Hi All,

This is the closest sub I can find for this question. I'm trying to pick up freelance work doing Master QC. I'll list the requirements below. My main question is: how can I learn these types of skills if I don't have them? Online resources are limited, especially for hands-on training on the Clipster and Trankoder. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

7**+ years of experience as a Mastering QC Operator in a professional post-production facility or studio.**

·       In-depth knowledge of film, video, and audio impairments and their underlying causes.

·       Extensive experience with SD, HD, 2K, UHD and 4K formats, as well as HDR10 and Dolby Vision content.

·       Extensive experience with file-based workflows, including TIFF, DPX, J2K, DCP, Apple ProRes and IMF packages.

·       Strong proficiency in Clipster, DaVinci Resolve and Colorfront Transkoder, including building timelines and configuring output settings and bin clip properties.

·       Ability to read and interpret MaxFALL and MaxCLL HDR metadata reports

Not great at Reddit, but here goes.

I'm currently on my second-ever DIT gig, and I'm having some trouble. When I backed up one of today's cards using Resolve's Clone Tool (with an xxh64 checksum) and tried to verify the MHL in Seal Verify, it wouldn't progress. It just got stuck at 0 bytes out of [total].

I then tried backing it up with Offshoot (trial version), thinking that might fix the issue, but it still got stuck when i tried validating in Seal Verify and wouldn't progress.

We have three cards in rotation, so we're still safe for now, but I'd really like to get the backup verified rather than just "trusting" that it worked.

What should I do?

System specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics (3.20 GHz), RTX 3070 + 32 GB DDR4 // Software specs: Resolve 21.1.1 & Offshoot 26.3 // Footage specs : ProRes 422 HQ, Opengate, Codex.

Hey everyone!
I’m looking for a MacBook Pro mainly for DaVinci Resolve Studio. I work with 4K 6K footage in ProRes, H.264, ProRes RAW, color grading, Fusion, and effects like Film Grain and Halation.
My budget is around €2,500, and I’m wondering which MacBook would be the best choice for my workflow.
Is the M5 Pro with 24GB RAM and a 15-core GPU a good option, or are there better alternatives for this price?
I’d love to hear your recommendations and experiences. Thanks!

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.

Edit: Hi again editor friends, just wanted to say thanks a lot to all the responses here. It's too many to personally respond to everyone, but you've given me more than I bargained for and then some. In the meantime I'm going to download DaVinci Resolve--I wish I could try FCP on PC somehow, just to at least see if I'd like the UI/workflow, but committing to an expensive MBP just to give it a go on the free trial is a tall order. So in the meantime, DVR/DR it is :) Thanks!

I've inherited a project from someone else (documentary) and have my first real situation with unrealistic and unreasonable expectations from my boss (director/producer/editor). After having previously done some work with him as his assistant editor and editing smaller projects. For example, on a related project I made 10 or so 5 minute scenes for a live show. This project however is much larger in scale and it seems like he is not reflecting that in what he expects. For one, I've come in half way, basically had to reorganise and start from fresh which isn't being reflected in any timescales, but he seems to expect me to be able to hit deadlines which are basically impossible given as I am only contracted to to work for him 3 days a week (for context in that time I am being asked to basically finish and foley nearly an entire 40 min episode which I think is pretty unreasonable, especially to do to a high quality). I think the main problem is that I am constantly being asked to show my work with shorter deadlines which really negatively affects the amount of time I have as it forces me to break up my workflow (for example, I would normally wait to do a lot of things after when I'm completely happy with the story but I feel I have to instead do a lot of the tedious things earlier which obviously sets me back if it has to change). I've tried before explaining that there is going to be some sort of trade off to working at speed in the quality that I can produce, but because I am very much the junior in this situation it feels like I have very little fightback. Would anyone have any feedback because I'm still new to this career and want to know how I can deal with this.

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)

Looking for some opinions on untangling a web. I'm working on a short film. The film was shot on 35mm and scanned to dpx. The lab created ProRes proxies that are clipped by take and labeled differently from the dpx file (for example, three takes that are on one dpx scan are split into A001,A002, A003 as prores proxies). The timecodes match the original dpx. Not exactly how I would have done it, but I havnet round tripped a lot of 35 scans. Normally I would make a prores proxy of the full dpx sequence and then sub-clip the proxy so that offlining and onlining is smooth.

Here's where the problem begins. Before I received the footage the director synced each scene and assembled a rough cut using these proxies. Thinking toward the future, we will want to online the edit back to the DPX for finishing, which becomes difficult since the proxies are labeled differently and are clipped from the DPX sequences.

My question is, what's the best strategy here to untangle this and set us up for success in finishing while preserving the work the director has done? Is there a way to round trip what has already been done or does the rough cut need to be rebuilt using full proxies of the dpx sequences, not the trimmed versions of what were already made?

Would love to hear some strategies!

Howdy folks-

Question for the room, I have a 2 day single camera shoot I’m editing. Issue I’m running into is that there’s multiple long audio takes and then way more corresponding individual video clips (not slated of course). I’ve already made proxies for everything with the original clips.

How are you batch syncing things in 2026? I may be dating myself, but in the past I’d use Plural Eyes but it appears to be on life support or not available.

Any help to avoid manually syncing 90+ clips would be amazing. I’m open to purchasing a plugin within budget.

TIA!

I’m on premiere pro 25 on a 2019 IMac.

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