r/VideoEditingTips

Just starting out with my cinematic vlogging journey, and im tryna edit my videos in capcut, and having a bit of problem on where i could get my ideal music, sound effects or editing the colors

I don’t really have a budget to invest on an editing software or anything, do yall have any recommendations what editing software to use for beginners that’s free? and where do yall get your music or sound effects?

im making smth i think can save people hours everytime they want to make a video than needs alot of broll ,not ai generated or stock footage ofc,but idk if it reallly takes that much time and if itd be a real painkiller

I share with you tutorial on how to create Apple style map animation :)

Hi I have started content creation and video editing. I am learning after effects but I want to create quick motion graphics for my reels and YouTube video. Is remotion in clause affordable?

What video editing software are you guys using?

I’m trying to clip my own footage for the first time and I’m genuinely motivated to keep trying and failing because I know it’s all about consistency. But I can’t really do much when every clip I make keeps getting flagged by TikTok’s AI-content detection.

I’m currently using a software, and pretty much every video I export seems to get flagged, even though the original footage isn’t AI.

Has anyone else had this issue? What editing software or workflow are you guys using that doesn’t trigger TikTok’s AI visibility restrictions?

I’m happy to keep testing and improving, but it’s difficult to stay consistent when the clips are getting restricted before they even have a chance.

Any advice would be appreciated.

I shoot long unscripted single-camera stuff, 1–3 hours per session, sometimes several sessions before I sit down to cut. By the time I start editing, days or a week has passed cause I travel around a lot so when i get the chance i try to record but then by the time I want to edit it would have few days or weeks later. This lead me to have lost all memory of what's actually in the files. Not the details — the whole shape of it. I couldn't tell you if the usable material is at 00:20 or 01:40, or whether a given session had anything usable at all.

So every project opens the same way: a full logging pass where I watch the whole thing to build a list of what happened and when. On a 3-hour source that's most of a day before the first cut exists. It's the least enjoyable part of the job and it's the biggest single block of time.

I am curious to how people scrub or like skip the rewatching a recording that like hours long . Cause I seen like twitch VODs that like 5 Hours long get cut into like 20 mins videos on youtube for moments . Is rewatching the whole recordings and bookmarking it manually is the only way?

Idk where to start from I’m not the best editor but I get things going what should I do

Im an editor myself ...and we all know how steep the learning curve for davinci resolve editing is.. so I wanted to make a cursor that lives with yours, you give it your inspo video, my product reverse engineers and shows step by step guide by guiding on your interface.

Would you use it? Also ik there are some competitors in the market rn, and that's why I wanted to know from the editors themselves, if they had another product like it in the market, what else would you want in it

Any and all responses are appreciated

Cìao :)

I’m currently recruiting several people to join a clipping campaign centered around a well-known content creator.

✅ Fixed salary + performance-based bonuses

✅ Training provided to help you understand what works on short-form platforms

✅ Remote work

✅ Ideal if you’re already familiar with TikTok, Reels, or YouTube Shorts

If you have experience with video editing (CapCut, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, etc.) or are already doing content clipping, this could be a great opportunity.

If you’re interested, leave a comment or send me a private message, and I’ll explain how it works. 🚀

I’m currently editing a 10- to 15-minute video (a short documentary style), and I’m hitting a massive bottleneck when it comes to gathering stock/B-roll footage.

Right now, even for a simple 1-minute section, finding footage that actually fits the narrative takes me hours. My process usually looks like this:

1. Search across multiple free stock sites (Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash, etc.) or look for creative commons / fair use clips on YouTube.
2. Preview, filter, and download individual clips.
3. Import them into my project, cut them down, and test how they fit the pacing.

By the time I finish sourcing visual elements for just a tiny chunk of the timeline, half the day is gone. It feels extremely inefficient, and I know there has to be a smarter way to do this.

For those of you who regularly edit video essays or documentary-style content:

**What is your actual workflow for sourcing stock footage?**

Do you write a script and bullet point specific shot lists *before* searching, or do you edit audio first and gather footage as you go?

Do you use plug-ins, specific subscription platforms, or stock footage manager tools inside your NLE (Premiere, Resolve, FCP)?

How do you balance searching for the "perfect" clip vs. settling on a "good enough" clip to keep moving?
I’d love to hear how you structure your process so gathering visuals doesn't eat up 80% of your editing time.

So i recently got into clipping and it takes me 30-40 min to make one short clip to upload can any one please tell me some ways i can have this done in a more efficient manner? Where i can edit 3-4 clips real quick ? I really need someone to guide me through the start of clipping😭 help me out guys

All the Video Editing softwares I come across are loaded with AI, trying to get me to just let AI edit my videos for me, Give me AI thumbnails. I don’t want that, I just want to make human videos and not have them be completely boring.

Does anyone have any suggestions of softwares that are still for humans or should I just continue my unedited content?

Is there an easy way to turn a video or a insta Reel into screenshots/images?

I usually want to grab a few specific frames from a Reel all of a sudden, but finding a simple tool for it is surprisingly annoying.

I came across www.frameflows.in ! which lets you extract frames from videos/Reels.

Has anyone here used it, or is there a better way to do this?

I can’t find one better than this !!

Ciao a tutti devo sostituire il vecchio pc, mi occupo di video editing, che nuovo pc mi consigliate ? Grazie a chi mi aiuta