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Wondering if you guys could help me. So I'm in the market for a new monitor soon as this one is pretty knackered. I now use a hackintosh to do my editing and it's performing pretty excellently so far. The question is, what monitor should I go for - a 4K on or an ultrawide? I'm really tempted to save up and go ultrawide as that will give me a dual monitor set up with the old monitor used for files / clip browsing and the ultra for timeline and other. what, if any, monitors would you guys recommend as the best bang for buck?
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Hey everyone, Not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes. I'm in need of some advice about what to do next. I'm a freelance video editor who wasn't previously at a production house or any other post facility. I know, I know. This happened purely by accident as I came back to the UK from teaching abroad and wanted a career change. My friend who is a cameraman said that he was also doing the editing on a show and he hated it so he'd split the payment if I did the editing to free himself up for more camera work so that's how I got in rather than the much more frequent runner upwards route. Turns out that I love editing and if I didn't do it to make money, I'd probably do it in my free time so I've been trying my hardest to break into somewhere on a permanent basis. Since then (this was about 2-3 years ago) I moved back to a city I love - Bristol - but have found it really difficult to get consistent work. I've cut online content for some relatively well known brands (eBay, Amazon etc.) on behalf of a few post / animation houses here which has bolstered my CV a bit more. I got these jobs simply from cold calling and asking if they needed help either assistant editing / offline editing and they've all been happy with what I've done. In my free time I've learnt After Effects as well as Avid and will be focussing on getting fast at making motion graphics for quick turn-around projects when they come up as nearly everyone is asking for this. As I know networking is 90% the battle but I was just wondering what you guys think would be a good next step. Should I start at the bottom and work upwards in a post house or am I now too old (34)? Should I just hang in there which has been the advice of some of my full-time editing friends? Should I move to London (which is where I'm originally from) and try my luck there since there's a much denser amount of post facilities? My showreel is here and I'd really appreciate any feedback or advice. https://vimeo.com/203692386
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TipsyMcStagger posted:This might not be the place to discuss this but I want to start editting some video and looking for some suggestions on some decent starter editting software. Paid or not basically You have some choices available to you: Adobe Premiere (which is my main NLE), Final Cut X, Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer or Hitfilm Express. DaVinci Resolve does have very basic editing abilities but is nearly always used for colour work instead. I would recommend Premiere for two reasons: Firstly because it's actually pretty easy to use and isn't that daunting to learn the basics in. You also have a lot of freedom to learn basic drag and drop methods or more keyboard based ones whereas something like Avid is very keyboard centred. Secondly, let's say you end up loving editing and you want to get paid for it. You can get a reasonable amount of work if you know how to use premiere (yes, yes - I know Avid is still the king here) whereas I hardly ever see jobs going where they need someone who uses FCPX or Vegas.
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Cicero posted:My eight year old son is interested in learning video editing. Is there, like, a structured course somewhere, maybe something similar to Codecademy or Coursera/Udacity, that would work okay for a kid? He'd have some assistance from us, of course. He has access to a Windows PC and an iPad. Would highly recommend Lynda.com's Adobe Premiere Pro guide to teach yourself first if you haven't already then just teaching him yourself. I literally can't think of any kids guides for editing.
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Word up everyone, quick question regarding battery types. So I have a BMPCC4K and battery grip which apparently takes NPF570 batteries as opposed to the LP-E6 ones. I have looked everywhere online for these but they all look a little larger than the ones that BMD have advertised on their website, which in addition seem to be relatively cheap and 3500mAh. Does anyone know if there are any decent third party brands apart from Hawkwood that'll work?
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Jan 28, 2021 13:24
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Your choices are pretty much this: Avid MC - The masochist's option for a first time editor. Industry standard, steep learning curve, only really recommended if you want a career in editing or are doing serious long-form stuff. Not a good idea. Premiere Pro - Basically for almost everything short-form on the web. Easy to understand, can be buggy af at times but not debilitating, very good for motion graphics integration with After Effects, highly recommended for beginners. FCPX - Actually a great bit of software but not intuitive. Does some file / project management stuff that I personally hate but it's background rendering is awesome. Mac only. No-one really uses it professionally save for a few random places I've worked at. Resolve - Brilliant colour grading software. Pretty horrible for editing and motion graphics in my opinion. Can also render out a much broader variety of videos codec-wise than Premiere. Not recommended for editing. Vegas, Hit Film and the others: Nah, wouldn't bother personally.
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Trabant posted:First, thank you all for the suggestions! I've watched a lot of mini-tutorials and crash courses based on your recommendations over the last day Resolve has a workflow which I personally find annoying. I'm going to also preface this by saying that I'm a full time editor that uses Premiere Pro so I'm probably biased - I'll try and keep it short and not totally butcher my example. Resolve basically has multiple tabs to do the various things in. It has Media, Cut, Edit, Fusion, Colour, Fairlight and Deliver. Effectively, these are all the different stages of your project. You cannot detach say a window from Colour and keep your editing timeline up at the same time. This is annoying. I work on lots of fast-turnaround content and when I look at a timeline that I or someone else has worked on, it should show me as much info as possible and allow me to get stuck in. Due to the lack of window / tab customisation, I now have to flick back and forth through 3 different interfaces. There's nothing wrong with Resolve per se. It's just nowhere near as customisable as Premiere and whilst the price is definitely right, it just drives me nuts how you can't, for example, easily detach the source / program window and have it on a separate monitor. It's poo poo hot for grading though, can't fault it for that. If I had a tier list of easiest to learn editing in it'd probably be FCP7 and Premiere Pro at the top, FCPX in the middle, Avid at the bottom with Resolve just above it. EDIT: Let me put it this way: even though I dislike Avid, it absolutely is full of "A-ha! That's clever!" moments when you learn it. When I tried to do an edit on a personal project in Resolve about a year ago it was "gently caress this, why aren't you.... gently caress this!". If you're making homemade videos for YouTube, Resolve is absolutely fine - especially given as it's free - but if you don't mind the Adobe subscription cost or you can acquire it through other means, I'd go with that. frytechnician fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Oct 12, 2021 |
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I'm avid about not using Avid. Having said that, Premiere can really loving test my patience with certain things. It's track matte system is absolutely loving stupid as is adding warp stabilization to any clip which has its timelength changed. You need to nest to fix this in both instances, and with the track matte you actually have to go into the nest to make adjustments.
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Full time video editor here with almost a decade of experience. Unless there's been a radical shift, it's still typically Avid MC for long form and broadcast, Premiere for web and short form. Literally had one post house ever use FCPX and none using Resolve outside of colour grading. I think FCP7 was still in use at a few more news-y places years back but can't confirm first hand. I actually like Resolve but not as an NLE at all. It can do some absolute god-tier noise reduction in the paid version and can really get you out of a jam if you have things like strobing or more intensive colour work that Avid or Premiere can't fix, but I found it extremely unintuitive to use for editing and unnecessarily clunky. Having said that, I know an extremely senior editor who's been using it for quick turnaround stuff so I guess it depends if you're end-to-ending a piece of content entirely for a client who trusts you. The simple fact that I can't resize and move my program, source, timeline, bins, effects etc. with even a fraction of the ease and customisation that I can in Premiere immediately drives me bananas before I've even started. I don't know why the thread has gotten so heated but the truth is that 99.9% of the time, you will be working either in Avid or Premiere as a professional paid editor.
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Any tutorial video that has a guy wearing a baseball cap backwards who begins their video with "What's up guys?" is to be avoided like the plague. Half-joking aside, just edit until you hit a snag and then look up how to overcome it. Sounds kind of obvious but just get your footage down in the timeline, swing the axe judiciously til you're happy with a content cut and then think about how you want to use b-roll, stock, animation etc. to cover the cuts. You do not need to re-invent the wheel and there are plenty of fancy tricks to use to keep a nice or interesting aesthetic but your goal really is to understand pace. And that pretty much only comes with practice imo.
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Funnily enough, today was a Premiere extravaganza of bugs and crashes and because the algorithm knows all, I started getting a whole bunch of "Switching to Resolve" videos recommend to me on YouTube literally an hour after. I am actually tempted. It would be a massive undertaking to migrate my company's workflow to it but I am so, SO over Premiere just simply failing at some of the most basic poo poo. Guess I'll have to make time to redo a short, previously completed edit in it from scratch to get my head round things but yeah, if I get one more "damaged project" error message or crash when relinking, I'm gonna go balls deep just out of principle.
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Lizard Combatant posted:At least with avid, the project itself isn't that important and all your stuff is in separate (and hopefully frequently auto archived) bin files so recovery is usually pretty painless. I don't think I'd ever be able to give up the convenience of the bins system for sharing and project management. Want to just take a single sequence home or send it to a remote assistant? Drop it in a bin, 'reveal file' and flick it across through Slack/whatever, easy. If today is a slow day (which it might be due to the strikes), I'm going to get stuck into Resolve as an NLE and see how easy it is to share projects. Expecting a lot of pain as I've been Premiere since forever but gotta take those opportunities to learn new skills when you can, I get absolutely bodied by work on an average day!
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Trip report on today's findings: Setting up the shortcuts didn't take too long and everything seemed to make sense. Some bullshit though that Resolve doesn't have some pretty standard keyboard shortcuts like "Increase Video / Audio Track Height" which is default set to shift+mouse up / down and can't be changed afaik. The real bitch was the text tools. Essential Graphics in Premiere absolutely smokes Resolve in terms of functionality and ease of use. It was a really, really unfun experience trying to do basic poo poo in Resolve like change the size and colour of fonts on a single line, which is just a cinch in Premiere. And don't get me started on Fusion... It's extremely early days yet but yeah, I'm not bowled over so far. If anyone actually gives two hoots about this, I might write another update as and when I get time but if not, consider this the last I'll talk about my Resolve as NLE woes!
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Richlove posted:Hardware question here from a small time content creator. What you've got seems like a pretty monstrous rig already and in my opinion, there wouldn't be much point upgrading further at this point. What exactly seems to be the bottleneck regarding encoding?
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Yeah, I think the answer to this is "Adobe being Adobe". I'm actually so fed up with them that I'm seriously considering switching to Resolve entirely.
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Lmao, God do I ever truly hate After Effects. I imagine doing an edit in it is total hell.
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Lizard Combatant posted:Hey I like AE, but choosing to edit in it is like considering trying to do an effect more complicated that a scale adjustment in Avid. Eh, I only hate it because I don't know how to use it properly and have massive animator jealousy!
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Power Walrus posted:Yeah Dynamic Link is cool, but what's important is to use the method that you're comfortable and quick with. I like using Dynamic Link, but maybe it's not something the OP is familiar with. To each their own, many ways to go about it! Haven't used it in years but literally every time I tried to use dynamic link, it hosed up. I guess that's one of the many reasons I never got into After Effects - I got so jaded by the linking between it and Premiere that I just do absolutely everything I can to create all straps, basic gfx etc. within the latter.
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For God's sake BlackMagic, just give me a box camera with built-in NDs and auto focus and I will give you all my money. Stop doing nearly everything right, but not quite right enough!
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Alright thread, I want to take colour grading to the next level and need a decent grading monitor that won't completely bankrupt me like the DM220. Any good options for mainly web delivery to Vimeo / YouTube? Was thinking maybe doing the C1 / C2 calibrate setup but that might be a bit too much hassle. Have checked out the Eizo Coloredge range, but again, it's pretty expensive. Any second hand or older model FSIs or similar I should keep an eye out for?
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The more you gently caress with audio, the worse it can get so unfortunately I would suggest manually mixing tracks and adding effects at the end. Resolves Voice Isolation in Fairlight is 100 times better than Premieres Noise Reduction effect imo. One could say, it's black magic.... I would never automate cutting, ducking audio or anything like that personally though. Manual control over the timeline all the way.
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Short answer: Avid if you want to do paid work in film & TV. Premiere if you want to do paid work for more short-form, web based content companies. Resolve if you're just dipping your toes into editing for yourself and / or want a capable NLE for free. Personally, I think Resolve is what you're after. It is INSANE that they have a free version that effectively does 70-80% of what the studio version can do.
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BonoMan posted:The best thing about Resolve is having grading, audio an vfx right there in just separate tabs. SO freakin' nice. Yes to all except VFX because Fusion is not a friendly experience.
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Captain Log posted:I grabbed DaVinci’s program, and was pleased to open up something that looked familiar. I was able to do some very basic dicking around. Casey Faris, Darren Mostyn, Creative Video Tips and Mr Alex Tech should have you covered. Learn shortcuts and remap the keyboard if you want to. Get a second pair of eyes on your stuff when you've done your first semi-decent drafts, be judicious with your cuts.
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Captain Log posted:Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. This looks like it was shot twice with the blacks and whites of the shirts, suits and background reversed, with identical or near identical framing then the editor just switched between the two every 2 frames. That takes no time at all to actually do in edit, you don't need special effects or a plug in at all.
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thunderspanks posted:Ok- a project I started for my partner as a Christmas gift was taking dozens of family VHS home movies going back to the early 80s and digitizing, cleaning up, and upscaling for modern displays. Many many hours and terabytes of disk space later and it went over like gangbusters. A secondary benefit of this project was access to lots of TV tapings and more interestingly, the commercials contained in them. I've decided to start a youtube channel for them, which is where I'm getting to the real question of this post. https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/export-with-original-clip-names/m-p/8893988 "Just to add to this, if you select all the jobs in Media Encoder (Cmd/Ctrl + A), and then click the output name, and choose a folder, it will assign that folder to all the selected jobs, while retaining the original file names."
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thunderspanks posted:Not quite, I'm looking to do the opposite; ignore the source clip name and instead use the name specified on the edited clip in the sequence. Not gonna lie, this is a quite a headscratcher! I have never, ever renamed clips in the timeline but I'm also extremely stubborn and am curious to find a way to do what you've asked. I'll have a hunt around, see what I can dig up.
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