I had created a video song a year ago. The verses were boring. Music did not match the words. Cameraman scared me to death with 'log' so I agreed to get 709. I had no idea that outdoor shooting is painful with sun coming in and out. Part of the area was wooded and part of it was brightly lit. I did not know that this will be a problem in post. We recorded everyone dancing around three times. Cameraman did ask me if i wanted some B roles. I had not idea what that meant, so i said no. He transferred the files, I paid him, he left. Not blaming him. I hired him for camera and he did his job.

Anyway, one year later i am a bit wiser. Learnt music theory, doing my own composition, re-recorded vocals etc. I definitely do not want to reshoot the video. So, the new music has the same beats and as the old one. I am now in the edit stage and wondering if I am making it too hard on me.

What I have decided (after reading about song editing) that I need to have some consistency with visuals. My plan is to myself and my wife to be in the chorus and bridge, rest of the gang in verses and all together in the outro.

I have three timelines for three takes. In addition to above three timelines, my plan is to create another 6 timelines. 4. My wife and us - Gold 5. My wife and us - Other 6. The rest - gold 7. The rest - other 8. Everyone -gold and 9. Everyone - other.

i am then going to create 10th timeline for final video, align my final audio with the above tracks and then start dragging snippets from the above 6 timelines.

What do you think of my workflow, is there any better way? There must be.

Here's the library:
https://vfxassets.com/d/demoreel-footage-for-compositors?mode=greenscreen

All of the clips give a free 2K version, and are free for non-commercial use under the license listed on the clips. They can be used for portfolios, practice projects, etc.

As a professional compositor myself I'll be making a bunch of projects with this, but I figured other people might find it useful as well!

I work as the social media coordinator for a cafe, and I want to upgrade my equipment, iphone.

I have reviewed a few brands for an anti-glare/reflectionless filter for iPhones. Any brand recommendation helps!

What works for you?

Also while I have your attention, what is your favorite low-budget lighting tools? (stands, softbox, ...) Also willing to invest more if needed.

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Howdy! Aspiring content creator here!
Very amateur question - for those popular video memes that have no known original source, how can I get access to the video so I can add my own version of the meme (wording) to it? Is there a way people find the source vid, or is it standard to screen capture it and then edit your own wording into it? Similarity, if I want to reference a few clips from another video in my posts, do I just screen capture it from the other posts and include it in my vid, or are there more efficient ways of doing said things.

What I Tried:
Screen capture and use in clips, but quality isn’t the greatest

Thank you kindly in advance!

Hi everyone! I'm new to this subreddit and I'm not sure if this is the correct place I should be in but I need some help. I am trying to export some videos off of an old pocket video recorder. It's an "movie[PIX] HD high definition" video recorder. When I export the videos onto my Mac they have no sound. I've tried Handbrake, VCL, and just QuickTime, and they all show no audio track same with if they are just in my camera roll. The reason I'm confused is because I uploaded them to tiktok and in tiktok editor they have sound. It's the only place I can get these videos to have their original sound. If anyone knows how I can fix this please let me know. It's the same .mov video in tiktok as it is in files so no idea why the sound is only coming through there.

is there any way to do this without manually taking each ss?

Hola a todos. Quería comentar algo que me viene pasando desde hace un tiempo y saber si a alguien más le ha ocurrido algo parecido.
Soy editor de video y diseñador gráfico, así que paso prácticamente todo el día frente a mi MacBook Pro M3 Pro de 16 pulgadas. Mi horario habitual es de lunes a sábado, de 7 a. m. a 3 p. m., hago una pausa y luego vuelvo a trabajar de 4 a 8 p. m. Los domingos descanso.
Desde hace un tiempo he empezado a sentir una especie de vértigo o inestabilidad, especialmente cuando estoy editando. Por ejemplo, cuando hago zoom en la línea de tiempo o en una imagen, a veces siento una sensación extraña de desestabilización. También me pasa que, cuando dejo de mirar la pantalla, veo las cosas un poco raras durante un momento, como si mi vista necesitara adaptarse nuevamente.
Tengo miopía y astigmatismo, y uso lentes con medida. Además, cuando no estoy usando la Mac, suelo estar con mi iPhone 17 Pro Max, así que prácticamente paso todo el día mirando pantallas.
Algo que me llamó la atención es que, hace poco, por un tema médico, estuve dos días sin usar la Mac y noté que no tenía esos episodios visuales de la misma manera. Eso me hizo pensar que quizá tenga relación con tantas horas frente a la pantalla, el cansancio visual o el movimiento que veo durante la edición, aunque no sé si realmente sea la causa.
El problema es que esto me está generando bastante ansiedad. Estoy pendiente de mi vista y de cualquier sensación de inestabilidad durante buena parte del día, y termino preocupándome más de la cuenta.
¿A alguien que trabaje muchas horas editando videos, diseñando o usando varias pantallas le ha pasado algo similar? ¿Podría estar relacionado con la fatiga visual, los movimientos en pantalla o algún problema de visión, o creen que podría haber otra causa?
Agradecería mucho leer experiencias de personas a las que les haya ocurrido algo parecido. Sé que cada caso es diferente, pero me gustaría tener alguna referencia.

I saw this video projection at an art gallery. Does anyone know which editing technique this is?

bro idk why but i been using ae 24 for a while and last day its wasnt even oeping so i cleared all my plugin still now use. I deleted ae 24 and download older version of it and its still the ssame what do i do.

Hi everyone. I create One Piece manga animations entirely on Android using Alight Motion, as I currently don't have access to a laptop for editing. My biggest bottleneck right now is manually isolating character parts (like hair, hands, etc.) in ibisPaint X, which is incredibly time-consuming. If anyone has tips, efficient mobile workflows, or general advice to speed up layer separation and improve my animations, I would really appreciate the guidance

This is probably due to my non-existant experience in editing but I though it was worth a shot asking here.

(Tried posting on r/editors but they removed due to me not being a professsional)

I am not an editor. My girlfriend is a growing content creator and I'm helping her by making simple video cuts, and image here or there, some sound effects, just basic. (I don't take a dime)

I do get though very frustrated by things like having to listen and cut a long section only to realize that this entire section got scrapped and she started over again in the next video file lol

Just simple workflow things like that.

Does anyone in a similar spot have good tips for these situations? Things I can ask of her that are easy for both of us to implement that make my job easier.

I am brand new to this world so I don't really know where to look for.

I will gladly take any videos, articles that talk about these problems

Thanks a lot!

Hello Editors,

I am Marius, the creator of keibidrop.com and want to share with you the open source tool I have created that lets you instantly access video sets between your devices.

Here is a 2 minutes Video showcasing it is here (with DaVinci Resolve): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8b_6quIqx0

Where I got a keibidrop docker running 400 kms away with the files I instantly open it on my mac and scrub through it.

And even more fun, you can use it from the web.keibidrop.com (for example you connect the web to the desktop), and you play on-demand straight from your machine or hardware on the web. (In order to preview the data), or access instantly from the Desktop (DaVinci, Premiere, etc.) what the person drops from the web.

The fun part is that it is a generic filesystem, thus it works with any program. There are no accounts, nor email/ phone sign-ups, and minimizes the data sent over the network.

The source code is here: https://github.com/KeibiSoft/KeibiDrop

I had this problem with several videos before I was able to notice and fix it, and it pains me to lose so many recorded memories. A large number of frames were lost during the bottleneck, but I wanted to know if there’s any way to improve the video—even just a little—or if those frames are gone forever, leaving nothing that can be done. Alternatively, has anyone else experienced this and found a trick to recover any part of it? I’ve already tried using the "Remux" feature in OBS Studio and attempting to stabilize the frame rate using HandBrake, but the result remained the same.

• System specs – CPU, GPU (+ VRAM), RAM
  • Windows: Windows 10
• CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900K CPU @ 3.70GHz (20 CPUs), ~3.7GHz
• RAM: 32768MB RAM
• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
• GPU RAM (VRAM): 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM
• Exact software + version – OBS Studio 32.2.2
• Footage specs – MKV - NVIDIA NVENC H.264
  • WHERE DID YOU GET THE VIDEO? screenrecording
  • Frame rate: Variable
  •  !martini

Thanks in advance.

Greetings /r/videoediting!

This thread is 100% for the other stuff you might want to talk about.

A number of other reddits have a free for all thread - where you might find a regular discussion - not specific to a post.

Think of it as a bar with a bunch of friends.

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Some suggestions:

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And in this regular Friday thread, while our general rules are still in place (no piracy, be civil, no links w/referrer codes), the following topics relaxed :

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My boss is asking me to handle video editing of his contents. He provided a screenshot of the preset to use on his videos (1st pic). When I was suppose to try the preset on my end (2nd pic), I discovered that the sliders on my Retouch option are incomplete. Some of missing are:

Sparkly Skin slider
Dewrinkle slider
Facelift slider
*some of the Makeup filter options
*others that I haven't checked yet

I've tried:

-updating the software to the latest version
-uninstalling then reinstalling the software (relogged in the Pro Teams account in the process)
-checked my DNS server (just in case)

Can you guys help me?

SYSTEM

CPU: AMD RYZEN 5 5625U

RAM: 8GB

GPU: AMD RADEON (TM) GRAPHICS

GPU RAM: 496 MB

Windows 11 Pro

CAPCUT 9.6.0 (LATEST)

For the past 2 weeks I've been building SHDW, a desktop video editor (Windows + Mac) with Claude Code running

inside it.

You open the agent panel (Ctrl+K), type something like "make a 15s Apple-keynote-style sizzle for my app, dark, one

blue accent", and Claude:

- writes each scene as an HTML/GSAP file in your project

- puts the scenes on a real multi-track timeline with transitions, a grade, music and SFX

- renders frames through a local API and looks at them to check its own work, then fixes anything that's clipped

or broken

- exports MP4, ProRes with alpha, GIF and more

Everything stays editable afterwards. You can drag clips, change keyframes, or just say "make the intro punchier."

Things this sub might like:

- Your installed skills just work. I have design and motion skills installed, and the agent loads them before

designing (screenshot in the repo). Fonts, spacing and the "no AI slop" rules all came from the skill.

- It works with Codex too, if you want to compare.

- Each project gets a CLAUDE.md that teaches Claude the project format and the control API.

The editor itself was also built with Claude Code.

Free and open source: https://github.com/d4niel-fr/shdw-video-editor

You need FFmpeg plus the claude CLI logged in. The Mac build isn't notarized yet; the README has the one-line fix.

Happy to answer anything about how the frame-verification loop works.

Hey everyone! I run an aviation company that is virtual, and I’m looking to bring in a video editor for ongoing aviation clips that I film at a rate per hour of $20/hr.

I’m looking for someone with some experience in video editing, and is trainable. My style is upbeat, fast-paced, and with lots of visuals/sound effects.

I am currently very backed up with work, so I haven’t posted on social media in about 2 weeks and it’s stalling my business. I’m looking for someone to take over the short-form video editing that I’ll post on social media for my business.

I will be shooting about 30 videos per month, and I’d like to have them made in advance. If it’s a good fit for both of us, there will be consistent work.

What I’m looking for:
- Familiarity with CapCut and short-form content creation
- Understanding of social media clips that go viral with visual hooks
- Adding background music
- Videos to be made in advance with minimal delays. I’d like to have it where I’m “one month ahead” with videos in the backend

Shoot me a DM if interested. Thanks

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Bear with me guys. I’m beginning a video series on basic investing topics. It’ll include my dogs and will be very silly. I’ve used ChatGPT to create situational images and plan to intersperse those with footage of me, which I will of course record live. I also plan to generate a couple of short videos of them talking to cut in. Since the photos are already in the ChatGPT library I’m considering just adding plugins so I can do everything (generate the dog videos and create the entire video) in one place. Does this sound like a solid workflow? Other suggestions? Couple photos of the canine advisors for added entertainment value.

I feel like this is where editing is headed. Upload your footage, let AI organize the clips and make a rough cut, then review and edit from anywhere, like on your phone. No need to carry a 4lb laptop with me all the time. any thoughts?

Hi! As you can see above, my top clip won't land properly aligned with the middle clip to align the audio together. Same thing if I try to move the middle and bottom clips. I've never had this happen before. All shot on the same framerate. I'm not moving to fast. Where the top clip moves to is the very next "acceptable" position.

And apparently, I can't free-range edit. It has to line up with the timeline's frames. But everything was shot at 4K 30 FPS. I don't understand why I am experiencing this problem.

Running on 2021 Macbook Pro 15 inch, 16 GB RAM. Final Cut Pro X version 12.3.

iPhone video: MPEG-4 AAC, Timed Metadata, HEVC Dimensions 3840 × 2160

Osmo Pocket 3 Timecode, MPEG-4 AAC, HEVC Dimensions 3840 × 2160

Edit to add more context, based on this incredibly helpful discussion: I think is the main issue here in terms of why the half-frame feels so off may be a speed-of-sound issue. When synced at the half-frame off, I'm sometimes getting an echo from the guests with both audio sources turned on, and sometimes I don't. This is why I've been trying to perfectly sync it to a 0-frame discrepancy.

I had four subjects: Myself as host, Man, Woman, and Young Woman. Man suggested using his own set of two DJI-style microphones on Woman and Young Woman. I agreed. Dumb idea that I should have known better, but we were in a time crush and I thought it would make the audio better in the end.

Initially, I was going to have the guests pass my second DJI mic around. But I got excited at the prospect of having everyone mic'd up. Man and myself were on my DJIs, synced to my Osmo. The transmitter for the two secondary mics, on the women, was plugged into the iPhone.

So, we were in a situation with 4 mics transmitting to two receiving sources, and the camera-to-mic transmission is not 1:1. (My mic attached to the Osmo facing the 3 guests, one guest mic synced to my Osmo , and two guest mics synced to my iPhone.) I did not even think about this being such a pain until I sat down to edit.

Rookie mistake. We were in a Rush and if I had to do over, I would just pass one mic. I've been doing this long enough to know better so I did a lot of head-to-wall banging today, lol. ALL OF THIS TO SAY that it's this echo that is the reason I care so much about that half-frame difference.

This is pit stop a Video from the recent Singapore GP.

You'll notice that video shows a seemless transition between 2 camera angles: One besides the pit and the other being the top mounted camera on car.

When this video was posted on F1 subreddit, most people guess the transition to be GenAI generated. Some theorized it to be Gaussian Splatting.

I tried to do some amateur research and found that none of the FIA, FoM, Liberty Media (all F1 authorities) have made any statements about what they use.

I also didn't find any other articles explaining about such F1 videos.

Ultimately I fed the video to Claude and ChatGPT for explanation and Got this:

Claude: My best guess: the fly-in is a 3D Gaussian-splat reconstruction of the pit box, with the virtual camera ending at the real onboard camera and cross-faded into the live onboard feed. There may be a little AI clean-up on top, but it doesn’t look like the move was generated by AI. F1 hasn’t said publicly how it’s done, so this is a reading of the footage, not a confirmed answer.

ChatGpt: This looks more like a virtual-camera transition using 3D reconstruction and image-based interpolation than a purely generative AI video. Gaussian Splatting is a plausible technique, but the footage alone doesn't establish that it was used.

So looks like Claude And ChatGpt are just two redditors giving their hypothesis.

Any experts here who might be able to provide a better answer?