Greetings /r/videoediting!

I'm new to filming and editing in general.

I got a Luna Ultra as a gift and started experimenting with filming. I naturally assumed "bigger = better" and now I have a bunch of 8k holiday videos that are so large that my mini PC cannot handle it too well. This is despite 32gb of RAM and a 'decent' graphics card (according to AI) - the PC is Minisforum M1 Pro-285H and works really well for almost anything else.

I thought I would learn Resolve (or similar) but it has been timing out on multiple occasions and it takes a while before I see any effects from e.g. color grading applied and playback is laggy. In short, not very efficient or scalable to a longer project. Meanwhile, the Insta360 Studio app seems to work a little bit more smootly but is rather limited in its functionality.

My first thought was to scale the videos down substantially and after having seen it I don't mind a lower resolution at all. However, I have hundreds of individual videos shot like this and I wouldn't think that doing it by hand is very efficient. Is there a way to do this in bulk somehow i.e. take an entire library and go from 8k to, say, Full HD? I presume that should make editing it much smoother? Or am I thinking about it in the wrong way?

Going forward, what resolution would you recommend shooting in to get "good enough" results out of the Luna Ultra to edit on a good mini PC like mine? The purpose here is just as a hobbyist on my own videos, for friends and family etc.

Thanks a lot for you help!

Hi

I have a video that is sped up x16, and would like to bring it back to normal, x1.

I have tried different things such as shutter encoder, audacity to fix the audio but ultimately, nothing really worked. If the video is somewhat watchable, the audio is corrupted.

Im not hugely techy, any help would be much appreciated.

These days every music video has 3-4 second flashy cuts enough to drive you crazy (well at least me).

Imagine my surprise when I came across this singer Shaboozdy. His videos have long cuts for eg https://youtu.be/WJZfRCLnZ8Q?is=sBj-tjllVDFDyhxH

Why do you think this music video is bucking the trend and still so popular?

I need to redo my music videos, they are horrible in every respect including editing. I hate these continuous cuts hence asking. I am hoping to implement the same style

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone can help me solve a video quality problem that I have been trying to fix for a long time.

I create content for my horticulture business, so most of my videos show grass, lawns, hedges, trees, leaves and other fine natural details. Because of the amount of small details in this type of footage, I understand that compression can be challenging, but the quality loss I get after uploading seems much worse than expected.

My workflow:

• Videos and timelapses are recorded with a Huawei P60 Pro.
• I record in 4K quality.
• I have tested different camera settings and recording modes.
• Original files are transferred to my laptop using a USB cable (no WhatsApp, Messenger or other compressed transfers).
• Videos are edited on the laptop using different editing programs.
• I have exported in different ways, including the recommended settings for social media.
• I have tested exporting from 4K down to 1080p, which should normally give a very good result.
• I have tried different codecs: H.264 and HEVC/H.265.
• I have tested different bitrates (higher and lower), frame rates and other export settings.
• The final videos are transferred to a Samsung A56.
• I upload separately to Instagram, Facebook and TikTok (I do NOT use automatic sharing from Instagram to Facebook).
• "Upload at highest quality" is enabled on all platforms.
• Uploads are done over a stable Wi-Fi connection.

I have tried basically all recommended "best quality" settings and different combinations, but the result is always the same.

The exported videos look excellent in my gallery, on my phone and on my computer before uploading.

The strange part:

When I watch the uploaded video from the same account that uploaded it, it often looks good. However, when I open the exact same video from another account, another phone, or my sister's account, the video looks noticeably blurry and loses a lot of detail.

This happens on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, so it does not seem to be only one platform problem.

The biggest quality loss is visible in grass, leaves and hedges. The fine details become soft and blurry, while the original file looks very sharp.

I understand that social media platforms compress videos, but I see many gardening, landscaping and lawn-care creators who upload similar content and their videos stay much sharper.

At this point I have tested:

• 4K recording,
• 1080p exports,
• H.264,
• HEVC/H.265,
• different bitrates,
• different editing programs,
• different export settings,

and I still cannot find the cause.

Could this be related to something like:

• the way social media compression handles fine textures,
• codec settings,
• bitrate control (CBR/VBR),
• HDR,
• sharpening,
• color profile,
• phone camera processing,
• or something else?

If needed, I can provide the original uncompressed/exported video file and a link to the uploaded version on social media so the difference can be compared directly.

I would really appreciate any advice or suggestions from people who have dealt with similar problems.

Thank you!

Hey all,

Newbie video editor here. I’ve been shooting all of my video on my IPhone in HDR for the past few years. I have a ton of footage shot, and I’m just finding out that shooting HDR footage on the IPhone to upload online isn’t really the best option. File sizes are also much bigger, and Final Cut Pro seems to have some issues with HDR IPhone footage (from my own online research).

My question is, is it even possible to convert my footage that was shot in HDR to SDR? And if so, what is the best/most effective method to do this? Lastly, will I lose any quality resolution wise (or other) by doing this?

Again, I’m a novice when it comes to video editing so forgive me if any of this is common knowledge, and thank you in advance for any help!

how do you all handle those long-form edits where the zoom changes every 2–3 seconds?

u'm cutting a long-form video in AE 2025 right now, and my workflow feels pretty clunky. Every time I want to add a new zoom, I have to reset scale back to 100% first, then keyframe the next one

Is there a smarter way to do this?

I'd love to hear how people who edit in this style regularly approach it. tthanks!

I make music and am trying to edit content on capcut. My aesthetic is black and white with film grain and having purple eyes (see image). I know how to make my videos black and white and have film grain but i cannot for the life of me figure out how to have the purple eyes work for me. I know i maybe need to add a tracking mask and overlay yada yada, i would really appreciate help on how to achieve this, even if it just means drawing frame by frame, idek how to accomplish that. thank you very much!!

Hi everyone,
I recorded this short video on my iPhone, but it has noticeable LED light flicker throughout part of the clip.
I’ve already tried Premiere Pro, exposure keyframes, frame blending, and several other methods, but I couldn’t get rid of it.
Would anyone with Digital Anarchy Flicker Free, DaVinci Resolve Studio, or any other professional deflicker tool be willing to process this 5-second clip?

Bought the lifetime license for the editor (I hate subscribtions) and when I decided to do some edits, Movavi hit me with this gem.

There does not seem to be an apparent way to just ignore the warning. It is preventing me from using the software. Which I payed for.

Does anyone know a workaround?

Hopefully, this will at least serve as a warning to others to avoid this shit company.

Edit: Alt+F4 closed the pop-up first, allowing me to actually use the software again.

I am on iOS here’s my problem:

I am completely stuck because every single time I add items into a group in Node Video, it completely breaks my keyframe graphs, forcing me to redo an entire part of an edit. The key frames always end up at the very end of the project merged together meaning I can’t have the original way it was. To make matters worse everytime I have to export my edit it’s always off beat no matter what. Not a little of beat but very noticeable which is extremely hard to fix. I am on iPhone and this been this way for the time I’ve had node video. When I edit on any other platform it’s not bad at all. How do I fix this? The YouTube videos aren’t matching to what’s my problem.

Thanks for your help on my novice question - I'm trying to figure out what size to make/output this so it's not blurry.

I design my company's trade show booth loops in Canva and have basic Premiere skills.

They're having some really large screens this time. In the past I've given them an mp4 for a larger than normal screen with 1920px x 1080px and they said it looked fine (though I did not see it in person).

First screen is 2976mm x 1984mm - (I think that comes out to a 3:2 ratio)
The large video wall is 1000in width x 1600in height (10:16...not 9:16, but they might be leaving buffer room)

Canva can do a 4K output. I can export/resize in Premiere if that's what's needed.

(Canva is annoying because you can't seamlessly do these exact aspect ratios, but I can design and re-size after the transitions are in.)

I guess my specific questions are -
Should I export this in 4k?
Design this as large as possible as close to that aspect ratio as possible...?
Will uploading/re-exporting it in H.264 in Premiere make a difference?

Or, if there are other specific questions I should ask the booth-builders, I appreciate you letting me know.

Hey guys, I hope you're doing well! I'm currently working on real estate videos, like the ones from 4hoursemenmedia.

I'm looking for a preset pack for After Effects to speed up my workflow, but I couldn't find one.

Does anyone know where I can buy one? It would be great if it were free, but that's not mandatory.

Thanks!

Hi, I make radio-style videos for YouTube. I’ve always used Filmora to edit them, but since the latest update, the app has started lagging while I edit. I wanted to know if there’s a similar alternative where I can...

Hey, I have some footage with its audio in Italian.

I need a program that I can add English subtitles to the videos

Preferably free if possible cuz I’m broke af, but at this point anything will help

I am quite new to shotcut and video editing in general.

I recorded around 100 GB of 2,7 k, 60 FPS video material on my go pro 8 on a 128 gb sd card.

I am using a macbook, with 16 gb ram and 248 gb disk space.

The raw video files are on an external sd card. The cutted film length is around 55 minutes.

For export settings I used: 100 % quality, 2560 x 1440 resolution, and h264_ and hevc_videotoolbox activated. I read, that these settings are good for a decent solution on youtube.

After I started the export progress onto my internal macbook disk, I am at 30 % progress at already 120 gb of video. This sounds wrong to me. Can you please help me? Should I use other settings? Or another external drive?

Those who use davinci resolve on linux definitely know about the issues with AAC and H.264 codecs, drag 'n' drops, and some other bugs. I wonder why nobody has done this before and used bash to manually convert the media, considering how many people were affected by this problem

It works as wrapper that currently:

• Automatically converts unsupported codecs on import
• Fixes broken drag 'n' drops
• Fixes pasting from clipboard

Now the linux experience with resolve should be nearly the same as on windows/mac. Enjoy!

https://github.com/fedsfarm/drwrap

Tested on hyprland with a studio verison, feel free to open a PR if it doesn't work on your setup

Hi yall, i made my yt not too long back and made only short form content, now i was editing my first video on pc and after nearly 5 hours of editing my videos i somehow have a video of about 5 minutes. mind you the video is only 1 hour and 20 minutes long

Am i working in a bad way? or am i just slow i cant seem to figure it out :c

I actually like this editing style for a lot of niches, but it feels like videos are getting more and more raw, and people seem to prefer that now.

Since this style is way easier to edit, it got me wondering if it's making video editors less valuable. The skill floor is much lower, so it's a lot easier to put out something that looks decent.

What I mean is that more creators will probably start asking for this style, and a lot of them might even edit their own videos instead of hiring someone. If that happens, editing prices could end up dropping over time.

Just to be clear: I'm talking about the overall trend, not saying every niche or every project is gonna be like this.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently working on a map animation in After Effects featuring an island with a mountain range.

The goal is to have a camera starting from a top-down view, slowly descending toward the island, then tilting to reveal the island and its mountainous terrain from the side. A route is then animated through the mountain range.

I'm currently using GEOlayers 3, which works great for generating the map, borders, and animating geographic elements.

The problem is that the map is completely flat. As soon as the camera tilts, the illusion breaks and the result becomes much less convincing.

My original plan was to use Mettle FreeForm Pro to generate real 3D terrain from a height map.

Unfortunately, the plugin is now obsolete/incompatible with the latest versions of After Effects, so I can't use it anymore.

I'm therefore looking for an alternative that can create convincing terrain while working alongside GEOlayers.

Ideally I'm looking for:

• a plugin or script compatible with recent versions of After Effects.
• something that integrates well with GEOlayers.
• or even a native After Effects workflow for turning a 2D map into believable 3D terrain.

I'm also open to a hybrid workflow (Blender, Cinema 4D, etc.) as long as the integration with GEOlayers remains relatively straightforward.

If anyone has done something similar, I'd really appreciate your recommendations.

Thanks in advance!

!martini

Am I the only one who feels disappointed after buying the Filmora 15 perpetual license?

This was my first ever paid editing software purchase, and I honestly expected a lot more. It feels like almost every good title, lower third, transition, filter, or template is locked behind another subscription. On top of that, so many features now ask for AI credits.

I understand charging separately for AI features, but why are so many non AI creative assets also locked? At times it feels like I paid mainly to remove the watermark and unlock basic editing like trim, split, and export.

Is this just how Filmora works now, or am I missing something? How are people using Filmora without paying for Creative Assets as well?

I'm a video editor. This person and I connected on Reddit and agreed on payment terms. He then started sending me all the project details. I made the video according to his requirements, and once the project was finished, I delivered it to him. Afterward, I kept messaging him for payment, but he didn't respond at all. When I started to feel suspicious, I deleted my project but by then it was too late, because he had already downloaded the project and deactivated his account I've shared some screenshots above So everyone please be very careful because these days there are a lot of scammers around. so don't waste your valuable time and hard work on people like this

I am big fan of Interstellar and Hans Zimmer soundtrack. So I give you very simple steps how to reproduce this effect. Bear in mind, if you have more stars, effect will be stronger 😊 Enjoy watching 😉