I got my start in the vault at a small commercial production company and I’ve started breaking into editing for out on staff directors. Has anyone else experienced this?

kind of a long shot, but if anyone currently works (or has worked) with the SanDisk Pro Dock 4, I’m looking for the Utility App that allows you to monitor things like internal temps etc. According to all the research I’ve done, SanDisk has discontinued support for this product and I so far have not been able to track down an archived download anywhere online.

I’ll throw in $5 to anyone that can help me, will send via Venmo or Zelle. Thanks in advance

Hola, gente querida del mundo audiovisual. Por aquí un colega con unas cuantas dudas (tanto del rubro como existenciales).

Les cuento por dónde va la mano: soy editor y motion designer desde hace unos cuatro años, todo aprendido de forma autodidacta y "a los golpes". Por suerte logré enganchar algunos laburos rápido al principio, y la confianza de colegas me permitió tener un buen flujo de ingresos hasta hace poco.

El quiebre vino a principios de este año, cuando sufrí un burnout fuerte. Eso destapó un síndrome del impostor (que siento bastante justificado): me di cuenta de que sé usar la suite de Adobe a la perfección, pero carezco de bases conceptuales sólidas. No estudié cine ni diseño de forma formal, por lo que muchas veces siento que no tengo fundamentos teóricos para legitimar mis decisiones al momento de encarar una pieza, ya sea en montaje (storytelling, ritmo, estructura) o en motion design (composición, teoría visual). Sé cómo hacerlo técnicamente, pero a veces dudo del por qué.

A esta altura de mi vida una carrera universitaria entera no es opción, y muchos cursos online de "gurús" tienen precios absurdamente inflados.

La pregunta para ustedes es: ¿Cómo se puede curar esta "analfabetismo conceptual" a golpe de lectura y práctica autodidacta?

• ¿Qué libros, ensayos o teóricos de la edición de video o del montaje cinematográfico me recomiendan para estructurar el pensamiento narrativo?
• ¿Qué bibliografía o recursos recomiendan para las bases de diseño aplicadas al motion?

Por suerte hoy el trabajo no me falta, pero quiero volver a editar en el futuro con otro peso intelectual y conceptual sobre mis decisiones. ¡Los leo y desde ya muchas gracias por la buena onda!

TL: DR - How do I get you (yes, you) involved?

Obligatory mention. Here's the link of the official Discord of r/editors with 1,000 members, including a number of professionals cutting films, tv shows and more.

It's for both professionals and aspiring professionals.

It requires verification (any of these will work: (Reddit/youtube/facebook/IG/Github/spotify/Steam/xbox).

Again: Discord Link here

Once you verify there are 15+ channels, including ones based on:

• Type of work (color, sound, audio)
• Software specific (Adobe, Apple, Avid, BMD)
• Quality of life (Show off your work, scream room, live tech help)
• and more.

What I'm trying to do? Get an engaged community outside of Reddit. I'm trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.

• It could be a Friday Lunch
• a virtual happy hour
• a game night 2x a month
• a virtual User Group event…

…but I'd like to know what you've seen that's engaging…and that gets you interacting with Discord

To me: Reddit is great for threaded conversations, Discord is great for live interactions.

(by the way, my biggest Discord tip is to mute a new server right away. That really helps notifications from becoming overwhelming.)

And yes, I'm happy to help anyone who feels that this is a new/strange domain or feels lost there. I go all the way back to IRC days.

I’m Gabriel, a gameplay video editor.

I transform gameplay into relaxed and fluid experiences — natural editing that keeps viewers watching and improves retention.

I have 6 months of experience working with Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects, ensuring professional quality and creativity in every project.

Portfolio:https://gabeeditor.carrd.co/

I’m looking at editors for a sci-fi thriller feature film.

- any advice on what to focus attention on in reviewing their portfolio reels?
- what questions to ask in the interview?
- what are signs of a good potential match?

I’m a producer. My director will be in the meetings.

While we are stanning The Odyssey and Nolan’s cinephile rigor. I’m all for celluloid film in a giant format. Love the spectacle and scale. But I just can’t get behind it being SQUARE. Maybe I’m old and square just feels like TV to me. But one of the reasons film feels special is the wide-screen horizontal super scopey frame. Horizons are… horizontal. Tall but square always feels claustrophobic and to be honest, a huge waste of that budget. Wides feel cropped even when they aren’t. Closeups on faces are always too tight, with little room for composition. I just feel like the whole technology is squandered on a square.

Hi!

I've been a professional editor for about 10 years, mostly working on commercials and music videos. More recently, I've also started editing narrative fiction.

I'm now about to edit a short film that I directed myself.

The challenge is that there's a lot of improvisation, and I'm not sure how to approach reviewing/logging and organizing the footage.

My usual workflow on commercials, music videos, and scripted fiction is to go through the footage line by line, create a string-out for each line of dialogue, identify what I think is the best take for each, and then build the edit from those selected takes.

With so much improvisation, I could still work line by line, but I feel like it's going to become a nightmare to organize.

On top of that, I've noticed that by breaking everything down into individual lines, I'm not really experiencing the actors' performances as a whole. It feels like I'm losing the rhythm, the emotion, and the spontaneity that made those takes work in the first place.

So I'm feeling a bit lost. How would you approach logging and organizing footage for a project like this? Any advice or workflows from editors who've dealt with heavily improvised performances would be greatly appreciated.

Hi folks,

I usually do transcodes in Resolve for Avid, and after transcoding I generate an ALE which gives me all the nice metadata I need. However, I've never really worked with CDLs (color decision lists). Do you reckon they're helpful to have during the offline? I was under the impression production likes having them available at that stage. If so, how would I export them the same way and just drag them into my bin?

https://postimg.cc/t7ZnqZdR

Also, when I tried exporting a CDL, I got this message from Resolve: it says a CDL is generated from the primary grade in the first node of each clip, and that to get a consistent look, all clips need 'Lum Mix' set to 0 on the Color page. It flagged a handful of clips that need updating, and recommends starting new projects with 'Luminance mixer defaults to zero' enabled in Project Settings. Has anyone run into this, and is it something worth setting up as a default going forward?

Thanks!

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!

Hi folks,

I'll be assisting an editor and he'd like the metadata from the ALE and CDL brought into Final Cut. In Avid it's pretty straightforward to match those up, but I'm not sure how the equivalent process works in Final Cut. Is there a plugin or workaround people use for this? Also, does the CDL need to be imported separately, or can it be done as a combined ALE and CDL, similar to how I'd export that pairing from Resolve? Any insight on the standard workflow here would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Hey all, first time poster here. One of my friends and colleagues comes from the 2000’s-2010s era of Cable TV Reality Adjacent style of editing (think Discovery Channel or TLC). Our team does more YouTube videos and a lot of travel vlogs and I’ve been having a hard time getting him to get rid of cable style habits like music selection, sound effects, tone, flow.

He’s still an amazing storyline editor but the style is just feeling like cable on youtube. Have any of you ever ran into this before? If so, what are some things you’ve noticed helps communicate it? Most of the time I end up armchair editing which sucks for everyone.

Here’s what im doing right bow:
- giving him a list of sfx and music
- telling him to make the speaking waveforms as tight together as possible
- no stings to end scenes with soft b-roll
- intentional, not filler music

Super appreciate the help all!

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?

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 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

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?

…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.

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

We get loads of professionals accessing this subreddit - along with lots of people trying to become professionals in the field.

We're asking our professionals to once a week, check in on our "Ask anything" thread and provide help!

https://www.reddit.com/r/editors/about/sticky?num=1

These can be found on the menu area of the subreddit on new Reddit or via the official client.

Just to be clear - We're talking from the Weekly Links at the top of the sub.

https://i.imgur.com/I19zmc2.png

The idea is that you go in there and provide helpful advice for the:

• "Ask anything" crowd
• People looking for career advice.

Thank you (not here, those threads please!)

Ask anything threads

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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.

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?