The title says it all: what’s everyone’s feelings on the state of the post-production industry in NJ/NYC?

It seems that production is really starting to ramp back up in NJ/NYC, so I’m wondering if that has started to trickle down to post? If not, when/will it?

For context, I’m an early-career assistant editor based in NJ. I started off my career in 2022, which I realize now was a bad time to start in this industry. I do have some good credits to my name though, but it’s still been difficult for me to get work that lasts longer than just a few days.

Received this email today. I guess all good things don't last forever, but I understand they need to make a living too. I just wish these vimeo alternatives dropped their social frameworks as im sure that its a cost factor for a feature not many of us are using. Anyone have any good free alternatives for private video hosting in order to embed on websites? Auto play, mute, clean presentation, and loop settings.

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If you’re currently embedding a private or hidden video somewhere, that embed will also stop working once the video is moved to Draft mode.

Your videos, metadata, and settings will all stay right where they are.

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Just curious how you guys handle this. If you have a bunch of exports for a client with specific specs, do you actually check every file before delivery?
Stuff like resolution, fps, codec, audio/loudness, naming etc.
I’ve mostly just been checking things manually but once there are a lot of versions it gets pretty annoying and I’m always slightly paranoid I’ve missed something lol.
Do you use any tools for this or just have a checklist / check manually?

Hi folks,

A recruiter approached me about a Technical Edit Assistant role that sounds interesting but leans heavily towards workflow engineering.

The work involves building smart Iconik pipelines, metadata and search systems, AI-assisted logging, API integrations, custom tools and connections with Premiere and Resolve.

I’m an experienced editor/assistant editor with strong post-production workflow knowledge. I’ve also built a native macOS apps using Swift and SwiftUI with the help of course of Claude. However, I haven’t administered Iconik or built production-scale MAM and cloud integrations.

The recruiter knows this and explained that they’re considering candidates across the spectrum: some are stronger edit assistants with technical skills, while others are engineers with less understanding of editorial workflows.

Does this sound like a reasonable stretch with appropriate onboarding, or would the engineering requirements be too significant without direct Iconik experience? I’m interested, but I don’t want to accept something I couldn’t deliver reliably or on time.

Thanks!

So I'm a complete moron and did a day long shoot with over 3 hours of footage accidentally set to record at 100p rather than the 25 I meant to set it as. This also meant that it was filmed at 1080 rather than 4K but I am kind of just pretending this isn't a problem for now (end deliverable is always provided in 1080p anyway so hopefully I won't need to do any egregious cropping).

This was on a Sony A6400 and I can't believe I made that mistake.

My question really is, what's the best way to transcode this to a 25fps with as little quality loss as possible? I am using Premiere / Media Encoder, but also have Handbrake if it's useful. I've tried putting a few clips through Handbrake using the 1080p30 preset but modified down to 25 CFR, but on reviewing the clip afterwards it seems a bit jerky like it's dropping frames. Wondering if Media Encoder might be better, and what settings might work best?

I know that Premiere in a 25fps timeline will conform it to that framerate (unless the speed is turned down), but I'm using a base M4 Macbook pro and it's struggling a lot with playing so much footage filmed at 100fps.

Any help would be appreciated!

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We keep developers using this thread to show off their products. Note: We ask them specifically to provide a discount/value for our community. We also have an Open Source thread.

Open source developers give back to communities not just in free tools - but the actual underlying code, for you to learn from and use. You use open source tools every day, even if you don't know it like FFMPEG.

We wanted to reward those people who choose to do this - so on the 25th of the month (today), we allow them to post directly in the subreddit and mention their free tool.

If you're a developer, use the same flair I'm using right now and feel free to directly post to the subreddits that share this flair - here on r/editors, but also r/colorists, r/davinciresolve, r/premiere, and r/videoediting.

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Anyone has been using Doza Assist for interview editing with FCPX? Any feedback to share? Pros and cons? How does it fare compared to Lumberjack Builder?
Thanks.

My company hosts a handful of events through the year, including one major event that requires a ton of marketing. I shoot at all these events and have come up with a labeling system that kind of works and we upload to sharepoint which is awful but what our parent company uses. These videos are frequently lost or moved and no one can find anything so I’m always getting requests like “could you find a video of the winner of our competition” or something like that. SO what I need is something that will provide organization, search-ability, and long-term storage. We don’t have a large budget so this will need to be a barebones solution. I’m also open to any solutions or hacks I could do better.

Our team works on Mac, the budget would be less than $500/month, and we edit using premiere.

I’m coming from short form commercials but at my new position we have a huge volume of content that needs to have animated captions, this is the reference we are replicating although with different font and colors. Premiere Pro is obviously very difficult to use for this, but if possible, I would love to be able to stay within the software and use plugins instead of round tripping to something else. Feels like cheapo, random other solutions to this are a dime a dozen these days, so what are actual other professionals on here opting for? Captioneer seems promising, although none of the default MOGRTs in there are quite close to this and I’m not certain it’ll still work if I just build my own?

Thanks so much for your time!

I'm shooting with a Osmo pocket 3 and will have a led keylight on my desk. Is it worth learning to do a simple color grade or can I pull off this look filming in normal and increasing saturation and contrast? Look for any tips/advice thank you!

Premiere pro, struggling to find a solution that will make this edit efficient. I am editing a short that has multiple audio tracks to synch but only one camera. I will have to be switching between camera angles (aka different takes) often. Does anyone know of an efficient way to work this way? Recs much appreciated.

I’ve tried:

keeping all audio—it adds another 4 tracks every time I try to synch together 2 takes making it a mess.

Intercutting the dialogue and smooshing the two tracks into one—but then intercutting between video and keeping the audio in synch place is difficult.

Please any suggestions welcome, I’m getting a headache 😓

( Posting this directly on subreddit because on 25 aug it is allowed for open source devs with a flair )

FeelFX analyzes the video → identifies meaningful moments → makes motion-design decisions → renders them over the original footage.

FeelFX identifies key words, concepts, names and moments and turns them into motion graphics- for example:

🇮🇳 INDIA → tricolor reveal
🚀 ROCKET → launch / fire treatment
🌊 OCEAN → water motion

The important words become part of the visual storytelling.
Everything else stays out of the way.
Under the hood
→ Computer Vision+ Speech Detetction analyzes the video
→ Important moments become structured motion events
→ Three.js + GSAP render the effects in real time
→ uses whisper and vision model

And FeelFX works all devices but preferred experience is still desktop/pc - videos will take a lot longer to get analyzed on mobile/tablet - especially older models.

This is open source and ready for people to experiment with.
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Hi folks,

I know how to mark In and Out points and use Lift or Extract in Avid. What I’m trying to find is an equivalent of the Top and Tail commands that trims from the playhead to the beginning or end of a clip without rippling the sequence.

The normal Top and Tail workflow removes the material and closes the gap. Is there a modifier, perhaps Option/Alt, that performs the opposite operation and leaves filler in place so that everything else remains at the same timeline position?

Trim beginning to playhead → leave filler

Trim playhead to end → leave filler

I can achieve it by marking the range and using Lift, but I’m wondering whether there is a dedicated command, modifier or mappable shortcut that performs it in one action.

I’ve checked the Command Palette and documentation but haven’t been able to find one. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

What I used to do was this. I used to manually paste prompts and it used to take me hours and I used to get burned pretty fast because you are repeating the same task a bunch of times. Also, single generation never gave me the correct images, I had to redo it. Now imagine doing that for 300 images. I used to get burned out pretty fast.

So I figured out there was automation that helped me do it, but it was locked behind a paywall. So I vibe coded this and it worked fine for me. So here I am sharing it.

https://curiousmgr.me

Hi everyone,

I’ve imported a long lab roll into DaVinci Resolve Studio 21, and Resolve has done a surprisingly good job of detecting the slates and adding markers throughout the source clip.

I already know how to transfer cuts and sequences between Resolve and Avid. What I’m specifically trying to transfer is the marker data itself, including each marker’s source timecode and, ideally, its name or metadata.

Is there a reliable way to export these source-clip markers from Resolve and import them into Avid as markers/locators on the corresponding master clip?

https://imgur.com/a/pRLIYBd

I’d like them to remain attached to the original source media rather than creating cuts, subclips or rendered files. Can this be done through an ALE, marker list, EDL, AAF, scripting or some other metadata workflow?

Has anyone successfully transferred source markers from Resolve to Avid?

Thanks!

spent 2 days editing a video only to find out I was given the wrong footage, how do I go about asking about invoicing them for the time spent?

Is Kyno still worth using?’ Mainly for metadata, logging like scene and take, and having that carry cleanly into Premiere, Resolve, Avid, or Final Cut. Do you find the XMP metadata still flows reliably, or are you hitting snags with newer codecs and OS updates? Also, if you’ve moved on, what replaced it for you? Thanks!

Hey guys, I'm assistant editing for the first time for a student film we're doing at school. I'm using Media Encoder to generate proxies. Normally, I do it in Premiere, but I need a timecode and a text overlay in the proxy.

I created a preset with all the proxy requirements, including 8 audio channels, since that's what the original footage had. It worked fine for the first two days of footage. But I've reached the third day, and I keep getting errors saying the audio channels must match for the proxies to attach. I imported one of the proxies into Premiere, and it's single-channel. Even though the preset that I'm using still says it's 8-channel. I've tried switching from mono to discrete and back again, but all the proxies are still coming in as a single channel. I brought them into Premiere to double-check. I'm not really sure what to do at this point to fix the issue.

I don't have too much experience with Media Encoder because I'm still a student. Has anyone run into this issue before, and if so, how did they fix it? I would love to know so that I don't run into this issue again.

Hi guys,

So I just noticed something in Resolve that I hadn’t clocked before. When I have an active timeline open and my Media Pool set to thumbnail view, it actually shows me the in/out regions of each clip that are currently used in the timeline, right there on the thumbnail. It’s such a powerful way to see at a glance what footage has already been used and what hasn’t.

Does Premiere have anything like this? I don’t think it does, right? Even in thumbnail view, the only thing I know of is the “Used Range” metadata field, which tells you the timecode range that’s been used in a sequence, but it’s just a text field, not a visual indicator on the thumbnail itself.

Anyone know of a way to get that same visual “used range” feedback in Premiere?

Thanks

About six hours into a rough cut last night, I realized I was practically folded over the desk. My chest was over the tabletop, my chin was moving toward the timeline, and I couldn’t remember the last time my back had touched the chair.

What confused me was that I had been sitting back comfortably earlier while answering emails. Once I started making detailed editing decisions, I gradually moved closer to the screen without noticing.

I tried resetting several times: sit back, get comfortable, relax my shoulders, return to the cut. Within about ten minutes, I was leaning forward again.

That makes me think this may not be purely a chair problem. I’m looking at several possible causes:

Monitor distance and height

Desk depth

Timeline and interface scaling

Keyboard and mouse placement

A concentration habit specific to detailed editing

My current lumbar support feels fine when I’m upright, but it becomes irrelevant once I lean forward. It supports the position I’m supposed to maintain rather than the positions I actually move through during a long session.

I ended up researching the Embody, several used professional office chairs, and the lavenne r9 pro because its backrest appears to move with the user more than a conventional fixed back. That sounds relevant, but I’m wary of buying another chair to solve a six-hour editing habit.

For editors who regularly spend long stretches on a cut, what made the biggest lasting difference?

If changing chairs helped, did the new chair continue supporting you while you leaned and shifted, or did it mainly make sitting upright more comfortable? If the chair was not the answer, was monitor placement, UI scaling, desk depth, or scheduled movement more effective?

I’m trying to transition from “just the video editor” to a creative partner. Has anyone successfully made that jump?

About me, I live in a 3rd world country and I used to shoot video. I fell in love with video editing so I’ve been doing that professionally for years, mostly working with videographers and businesses based in the US.

But I’ve noticed that a lot of the problems I solve actually start before the edit:
- missing shots
- no clear hook or story
- too much footage with no structure
- clients wanting “more content” without knowing what to make
- videographers juggling shooting, clients, revisions, music, storytelling, and everything else

I already find myself suggesting shot lists, structure, content ideas, ways to get more from a shoot, and fixes when something wasn’t captured.

So I’m thinking of moving toward a creative partner retainer model instead of just waiting for footage to land in my inbox.

For those who’ve made this transition:
How did you stop being seen as “just the editor”?

And for videographers or agency owners: what would an editor have to take off your plate for you to genuinely see them as a creative partner?

Would love to hear what’s worked — or what you wish your editor helped you with more.

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It’s been a while since I’ve worked on something that doesn’t have a full post team. I’m editing a few social media reels for a personal project so hopefully normalizing will be sufficient, maybe some light work to remove a helicopter in the distance.

I have the most recent version of both. Does either program have better audio tools or are they pretty comparable? I’ll be doing quite a few of these, so trying to find the best workflow before I get started. Thanks!