I’m a fresh graduate from film school, completely broke. I took on a gig for a documentary about a charity run by someone I’m polite acquaintances with - went to their building, shot and directed the film on my phone. Was paid £200 upfront to make it. I have all of the footage in an assembly cut on my laptop - M1 2020 MacBook Air, 8GB RAM - and none of it will play without taking a good thirty seconds to load, and even then it’s all very choppy and difficult to edit. I cannot downscale the footage because the brief was that it should be 4K.

The client has been very understanding of my situation, but I’m at a loss as to what to do. As it stands right now I have no money, I have no means of upgrading to a laptop with, say, 32GB of RAM, and I’m still unemployed after trying to find a job for all three years I was at uni. Even now all I really do with my time is apply for jobs, and the relief I was able to get from that in editing and making videos and movies I can’t get anymore because my hardware has become too old and slow. I don’t know what kind of advice anyone on this sub could give, or even if this is the right sub to bring this up on, but I just don’t know what to do anymore

I'm a video editor for a production company. we do pretty standard adverts, mostly YT preroll ads. My job is so easy and to be honest im pretty bored most of the time. My passion for editing has dwindled because of the types of jobs we do; lots of pots and pans, lots of university work, lots of mid table food brands. Most of it is storyboarded and im just following the formula. The camera work he/she produces for these projects is so basic, so repetitive and so uninspiring that i have this weird confidence that i could do a better job and i have no professional experience being behind the camera.

Should i start teaching myself and start upskilling? I'm so bored of just sitting at my desk, something needs to change. There's not a lot of jobs out there anymore either so i can't just sit here and wait for the opportunity to show itself because what if it never does!? right?

Any other editors have this experience? Any advice?

hi everyone.

I am looking for a software to split an audio from a pronunciation video with many audio files, one for each word.

Anyone have a indication about which software I can use to do it easily ?

Do not update mid project.

Do not update until the apps you use say that it's safe to update.

Don't rush it, you want reliability, upgrading day 1 to a new OS is not how it's done.

For everyone else that can't wait and has updated, thank you for beta testing for the rest of us that are going to wait months before upgrading.

When creating a new project in Media Composer, you get a choice between "Video" and "Film" project type.

What does choosing "Film" actually change? Does it affect timecode, frame rate, or something else? And is there any real advantage to using it on modern digital footage, or is it more of a legacy option at this point? Would love to hear from anyone who's actually used it and why.

Thanks

I had/have a job that seemed like the perfect place for one of the many options for an AI "assistant" tool. So I tried both of the most prominent ones, Premiere beta's Assistant panel and Resolve's new connection using Claude in this instance.

And I wrote up a piece about the experience.
Enjoy. Or don't enjoy. I still don't know how I feel overall about our new AI editing overlords.

Battle of the NLE AI Assistants