r/editors

I need a help from some more experienced freelancers. Would you walk me through what yall normally do when a new potential client sends you a contract. Do you read every clause? do you just sign it? Have you ever pushed back on anything?

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a high-quality wireless mouse mainly for video editing.

I previously used the Logitech MX Master 4, but I don’t really like it because the polling rate feels too low for me. It also feels too bulky for my setup.

My requirements:

* Lightweight mouse
* Wireless
* Not too large
* Clickable scroll wheel
* High-quality build
* Good polling rate
* At least 3 side buttons
* Price does not matter

I mostly need it for editing workflows, shortcuts, timeline navigation, cutting, ripple delete, zooming, etc.

Most lightweight wireless mice I find only have two side buttons, while productivity mice with more buttons are usually too heavy or have a low polling rate.

Does anyone know a premium mouse that fits these requirements?

Thanks!

Im at about 1:45 currently. I read 2 minutes should be max but it seems to be subjective. Short as possible is obviously the best but im stuck here without breaking the edit and taking part of a video out. I’l be uploading it to my website soon and i’l link it here: If anybody would be willing to watch it and give an honest but yet fair critique its on the homepage : vznhouse.com

Getting to work on some new projects lately and have started to run into some issues where almost every royalty free music platform is pushing generative audio on people. I'm trying to avoid fueling into that copyright theft world, so I'm on the hunt for alternatives that stand with artists, even if they just make stock music.

Does anyone have recommendations for websites that have royalty free stock music that isn't made with generative tech?

Looking for portfolios from experienced political commercial editors to bring on for the busy midterm season! Must be US based and proficient in Premiere/Resolve + After effects. Much love to the division of labor, but for these projects motion graphics is a must.

Details:

- Projects are paid out as a flat rate with timeline and creative scope agreed upon in advance. Often spanning 1-1.5 weeks for a 30-60 second deliverable, ranging from $3500-5000 per edit.

- Ideally you can work quickly, and independently handle the design and animation of titles, transitions, and setting a creative look alongside the cut.

- Must be comfortable working with Democratic candidates (although the Republicans have really upped their game recently!)

Please DM with portfolios containing political samples. If you haven't done politics but have a passion for progressive candidates + unique edit/motion graphics samples, feel free to reach out as well.

Thanks!

In out art class at school we currently have filmmaking (more or less serious) as the topic. And we use iMovie. The exam is supposed to be a practical one. We get some video clips and are supposed to make a short video out of it.

I am a Premiere Pro user and when I first used iMovie it felt like I had to throw up. Like what the hell. Seriously. What kind of steaming pile of utterly useless garbage is that software

The timeline. What the hell are those gaps with the vertical line in it between clips? And why are they only for the video? If I add music below it, the gaps are not there. How am I supposed to sync my cuts with the song?

Why can't I move one clip away from another one to create a blank space between them? The clip always snaps back to next to the previous one.

When I set in and out points on a clip before putting it in the timeline and accidentally click on another clip, my in and out points are gone? Why?

I could keep on ranting (missing features, imprecise editing tools...) but I want to hear all your frustration with iMovie. Am I the only one with these problems?

I’m editing a documentary feature with a great deal of media. Premiere was pretty slow when I tried loading so much footage into it so I’m moved to resolve a while back. I really like it, but it’s running slow in some random place.

I'm having lag in DaVinci Resolve while editing with pro res proxies on a Samsung T7. I’m connected to about 17TB of mostly Panasonic s1h footage stored on my NAS. I’ve check to ensure that the proxies are connected. I’m using a lot of Multicam sequences where the Multicam is just 2 angles with one audio track.

Playback is fine, but cutting clips, revealing clips, and opening multicam clips are all slow.

What I’ve done:

•Reached out to my server provider to ensure I have a strong enough connection. I have a 10gb connection working as it should be.

•Disabled live saving (per a BM forum)

•Ensured folders are properly selected. Optimized media, cache, proxies go to the Samsung T7. Database lives on my internal drive with about 400GB left open.

I have not optimized media because it seemed like a redundant step if I had already made proxies for everything. Maybe I should use a different proxy codec? Currently have pro res proxy proxies.

I’m on Mac OS, Using Resolve Studio.

The one thing I haven’t tried is connecting to my external drives that also have a copy of the footage. It’s just so hard for me to fathom that would be more efficient, but maybe I should try? I just purchased a OWC Envoy Ultra 2TB Thunderbolt 5 external SSD with the hope that this would work out better than the T7. I got that today and so far, not any improvement.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable subtitle editor for Mac OS? (which can working with and exporting industry standards …)

I've had really good experiences with Annotation Edit over the past few years, but since the developer passed away (RIP), the program is no longer usable (at least on newer systems).

Thanks.

Hello guys, So basically I made a tool that allows me to communicate video feedback from the person who is reviewing to the editor. A friend told me to upload it online so he can use it. It's free, it will always be free. Feel free to use it and let me know if I need to make any improvements. Free/No registration and no ads(It's a website tool). Let me know what I should add to improve. I hope it makes your life easier, and I hope it eliminates any miscommunication with your customers.

Link:https://notes4video.com/

I’m looking to audit our agency's ingestion and rough-cut pipeline for high-tempo, multi-cam commercial spots where the narrative pacing is strictly tied to a heavy music beds/stems.

Right now, assistant editors are losing a massive chunk of billable hours just dropping track markers on audio transients and manually throwing down matching b-roll assets to align with the rhythm before the lead editor can even touch the timeline for the final cut. On high-volume contract work, this manual layout phase is becoming a severe bottleneck.

For those running fast post houses, are you keeping this entire process native inside Premiere/Avid via manual stringouts, or are you utilizing an external automated rendering engine or pipeline to generate the baseline transient-to-clip mapping before doing the final editorial pass?

Not looking for basic template advice trying to see how larger post-production teams minimize timeline fatigue during the initial assembly phase when tracking heavy audio beats. Cheers.

Im looking for some examples of really good trailers that aren’t for films/episodic series to learn from. Would appreciate some help

So ive been using wetransfer since it first began, used to chat regularly with the team suggestions and comments. Now today i get a message - we see a lot of logins to your account so we've moved you to a team plan. Ok whatever, but i didnt use wetransfer this year more thank maybe 2 clips and only between me and my business partner. I go to ehcek i now have a minumum 10 user account and in in a week it will renew at the new prioce of $1900.

Suffice to say in a world with a million ways of sharing files i cancelled. At which point it offered me 50% off. But no, you dont get to pull crap like this and retain my custom.

Anyway folks, keep an eye on your wetransfer accounts as theyre not playing well with others this year.

Hey everyone, I'm doing some research on DAMs, MAMs, and Data Storage, and it'd be really helpful to hear a little more about the whys behind switching. I know there are a lot of different options out there and it seems like the key is to take inventory of your team's needs and then go from there into researching all the solutions.

In particular, I'm looking at Iconik and Shade as interesting solutions in this space, but I want to hear more from actual users. Anyone willing to chat here or we can take it offline if you prefer.

Which of these computers is better for editing with DaVinci Resolve? Can the MacBook handle color-grading a feature film?

Was having a conversation yesterday about how great the temps are in our latest episode, and that lead to a story from our Post Producer about an AE that he really likes that he recommended for a show, but the person didn't get the job because the editor felt they didn't have the temping skills. So which VFX temping techniques do you look when hiring an AE?

Seems like Vimeo is dead, where should I upload instead?
Looking for a cheap platform to upload my videos without any ads so I can show it on my website:)

I just wanted to warn everyone before you throw your money away like I did. I was looking for a platform to use Seedance 2.0, and I stumbled upon Artlist. Looking at their subscription plans, it seemed amazing they offer 40,000 credits, and at first glance, it looked like you could generate around 250 videos. so I subscribed for the $40 plan But the moment I actually got into the dashboard, I realized it’s scam Turns out, those 40,000 credits only get you about 120 seconds of video. That’s literally just 8 videos if you're making 15-second clips. I paid $40 for 8 videos. That is highway robbery. I immediately contacted support to get a refund. I haven’t used a single credit or generated a single frame, so technically, my account is untouched. Has anyone dealt with them regarding refunds before? Is there actually any hope of getting my $40 back, or am I just cooked? Stay away from their AI plans unless you have money to burn.

I’ve worked in the creative industries for around 25 years, and for the last 15 I’ve been self-employed, running my own small video production company in London.

In the last 2/3 years I've found myself longing to move away from the client/agency-based model altogether. Why?

The main reason for me is that the business model itself feels more and more difficult to build a stable life around. Let's have it straight, a lot of clients are unreliable, late-paying, budget-obsessed and increasingly there's zero loyalty. That goes for B2B clients and agencies. I've found the pressure to do more for less, turn things around faster and justify the value of my experience, judgement and craft is increasing year after year. And I'm trying to justify myself to people who I don’t believe really understand or appreciate it what I do. Maybe that's my failure to communicate the value I bring?

And now of course AI has added another unhelpful layer to the situation. Some clients appear to think video work should be quicker, cheaper and easier because tools exist that can generate “good enough” output.

For me, the deeper issue is control. With clients/agencies I do the work, hand over the assets, get paid once and then have to go and find the next project. I’m left with a portfolio piece, but nothing much that compounds or belongs to me in any meaningful business sense. The only hope of repeating revenue is client loyalty, and that is disappearing rapidly IMO. That makes income feel unreliable, and after years of it, I’m finding it stressful and wearing. I can only see this situation getting worse.

I’m curious whether other freelance/self-employed creatives in this group feel the same.

Are you still happy building your career/business around client or agency work? Or are you also looking for another model — a side income, your own product, your own audience, or a way to build something that isn’t entirely dependent on the next client saying yes?

Genuinely interested in both sides. If you’re happy with the client model, I’d like to understand how / why. If you’re not, I’d like to know what you’re thinking of doing about it?