r/VideoEditing

This week made me realize it might actually be over for Adobe. In the span of literally one week, the entire Creative Cloud suite got replaced – for free:

Video editing → DaVinci Resolve / Kdenlive

Photo + Design + Publishing → Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher (just went fully free via Canva)

Motion graphics / VFX → Autograph by Maxon (released free April 15th – actually has native 3D unlike After Effects which is still doing fake 2.5D) + Cavalry (also just went free)

3D / CGI → Blender (free, open-source)

Audio → Audacity / Cakewalk

RAW / Photo management → Darktable, RawTherapee

PDF → LibreOffice

And Adobe stock is down 46% from its peak. Their own president admitted the decline is "happening faster than we planned for."

The creative community isn't just leaving Adobe. They're leaving with joy and celebrating it. That's not something a brand recovers from.

What do you think happens in the next 2-3 years? Slow death like Corel? Acquisition?

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?

Been digging into this for a while. The June 12 update gave ByteDance a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide license to any content you upload — including private drafts. Legal experts I've looked at say this covers your biometric data too. For anyone doing client work, this is a serious IP problem. I put together a full breakdown of how CapCut went from completely free to this if anyone wants the full timeline. Happy to discuss in comments.

this is genuinely one of my fav music videos, the vibe and everything is so on point I love it

im wondering how this "old camera" effect is achieved and how they did his night vision shots...

im using davinci resolve, don't know if that's the best but I found It to be helpful and free so yeah...

ive tried using a night vision effect on daytime shots but that doesn't pan out how I want it to.. also adding grain or noise doesn't really do the job

any ideas? I appreciate everyone stopping by :)

!martini

https://reddit.com/link/1sqwi8o/video/ke702yk1udwg1/player

I feel stuck as a video editor — I can’t tell what my videos are missing even when they’re too simple. How do I train myself to see what’s missing in terms of pacing, effects, and storytelling?

I’m a video editor who can assemble clips cleanly, but I struggle to go beyond basic cuts and transitions. What specific skills or frameworks can I learn to make my edits more engaging and intentional?

When editing, I stop at basic cuts because I genuinely can’t see what else the video needs. Is this a creativity issue, a lack of references, or a missing workflow—and how do I fix it?

For context, my niche is sports industry. I strive to do fast-paced edits like Nike in the weightlifting setting, but my work always looks cheap compared to Nike videos. (My client provides footage recorded from an actual camera.)

I’ve always been a fan of clean edits, but where I work requires me to do more than that since we sell products. They want hooks and elements that hold the viewer’s attention. For context, I edit workout videos where the person is lifting. I’m stuck with cutting to the beat, using transitions, but it still feels flat and boring when compared to a video from Nike (which is the level we’re aiming for).

Any ideas would help. Thank you so much.

https://preview.redd.it/70ddzqts8awg1.png?width=1444&format=png&auto=webp&s=ccf225d33520d967e4a153d722dc5c502adfefc2

I'm using Davinci Resolve 20.3 Studio version

Audio track 1 is a voice track,

2 is game sound of the clip

I wanna ripple delete parts of the clip , which track 1 is in silence

Just deleting the track 2 and applying Remove silence can have track1 without silence

But I want to leave game sound(track2) when Chatting in track1 is going on

Have anyone found out how to selectively process remove silence for a track?

I've been thinking about starting as a freelance editor to make some extra income, but I keep seeing a lot of negativity lately. People say the market is oversaturated, clients are difficult, and Al is automating everything.

Is it still viable to start as a beginner right now, or is the "golden age" over? I'm willing to put in the work to learn, but I don't want to chase a dying industry. Also, for those who are working: where would you recommend a total beginner start learning the craft today? (YouTube, paid courses, etc.?)

Hello,

I am wondering about the current and future abilities of unpixelisation software.

I'd seen this video which made it look like it's very easy to unpixelate text when in a video, I believe having multiple frames and movement helps make it easier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKYYwcxpGk

What I'm wondering is whether this applies to human faces also when in videos? So for example let's say I intentionally pixelate my face like this and create 4k videos of me talking, moving my head around slightly etc looking similar to this:

https://preview.redd.it/t6hze1rk76wg1.png?width=2816&format=png&auto=webp&s=54375895e7f48bb9e11f39ffc085e5895db8cf78

To what extent could the image be unpixelated and the face of the person revealed? I think if there is lots of movement and the image is 4k it will help but how close to the actual person underneath can you get? It seems with text you can get it very exact but with a persons face is this harder? I know you can get AI to have a guess at a pixelated face but it generally will only be that, an estimate based on info. For example I got it to unpixelate the above and the image it came up with was a fair bit away from the original.

Gemini tells me there is software which can depixate videos/images but I tried some of its suggestions and none of them worked very well, possibly as I wasn't using them correctly.

Let me know what you guys think is possible here? Or if it's likely we'll be able to fully depixelate images/videos like the above in the near future with software advances.

Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks

Hi all - I've recently fallen into an unofficial "media archivist" role at my company, and am still figuring out what our archiving process should actually look like. I'm no DIT expert, but fortunately I'm working off some recommendations mapped out by a previous employee who really knew his stuff.

I understand the main thing is to generate separate exports of all video and audio elements for each finalized Premiere sequence - ProRes 422 for footage, 444 w/ alpha for graphics, .WAV for music/dialogue/SFX. Pain in the ass, but seems like this is considered best practice across the board and I can see why.

Where I get confused is that my former colleague also recommends doing "Consolidate and Transcode" on the project after exporting all those masters. His instructions were vague here, but after researching/test-driving it a bit, I figure this is basically an automated version of the master exports process I'm already doing - albeit less organized, more cluttered, and sucking up a lot more space.

So basically, doing this in addition to the masters seems like overkill... but am I missing something? Is "Consolidate and Transcode" just supposed to be a quick-and-dirty alternative to manually exporting masters, and therefore redundant if you already have them? Or am I totally misunderstanding what it is?

I want to add white subtitles with black outlines to a video

I have an SRT file already

I have not found any tool that succeeds.

Everything is replacing Chinese characters or emoji with squares.

Please can someone save me?

My CC app is kind of frozen, I can’t even log in for some reason. I need to restore a previous version (2019) separately. I used to be able to download any version I needed for Adobe software without any problems because they were always available online, but now Adobe has discontinued them, unfortunately.

I need a solution, please.

I've been searching around trying to find a way to compress this 7 hour video that's like 700mb down to like 10mb, now obviously that's not possible without completely ruining the quality but that's kinda the point, I don't care about the quality. All that's seems to be out there are posts from people saying "how do I compress a video without losing quality" or tools that are specifically marketed towards doing so, but I can never just find something asking for or a tool presented as a way to compress a video by massively reducing its quality. So does something like this exist? note: I want to be able to keep the audio in my video, even if it's unrecognisable. Thanks!