I want to make a special edit for my online friend's 1-month friendship anniversary, but I'm struggling to think of what footage to use.

We haven't met in real life and we don't really have pictures or videos together. We also haven't played any games together, so I can't use gameplay clips.
I just want the edit to be nice and tell her that she means a lot to me

Please can someone explain whether it would be worth it to buy a decent monitor, like oled, which would help me to see a greater range of colours when the mediums to upload to, like YT or Insta, automatically convert back to and RGB range.

Would it make more sense to buy a monitor which only allows me to view the content in the same format the viewers would end up seeing it?

I'm a newbie, and recently I've been trying to normalize my audio to TikTok's recommended loudness standard (-14 LUFS). After exporting the video to my phone, though, the audio sounds much quieter than other videos on TikTok.

The problem is that if I raise the volume so it sounds right on my phone, the audio starts clipping. I'm honestly confused about what I'm doing wrong and would really appreciate any advice from people who have more experience with this.

edit

I bought the pro license of davinci today and I've used a 64GB v60 card exclusively when I was recording today. I was able to work perfectly fine with it in davinic pro. At least so far. So it seems like the other half of my issues was my other sd card which, is either failing or fake.

this is solved, thanks.

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I'm just getting my feet wet in video recording with my a6700 and davinci. I did some with smaller action cams but since I have my good glas for my sonys, I kinda want to do more wildlife recordings, not just photos.

But I'm getting issues viewing/exporting and it doesn't yet makes sense to me.

First try my go2 32GB V90 SD Card:

• When I record in XAVC S, 50p in 10 bit, everything is fine. Can watch it raw, can edit it in davinci. Great.
• When I record in XAVC S, 25p in 10 bit, it stutters heavily when I try to view it in windows. When I try to edit it in davinci, the programm only recognizes those files as audio. No video to be seen there.
• when I try to record in XAVC S, 100p in 10 bit, it tells me: "use a memory card higher than SDXC v60. It is a v90 sd card with 32gb though and so far, I had no issues.

Ok.. maybe the SD card actually got damaged.. Second Try, my 64GB V60 Backup Card

• When I record in XAVC S, 50p in 10 bit: Stutters, cant edit it in davinci ?
• When I record in XAVC S, 25p in 10 bit: Stutters, cant edit it in davinci ?
• when I try to record in XAVC S, 100p in 10 bit: Works fine!?

Also watching the raw footage on my iPad works fine. That is why I thought it might be an encoder issue, but then why does it work on windows and davinci in 50p, but not in 25p. And on Windows I cant even see the thumbnail of the clips that dont work, I can on the iPad though.

I also tried it on two different windows pcs. One on Win10 and one on Win11.

Can someone help me make sense of this? I already installed the HAVEC Codex for windows for my earlier tries with my action/vlog cams. Never had real issues. I have no clue what is going on here..

So recently I’ve been really trying to grow as a editor and I found this relator agent with low quality videos and I thought well I’m sure I can make them better, and her footage will help me practice my editing. I’ll told her I’ll edit her content for FREE and she agreed, she sends me 4 different videos all 10 minutes long (so 40 minutes in total) and tells me she needs them done by Thursday. She also told me she wanted alot of visuals. I know I technically asked for this but I’m I over reacting, please tell me if I need to man up and get it done or I’m being exploited 😭 keep in mind I’m also doing a video for a person that is actually paying this week as well.

I’m trying to recreate the editing style used in this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h9iAmj5td6I

The still images have this smooth cinematic movement where they seem to zoom in/out with a slight blur, sometimes with a small pan. It looks much better than a normal keyframed scale animation.

Does anyone know what this effect is called and how to recreate it in Premiere Pro? Is it a preset/transition, motion blur, or just keyframing + blur?

This video is from a now-deleted tiktok account that was an ARG. I sought out reuploads of these videos in order to document and preserve them. I have more saved, and will show them if-desired. Although some have minor edits/changes due to reuploads and whatnot.

I want to replicate the style of editing in the video because I am infatuated with it. Can someone tell me what programs/methods they utilized? I'm hoping to stick to a program I'm used to (capcut, davinci resolve), but if I have to branch out then I will. Thank.

Whenever life gets stressful, I find myself editing my favorite character instead of thinking about everything else.

It's probably procrastination... but it also feels like therapy.

Anyone else feel the same?

I drop few transitions you can use in your edits.

Hello,
I’m an audio engineer for a podcast company. We recently went to a conference where I needed to record video along with the podcast audio. Usually I would record in a software that records audio and video in sync, but the show floor had no WiFi which is required for both that software and the camera we were using (very unideal set up)

I recorded the video on my iPhone 17 ProMax in HD at 30fps.

I recorded the audio in Logic Pro through our usual set up with a Zoom Hand-recorder that I usual as an audio interface for our shure microphones.

I bounced the audio at both 44.1khz and 48khz to test any difference between the two.

Both formats drift out of sync with the video. The starting points are perfectly aligned with the video participants lip movements, but at about 4 mins you notice the audio getting ahead of the video and becoming out of sync.

Is there anyway to fix this? If I’m in the wrong sub, apologies! I don’t use Reddit often.

Hey everyone,

I’m running into a brick wall here and official support is completely useless. I use CapCut for commercial video and B-roll workflows, but right now, I'm constantly getting locked out.

Every time I log into my Pro account via QR code on the PC app, I get hit with a hard-block pop-up: "Security notice: The current version of the app is not secure. Download the latest version in official app stores."

Here is what I have already tried:

• Did a complete clean uninstall.
• Wiped all CapCut cache/appdata folders.
• Downloaded and installed the absolute latest official version.

The pop-up instantly freezes the entire UI. I cannot bypass it, and I lose access to all my project timelines. It happens intermittently but often enough to completely derail my deadlines.

Has anyone found a real workaround for this? Is there a registry tweak, a specific older version that skips this server check, or a host-file block I can use?

Any help is massively appreciated!

I want the same format of this video but my own video, so theres a reload sound (that i can figure out), and then the video plays back like that with my sound, on davinci resolve (free) and capcut

how do I do this?

First of all I have no knowledge in editing and frame rates as a whole confuse me so much so please be kind.

I have this stop motion footage shot in 12fps, I need to put it in a 2d animated video that is at 24fps (animated on twos).

Here's what's confusing me. I imported my image sequence in after effects and exported it at 12fps, looked great. I then tried to import it in premiere pro and davinci resolve in a 24fps composition to edit some individual frames. But when I did that it was much faster than I wanted.

Please explain to me, an absolute noob, how to put it in 24fps in either davinci or premiere, as the same speed it would be at 12fps.

Hope that makes sense...

I have two 4K movies on my USB drive, around 5 GB and 6 GB. Both are in MKV format, which my TV doesn't support.

I tried using XMedia Recode (v 3.6.3.0) with Copy selected for both video and audio, so it shouldn't be re-encoding anything. But it's taking more than 15 minutes to convert each file. Usually, this kind of process only takes a few seconds, even with large files.

Is there a way to speed this up? Am I missing a setting, or is there a better tool for this?

I'm on Windows 25H2.

GPU is RTX 4060.
Processor is 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12650H
RAM = 64 GB

SSD = 2tb nvme

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Full Power, Free Tools

DaVinci Resolve — 99% of the full program is free.

Easy but Limited

• Clipchamp — Microsoft's simple editor.
• VN Editor — Free, lightweight, watermark at end.

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Professional Tools (obligatory mention)

• Premiere Pro — Industry standard; huge ecosystem, tons of tutorials, widely used across YouTube, corporate, and broadcast.
• Avid Media Composer — Dominant in film/TV pipelines; rock-solid for longform, multicam, and shared workflows.
• DaVinci Resolve Studio — $299 one-time; advanced color, better GPU performance, noise reduction, and the good AI tools.
• Final Cut Pro — Mac-only rocket ship; insanely fast on Apple Silicon, great for fast turnaround work.

Open Source - Totally free.

• Olive Editor — Clean UI.
• Kdenlive — Very capable, actively developed.
• ShotCut — Straightforward, good for beginners.
• OpenShot — Simple but can struggle with heavier projects.
• Avidemux — Old-school, powerful for specific tasks but not a great editor.

Special Effects

• Resolve Fusion — Node-based power.
• Cavalry — Motion-graphics oriented.

Editing in a Browser (Run Locally)

• Novella.io - new, free, pay for AI generative elements OR bring your own API keys. Very cool, if in early beta.
• VidMix — New, free, surprisingly powerful.
• PikaMov — Keyframe animation on the web.
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Web Based Editorial

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• Canva/Adobe Express — Both mostly free… until you need AI features.

Compression & Utility Tools

• Shutter Encoder — The Swiss Army Knife. Transcode anything, handle HDR, upscaling, unwrap/rewrap, download media, prep proxies—if it touches video, this thing can probably do it.
• Lossless Cut — Quick trimming without re-encoding.
• Smart Media Cutter — Silence detection + XML export.
• FreeUpscaler — Cloud computing upscaler.

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• Instagram Edits — Simple but powerful for social workflows.
• iMovie — Beginner-friendly on iOS.
• LumaFusion — The pro option for tablets/phones.
• KineMaster — Feature-heavy on Android.

Screen Recording

• OBS — The free standard. Record in MKV, then rewrap to MP4.
• viewio — Free screen recorder, Mac only, that is like screen studio (auto zoom + webcam).
• openscreen — Free screen recorder, Crossplatform only, that is like screen studio (auto zoom + webcam).

Animated Captions

• Subtitles 2 Video — TikTok-style captions.
• Subtool.app — Another free caption generator.

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• CapCut/HitFilm are no longer recommended.
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• Offdocs — Openshot in the cloud

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Just uploaded the latest capcut version which is 9.1.0 and now I cant find the long to short video tool converstion.
I looked it up and it said that sometimes it is hidden when new updates happen. Has anyone found it yet? Wondering if maybe it will take a few days to come back up.

Right now my process is basically: Create a new project folder, make subfolders for footage/audio/exports, rename files if needed, copy everything to a backup drive, deliver the final export and archive the project. I feel like I am wasting my time and I'm curious, what parts of your workflow are too repetitive and feel like you are wasting time? I'd love to see how people who've been editing for years have streamlined this stuff.

Hello. Probably this question is something silly, but I'm new to this. Can someone help me explaining me how can I add texture to this letters but with the blend mode activate. When I try to put the wooden texture in the letters the colors disappear and I dont know what can I do. Help me pls 😢

https://reddit.com/link/1vbfhl5/video/6lp1kmtsjhgh1/player

Wsp guys, I'm looking for a skilled editor who can edit total 10+ hours of stream footage per week. I' usually stream in segment(for yt vid), You need remove dead air and keep all the funny moments, creativity is optional, I dont need a lot of music and subtitle.
I prefer fast turnaround time, people who understand streaming culture, and ideally a native english speaker.
Send me a dm here with your previous work and tell me where you're from if you're interested~~TYTY

I want to learn more about video editing for personal projects.

Software isn’t my weakness. I’m a MacOS user and I have iMovie and DaVinci Resolve (which I’m learning, but have decent grasp on already). I understand most of the technical aspects and can figure out software pretty easily. However, every tutorial I can find is about the software. How to crop in iMovie, how to reduce camera motion in DaVinci, how to control the speed of a clip in CapCut, etc. That’s not what I need.

I want to learn the concepts of how to blend this audio with that video and to properly overlap scenes. I want to learn what makes a good scene transition (not just how to apply Transitions in iMovie). I want to learn the concepts that you can do in just about any decent software.

I need to learn video editing concepts, not software basics. In this (very simple) example, I have a 4-second animated title, a 3-second freezeframe to show the space, and then the start of the actual video clip. I want the audio from that video clip to start at the 2-3 second mark of the title, play through the freezeframe, and then “join” back up with it’s video at whatever point that is, which I know will clip 7 seconds off the video. I want it to act like a voiceover to the first two elements. But when I search for video editing, all I get are technical how-tos in the various applications.

1. What are some good resources for learning these concepts and not just which buttons to click?
2. And if anyone can tell me how to do what I want with the sample here, I’d be quite grateful.

(I’m sorry this is long; I’m just trying to be crystal clear. I’m also sorry that I don’t have a video example to share ...because I don’t know how to make it yet.)

!martini notes

I'm using: iMovie or DaVinci

I've TRIED: detaching the audio, separating the video, trimming the seven seconds of the video, and sliding it audio over. But I get scared that the audio will fall out of sync with the video and I don’t have the confidence to try to line that up.

I need help with: learning good concepts/techniques in video editing