel or a video with 10k views, we want you to know that this thread is not meant for such content.

The moderation team will monitor this, and we are trying to encourage the community (that's you) to offer assistance. That's why providing two reviews is crucial.

Lastly, as someone who evaluates people's reels, if you start off with **log** footage, I expect to see the color work in passes. If color grading is a skill, and you transition from Log to finished grade, that's a definite red flag.

***Copy/paste this section:***

* Reel Link: (don't forget the running time )

* Experience:

* Monitoring:

* Two reels I reviewed:

We've seen an uptick in people gatekeeping in this community, often being not decent humans.

One of the easiest things you can do is to report somebody's post or comment if it breaks one of our rules, especially around "Don't be a Jerk"

>It's totally fine to disagree. Do so politely. Behave as an adult. Name calling, doxing etc is not okay here. Try not to be caustic. Life is hard enough.

>Treat everyone "as if" they're having a bad day and you'll be fine. Disagree if you like - just don't be disagreeable. Remember there's a human being on the other side of the keyboard

Any time we get a number of flagged items, it automatically gets pulled, and a moderator manually removes it.

Thank you for your attention to this community service note.

We return you to your regularly scheduled program.

The safest thing you can do is to back up your database. You should be doing this anyway and frequently

If you're paranoid like me, you want to export projects prior to opening them. You just right-click and export a DRP.

The reason is simple: if something goes wrong, you can downgrade the software to version 20, but you can't downgrade the project. Blackmagic clearly states in the release notes that opening something in 21.0 will make it inaccessible in versions 20 and earlier.

The second item you should be super aware of is that this is the first release.

Somewhere in the next 30 to 60 days, there will be a dot release.

That dot release will cover major issues that happen as people adopt it.

Why do I mention this? If you're using this professionally, there's no reason on the planet to go grab the new version. Wait for that dot upgrade, as hard as it is.

If you're working with multiple people, and you upgrade and something goes wrong, that's 1000% on you. You shouldn't be doing anything like that until, at the very least, that first update occurs.

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 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.

I'm Philip Grossman, a civil engineer turned DP and filmmaker. My first NLE was a Media100 on a PowerMac, and 25 years later I cut everything in Davinci Resolve.

I'm here to share stories about production and post here on r/editors

https://preview.redd.it/j3d24n2c654h1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87c3c3abb042f3173448191d0a7158e073717c34

Disclosure up front: I'm VP at Digital Glue, a production and post systems integrator. Not here to pitch anything, but you should know that going in.

I started in civil and architectural engineering, illumination work specifically, before I ended up behind a camera. That engineering brain never left. It's still how I attack every production problem. I was the section manager with SMTPE in Atlanta for five years

Most people know me from my Chernobyl work. I've been inside the exclusion zone more than fifteen times: the reactors, the Sarcophagus, the Jupiter Factory, the Duga radar. That became Mysteries of the Abandoned: Chernobyl's Deadly Secrets on Science Channel. Along the way I licensed footage to features (including a Ridley Scott film) and series on HBO, FX, and Marvel TV.

I shoot primarily on RED and have taught for RED Digital Cinema. I also run 480TB of storage at home and travel with about 24TB, which at today's prices runs more than the camera does.

The past year, I've been deep into a doc on the abandoned Soviet space shuttle program at Baikonur. Similar problem to Chernobyl: getting a camera into a place that really doesn't want one there.

Happy to get into:

• Shooting in extreme, restricted, or hostile environments
• The Chernobyl project: access, production, what it was actually like
• Workflow and storage, and how an engineering background shapes post
• Wrangling archival and investigative material
• Where AI actually earns its place in my work, and where I've kept it out

And since we're all Redditors here, odds are you've already met my dog on r/aww.

Drop questions now. I'll answer live Wednesday June 3 starting at 1pm EDT.

I'm Philip Grossman, a civil engineer turned DP and filmmaker. My first NLE was a Media100 on a PowerMac, and 25 years later I cut everything in Davinci Resolve.

I'm here to share stories about production and post here on r/editors

https://preview.redd.it/j3d24n2c654h1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=87c3c3abb042f3173448191d0a7158e073717c34

Disclosure up front: I'm VP at Digital Glue, a production and post systems integrator. Not here to pitch anything, but you should know that going in.

I started in civil and architectural engineering, illumination work specifically, before I ended up behind a camera. That engineering brain never left. It's still how I attack every production problem. I was the section manager with SMTPE in Atlanta for five years

Most people know me from my Chernobyl work. I've been inside the exclusion zone more than fifteen times: the reactors, the Sarcophagus, the Jupiter Factory, the Duga radar. That became Mysteries of the Abandoned: Chernobyl's Deadly Secrets on Science Channel. Along the way I licensed footage to features (including a Ridley Scott film) and series on HBO, FX, and Marvel TV.

I shoot primarily on RED and have taught for RED Digital Cinema. I also run 480TB of storage at home and travel with about 24TB, which at today's prices runs more than the camera does.

The past year, I've been deep into a doc on the abandoned Soviet space shuttle program at Baikonur. Similar problem to Chernobyl: getting a camera into a place that really doesn't want one there.

Happy to get into:

• Shooting in extreme, restricted, or hostile environments
• The Chernobyl project: access, production, what it was actually like
• Workflow and storage, and how an engineering background shapes post
• Wrangling archival and investigative material
• Where AI actually earns its place in my work, and where I've kept it out

And since we're all Redditors here, odds are you've already met my dog on r/aww.

Drop questions now. I'll answer live Wednesday June 3 starting at 1pm EDT.