r/editors

Hey Everyone,

I'm an actor and filmmaker looking for an editor who's interested in collaborating on short-form narrative projects. Most of my scripts are in the 2-10 page range, with a stripped-down, naturalistic style inspired by Dogme 95.
I'm especially interested in connecting with someone who's early in their editing career and wants to grow alongside a filmmaker over time. My goal is to build a long-term creative partnership where we can continue making better and more ambitious work together as our projects grow in scope.
I'm constantly creating—whether that's acting, writing, or directing-so there should be a steady stream of work.

This is a paid opportunity.

Hourly Rate from $40-80.

Daily Rate starting at $300

Details of Rates and hours is project dependent.

If you're interested, please send over your reel or portfolio along with a little about yourself, and we can take it from there. Looking forward to seeing your work!

Hello, everyone!

I'm a reality TV editor working on some of the biggest productions in my country. My job includes both working on set with the cast and handling post-production, where I shape all the footage into a complete episode.

I've been working in post-production for 6 years and on set for 3 years. So far, I've worked on 6 major reality TV projects on set and dozens on post.

I'd love to exchange experiences and hear your tips and tricks:

1. Field/Story Editors: How do you deal with difficult cast members on set who refuse to give interviews or become demanding and uncooperative?
2. Post-Production Editors: How on earth do you stop editing late into the night and finally train yourself to stick to a healthy work schedule?

…by an Editor with over 15 years of experience.
Context (paraphrasing): “John will edit the DOC file”
AMTA? What do I say to this person?! What am I to make of this? We do use MS Word in our workflow.
Sheesh.

Looking for recommendations for a reasonably priced, compact UPS for a small home set up. Needs to handle 2 large mains powered G-Raids connected to a Macbook Pro, as well as a monitor, with enough battery to keep everything going for about 10 mins in the event of a power cut so it can all be safely shut down.

Hi everyone, I've always worked at home with my desktop but now that I'm always abroad I need a laptop.

I'm a videographer/photogrpher and this is my current desktop pc:
- Intel Core i7-8700k
- 64GB DDR4 Ram Corsair Vengeance
- Nvidia Geforce RTX 3060 12GB
- Various SSD, M2 and HDD

Now, I need a laptop with at least the same performances and a beautiful screen (if 2/3/4k it's better). I was thinking to sell my desktop and buy a laptop as much upgradeable as possible, like a desktop pc. Do you have any advice? I'm okay with second hand as I would like to stay under 2.000€. Weight is not a problem

I've been editing in Premiere Pro (and the Adobe suite) for years, but I want to start learning DaVinci Resolve, mainly for color grading.

I'd rather buy some Blackmagic hardware that includes a Resolve Studio license than spend $295 on the license alone. If possible, I'd also like the hardware to work well with Premiere since that's still my main editor.

Any recommendations for the best value option?

I was just handed an uneven number of audio and video files recorded separately. The camera used the built-in mics which are really low quality and decent audio was recorded on a Zoom F1.

I need to synchronize all of these without using the synchronize function in Premiere. I don’t know what audio file belongs to what video file.

I once used Pluraleyes for something like this, but it appears to be gone from history entirely. I don’t have an old copy or an old license of the program. It was awesome. I could pretty much dump all of my audio and video files together and it figured out what audio belongs to its video file.

This is not how I would shoot. I’m editing, and this is what was handed to me. So I’m not looking for feedback on process. I am looking for feedback on how to solve this without having to watch / listen to match the files and then sync.

I do not have a Resolve or Final Cut license.

If you’ve got a process for doing this in Premier, please let me know. If you’ve worked with other software that functions like Pluraleyes, that’s great info, too.

THANKS!!

System: Mac retina 5k, 3.6 ghz 10-core intel chip, 64gb ram, amd Radeon pro, sequoia 15.7.3, editing from ssd that reads / writes ~1000

Say I need to make a vid on space! Now according to the script.. where do you actually get relevant clips from?

Pixabay has limited videos

Rest are copywrited

Also any actual underrated ai tools that you use to generate those clips?

I’m trying to figure out what’s causing my right arm symptoms and was wondering if anyone here has experienced something similar.
For the past several weeks, when I use a mouse, I’ve been getting a deep, dull ache in my right forearm, mostly along the pinky (ulnar) side between the elbow and wrist. I don’t have any tingling or sharp pain—it feels more like a heavy, aching discomfort.
At first, I thought it might be carpal tunnel syndrome, so I tried wearing a wrist brace. Surprisingly, as soon as I put the brace on, I experience similar discomfort.
Also, holding my iPhone in my right hand and using my thumb to control it gives me the same dull pain.

Hey folks,

I've got a job coming up on a shared Avid Nexis/Interplay setup, and I've never actually used Interplay before. I've watched a basic explainer covering check-in/check-out, logging in and out to avoid accidental auto check-ins, and browsing via Interplay Access, so I've got the fundamentals down conceptually.

For context, I'm used to working in collaborative commercial environments on Nexis, where I have to mount the right media drive for footage to come online, so I'm assuming a similar principle applies here, along with some kind of bin locking when multiple editors are in the same bin.

For those who use it day to day on jobs, what should I actually know going in? Specifically:

• What happens if two editors try to check out or edit the same bin at the same time? Does it lock, warn you, or cause conflicts?
• How do you keep a bin private vs. fully shared with the team, if that's even a thing?
• When you grab a clip from Interplay into your project, does it usually come in online, or do you often end up needing to relink offline media (or mount drives)?
• How does Interplay actually relate to the shared storage (Nexis) itself, is it just a database layer on top, or does it manage where media physically lives?
• Are there different permission levels for different editors (read-only vs. check-in rights), or is everyone equal?
• Is there a practical way to search across shows/bins by metadata, or is it mostly folder-by-folder browsing?
• What's the standard practice for archiving projects once a job wraps?

Basically trying to avoid looking lost or, worse, annoying the media manager on day one. Any tips, warnings, or things you wish someone had told you before your first Interplay job would be hugely appreciated.h someone had told you before your first Interplay job would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks

Hi folks,

I've noticed some editors I've worked with organize their Avid Cuts in Frame View rather than List View, with things like agency-approved selects placed right at the very bottom, and so on. I get that it's mostly personal preference, but I'm curious about the actual logic behind it.

For those who use Frame View over List View, what's your reasoning? Is it about visual recall of shots, faster scanning during a fast turnaround, habit from a specific type of work (commercials vs. long-form), or something else entirely?

And on the flip side, what do you use day to day and why? Would love to hear how different editors structure their bins and what's driving those choices.

Thanks!

Hey, one less person out of the job pool I guess! After my layoff at the start of the month and thinking about my future and the film industry as a whole, it’s becoming clear that this won’t be a job I retire from. This is all I spent the last 20 years doing and can’t think of how to sell my experience in another field. I’ve worked solo on projects, and in big company teams managing creative director and client notes and expectations.

Are there editors here that have made a career change? What did you transfer too? My big issue is going back to school is out, I have too many loans since i went to film school( I know I know). I don’t mind starting over, I just have no idea how to make my experience applicable to other jobs. Any advice is appreciated.

hi there ! i’m desperately looking for a high quality stock music library for my edits :’) –ads, dance videos, commercials, manifestos etc…–

in my office, we’re using Artlist, but i really don’t like it, it’s full of slop and really low quality musics, i spend hours looking for songs and at the end, it’s not even good

i’m open for a smaller music library, less choice but better quality !

do you have any recommendations ? :)

For quick background, I graduated college with a degree in film in spring of 2024, the goal has always been to work in narrative film editing (I know that’s probably the path with the least opportunities). In the fall of that year I worked a month as an assistant editor on a trashy but theatrically released documentary which lead to a reality TV AE job. After a couple weeks of that the whole post team got let go and there were payment issues. After that I didn’t work for a few months but have been working since May of 2025 at a small marketing company as an editor for social media content. I’m at the point where I want to direct more to my initial goal, and just don’t know how to fully pivot. I know that getting on the industry roster is far far from a guarantee from getting work, but would that be a smart next step? If it is, is my experience able to count towards my credited days? I imagine the documentary and reality tv would count as days but I have to assume the social media wouldn’t. Is this the case? Should I just focus more on trying to connect with industry people rather than worry about the roster at this point? Sorry for the scatter brained post, but I’m hoping to get some answers. Thanks!

I'm filling in for an AE on doc project and I see their stills imports keeps the original raster dimensions, I'm guessing this is due to linking and transcoding them? I've always been told to use the Import function. Wondering if there are benefits to this way?

What’s the best software for syncing a bunch of audio and video files? I use Final Cut Pro and there’s not really a viable option I’ve found for syncing all our video and audio for our videos! It’s not a podcast and it’s not multicam footage. We recorded video and audio separately and Final Cut doesn’t have the best automatic sync. Rather than individually syncing each clip to the corresponding audio file I’m looking for a more efficient or effective way to do this.

Before this gets removed again, I’m trying to ask advice from other professional editors. I’ve been working as a freelance editor for 3 years, pay taxes as a freelance editor, and do work mostly for clients on YouTube. Mostly long form, some short form.

I work with FCP and motionVFX. I started out with Premiere, but trying to use motion graphics was a slog and I found FCP to be much more user friendly and easier to get from point A to B, it works for me and I get great results. Yet now when I look for work I’m already locked out of at least 50% of jobs because they exclusively want Premiere and AE editors. I get it, industry standards and so on, but I’m doing just fine with FCP and should be able to use what works for me. I don’t have the time to learn Premiere because I’m already supplementing my lack of editing income by taking up part time cleaning jobs, I can’t even land an internship that would help me learn and grow in this industry, and I can’t land many jobs because I’m using a software people apparently find inferior.

Tldr: Why do so many jobs require advanced knowledge of Adobe software when I can do my work with FCP just as well? And if I have to learn Premiere all over again, what advice can you give for working with motion graphics in Premiere?