r/VideoEditing

Rendered a 2.5 hour long video at 1080 HD, 29.97 FPS, and it's 143 GB. I need to fit this onto a 25GB (technically 21GB) Blu-ray.

What are your best practices for rendering this down without losing quality? How does Hollywood do it? Blood magic?

TIA.

i have been uzing vizzy.io for ages and it usualy takes 2 hours but last couples of days it takes significaly loger. at first i thought it was a hardware problem but everything is ok. Is anyone here facing same proble, ?

I filmed a show and am also the head editor. After filming I corrected the color on the footage and want to export the files for myself and the other editors to make the full videos/clips from.

What is the best + most practical way for me to export these files so that they are ready to be edited again?

raw VR footage can be very shaky and disconformable for the viewer and some of the stabilizers we have didn't worked for me so i thought to try stabilizing in editing process.

tried to use stabilization mode in inspector (davinci resolve), but it seems kinda ineffective. there are another way to try stabilization or other ways to make this better? even if its just a little less uncomfortable for the viewer

(i'm using davinci studio 20.1)

I’ve been trying to figure this out for a while and still haven’t found a solution. Could anyone help me with this?

In the image, the left side is the preview inside Premiere Pro, and it looks noticeably more red. But after exporting, the video on the right looks normal.

The weird part is: if I take that exported video and import it back into Premiere Pro, it looks red again, just like it did in the preview window.

Why is this happening? Did I miss some color management setting in Premiere?

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I’m a hobbyist editor working on putting together short visual edits and music sequences for fun. The creative side of mapping out the vibe is great, but the actual technical process of manual syncing is starting to drain me completely.

Right now, my workflow is just pulling down stock clips, tossing them into my timeline, and manually slicing and shifting every single cut so it aligns perfectly with the downbeats, transient peaks, or drops in the audio track. Splicing a 60-second sequence takes me ages, and if I want to swap a clip out later, it throws the whole timeline rhythm off and I have to re-edit the surrounding cuts.

Before I burn out entirely on this project, I wanted to ask how you guys handle rhythm/music-based editing. Are there any specific timeline tricks, markers, or automated asset syncing workflows you use to speed up the cutting process so you aren't doing everything frame-by-frame manually?

Open to any advice on how to keep the hobby fun without the tedious timeline fatigue.

I needed to get an extended video clip of a still scene, a few minutes long, while keeping my hands free, and I couldn’t use a tripod. I had the phone on a chest harness, zoomed in. The phone‘s OIS did a decent job keeping stable, I used the video editing software for further stability. Everything looks great, except the video looks like I’m on LSD with the scene “breathing”, or described differently on a boat in calm waters. The scene/subject was gently expanding and contracting with my own breathing, so the video editor at max setting wasn’t correcting the motion since it was gentle motion. It’s a bit nauseating for some viewers.

I wonder if auto-framing/focus reframing apps, or whatever term they use to keep the subject centered (like those social media clips of people’s face centered while everything in the background moves) will fix this?

The subject can stay relatively the same size and still as that’s what people will be focused on, so I think the background “breathing” wouldn’t be very noticeable.

Any technique suggestions or app recommendations to fix this? Non-professional work, casual YouTube video.

Thank you

What makes the grass pop like this? Editing settings? Color grading? Need help getting this exact style.

Recently I joined a niche Discord community focused on video editing. It’s not huge (around 600–700 members), but it already feels like most people there know each other pretty well.

I often see the same small groups talking daily, joking around, helping each other, sharing work, and generally being comfortable together.

And honestly, I’d like to build that kind of connection too.

The thing is, I also recognize that I barely participate myself.

Most of the questions I have, I either Google myself or ask privately to someone I already know instead of posting in the server and interacting more openly.

So part of me feels like the obvious answer is:

“just participate more.”

Ask questions.

Help people when possible.

Talk more consistently.

Become a familiar presence.

But at the same time, joining already-established communities can feel a little intimidating, especially when you’re naturally more introverted or observant.

I don’t want to force friendships, seem annoying, or insert myself awkwardly into groups that already seem close.

At the same time, editing can be a pretty solitary field, and I genuinely miss having creative connections with people in the same area.

So I wanted to ask other editors/creative people here:

How do you naturally build networking, friendships, or genuine connections in online creative communities?

Hi everyone,

I’m trying to sync 3 video clips from the same event and I’m running into issues and hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

Setup:

3 separate camera angles of the same recording

One clip has a lavalier microphone (better audio quality)

I’m trying to use a clap as the sync reference point

What I’ve tried so far:

I first tried iMovie, but I couldn’t get frame-accurate alignment even when zooming in, and the final result looked slightly out of sync (especially noticeable in lip-sync)

Then I tried DaVinci Resolve multicam sync

Automatic audio sync didn’t work well because two of the camera audio tracks are very low quality

I also tried manual syncing using waveforms and markers, but I still couldn’t reliably land on the exact clap frame

When scrubbing/zooming in, it’s difficult to consistently hit the exact waveform start frame

Result: the clips are still slightly out of sync visually.

Question

What is the most reliable workflow for syncing multiple camera angles in this kind of setup?

Is there a better method inside Resolve I should be using?

Would a dedicated sync tool handle this more reliably?

Or is there a standard workflow for situations where only one audio source is usable?

I’m mainly trying to achieve consistent frame-accurate or near frame-accurate sync without having to manually adjust every clip.

I am discouraged, but want to learn.