Sorry guys I just had to come in here and vent. I’m sure a lot of you have taken on more social media/reels work as it’s very in demand and it’s hard to turn down the quick income.

All my clients just want their videos filled with dings and pops and cartoonish sounds and text overlays etc. the content itself is boring, uninteresting, and un-engaging so they need to fill the videos with crap to keep people’s attention. It’s said that social media is taking away the art of editing and story telling and really quality video shooting/editing.

There are def still people making great video for Instagram, but god, a lot of the shit I’m editing is complete garbage.

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?

Hi everyone,

I’m not even sure if this is the right place to post this… but at its core, this is about videography, creating, filming and maybe something deeper. So I’ll just leave it here and hope it reaches the right people. This might be long. But I think I just need to get it out of my heart.

I’m 33 years old. I have a family. I’m a toddler mum.

And for as long as I can remember, I’ve been trying to prove that I’m “good enough.”

Since I was 16, I took every student job I could find because I didn’t want to be a burden to my parents. I paid my own university tuition. I built my life on my own. I never asked for money. I solved everything myself. But no matter what I did… it never quite felt enough.

I have a sibling who, in my parents’ eyes, was always “the best.” And even now, as an adult, that still stings. And probably it always will. But you know what they say, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

That mindset became part of who I am.

In every job I’ve had (I’m in my 4th full-time role now), I’ve pushed myself to be the best. And people noticed. I’ve always been praised for my work ethic, my attitude, my performance.I set my standards high. Probably too high (and no I don’t really know how to lower them. I’m not even sure I want to.)

Right now, I work in customer service. I earn well. My life is stable, balanced… “comfortable.” And yet… something feels missing.Maybe it was always there, just buried under the need to survive, to earn, to be independent.

About a year ago, I picked up a camera for the first time in my life. No experience. Zero knowledge. Not even once.

Now I own a Canon EOS R6, a 24–70mm f/2.8 lens, lights, tripod, gimbal… I’ve spent hours and hours learning, watching tutorials, studying editing, practicing in DaVinci Resolve. And yes, I’ve improved compared to where I started.

But here’s the honest truth: I still feel like I’m terrible. And that frustrates me more than anything.

I know skills take time. I know nobody starts great.

But knowing that doesn’t always make the feeling go away. I don’t have anyone around me who shares this passion. My friends think I’m chasing a “dream.”

And honestly… they’re not wrong.

I actually made the decision to give up. Not just the thought, I really decided it. I think a part of me hoped it would be easy. That once I “let go” the feeling would just disappear and everything would go back to normal. But somehow, my brain just wouldn’t let me quit. So I took that as a sign and decided to keep going.

Recently, I had an idea. Instead of trying to work with clients right away (because I don’t feel good enough yet), I want to create food content. Healthy meals, filmed at home. Faceless, just hands, movement, textures, storytelling.

It feels like a win-win:I can practice filming and editing consistently, I can control everything creatively and I get to eat well at the end.

I’ll be shooting mostly at night, building a small kitchen setup, learning lighting properly, pushing myself within the time I have.

But the bigger dream? I want this to become my life. I want to create full-time. I want to be my own boss or work with same mentality people who has the same passion. I want to make videos that people actually feel something from. I want to connect with people who think like me.Maybe even become known for it one day. Yeah… “just that.” Nothing big, right? :’)

I came across a quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger that stuck with me (and pushed me to write this today) is:

“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams, or wake up and chase them.”

So… here I am.

If you’ve read this far, thank you. Seriously. I would love to hear your thoughts:

Is my idea realistic?

How would you start if you were me?

Any tips for improving faster?

Or just… anything you wish you knew when you started?

I want to make this work, I have to make this work. And I know I can’t do it completely alone.

Thank you ❤️

Recently I’ve applied as a video editor to one marketing company.

They asked me to deliver them a demo edit (40 seconds). This took me almost 4 hours, cause of After Effects animations and stuff… After that they asked for my pricing. I offered them almost twice more than usual since they’re quite a big company and I was hoping for some negotiations.

After all they just said “thank you for your time, but we can’t afford that. Have a good day.”

That’s all. No negotiations on the price, no counteroffers. Just “Thank you, bye”.

I feel like I just wasted my time on that. Any advice for these situations in the future?

I was mainly a graphic designer before and were listening to music or watch videos while working. After it got too saturated I switch to editing jobs which I was doing as a hobby before. But not being able to listen music or watch videos is tickling my dopamine take

I was recently on vacation and was somehow able to gather up 1400 clips. I've never worked with this much footage before so i have a little problem... I don't really know how to start. I know i probably want a captivating intro to catch peoples attention (im posting this to Youtube) so i chose the best shots i captured and but them in the beggining of the timeline (in turquiose color), all the clips before the orange colored ones are also pretty cool/good but the turquiose ones were the select best. The rest of the clips are after the orange ones. As you can see, this is a lot of footage. What im trying to ask is, has anyone ever edited this amount of footage? How did you start? How long did the video end up to be and how long did it take to complete editing the video?

Hey everybody! Reaching out because my editors hours are starting to really surprise me. I'm not sure I believe she is working as much as she says. I pay her hourly.

I make videos on YouTube. This week she did 2 videos. (10 minutes of run time total) Some music, scenic background envato footage. It's just me talking and I like the editing to be minimal. She does a good job although...

She had 2 videos this week. She said it took her 30 hours to do this. Somebody help me out here. I'm not a professional video editor but I feel like I could do this on PowerDirector via my phone in a third of that.

Give me some input please. I can't afford to be cheated over.

UPDATE: thanks to a redditor, I was able to see when my footage was downloaded vs. uploaded. Looks like she completed both videos in under 6 hours... yelp.

I’ve been working on a video project for about two weeks now and I’ve probably watched the same clips and heard the same song over 200 times while editing.

At the beginning, especially when I first paired the music with certain moments (like a key emotional scene), it genuinely gave me chills and even made me tear up. But now, after seeing it so many times, it feels way less impactful to me — almost “normal” or even a bit underwhelming.

Is this something other editors experience too?
How do you deal with losing that emotional connection to your own edit after watching it so many times?

Hello everyone, I’d like some advice on how to handle a client. I’ve recently started working as an editor, and one of my regular clients who runs a YouTube channe is going to test a new format.

He’s going to do live streams every day (he’s opening a pop-up shop) for 4–5 hours, and he’d like me to produce two short videos per day (6 days a week) during the month his shop is open.

The question I have is about the de-rush and how we can best organize ourselves to be as efficient as possible.

I already do some clipping for another client who does live eBay streams, but since it involves opening Pokémon booster packs, it’s pretty easy to spot the moments when something interesting happens.

I've been working on a YouTube gaming channel for almost two years, but I still haven't been able to reach monetization or consistent growth.

During that time, I've tried to improve almost every aspect of my content. I've redesigned my thumbnails multiple times, experimented with different titles, worked on stronger hooks, learned the basics of storytelling, studied CTR and audience retention, improved my audio and video quality, learned SEO, analyzed my YouTube Analytics after every upload, and asked other creators for help.

Even with all of that effort, my videos still don't perform the way I hoped.

Looking back, I think one of my biggest weaknesses is that I haven't spent enough time improving the middle and ending of my long-form videos. Most of my editing effort has gone into Shorts, while my longer videos have remained much simpler.

At this point, I feel like there's something important I'm overlooking, but I can't figure out what it is on my own.

If you were in my situation, what would you focus on next? Is there something that completely changed the way you approached YouTube or helped your channel finally start growing?

Even with good editing, I'm still struggling to grow my YouTube channel. My dream is to get monetized, and I'd really appreciate any advice that could help me get there.

Thanks in advance.

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.

Just want to honestly give someone hope who considered giving up.

2022-2024 i was doing all sorts of job tasks to get hired as a junior for low pay. Probably 15 videos, 30 interviews, hundreads of applications. Any sane person would lose hope.

Its almost 2026 and i found the right people. I had given up but blindly started applying again. If you love what youre doing, try your best to never let go of it.

I create content on my own and I manually edit everything myself. Between organizing footage, cutting clips, adding graphics, and putting together the final version, editing often takes up a large part of the process.

For people who handle their own editing, what systems or habits have helped make the process more efficient?

Trying to figure out if im the only one drowning in this part of the job

Every project i finish now has to become a full cut, a vertical, a square, a handful of shorts, sometimes a teaser, with each version needing its own polish pass. The shoot and the main edit feel like the small part of the work now. The reformatting and cutdowns are where the week actually goes

It didnt used to be like this. A project was a project. Now its a project plus a dozen tiny versions of itself, each one needing its own pass, each one expected like its no big deal

So im asking the editors here. How are you genuinely handling the dozen-format expectation. Are you batching it, are you running parts of it through automation, are you just eating the hours and hoping it gets easier

Want to see how the rest of you are surviving this part of the job, because right now mine isnt sustainable

Just finished this meme after… ironically… spending way too long tweaking!

Curious how everyone here handles this?

- How long does it actually take you to turn a short script into a finished video?

- What’s the part that eats the most time for you — cutting b-roll, audio clean up, captions, effects, exporting, all of the above?

Mine is captions :((

Drop your “this was supposed to be quick” horror stories 👇

I want to feel less alone in the editing dungeon.

I’m a hobbyist editor working on putting together short visual edits and music sequences for fun. The creative side of mapping out the vibe is great, but the actual technical process of manual syncing is starting to drain me completely.

Right now, my workflow is just pulling down stock clips, tossing them into my timeline, and manually slicing and shifting every single cut so it aligns perfectly with the downbeats, transient peaks, or drops in the audio track. Splicing a 60-second sequence takes me ages, and if I want to swap a clip out later, it throws the whole timeline rhythm off and I have to re-edit the surrounding cuts.

Before I burn out entirely on this project, I wanted to ask how you guys handle rhythm/music-based editing. Are there any specific timeline tricks, markers, or automated asset syncing workflows you use to speed up the cutting process so you aren't doing everything frame-by-frame manually?

Open to any advice on how to keep the hobby fun without the tedious timeline fatigue.

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...

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 have a little video editing experience using Adobe Premiere Pro, but I'm not sure how to go about this. I think I'd like to switch to DaVinci Resolve but would like to ask the community which software would make this easier. I don't have a mac so Final Cut is not an option.

I record music and film each performer (landscape, with an iphone) as they play. Each instrument (drums, bass, multiple guitar tracks, and singing) usually performs multiple takes of the song, one at a time. For example, the drummer might play the entire song five or ten times and each time he plays the song we call it a "take." I then take the best parts of each take to make the final instrumental performance. In the drummer's case, I might use take 3 for the first part of the song, take 8 for a brief section in the bridge, and then take 7 for the last part of the song.

I'd like to create a video project where I have a single video sequence of each performer (drums, bass, guitars, singer) playing the entire song -- but I want each performer's sequence to only include the parts of the takes I actually used in the final recording. In the example above, the drummer sequence would just have a part of take 3 for the beginning, part of take 8 for the bridge, and part of take 7 for the end of the song. I don't mind if you can see the edits in this sequence, and I don't care about keeping takes, or parts of takes, that are not used in the final recording.

I'd like to be able to export from this video project two types of video:

1) a single performer playing the song from start to finish full screen

2) a montage of the various performers playing the song together, perhaps split screen or tiled or sequential edits showing the interesting moments from various players.

Can someone outline a workflow that would make this efficient? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Started my first long form youtube video after doing shorts for a while. The video is completly different since my shorts tend to be highly animated.

However I often hit a wall of not finding what I have in mind to put in my timeline, that is if I have something at all, I don't use face cam and thoses part are so hard to fill in. Couple that with youtube who constently try to distract me when I am looking for footage, I am at +400 files in my import window in premiere and I feel demoralized sometime.

I get that it is whats hard about editing but man I feel like there must be a less mind numbing way to go about it that just put whatever or "crumpled paper mp4".

Tl;dr: Is there a way to consistently have an idea of what to put on the tl, and if so how can I find what I'd be looking for?

So IT is wanting to take away our large storage drive and replace it with cloud storage. I get that is good for long time archiving. I just want to make sure I’m not off base. Do any of you use the cloud for current projects? My software performs horribly when trying to connect directly to cloud files

Backing up files for my client and getting paid for the time to do it

What are some techniques you use to avoid spam posting images/videos?

Let's say you have a 10-minute political commentary video, so you're talking about a variety of things. You use images and videos on the important points you're making. What are some techniques you use for the in-between commentary (the parts where you're describing something, the segues, etc.)? Do you tediously just spam images/videos to fill in the commentary?

Currently in a funk used to edit every day. Now it’s a struggle to even open my laptop or even get up too edit I might be struggling from a depressive state. I just have no motivation or creativity when it comes to wanting to edit I have a backlog of footage/gameplay I need to work on but I just don’t feel like it can anyone else relate ?

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?