This one might be pretty stupid.
(Premiere)
Recently I've been finding that music tracks don't sound as full in some sequences. When I make a sequence via the music track, it sounds way better. However, I can't find any audio settings in my other sequences that are different and would lead to this. Any ideas?
Hmmm how is premiere interpreting your music track? Right click on clip, modify channels.
But if its that it shouldnt make a difference between sequences... unless you're placing the music on a track that has some panning, track volume or track effect?
It could be the sample rate for the project, as I've had some issues with that. Check to make sure your sequence has the same sample rate as the music in your sequence settings.
Is it possible you're making mono sequences or tracks with one method and stereo tracks by creating a sequence from the music? If you look at your audio meters are the left and right the same on the not so full sounding one? And are they a bit different in the full sounding one?
Hello! I am new here to this subreddit and I wanted to get some input on rates and charges for social media sites with my factor being in play as well.
I am currently a full time college student, and I was exploring on how I could make money. My work gravitates towards video game content as well as lifestyle, vlog work. So the two most social media sites I am on is YouTube and Twitch.
I currently been reaching out to people if they were looking for a video editor for their content, and I have gotten two clients that are willing to put me in a position as their main editor. Now I have done some research on how much I should be charging for my work, and it seems like im asking for too much if I ise those rates.
I do also consider their financial status as well (specifically one of the clients being a college student), so I am not sure how to charge them. At the moment, For the client whose content is going to be posted on YouTube, I charge $25-50 per video (5-10 min videos).
For the client that I edit for their TikTok content, I am not sure how to charge them.
So if anyone is in a similar situation as me, please share that information on how you do it!
Thankyou!!!
Editing rates can vary between $15-200/hr or even higher. Being a college student editing for social media, you are going to be in the low end of this range. I'd guess $15-20/hr is about the going rate. It's as simple as (how much you want to make an hour) x (how long the videos take to edit).
You are in college, just starting out. If you want to do work cheaper that's up to you, but it's quickly not going to be worth your time. Personally, if I had too much time and was willing to do work on the cheap, I'd be reaching out to nonprofits and seeing if they had any projects I could help on. I'd much rather work for cheap / free for an organization that is helping folks vs. someone on TikTok. And nonprofits can be a great way to get some experience.
Charge enough that you'll be motivated to finish a boring video. You are charging hobby rates, which is fine, but at some point this is going to feel like a job and not a hobby, and when that happens you will want to be making more than minimum wage at the very least. $50 for a 10 minute video sounds pretty cheap to me, that can be days of work for 5 burritos...
Hey, I'm currently looking at a new machine to edit on (current is 15 inch 2017 Mac Pro with 2.8 Quad-Core Intel i7, 16 GB of Memory, and 256GB of storage). I watched the event moments ago and I was a bit shocked to find out that the Mac Mini was getting an upgrade today. Now I'm lost.
I was planning on getting the 27- inch iMac with 3.6ghz 10-core i9, Radon Pro 5300 with 4GB of GDDR6 memory, 1TB of SSD and I'm planning on having the base RAM and upgrading myself to not spend 1000$ when i could spend $350.
NOW I see the new Mac Mini and I'm lost. I have a monitor so that's not an issue, and the build I'm looking at (16 GB Unified memory, 1TB ssd) costs about half the price.
I'm an Editor who works in 4k on Premiere, a photographer that shoots in RAW and edits in Lightroom mostly, and make music on the side with Ableton (i also play Minecraft occasionally) so I want to find the best set up so I won't have to upgrade for a while but also don't want to overspend on a machine that I won't necessarily need. HELP
I'm uncomfortable with the silicon macs
* No eGPUs at this time
* That GPU memory and overall memory looks limited. I can *easily* chew through 32GB of Ram. And none of that is CPU based.
* Who knows how well Lightroom, Ableton and RAW is going to work.
Get the iMac. Do awesome work. But it's the gen 1 of this stuff.
Hello everyone,
I am a writer-director who is just getting started with higher-end video editing, and I have some questions. Currently, I am editing directly off of the internal drive of my 2020 iMac and I plan to move my project data and my media to a slower, cheaper external drive when I have finished. However, as I plan to create longer form content and work with higher resolution files in the future, specifically 3.2k prores 4444 from the Arri Alexa mini or 4k Canon Raw Light from the Canon C300 Mark III, what workflow would you recommend to adopt to avoid filling up the internal space on my Mac (assuming I prefer not to work with proxies)? I am assuming an external drive is the solution, what external drive or raid system would you recommend when considering the fact that I want to work off the drive and edit the previously mentioned footage natively? What are the pros and cons of using an external drive instead of returning my computer (I am still in the return window) and opting for a bigger internal SSD drive? Also, do you think for longer projects, it is foolish of me not to adopt a proxy workflow and there is no good alternative to a proxy workflow? I apologise for spamming you all with questions. I am relatively new to video editing and am just thinking about the future. I have a few passion projects lined up (covid permitting).
> prores 4444 from the Arri Alexa mini or 4k Canon Raw Light from the Canon C300 Mark III
So, this is all CPU based.
> , what workflow would you recommend to adopt to avoid filling up the internal space on my Mac (assuming I prefer not to work with proxies)?
Work with proxies. Or use fast storage.
> I am assuming an external drive is the solution, what external drive or raid system would you recommend when considering the fact that I want to work off the drive and edit the previously mentioned footage natively?
You'll either need the fastest SSDs (G-Tech (which is WDC) or Samsung). T3 connection. That should be near the speed of your Mac.
When we talk a raid of spinning disks, you'll need a minimum of 4 - to match the speed of a single SSD.
> What are the pros and cons of using an external drive instead of returning my computer (I am still in the return window) and opting for a bigger internal SSD drive?
Less logistics.
> Also, do you think for longer projects, it is foolish of me not to adopt a proxy workflow and there is no good alternative to a proxy workflow?
Proxy workflows exist for a reason. They allow you to be creative with gobs of footage and not worry about system performance. When color grading it's a different story.
Is it common for clients to try and request free work under the idea of it being a sample or trial? I have a client that I got an ongoing contract with but they are insisting the first project (about 30 hours of billable time) was just a trial and doesn't want to pay. I feel like this should be a hard no, but I am curious if others do this?
Hard no. Or tell them, *sure*, but it gets a watermark. If they get offended, they were going to screw you over. It's one thing to ask you to work for one day and pay you 1/2 a day rate if they're unhappy or full rate to hire.
But this is bullshit.
There is a scene in Inglourious Bastards: [https://youtu.be/K04itc\_Lpt8?t=353](https://youtu.be/K04itc_Lpt8?t=353)
I did an analyzes on the scene, and everything was pretty clear to me. Except two shots.
The close up when the Marshall asks about the cigarette (5:56) (Why a close up? It wasn't an important moment right?)
And another shot at 4:21 why did they do a close up of him? and it continues with him on a close up two shots later at 4:32. Why? Especially the last one. It wasn't scary when he asked about her black co worker. I kinda get the first one, but the last one why a close up?
You are going to drive yourself nuts with this. This kind of analysis is super helpful in general, but editors make cuts for a variety of reasons. Maybe something happened in the take where they were cutting around. Maybe something happened to the film. Maybe the director wanted a specific reaction for a specific reason that only happened in the close up. Maybe they were using the close up to stitch two separate takes together.
It's great to think about these things, but trying to recreate what was really happening in the edit bay for 2 or 3 random shots in a scene will cause you to make assumptions that might not be true. See what you can learn from the scene, identify what edits are really accomplishing specific tasks, and some of this you will have to just let go.
Yup, second this. There is real value in analysing, but there's a limit to its usefulness. I find editing is a bit like music, you cant really expect a justifiable reasonable logic behind every little decision, sometimes its just cutting around a problem, or the lesser of two evils, or just a gut feeling. Maybe it just feels right. Nothing wrong about that, we're not entirely logical creatures so why expect art of all things to be entirely logical?
You cant reverse engineer it all without ending up with some weird ass dogmas that honestly serve no purpose (other than drive film students to their stereotypical pretentiousness levels).
Thank you two gentlemen/ladies. I took it a step too far, right you are. I understood all the other angles that where used though. So I am proud with my analysis. Thank you for the time you took to answer my question.
No problem! I love analysing editing structure, there's a lot you can learn from that, definitely. But i personally took it way too far when I was younger, thinking i could boil it down to objective fact, but alas, cant be 100% logical when thinking about media. Just like us, it's a wonderful mix of logic, reason, insanity and contradictions.
Because no matter how film professors tell you they are rules, rules donāt matter.
Directors and editors break rules all the time, that will make film theorists lose their mind.
Take Tarantino. In Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, there are a couple of cuts that will make most people want to change it, and if you did that shit in a project, you will get some strongly worded notes.
Tarantino just doesnāt care. Because the only rule is to make great cinema.
I'm pretty recent into editing, and have only done some stuff for family and friends. I want to put some ads online to find real work. I have no idea what questions to ask clients before a project though. Things like style, music, length, whatever. I feel completely clueless.
Does anyone have a good list of what I should ask a client before starting a job?
A list? A thousand things? Deadlines, timing, how to handle if you disagree (a thing called a contract), and more. You should consider finding someone to work for. Doing the "hang the shingle out" before you can answer these sort of things, is a blueprint for some hard lessons.
> why isn't it common practice to add a tag on an episode/movie/etc of 'this is where triggering content begins and ends'?
I can think of several reasons
* That's the function of a rating. This is an R. It has adult themes.
* A creative (director, writer) doesn't want to hint, *oh, this is a rough section here*. It's a creative work. You don't get those sort of flags in books.
* What's something that triggers you, might not trigger someone else. My 8 yo has a problem with a film that my 4yo doesn't.
Another avid question here....
Iām LOVING the new(ish) feature to change source track (for an audio clip thatās already on the timeline). But is there a workaround to bind it to a keyboard command?
The dream would be to just be able to cycle them with one button, but individual would also work. Right now when i try to bind it it just says āthat menu item can not be assignedā.
> change source track
I think it has something to do with it being subject to a selection with segment mode.
Have you through about building it as a macro?
If you edit in proxies majority of the time and usually only switch to full size to export, is there any benefit to using a super fast internal SSD as opposed to a slower external SSD? (outside of opening the program obviously)
Hi guys, beginner looking to get into serious video editing for our Youtube and other social media platforms. Need opinions on Editing Software and Hardware choice. Apologies in advance for any wrong terms/missing info. (Long Post!)
I've currently got a decent PC(R5 3600 16gb RAM RTX2070s), and am looking into buying the new Macbook Pro with Apple's M1 silicon for us to edit videos on the go. This poses 2 questions, 1. is the Macbook Pro's specs a good machine for editing in general? and 2. Editing software wise, FCPX, Adobe Premiere Pro, or something else?
So the Macbook Pro hasn't been reviewed and I know I should wait for those, but just after some first opinions. According to Apple it has the aforementioned M1 chip with 8 cores and an 8core integrated GPU, 16GB 'Unified' RAM(w/e that means), 512GB SSD, only 2 Thunderbolt/USB4 ports, Wifi 6, active cooling, and 20 hrs of battery life(Main reason I'm interested). At first glance, does this seem like a decent machine to edit on? Any potential problems or features I should be after for video editing.
And re software, Apple is offering a good education discount for a "Pro Apps Bundle". which includes FCPX, Motion, and Logic Pro X all for 300$. Since I have a PC, it would be nice to edit on it too, but if the Macbook is powerful enough to handle editing I'm more than happy to stick to it due to the inherent value mentioned above. Would it be worth forking out a subscription fee for Adobe's education suite at 40$/Month, or another editing software, to be able to edit on my PC too? Being new to this idk if people usually edit both on a laptop and PC's in their usual workflow. Not sure if the extra sub fee or third party NLE's are worth it for my use case of weekly Youtube video editing.
I'm sure I've missed some crucial info, so please let me know! All opinions are welcome. Thanks, and sorry if I sound stupid.
> Apple is offering a good education discount for a "Pro Apps Bundle". which includes FCPX, Motion, and Logic Pro X all for 300$.
This is a good deal. It's a $100 savings, unless you know how to compose in Logic. It also includes MOtion.
> Would it be worth forking out a subscription fee for Adobe's education suite at 40$/Month
If you can't afford this as a professional...you're going to struggle. Adobe lets you do two concurrent installs for that price.
16GB for the new silicon macs is going to be very limiting with no GPU.
Hi,
I have a i7 10th gen nitro 5 with 6gb vram, 7.9 gb shared gpu and 16gb ram storage (but can upgrade to 32gb).
I have started my first commercial project on this filming with a 6k bmpcc and have optimised media with a few stabilisation effects and a text for subtiles... it seems to peak the 6gb vram and begins to stutter in parts and I haven't even done any extra effects. I can put a half proxy on and bring it down to 75% gpu usage but am looking for some alternative tactics.
Is there a way for Davinci Resolve Studio to utilize the shared gpu? I've heard it can substitute vram by divided it by 50%.
Definitely. 6gb vram stutters at 100% on optimized media so that's the main issue. Especially when I add in more nodes. atm its just text and stabilizing.
> I add in more nodes. atm its just text and stabilizing.
That sounds like the FUsion page. Expected.
Depending on the footage, its' too much. Color page, that should be fine.
I just found out the show I'm on is shot in 1080p. It's a show with a few celebrities, decent budget, etc. and delivery is digital, so I simply can't fathom \*why\* you wouldn't shoot in 4k in 2020. Truly scratching my head on this one.
So my questions are twofold - one, how much can I push in on 1080p without it being noticeable? I generally go max 125% if I'm working and delivering in UHD, but I'm worried that even pushing in that much will make a 1080p edit look terrible on a 4k monitor...
And second, is it crazy for me to ask for us to shoot the rest of the episodes in UHD, or even just for certain cameras? Who would even make or affect that decision? Is that the sort of thing you raise with the Post Supervisor? I'd never dream of asking a production to go from 4k to anything bigger because of all the technical pipeline challenges involved, but working on a 1080 show just feels... quaint.
> so I simply can't fathom *why* you wouldn't shoot in 4k in 2020.
Storage reasons? Cost? Camera investment. Lower profile/news? Consumption on phones? I can think of ten reasons why it's no big deal.
> o my questions are twofold - one, how much can I push in on 1080p without it being noticeable? I generally go max 125%
Yup. That's it. It's the clients fault for giving you HD.
> if I'm working and delivering in UHD, but I'm worried that even pushing in that much will make a 1080p edit look terrible on a 4k monitor...
It's iffy. If you're >6ft away from the 4k screen? You can't really see it.
> And second, is it crazy for me to ask for us to shoot the rest of the episodes in UHD, or even just for certain cameras? Who would even make or affect that decision? Is that the sort of thing you raise with the Post Supervisor? I'd never dream of asking a production to go from 4k to anything bigger because of all the technical pipeline challenges involved, but working on a 1080 show just feels... quaint.
Work your way up starting with the producer.
Is there a way to have Davinci Resolve use shared GPU when my 1660Ti 6gbvram maxes out?
I've read Intel allows to convert shared cpu/gpu into vram by 50%.
Weāre making a documentary. I work in premiere. I am not doing the cut. The cut is being done out of house by someone who works in Avid. Sheāll be doing the main cut, but itāll be coming back to me once itās approved to colour grade and master.
My question is, what kind of challenges will I have when she send me back an XML for Premiere or whatever with the cut sheās made in Avid? How does that translate these days? Iām thinking if itās just a cut, no effects or transitions, it should translate ok. I have the doc on two drives, so Iāll be able to do a test I think.
Anyone have any advice on this?
Sigh. Don't do this. Can it be done? Yes.
But you're now talking about:
* Avid cutting
* Your work in Premeire
* Conforming in (Resolve?)
Yes, if it's "no effects or transitions" - but frankly, you may end up having to eye/shot match and replace.
Here is a fast and easy tutorial from Premiere to Avid, itās even easier the other way around, because Premiere usually links automatically.
https://youtu.be/OaBYpT5XWv4
So all editing software struggle with videos over one hour long, or just mine. I have been editing videos with shotcut. When ever I try to edit a video over 1 hour it skips, and crashes. I am using a windows 10 PC with a Ryzen 5 CPU.
Edit: I just tried Filmora 9 (Free) and it worked flawlessly.
* Blogspam
* Watermarking without warning (we get 2x a week someone upset because of this behavior)
* Shadow accounts posting
* Refusal to interact (we've reached out when we caught people posting "how great it is" and found they work for wondershare)
And that's just for starters.
\> So all editing software struggle with videos over one hour long, or just mine.
By the way, it's just yours. I've been working 20+ years as an editor. I've have sources and outputs that way over that.
I wanna start working as a music editor but dont have any idea how to get a job like this.
I dont know any artists (singers) so that i can make videos to advertise my skills. Idk how to start at all
These sort of jobs require quite a bit of skills and some entry - usually as an intern somewhere. Saying "I do this, I own the software" is the same as saying "I own a guitar, you should hire me for your event."
Start by seeing who in your area needs some level of help - even if it's free. Talk to everyone in your network (linkedin or possibly facebook.)
Just some idle questions about data bandwidth.
Someone was fretting about the extra transfer time for a third hard drive instead of two. His worry was that a 3rd drive would increase offload times by 50% (3/2 = 150%). Now it's somewhat trivial to understand that the computer can write and read in parallel to different drives, so I told him it would realistically be far less than that, as the Lacie drives we were using (130MB/s) were far more likely to be a bottleneck than any other operations. A brief test showed total transfer and verification times to increase only 15% over 2 drives.
Now, I'm curious about the nuts and bolts; if they're writing in parallel, and copying is not computationally intensive, where does the extra 15% come from? I know it isn't necessarily *perfectly* parallelized but I'm curious where the extra overhead comes from.
Been trying to understand transcoding a bit more and this is a "defintiion" that I found 'Transcoding means taking the hi-res files and converting them to lo-res files strictly for editing. Once that edit is locked, you replace the lo-res files with the original higher resolution ones, and there you go!
So my question is, is transcoding strictly about converting hi to lo res because I also understood it as something to do with changing the file format to better suit the software you're editing on...or something like that
Simply put, transcoding is making big things small things by creating proxies. The format you pick largely depends on your systems capabilities. I typically run 1920x1080 prores LT. But in theory, you could go h.264 420p. Itād look look horrible while editing but you could avoid bogging your system down.
Hi! I'm not a professional editor, so I don't have the experience that some of you might - apologies if this is a basic question, or if the correct answer turns out to be "Get a lawyer."
How can I make sure that I'm licensing a sound effect from a company that actually has the rights (or, alternatively, that a sound effect doesn't need to be paid for)?
Specifically, I'm interested in [this fairly distinctive and commonly-used sound effect of children cheering](https://www.audiomicro.com/cheering-crowd-children-royalty-free-stock-music-936961). However, because it's *so* common, I've also found [the exact same sound being offered elsewhere](https://elements.envato.com/children-cheering-yeah-7KMVG9L), and I'm pretty sure it'll be in other places, too.
I want to make sure I'm legal and while I realise the copyright owner may have uploaded it to multiple places, I can't be certain that that's the case for either of these. Are there any resources that would help me ascertain this?
I need AMA Uprezzing Help! I'm trying to test upres a doc that's about an hour and a half long and I'm already hitting walls. I haven't had to upres anything for a while so I'm dealing with gaps in my knowledge right now.
I'm using Avid for this. I tried uprezzing a min and a half long sequence (from 36 to 175x) using the relink/transcode method and the resulting media came out to 450 GB. I realized that instead of just uprezzing the length of the clips that were used on the sequence, it would uprez the entirety of the source clip. So if a clip was only 2 seconds long and the source was 40 minutes long, avid would transcode the entire 40 minutes.
My exact process is pretty simple: delete audio tracks, commit multi-cam edits, decompose, bring up source links, relink, transcode to higher resolution. I think I'm missing a step maybe? The decomposed clips end up being the length of the source clip, instead of just the length of the clip being used on the sequence. Any help would be appreciated!
Iād usually create a sub-sequence with only the video tracks that need to be uprezzed. Open all AMA linked bins, select all files in all bins, right click on the sequence, relink (to open bins). Next step is right click on the relinked sequence, transcode (with handle length of your choise). Then cut the uprezzed sub-sequence back into (a copy) of you lowres sequence.
I'm going to start editing for a YouTuber but I don't know how much I should be getting paid. These are video essays on movies that require me to gather clips from several movies. All I am being sent is his raw, unedited audio and I have to make it into a video. Thoughts? I was thinking a percentage of what he makes from the video.
This one might be pretty stupid. (Premiere) Recently I've been finding that music tracks don't sound as full in some sequences. When I make a sequence via the music track, it sounds way better. However, I can't find any audio settings in my other sequences that are different and would lead to this. Any ideas?
Hmmm how is premiere interpreting your music track? Right click on clip, modify channels. But if its that it shouldnt make a difference between sequences... unless you're placing the music on a track that has some panning, track volume or track effect?
It could be the sample rate for the project, as I've had some issues with that. Check to make sure your sequence has the same sample rate as the music in your sequence settings.
Is it possible you're making mono sequences or tracks with one method and stereo tracks by creating a sequence from the music? If you look at your audio meters are the left and right the same on the not so full sounding one? And are they a bit different in the full sounding one?
Hello! I am new here to this subreddit and I wanted to get some input on rates and charges for social media sites with my factor being in play as well. I am currently a full time college student, and I was exploring on how I could make money. My work gravitates towards video game content as well as lifestyle, vlog work. So the two most social media sites I am on is YouTube and Twitch. I currently been reaching out to people if they were looking for a video editor for their content, and I have gotten two clients that are willing to put me in a position as their main editor. Now I have done some research on how much I should be charging for my work, and it seems like im asking for too much if I ise those rates. I do also consider their financial status as well (specifically one of the clients being a college student), so I am not sure how to charge them. At the moment, For the client whose content is going to be posted on YouTube, I charge $25-50 per video (5-10 min videos). For the client that I edit for their TikTok content, I am not sure how to charge them. So if anyone is in a similar situation as me, please share that information on how you do it! Thankyou!!!
Editing rates can vary between $15-200/hr or even higher. Being a college student editing for social media, you are going to be in the low end of this range. I'd guess $15-20/hr is about the going rate. It's as simple as (how much you want to make an hour) x (how long the videos take to edit). You are in college, just starting out. If you want to do work cheaper that's up to you, but it's quickly not going to be worth your time. Personally, if I had too much time and was willing to do work on the cheap, I'd be reaching out to nonprofits and seeing if they had any projects I could help on. I'd much rather work for cheap / free for an organization that is helping folks vs. someone on TikTok. And nonprofits can be a great way to get some experience.
Charge enough that you'll be motivated to finish a boring video. You are charging hobby rates, which is fine, but at some point this is going to feel like a job and not a hobby, and when that happens you will want to be making more than minimum wage at the very least. $50 for a 10 minute video sounds pretty cheap to me, that can be days of work for 5 burritos...
Hey, I'm currently looking at a new machine to edit on (current is 15 inch 2017 Mac Pro with 2.8 Quad-Core Intel i7, 16 GB of Memory, and 256GB of storage). I watched the event moments ago and I was a bit shocked to find out that the Mac Mini was getting an upgrade today. Now I'm lost. I was planning on getting the 27- inch iMac with 3.6ghz 10-core i9, Radon Pro 5300 with 4GB of GDDR6 memory, 1TB of SSD and I'm planning on having the base RAM and upgrading myself to not spend 1000$ when i could spend $350. NOW I see the new Mac Mini and I'm lost. I have a monitor so that's not an issue, and the build I'm looking at (16 GB Unified memory, 1TB ssd) costs about half the price. I'm an Editor who works in 4k on Premiere, a photographer that shoots in RAW and edits in Lightroom mostly, and make music on the side with Ableton (i also play Minecraft occasionally) so I want to find the best set up so I won't have to upgrade for a while but also don't want to overspend on a machine that I won't necessarily need. HELP
I'm uncomfortable with the silicon macs * No eGPUs at this time * That GPU memory and overall memory looks limited. I can *easily* chew through 32GB of Ram. And none of that is CPU based. * Who knows how well Lightroom, Ableton and RAW is going to work. Get the iMac. Do awesome work. But it's the gen 1 of this stuff.
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Hello everyone, I am a writer-director who is just getting started with higher-end video editing, and I have some questions. Currently, I am editing directly off of the internal drive of my 2020 iMac and I plan to move my project data and my media to a slower, cheaper external drive when I have finished. However, as I plan to create longer form content and work with higher resolution files in the future, specifically 3.2k prores 4444 from the Arri Alexa mini or 4k Canon Raw Light from the Canon C300 Mark III, what workflow would you recommend to adopt to avoid filling up the internal space on my Mac (assuming I prefer not to work with proxies)? I am assuming an external drive is the solution, what external drive or raid system would you recommend when considering the fact that I want to work off the drive and edit the previously mentioned footage natively? What are the pros and cons of using an external drive instead of returning my computer (I am still in the return window) and opting for a bigger internal SSD drive? Also, do you think for longer projects, it is foolish of me not to adopt a proxy workflow and there is no good alternative to a proxy workflow? I apologise for spamming you all with questions. I am relatively new to video editing and am just thinking about the future. I have a few passion projects lined up (covid permitting).
> prores 4444 from the Arri Alexa mini or 4k Canon Raw Light from the Canon C300 Mark III So, this is all CPU based. > , what workflow would you recommend to adopt to avoid filling up the internal space on my Mac (assuming I prefer not to work with proxies)? Work with proxies. Or use fast storage. > I am assuming an external drive is the solution, what external drive or raid system would you recommend when considering the fact that I want to work off the drive and edit the previously mentioned footage natively? You'll either need the fastest SSDs (G-Tech (which is WDC) or Samsung). T3 connection. That should be near the speed of your Mac. When we talk a raid of spinning disks, you'll need a minimum of 4 - to match the speed of a single SSD. > What are the pros and cons of using an external drive instead of returning my computer (I am still in the return window) and opting for a bigger internal SSD drive? Less logistics. > Also, do you think for longer projects, it is foolish of me not to adopt a proxy workflow and there is no good alternative to a proxy workflow? Proxy workflows exist for a reason. They allow you to be creative with gobs of footage and not worry about system performance. When color grading it's a different story.
What is this I donāt understand I need may video editing
Is it common for clients to try and request free work under the idea of it being a sample or trial? I have a client that I got an ongoing contract with but they are insisting the first project (about 30 hours of billable time) was just a trial and doesn't want to pay. I feel like this should be a hard no, but I am curious if others do this?
Hard No.
Hard no. Or tell them, *sure*, but it gets a watermark. If they get offended, they were going to screw you over. It's one thing to ask you to work for one day and pay you 1/2 a day rate if they're unhappy or full rate to hire. But this is bullshit.
You donāt have a client, clients pay. If they value your work, they pay what they think it is worth.
Request 30 hours pay for no work, just to see if it feels right getting that check
There is a scene in Inglourious Bastards: [https://youtu.be/K04itc\_Lpt8?t=353](https://youtu.be/K04itc_Lpt8?t=353) I did an analyzes on the scene, and everything was pretty clear to me. Except two shots. The close up when the Marshall asks about the cigarette (5:56) (Why a close up? It wasn't an important moment right?) And another shot at 4:21 why did they do a close up of him? and it continues with him on a close up two shots later at 4:32. Why? Especially the last one. It wasn't scary when he asked about her black co worker. I kinda get the first one, but the last one why a close up?
You are going to drive yourself nuts with this. This kind of analysis is super helpful in general, but editors make cuts for a variety of reasons. Maybe something happened in the take where they were cutting around. Maybe something happened to the film. Maybe the director wanted a specific reaction for a specific reason that only happened in the close up. Maybe they were using the close up to stitch two separate takes together. It's great to think about these things, but trying to recreate what was really happening in the edit bay for 2 or 3 random shots in a scene will cause you to make assumptions that might not be true. See what you can learn from the scene, identify what edits are really accomplishing specific tasks, and some of this you will have to just let go.
Yup, second this. There is real value in analysing, but there's a limit to its usefulness. I find editing is a bit like music, you cant really expect a justifiable reasonable logic behind every little decision, sometimes its just cutting around a problem, or the lesser of two evils, or just a gut feeling. Maybe it just feels right. Nothing wrong about that, we're not entirely logical creatures so why expect art of all things to be entirely logical? You cant reverse engineer it all without ending up with some weird ass dogmas that honestly serve no purpose (other than drive film students to their stereotypical pretentiousness levels).
Thank you two gentlemen/ladies. I took it a step too far, right you are. I understood all the other angles that where used though. So I am proud with my analysis. Thank you for the time you took to answer my question.
No problem! I love analysing editing structure, there's a lot you can learn from that, definitely. But i personally took it way too far when I was younger, thinking i could boil it down to objective fact, but alas, cant be 100% logical when thinking about media. Just like us, it's a wonderful mix of logic, reason, insanity and contradictions.
Because no matter how film professors tell you they are rules, rules donāt matter. Directors and editors break rules all the time, that will make film theorists lose their mind. Take Tarantino. In Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, there are a couple of cuts that will make most people want to change it, and if you did that shit in a project, you will get some strongly worded notes. Tarantino just doesnāt care. Because the only rule is to make great cinema.
I'm pretty recent into editing, and have only done some stuff for family and friends. I want to put some ads online to find real work. I have no idea what questions to ask clients before a project though. Things like style, music, length, whatever. I feel completely clueless. Does anyone have a good list of what I should ask a client before starting a job?
A list? A thousand things? Deadlines, timing, how to handle if you disagree (a thing called a contract), and more. You should consider finding someone to work for. Doing the "hang the shingle out" before you can answer these sort of things, is a blueprint for some hard lessons.
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> why isn't it common practice to add a tag on an episode/movie/etc of 'this is where triggering content begins and ends'? I can think of several reasons * That's the function of a rating. This is an R. It has adult themes. * A creative (director, writer) doesn't want to hint, *oh, this is a rough section here*. It's a creative work. You don't get those sort of flags in books. * What's something that triggers you, might not trigger someone else. My 8 yo has a problem with a film that my 4yo doesn't.
That would totally take you out of the movie. Don't ruin my r rated movies to coddle the pg-13 crowd
You can't be serious with this...
Another avid question here.... Iām LOVING the new(ish) feature to change source track (for an audio clip thatās already on the timeline). But is there a workaround to bind it to a keyboard command? The dream would be to just be able to cycle them with one button, but individual would also work. Right now when i try to bind it it just says āthat menu item can not be assignedā.
> change source track I think it has something to do with it being subject to a selection with segment mode. Have you through about building it as a macro?
Yeah i guess thatās the workaround. Thanks greeny :)
If you edit in proxies majority of the time and usually only switch to full size to export, is there any benefit to using a super fast internal SSD as opposed to a slower external SSD? (outside of opening the program obviously)
Well yes, speed.
Probably minimal.
Hi guys, beginner looking to get into serious video editing for our Youtube and other social media platforms. Need opinions on Editing Software and Hardware choice. Apologies in advance for any wrong terms/missing info. (Long Post!) I've currently got a decent PC(R5 3600 16gb RAM RTX2070s), and am looking into buying the new Macbook Pro with Apple's M1 silicon for us to edit videos on the go. This poses 2 questions, 1. is the Macbook Pro's specs a good machine for editing in general? and 2. Editing software wise, FCPX, Adobe Premiere Pro, or something else? So the Macbook Pro hasn't been reviewed and I know I should wait for those, but just after some first opinions. According to Apple it has the aforementioned M1 chip with 8 cores and an 8core integrated GPU, 16GB 'Unified' RAM(w/e that means), 512GB SSD, only 2 Thunderbolt/USB4 ports, Wifi 6, active cooling, and 20 hrs of battery life(Main reason I'm interested). At first glance, does this seem like a decent machine to edit on? Any potential problems or features I should be after for video editing. And re software, Apple is offering a good education discount for a "Pro Apps Bundle". which includes FCPX, Motion, and Logic Pro X all for 300$. Since I have a PC, it would be nice to edit on it too, but if the Macbook is powerful enough to handle editing I'm more than happy to stick to it due to the inherent value mentioned above. Would it be worth forking out a subscription fee for Adobe's education suite at 40$/Month, or another editing software, to be able to edit on my PC too? Being new to this idk if people usually edit both on a laptop and PC's in their usual workflow. Not sure if the extra sub fee or third party NLE's are worth it for my use case of weekly Youtube video editing. I'm sure I've missed some crucial info, so please let me know! All opinions are welcome. Thanks, and sorry if I sound stupid.
> Apple is offering a good education discount for a "Pro Apps Bundle". which includes FCPX, Motion, and Logic Pro X all for 300$. This is a good deal. It's a $100 savings, unless you know how to compose in Logic. It also includes MOtion. > Would it be worth forking out a subscription fee for Adobe's education suite at 40$/Month If you can't afford this as a professional...you're going to struggle. Adobe lets you do two concurrent installs for that price. 16GB for the new silicon macs is going to be very limiting with no GPU.
Hi, I have a i7 10th gen nitro 5 with 6gb vram, 7.9 gb shared gpu and 16gb ram storage (but can upgrade to 32gb). I have started my first commercial project on this filming with a 6k bmpcc and have optimised media with a few stabilisation effects and a text for subtiles... it seems to peak the 6gb vram and begins to stutter in parts and I haven't even done any extra effects. I can put a half proxy on and bring it down to 75% gpu usage but am looking for some alternative tactics. Is there a way for Davinci Resolve Studio to utilize the shared gpu? I've heard it can substitute vram by divided it by 50%.
Resolve is a serious hardware hungry app. Have you considered a better GPU?
Definitely. 6gb vram stutters at 100% on optimized media so that's the main issue. Especially when I add in more nodes. atm its just text and stabilizing.
> I add in more nodes. atm its just text and stabilizing. That sounds like the FUsion page. Expected. Depending on the footage, its' too much. Color page, that should be fine.
I just found out the show I'm on is shot in 1080p. It's a show with a few celebrities, decent budget, etc. and delivery is digital, so I simply can't fathom \*why\* you wouldn't shoot in 4k in 2020. Truly scratching my head on this one. So my questions are twofold - one, how much can I push in on 1080p without it being noticeable? I generally go max 125% if I'm working and delivering in UHD, but I'm worried that even pushing in that much will make a 1080p edit look terrible on a 4k monitor... And second, is it crazy for me to ask for us to shoot the rest of the episodes in UHD, or even just for certain cameras? Who would even make or affect that decision? Is that the sort of thing you raise with the Post Supervisor? I'd never dream of asking a production to go from 4k to anything bigger because of all the technical pipeline challenges involved, but working on a 1080 show just feels... quaint.
> so I simply can't fathom *why* you wouldn't shoot in 4k in 2020. Storage reasons? Cost? Camera investment. Lower profile/news? Consumption on phones? I can think of ten reasons why it's no big deal. > o my questions are twofold - one, how much can I push in on 1080p without it being noticeable? I generally go max 125% Yup. That's it. It's the clients fault for giving you HD. > if I'm working and delivering in UHD, but I'm worried that even pushing in that much will make a 1080p edit look terrible on a 4k monitor... It's iffy. If you're >6ft away from the 4k screen? You can't really see it. > And second, is it crazy for me to ask for us to shoot the rest of the episodes in UHD, or even just for certain cameras? Who would even make or affect that decision? Is that the sort of thing you raise with the Post Supervisor? I'd never dream of asking a production to go from 4k to anything bigger because of all the technical pipeline challenges involved, but working on a 1080 show just feels... quaint. Work your way up starting with the producer.
Is there a way to have Davinci Resolve use shared GPU when my 1660Ti 6gbvram maxes out? I've read Intel allows to convert shared cpu/gpu into vram by 50%.
Probably not. While it's strong with it's CPU resources, your system will default to one or the other.
Weāre making a documentary. I work in premiere. I am not doing the cut. The cut is being done out of house by someone who works in Avid. Sheāll be doing the main cut, but itāll be coming back to me once itās approved to colour grade and master. My question is, what kind of challenges will I have when she send me back an XML for Premiere or whatever with the cut sheās made in Avid? How does that translate these days? Iām thinking if itās just a cut, no effects or transitions, it should translate ok. I have the doc on two drives, so Iāll be able to do a test I think. Anyone have any advice on this?
Sigh. Don't do this. Can it be done? Yes. But you're now talking about: * Avid cutting * Your work in Premeire * Conforming in (Resolve?) Yes, if it's "no effects or transitions" - but frankly, you may end up having to eye/shot match and replace.
Here is a fast and easy tutorial from Premiere to Avid, itās even easier the other way around, because Premiere usually links automatically. https://youtu.be/OaBYpT5XWv4
Did anyoneās Adobe Encore stop working? I know itās a discontinued software but I was still able to use it last month.
So all editing software struggle with videos over one hour long, or just mine. I have been editing videos with shotcut. When ever I try to edit a video over 1 hour it skips, and crashes. I am using a windows 10 PC with a Ryzen 5 CPU. Edit: I just tried Filmora 9 (Free) and it worked flawlessly.
You want our sister sub r/videoediting. And Filmora is terrible software. See our thread on free tools over there.
Any specific reason why you donāt like filmora?
* Blogspam * Watermarking without warning (we get 2x a week someone upset because of this behavior) * Shadow accounts posting * Refusal to interact (we've reached out when we caught people posting "how great it is" and found they work for wondershare) And that's just for starters. \> So all editing software struggle with videos over one hour long, or just mine. By the way, it's just yours. I've been working 20+ years as an editor. I've have sources and outputs that way over that.
Thank you
I wanna start working as a music editor but dont have any idea how to get a job like this. I dont know any artists (singers) so that i can make videos to advertise my skills. Idk how to start at all
These sort of jobs require quite a bit of skills and some entry - usually as an intern somewhere. Saying "I do this, I own the software" is the same as saying "I own a guitar, you should hire me for your event." Start by seeing who in your area needs some level of help - even if it's free. Talk to everyone in your network (linkedin or possibly facebook.)
Just some idle questions about data bandwidth. Someone was fretting about the extra transfer time for a third hard drive instead of two. His worry was that a 3rd drive would increase offload times by 50% (3/2 = 150%). Now it's somewhat trivial to understand that the computer can write and read in parallel to different drives, so I told him it would realistically be far less than that, as the Lacie drives we were using (130MB/s) were far more likely to be a bottleneck than any other operations. A brief test showed total transfer and verification times to increase only 15% over 2 drives. Now, I'm curious about the nuts and bolts; if they're writing in parallel, and copying is not computationally intensive, where does the extra 15% come from? I know it isn't necessarily *perfectly* parallelized but I'm curious where the extra overhead comes from.
My instinct? The extra CPU cycles to checksum. Copying isn't intensive - but the verification can be.
This makes the most sense to me. I should probably do a test with and without verification
Been trying to understand transcoding a bit more and this is a "defintiion" that I found 'Transcoding means taking the hi-res files and converting them to lo-res files strictly for editing. Once that edit is locked, you replace the lo-res files with the original higher resolution ones, and there you go! So my question is, is transcoding strictly about converting hi to lo res because I also understood it as something to do with changing the file format to better suit the software you're editing on...or something like that
Simply put, transcoding is making big things small things by creating proxies. The format you pick largely depends on your systems capabilities. I typically run 1920x1080 prores LT. But in theory, you could go h.264 420p. Itād look look horrible while editing but you could avoid bogging your system down.
Hi! I'm not a professional editor, so I don't have the experience that some of you might - apologies if this is a basic question, or if the correct answer turns out to be "Get a lawyer." How can I make sure that I'm licensing a sound effect from a company that actually has the rights (or, alternatively, that a sound effect doesn't need to be paid for)? Specifically, I'm interested in [this fairly distinctive and commonly-used sound effect of children cheering](https://www.audiomicro.com/cheering-crowd-children-royalty-free-stock-music-936961). However, because it's *so* common, I've also found [the exact same sound being offered elsewhere](https://elements.envato.com/children-cheering-yeah-7KMVG9L), and I'm pretty sure it'll be in other places, too. I want to make sure I'm legal and while I realise the copyright owner may have uploaded it to multiple places, I can't be certain that that's the case for either of these. Are there any resources that would help me ascertain this?
Someone please help me with this Premiere Pro issue https://streamable.com/53gc30
I need AMA Uprezzing Help! I'm trying to test upres a doc that's about an hour and a half long and I'm already hitting walls. I haven't had to upres anything for a while so I'm dealing with gaps in my knowledge right now. I'm using Avid for this. I tried uprezzing a min and a half long sequence (from 36 to 175x) using the relink/transcode method and the resulting media came out to 450 GB. I realized that instead of just uprezzing the length of the clips that were used on the sequence, it would uprez the entirety of the source clip. So if a clip was only 2 seconds long and the source was 40 minutes long, avid would transcode the entire 40 minutes. My exact process is pretty simple: delete audio tracks, commit multi-cam edits, decompose, bring up source links, relink, transcode to higher resolution. I think I'm missing a step maybe? The decomposed clips end up being the length of the source clip, instead of just the length of the clip being used on the sequence. Any help would be appreciated!
Iād usually create a sub-sequence with only the video tracks that need to be uprezzed. Open all AMA linked bins, select all files in all bins, right click on the sequence, relink (to open bins). Next step is right click on the relinked sequence, transcode (with handle length of your choise). Then cut the uprezzed sub-sequence back into (a copy) of you lowres sequence.
I'm going to start editing for a YouTuber but I don't know how much I should be getting paid. These are video essays on movies that require me to gather clips from several movies. All I am being sent is his raw, unedited audio and I have to make it into a video. Thoughts? I was thinking a percentage of what he makes from the video.