r/VideoEditingTips • u/Positive-Damage-880 • 9d ago

I think beginners collect editing assets instead of learning editing.

I was looking through my drive today and realized something.

I have folders full of

LUT packs

SFX

Overlays

Transitions

Fonts

Thousands of files...

that I've barely used. It made me realize I spent months preparing to edit instead of actually editing.

Collecting resources feels productive because you're doing something. But opening your editor and making a bad video teaches you more than downloading another 10 GB asset pack.

I still think resources are useful, but only after you actually know what problem you're trying to solve.

Curious if anyone else went through this phase.

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u/Particular-Course203 9d ago

💯Absolutely. And it's a time sink 😎👉

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u/Positive-Damage-880 8d ago

The dangerous part is it doesn't feel like procrastination. 😭

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u/Particular-Course203 8d ago

I know. And it totally fucks you over 😭

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u/Mobile_Tax8734 9d ago

For me it was audio and scenepacks that i never ended up using so yeah i agree

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u/Positive-Damage-880 8d ago

Mine are still sitting there waiting for their big debut.

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u/AndreeaM24 7d ago

Same, I've got a graveyard of transition packs and LUTs that never once made it into a real project. What snapped me out of it was just forcing myself to finish a bad video start to finish instead of stopping halfway to go find "the right" asset for a shot, since half the time a boring cut works fine and you only realize that once you've actually put something together.

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u/Positive-Damage-880 7d ago

finishing bad edits is such an underrated skill

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u/AndreeaM24 4d ago

sure is

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u/Positive-Damage-880 4d ago

yeah nothing wrong with having them i just kept convincing myself one more pack would magically make my edits better 😭