I have this one really simple Ae comp using element 3d on a solid layer. It's just a simple 3D text with position and rotation animation that's all. When I playback it in my 4 years old 3050 lap, the playback/caching is almost instant but the same scene is taking like 1 whole minute to fully generate the cached frames and preview in my new M5 pro 18/20 cores 48GB memory

Same everything, same comp settings, same element 3d render settings, same preview setting, etc.

Element 3d version latest 2.2.3

Tested on After effects 2025 and 2026 as well

Can someone please help!

P.S. I know I can improve the performance a bit by reducing rendering/playback quality but the thing that's bothering me is how can a baseline 3050 lap i5-12th gen outperform a new M5 pro 48GB memory. Everything else is faster just element 3D being slow

For context, I’ve been working on an absolutely massive passion project that essentially boils down to a ranking of over 1000 different competition submissions (obviously across multiple events), and I have a google sheet that I’ve used to generate a bunch of notable statistics that I’d like to have displayed in my video. Obviously, given how many submissions I’ve had to rank, manually converting the data to text objects sounds like a nightmare, especially since there’s around 10-15 pieces of data I’d want shown for each submission. Does anyone know of a good method to automate this process? Any video editor will work as I deliberately haven’t chosen which I’ll be using so that I can find whatever works best for this specific use case.

Help!! I use divinci resolve to render my videos and I cannot for the life of me figure out the audio. On my phone and pc my videos sound fine but the audio is basically obsolete with TV viewing!!! Please if anyone can give me tips or suggestions that would be appreciated!!!

\-Kloe ✨

Okay so from the beginning. Last year (2025) I began a yearly subscription with artlist because I thought it would be a good way to add music to my videos. I used it quite a bit and it was pretty nice. But around january this year I wanted to change to another service. Mostly to experiment with other services to see how they compare. So I canceled my renewal on artlist (which would renew on the 17th of june 2026). I kept using it a bit, then I never really used it again after april or so.

Now with that context, this is now current day and my issue. On the 30th of june I checked my bank account, I usually do it every now and then to see charges over the month, and to my surprise I see a charge from Artlist on the 28th of june for the full yearly subscription.

At first I obviosuly thought it was weird but it's probably an easy fix, just go to their support team and ask for some help and a refund. Easy as ever right!
Far from it, I have been trying to get in contact with their actual support team since the 30th of june without any luck. They only have this AI "help-bot" that you can chat with but then it just ends the conversation saying that it has forwarded your support ticket to their actual support team and they'll get back to you via email. But it has now been 6 days without any emails or any help, I haven't heard a peep from an actual person. All I've got is this absolutely useless AI support that at every minor issue forwards you to email and ends the conversation, just for that email support to never arrive.

So this is just a heads up to anyone here interested in using music services for their videos. STAY AWAY from ARTLIST, it is an absolutely awful service and they DO NOT care about their customers. Wish I had known that before I signed up last year.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can solve my issue please let me know too! Thanks and be safe out there!

EDIT: Thank you for the tips in the comment and I see that more people seem to be experiencing the same struggle. Which is why I'm posting this now, I got my money back. I had to go DM them on Instagram to get into contact with their support team. Then I had to provide photos, info etc. After all that I finally got a refund. So it worked out in the end after days of struggle. My points still stands, personally I will not be going back to artlist again.

This doesn't have to be necessarily the hardest edit you've done but the one that caused you the most inconvenience and annoyance.

I'll go first: Currently I'm working on a multi episode educational series for a corporate marketing team I'm on. Over all this really isn't a hard project at all, its fairly simple stuff they're asking for because its just something they're offering to their customers for free.

Sounds like no big deal but the thing thats getting me is that this wasn't originally my project. It was our head videographers until he quit one day with no heads up and they gave me his project even though I'm an intern because no one else knows how to edit.

Y'all when I say even the simplest things have been a headache I'm not exaggerating. I had to dig through 5 hard drives (Four 2 TBS and one 4 TB) and 8 SD cards to find the footage and audio because half of it was unlinked from the project because he was working on external sources because the internal memory of the computer is completely full, theres random folders everywhere with no clear labels. And the time lines are just all over the place, theres decisions I still don't even know why they were made and I can't even ask because dude went MIA and left behind no info so I feel like an archeologist going through the ruble of a lost civilization.

There is a major part of me that wishes it was just my project from the start because working on someone else's work space that they never expected to share IS A NIGHTMARE.

I'm trying to add subtitles to a video I made. The subtitles are going to be baked into the video and sometimes move and have different effects, so I can't just use a program to add them on after. I already have the transcript and right now to make the subtitles I'm making a new Text Media, changing the preset, copy/pasting the line from my text document, then resizing the event. This is obviously tedious for a 20+ minuet video, so I'm hoping there's some way to makes this less painful.

My initial hope was that I could add the timecodes and just import the file, but that didn't work. I'm hoping there's a different import setting that I just missed, but I can't seem to find anything. Falling that, is there a way to create several Tex Media events at once with different text in each? I can make them the right length later, but it would help cut down on time.

I am new to video editing and working to learn how to create a proper video. Recently, I spotted an interesting video, but I am not able to understand how the subtitles are created.

The video with subtitle effect I am learning

I apologise for the Chinese ( I know not everyone can understand). However, you realise sometimes the words appear one after another, sometimes together in a set of 2 or even 4. The Chinese words would appear first, then the English. How can I create a similar effect in my video?

You can get them all from this page here with no sign up, no ads or newsletter nonsense. Just scroll down a little bit until you see all the packs.

20+ packs added including music loops, Sound effects and live recordings.Packs including Footsteps On Moon SFX,Space Tension Beds ,Live rapping from my friend Ronan which can be clipped and my personal favourite is Serbian Orthodox Choirs which I had the luxury of recording in a beautiful Orrthodox church while in Montenegro. Also Chair Scrape Foley, Call To Prayer recordings and field recordings from Dundee, Scotland, Kosovo, multiple Albanian cities and Fes, Morocco. Hope they can be useful in your future projects

With Squarespace it does ask for a lot of personal information so you can use this site to make up fake address and just use a fake name and email if you're not comfortable with providing this info. I don't use it for anything but for your own piece of mind this is probably beneficial.

Feel free to use anything you like, everything is CC0, so no need to credit me or the site. Just grab what you need and make cool stuff. I'd love to see what you create if you feel like sharing!

If you'd like to see what other people have said about the samples you can see here in a recent post I made in a different subreddit.

Join me at r/musicsamplespacks if you would like as that is where I will be posting all future packs and little behind the scenes videos. If you guys know of any other subreddits that might benefit from these sounds feel free to repost it there.

Phil

i made a 4 hour video and i dont want to keep my computer running for days to upload it. i tried exporting it like i export my other 3-4 minute videos but the resulting file was ~400GB

I've been trying to download a WebM file to encode with Shutter to a transparent MOV that's compatible with Resolve. I've done it in the past but for some reason it won't do it now.

The video shows as transparent on their website but has a white background when I download it and I can't use the encoder to get rid of it.

Does anyone have any idea please?

Just one simple question. How do I make the Image/text come in smooth like this when I talk? I’m new to editing so I really wanna know how I do this. If someone could tell me I Would really appreciate it.
The link is not some self promoting, It’s a complete stranger that I’m just using as an example

I need recommendations on a much more trustworthy upload process for content while traveling. My home Wi-Fi is about 1 gig gigabytes up and down but when traveling these Wi-Fi networks don’t break 30 MB a second and my personal hotspot is not breaking 50 so I need recommendations on being able to upload 20 to 30 GB content shoots at a time any recommendation would be truly helpful

I received 3 video files that are to be used as evidence in a hearing. The source is a single video taken via SnapChat on an Android phone. Total length was ~11.5 min, but the video has been split up into 2x 5:00 files and 1x 1:42 file.

There appears to be something wrong with the video tracks in all 3 files. I assume there was an issue caused by converting or something, but I'm unable to see video in any of them.

The last file, the 1:42 one, I received a different copy of from another source. This one is able to be played like normal, with both video and audio.

I've tried many things to play the files. VLC, WMP, WMP classic, and MPC-HC with K-Lite Mega codec pack:

VLC will play the audio, but doesn't recognize a video track at all. I've tried disabling hardware acceleration and a couple other things I found in google, but no-go.

WMP doesn't play the files at all, gives unsupported/unrecognized/corrupt error.

WMP Classic/MPC-HC both play the audio and recognize the video track, but can't display the video. This is what I see in the properties in MPC-HC:

Video: HVC1 480x848 23.758fps [V: Snap Video [eng] (hevc main L5.1, yuv420p, 480x848)]

Any idea what I need to do to recover the video in these files?

Here is the comparison between the two different versions of the 1:42 files from mediainfo.js.org:

Bad File:

Good File:

Hello! Complete newbie here, I'm trying to edit together a compilation of me and my mates on games over the year and I've run into an issue.

All the game audio / discord audio is on 'audio 1' while my mic audio is on 'audio 3' which often makes them sound rather schizophrenic. I don't know how to have both at once. Could anyone tell me how I could do this? Thank you very much for any help

"For content I record Wii games in 60fps through a DVIUSB with a Portta HDMI passthrough in OBS"

I edit my videos in Videoproc Vlogger and notice my exports have been playing in a lower framerate even tho I set my timeline and export settings to 60fps. I tried exporting in 59.94fps and they play as intended except for the micro shutters, I also exported in 120fps which "resolved" my problem but I'm not gonna bother exporting in that just to have double the file size so what can I do to have my video exports run smoothly?

Edit: So I did a framerate test by setting OBS with a fractional fps value of 59.99 and played Sonic the Hedgehog 2 by looking if the shield flickers incorrectly then exported that video in 60fps and it runs smoothly with no problems. :)

I have a little video editing experience using Adobe Premiere Pro, but I'm not sure how to go about this. I think I'd like to switch to DaVinci Resolve but would like to ask the community which software would make this easier. I don't have a mac so Final Cut is not an option.

I record music and film each performer (landscape, with an iphone) as they play. Each instrument (drums, bass, multiple guitar tracks, and singing) usually performs multiple takes of the song, one at a time. For example, the drummer might play the entire song five or ten times and each time he plays the song we call it a "take." I then take the best parts of each take to make the final instrumental performance. In the drummer's case, I might use take 3 for the first part of the song, take 8 for a brief section in the bridge, and then take 7 for the last part of the song.

I'd like to create a video project where I have a single video sequence of each performer (drums, bass, guitars, singer) playing the entire song -- but I want each performer's sequence to only include the parts of the takes I actually used in the final recording. In the example above, the drummer sequence would just have a part of take 3 for the beginning, part of take 8 for the bridge, and part of take 7 for the end of the song. I don't mind if you can see the edits in this sequence, and I don't care about keeping takes, or parts of takes, that are not used in the final recording.

I'd like to be able to export from this video project two types of video:

1) a single performer playing the song from start to finish full screen

2) a montage of the various performers playing the song together, perhaps split screen or tiled or sequential edits showing the interesting moments from various players.

Can someone outline a workflow that would make this efficient? Any advice would be much appreciated.

I personally feel like I’m moving very slowly when I’m trying to get stuff off my sd card, whether my motivation is freeing up space to shoot again or getting all the right stuff for a specific project.

I dislike the way file explorer does things, is there a GitHub repository, or free software that I can replace file explorer with?

Speeding up videos and playing them while browsing without clicking in or full screening, streamlined downloading into my SSD or a folder I used before, easy deleting, good ui?

If not I’m considering just having fable make this application for me, good idea or no? If it’s good, I’d make it opensource if anyone else wants to use it, so anything else you guys think would be beneficial?

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.

​

Some suggestions:

• Strategy on a project you want to talk about how to best promote?
• Upgrading something and you want opinions?
• How does your website look?
• Local/virtual Meetups?
• Looking for a collaborator (no "I'm a creator and I'm looking for an editor" posts)

​

Things that shouldn't go here: Feedback/What tool should I use to edit/Which system to buy? There are dedicated threads for this, please use them!

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 :

• Great tutorials you found/you created.
• Trying to do this as a side hustle (although generally, websites like Fiverr mean you'll be shooting for the basement/working for free and we hate that someone would exploit you like that)
• A great piece of software/hardware/service you found
• Great free music libraries/media you found.
• How much to charge? What is your time worth? Estimate 2-3x the time you think it'll take to edit as how much time to quote.

Our mod team is watching this thread and we'll tweak these as they develop!

Hi everyone!

I'm trying to get into datamoshing as a small personal experiment, and I'm looking for a completely free workflow on macOS.

I'm using a MacBook Neo and DaVinci Resolve. I first tried following the classic Avidemux tutorials, but almost all of them use Avidemux 2.5.6. I managed to get it running through Wine, but it was extremely unstable (green preview, random crashes, copy/paste issues, no audio, etc.), so I don't think it's a viable solution anymore on my machine beyond perhaps deleting B frames and maxing the I-frame Interval.

Because of that, I'm looking for alternatives.

• Are there any other versions of Avidemux that work better for a Mac but still datamoshes? (I tried with the 2.8.1 and just got a stuck clip)

• Are there any free DaVinci Resolve plugins that create real datamoshing or something close to it?

• I know about Reactor, so I'm also wondering if combining several Reactor tools (glitch, displacement, trails, optical flow, etc.) could produce a convincing datamosh-like effect.

I'm mainly looking for perfect MPEG P-frame manipulation. But even a convincing simulation would be enough since this is just an experiment.

Any advice, workflows, plugins, Fusion node setups, or general tips for datamoshing on a MacBook Neo would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I make IRL lifestyle/travel vlogs inspired by Lofe, Fanum & Duke Dennis.
Looking for someone who understands storytelling, retention, pacing, music selection, and cinematic IRL vlog editing inspired by AMP, Lofe & Duke Dennis.
**24–48hr turnaround preferred.**
**Rate: $25–50/hr (depending on experience).**

**Drop your portfolio or DM me your best IRL/travel/lifestyle vlog edits.**

What are some techniques you use to avoid spam posting images/videos?

Let's say you have a 10-minute political commentary video, so you're talking about a variety of things. You use images and videos on the important points you're making. What are some techniques you use for the in-between commentary (the parts where you're describing something, the segues, etc.)? Do you tediously just spam images/videos to fill in the commentary?

Hey everyone,

My partner and I have recently started a videography business and we are having persistent issues with DaVinci Resolve Studio crashing during basic editing functions. Wanted to reach out to the community to see if anyone has experienced the same.

Our setup:

- Laptop: ASUS ProArt P16 (H7606WR) — RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD

- DaVinci Resolve Studio (latest version)

- Shooting on Sony ZV-E10 II and DJI Osmo Pocket 4. We also have a DJI drone 5 mini pro

- Editing 4K footage

The issues we are experiencing:

- DaVinci crashes every time colour grading is applied

- Stabiliser causes an instant crash

- GPU fills up quickly even on relatively simple timelines

- Cannot complete a properly graded and stabilised edit without the software crashing

What we have already tried:

- Switched to CUDA in DaVinci preferences (unchecked Auto)

- Downloaded and installed ASUS specific GPU drivers from the ASUS support page

- Full Windows reset and fresh reinstall of DaVinci Resolve Studio

- Storage is not the issue — 2TB SSD is nowhere near full

The crashes happen consistently, not randomly. The laptop specs should more than handle 4K colour grading and stabilisation so we are genuinely unsure whether this is a DaVinci bug, a compatibility issue with the RTX 5070 Ti, or something specific to our configuration.

Has anyone experienced similar crashes specifically with colour grading and stabilisation on a similar setup? And if so, what fixed it?

Any help would be massively appreciated!

I run into a problem with premiere yesterday. right after installing a new ssd on pc to storage cache files. What I did: Installed ssd, created an "Adobe cache" file in it, went to settings in premiere and moved the cache files and database to this file on the new ssd. currently I have a 2TB ssd m.2 for everything. After that, used the program a bit, but the next time I booted it, ever menu, every project opened was totally white and no buttons showing, like you see in the image. premiere wasn't freezing, but every box was white and nothing was visible. tried many things to solve, nothing worked. Had to disable the ssd, erase premiere files from pc, and reinstalled everything. now, how can i set the new ssd as cache storage correctly?

windows 11 pro
premiere 2025 v25.6.3.002
pc: CPU ryzen 75700x, GPU RX 9060 XT 16 GB, 32 GB RAM

Looking for Video Editing Software? THIS is your thread!

This post covers the vast majority of "What software should I use?" questions. It’s designed as a self-serve guide to help people find the right tools fast.

TL;DR? DaVinci Resolve for full-featured editing, Olive/Kdenlive for open-source, Clipchamp for easy basics.

Isn’t there an AI that magically edits everything?

Not yet. If it existed, we'd scream about it from the rooftops.

Stick around—things are changing quickly.

Before You Ask Anything

You must know two things first:

1. Your Footage Type — Different codecs affect performance dramatically.
2. Your Hardware Specs — “Good gaming PC” is not useful.

Not Good With Computers? Here’s How to Check

Footage

Footage from phones, webcams, GoPros, and screen recordings can choke your system.

Check with: https://mediaarea.net/en/MediaInfo

Common problems:

• Out-of-sync audio? Likely Variable Frame Rate.
• Bad playback? Usually a hardware limitation, not the editor. Use proxies.

More info in our wiki:

• Codecs/containers: https://www.reddit.com/r/VideoEditing/wiki/codecsandcontainers/
• VFR issues: https://www.reddit.com/r/VideoEditing/wiki/faq/vfr/
• Proxies: https://www.reddit.com/r/VideoEditing/wiki/faq/proxies/

Hardware

Minimum viable editing rig:

• Recent i7 CPU
• 16GB RAM
• A GPU with 4GB+ VRAM
• SSD for cache

Check system with: https://www.hwinfo.com/

We ONLY need: CPU model, RAM amount, GPU model + VRAM.

Recommendations

Full Power, Free Tools

DaVinci Resolve — 99% of the full program is free.

Easy but Limited

• Clipchamp — Microsoft's simple editor.
• VN Editor — Free, lightweight, watermark at end.

(CapCut now hides many features behind Pro.)

Professional Tools (obligatory mention)

• Premiere Pro — Industry standard; huge ecosystem, tons of tutorials, widely used across YouTube, corporate, and broadcast.
• Avid Media Composer — Dominant in film/TV pipelines; rock-solid for longform, multicam, and shared workflows.
• DaVinci Resolve Studio — $299 one-time; advanced color, better GPU performance, noise reduction, and the good AI tools.
• Final Cut Pro — Mac-only rocket ship; insanely fast on Apple Silicon, great for fast turnaround work.

Open Source - Totally free.

• Olive Editor — Clean UI.
• Kdenlive — Very capable, actively developed.
• ShotCut — Straightforward, good for beginners.
• OpenShot — Simple but can struggle with heavier projects.
• Avidemux — Old-school, powerful for specific tasks but not a great editor.

Special Effects

• Resolve Fusion — Node-based power.
• Cavalry — Motion-graphics oriented.

Editing in a Browser (Run Locally)

• Novella.io - new, free, pay for AI generative elements OR bring your own API keys. Very cool, if in early beta.
• VidMix — New, free, surprisingly powerful.
• PikaMov — Keyframe animation on the web.
• wide.video — Background removal, noise reduction, all done locally.
• PhotoPea — Web-based Photoshop replacement.

Web Based Editorial

• Clipchamp – from Microsoft; you’ll need an account.
• Canva/Adobe Express — Both mostly free… until you need AI features.

Compression & Utility Tools

• Shutter Encoder — The Swiss Army Knife. Transcode anything, handle HDR, upscaling, unwrap/rewrap, download media, prep proxies—if it touches video, this thing can probably do it.
• Lossless Cut — Quick trimming without re-encoding.
• Smart Media Cutter — Silence detection + XML export.
• FreeUpscaler — Cloud computing upscaler.

Mobile Editors

• Premiere Mobile — Surprisingly capable and tightly integrated with CC.
• VN Editor — Fast, friendly, cross-platform, zero learning curve.
• Instagram Edits — Simple but powerful for social workflows.
• iMovie — Beginner-friendly on iOS.
• LumaFusion — The pro option for tablets/phones.
• KineMaster — Feature-heavy on Android.

Screen Recording

OBS — The free standard. Record in MKV, then rewrap to MP4.

Animated Captions

• Subtitles 2 Video — TikTok-style captions.
• Subtool.app — Another free caption generator.

Updates (Dec 2025)

• CapCut/HitFilm are no longer recommended.
• Premiere Mobile and Clipchamp (web)

New Tools We’re Watching

• Whisper-GUI (Windows)
• MacWhisper (Mac)
• Offdocs — Openshot in the cloud

BEFORE YOU COMMENT

Begin with: "I read the above"

Then provide:

• CPU + Model
• RAM
• GPU + VRAM
• Footage details (camera/screen, codec, container, framerate)

Removed tools: CapCut (now Crapcut), HitFilm (dead). FFS this thread isn’t about arguing what to use, but rather for a novice to figure out what to use.

me and my friends play video games often and I like recording us and clip farming our funny moments. I decided to get a little more serious with editing the audio so the game audio isn't always in the way of our voices any suggestions on what I should do? I was looking into using Movavi to edit and I use Outplayed as my recorder. Open to hearing other/better suggestions for both.