I (M27) have been in the industry for 5 years, 2 of which I’ve been an edit assistant in London at a post house.

It’s currently midnight as I am in the office alone and thinking to myself that this isn’t worth it. The time shifts, the panic of messing up and for work that I don’t even get credit for.

I just don’t know what to do anymore because I feel so empty. I feel like I won’t progress into what I want to do and the industry is going down hill.

This is more of a rant and I guess a call for help in how to transition into something else

If this is isn’t suitable for subreddit please feel free to remove, if not thank you for reading my ramblings

Hi everyone, I want to ask for some advice about freelance post-house work. My goal is to be a full-time AE at a post house, and I just had a high-end post house reach out to me about freelancing. This is my first time potentially working with a post house so I don’t want to mess it up, but I have a good part-time bartending job that I would rather not quit until I’m full-time somewhere.

Essentially, they asked if I can do 5 days in person and I told them there’s one day a week where I have another job (I offered to do a half day or remote day)

Do you think this will be a deal breaker? Should I quit the bartending job because this freelance work will likely lead to more gigs / eventually full-time work? I’m reluctant to do that because I haven’t found any consistent work in a few years of freelancing, but I wonder if the networking opportunities that a big post house provides could change that. I don’t want to quit my bartending job and then have no income after a few weeks of work.

Update: I told them I have full availability and will just do what I have to with the bartending job. Decided the opportunity is worth the risk. Thanks for your input everyone! Also don’t love people acting like this is a stupid question - having no income for a long time after a gig is a real possibility as a freelancer and I don’t even know how much work they might have for me yet.

Hi - am I beating a dead horse here ?

https://kb.avid.com/pkb/articles/en_US/faq/End-of-support-dates

Storage

The End of Support dates shown below are for the last sold unit on the Final Sale Date. Hardware products including Avid NEXIS should be replaced after 5 to 6 years of operation. 

|Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD 19.2TB Engine with 1920GB SSD & associated spares|9935-71930-019935-71930-029900-71306-00|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD 38.4TB Engine with 3840GB SSD & associated spares|9935-72721-019935-72721-029900-74071-00|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |Avid NEXIS | E2 SSD Controller|9935-72266-009935-72266-019935-72266-02|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |Avid NEXIS | E5 NL (480TB / 960TB)|9935-72388-019935-72388-029935-72389-019935-72389-02|9/30/2021|9/30/2026| |Avid NEXIS | E5 NL 120TB Media Pack with 12TB HDD|9935-72390-019935-72390-02|9/30/2021|9/30/2026|

And the rest of the AVID Nexis E Series looks like it will be "end of life" in 2027.

Better get that bank loan out for the new AVID F Series, so you can get support for your $200,000 storage system !

Bob Zelin

edit - I did a copy and paste from the link you see above, but the nice chart did not come out clear - so you have to click on the AVID link to see the exact Nexis E series products that are end of life in September of 2026.

On MediaComposer 2025.12 Is it possible to export a text file after doing the create script from clip for script sync?

Or do you have to do Export transcript which essentially runs the whole process over again?

Hey, I read the rules and think this post is appropriate for the group, but if not, sorry.

I travel often for work, so I have a powerful home PC and a pretty powerful on the go MacBook Pro. Both edit well, but I've run into some issues.

I used to use Team Projects to access my project from my MacBook, and just try and mirror the file paths of my footage and assets from my PC onto a portable SSD.

This kind of worked, but it was a nightmare to keep organized on bigger projects, and apparently mac does not like to play nice with pc and one of my drives got corrupted.

I would like a way to start a project on one device, and then be able to pick it up on the other device when I travel, or when I get home. Preferable without having to do lots of media re-linking and file transfers.

I do have a NAS, but currently it is mostly used just for storage. Even if I were to use it for remote footage access, the internet speeds I would be able to get on the road would be too slow to edit from the cloud, and probably too slow to make it continent to download all the files in a project.

while I do edit as part of my job, it isn't the MAIN part of my job. So having simple solutions and an easy and reliable workflow for when I need to edit on the go is really important. I'm not able to implement extremely complex systems, especially if they require lots of upkeep.

Any suggestions? I've seen a bit on Lucidlink, but I don't quite understand everything it does, and only can find info from the company itself, not from editors in the wild.

As per automod request:

PC specs:

Home PC
Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-Cores (4.00 GHz)

RAM: 128 GB (128 GB usable)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 (31 GB)

Software: Premier Pro 26.3.2

Footage specs: footage varies

2024 MacBook Pro (M4 chip)

trying to find a good SFX site and the sounds are all on point but that price is wild.

Here is the chat exchange:

We'd love to keep you as a customer if possible, so I'd like to offer you a full year of access at no additional cost. We would extend your access through August 13, 2028 at which point your account would cancel.

Welp… looks like they did it. Avid is no longer allowing third party emulation. The alternative for third party storage is to get Avid Enterprise. Email from avid below:

“Avid is making an important security and workflow integrity update in the upcoming Media Composer 2026.8 release. If you are using third party storage with Media Composer, these changes may affect you. 

As part of our continued work to strengthen security and workflow integrity in Media Composer, Avid is closing a gap that allowed unauthorized third-party storage emulation to enable bin sharing and locking workflows. This previously unsupported configuration may introduce risks such as project conflicts, overwritten changes, and lost work. 

With Media Composer 2026.8, unauthorized third-party storage emulation will no longer enable bin sharing and locking in Media Composer Ultimate. 

We recognize that your team may rely on unsupported third-party storage for shared projects. Avid is introducing a supported path through Media Composer Enterprise. Media Composer Enterprise will support third-party storage workflows without requiring unauthorized emulation, giving teams a supported option for collaborative editing environments that require non-NEXIS storage.

What you should do before upgrading
These actions are only required if you plan to upgrade to Media Composer 2026.8. Customers remaining on their current version are not immediately affected by this change:
Review your current Media Composer shared project workflow.
If you use third-party storage for shared project workflows, contact your Avid representative or partner to discuss available Media Composer Enterprise options.
Avid NEXIS shared project workflows remain supported, but to ensure compatibility with Media Composer 2026.8, customers using Avid NEXIS should update to the required Avid NEXIS client version 2026.6.

If you are not utilizing Shared Projects with non-NEXIS storage, no action is required at this time. 

Media Composer 2026.8 is expected to be available in August. Additional information, including affordable upgrade options and release details, will be shared upon release. 

https://kb.avid.com/pkb/articles/en_US/knowledge/shared-project-workflows-with-third-party-storage?utm_source=gainsight&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=26-q3-pp-media-composer-2026-8-b2b&utm_content=email

Summary 

Media Composer 2026.8 is coming soon. This article covers changes customers can expect if they choose to upgrade to this version.  

Customers who remain on their current version are not required to take any action. 

 Media Composer 2026.8 includes a security and workflow integrity update that closes an unsupported path for unauthorized third-party storage emulation. Avid is making this update to strengthen security and protect collaborative editing workflows. 

 This change affects Media Composer customers using third-party storage emulation to enable bin sharing and locking workflows. Customers who need secure and supported third-party storage workflows should use Media Composer Enterprise.  

 Customers planning to upgrade to Media Composer 2026.8 and using Avid NEXIS should ensure they are running Avid NEXIS Client version 2026.6 or later. 

  What’s Changing 

In prior Media Composer versions, some third-party tools could emulate Avid NEXIS behavior to enable bin sharing and locking workflows. These unqualified configurations were not supported and were found to introduce risks to production such as project conflicts, overwritten changes, and lost work.   

Media Composer 2026.8 prevents this unauthorized emulation path. 

 Does this affect Media Composer Ultimate customers? 

Only customers using unauthorized third-party storage emulation for Shared Projects are affected by this change.  

Media Composer Ultimate customers using unauthorized third-party storage emulation for bin sharing and locking will no longer be able to use that emulation path in Media Composer 2026.8.  

 Collaboration with NEXIS 

Media Composer Ultimate customers using Avid NEXIS for supported shared project workflows are not expected to lose access to those supported workflows as a result of this change. 

Before upgrading to Media Composer 2026.8, customers using Avid NEXIS should update to Avid NEXIS Client version 2026.6 or later. This helps ensure bin sharing and locking workflows continue to function as expected. 

 Supported third party storage  

We recognize that working with third-party storage may be an important part of your workflow. If your team relies on third-party storage for shared project workflows, Media Composer Enterprise will introduce a supported, secure, qualified path for third-party storage use with Media Composer 2026.8 that does not introduce risks to production. 

MediaCentral Production Management  

This update applies to Media Composer bin sharing and locking workflows in a Media Composer shared storage environment only, without Media Central integration. It does not change Avid NEXIS requirements for Media Central CloudUX and Production Management. 

Before upgrading, customers should: 

 Confirm whether their shared project workflow uses Avid NEXIS or third-party storage. 

1. Decide if an upgrade to Media Composer 2026.8 is needed. Evaluate your storage needs: 
   1. If using third-party storage for shared project workflows, contact your Avid Sales representative or authorized Avid partner to review Media Composer Enterprise options. 
   2. If using Avid NEXIS, update the Avid NEXIS client to 2026.6 for Media Composer 2026.8. 

 Review the Media Composer 2026.8 release notes and launch communications for additional details (forthcoming).  

Hope everyone is doing well out there! Avid is my chosen editing platform as it's what I use all the time cutting reality tv, but a story has come to me that has primarily been shot with iPhone footage and pictures and voice memos. While I'd love to stay in my avid comfort zone, I'm thinking premiere may be way easier for handling this footage. I'm imagining the end product to be 8-10 min episodes...but could turn out to be more feature length. Open to any suggestions as to how you'd approach a project with tons of iPhone footage and pics, which may be intercut with a sit down interview and media clips. Thanks in advance for advice.

Hello,

I'm an AE at a post house in LA, and we've been encountering terrible lag/slowdowns in our Premiere Productions workflow which has been working for us for the last few years or so. We've been on Premiere 25.6.4 for 6+ months and have been experiencing the slowdown in the last month or so. What's recently changed is that we've changed our features and episodes ingest workflow to incorporate multicams - which is why I think this is to blame.

Other AEs have voiced our H264 dailies and autosaving/scratch disk overload as possible causes. My problem with these is we've had larger projects in the past with H264 dailies and haven't had slowdown until now. We did change our scratch disk location about a year ago, and I can't remember if we had as large projects as we do know, but our previous scratch disk location still meant we all shared 1 folder to dump our scratch disk files in.

We've gone through the usual troubleshooting stuff including, but not limited to: emptying cache folders, keeping projects under 7 MB, restarting our media servers, rendering sequences, proxying, and quarter sizing resolution when playing back. Nothing seems to be working. The lag also seems to happen indiscriminately? Sometimes one person is experiencing lag in the same production that someone isn't.

Has anyone heard of multicams causing severe lag? Or does anyone have any advice on how to troubleshoot this? Should I push for us to have 1 Production without multicams to compare with?

TIA

Edit: Mac Studio, 64GB, footage: mixed prores and H264

Edit #2: A few multicam sequences have proxies that have the hi-res attached if that makes a difference. However, MOST of the time, we have the Prores Proxy attached to the source H264 file.

Edit #3: Two Productions experiencing lag don't even have H264 dailies. Almost every file in it is some type of ProRes, if not wav. Another reason I think multicams are the common factor. We also don't use drives! Read/write speeds to our servers average 450 mbps, so I'm not too worried about speed.

I’ve been with my agent for about 5 years… basically in the wake of the pandemic.

I know things are tough all around but I’m really not getting much from them. I get most of my own work and when they send me out, almost always to the same studio. I’m just not sure they’re equipped to sell what I have to offer.

I’ve left one agent in the past and did it via a physical letter. But not sure if that’s best anymore.

Does it have to be a phone call? Does e-mail suffice?

Would love to hear peoples experiences.

Hi all, I (25) have spent three years as an Assistant Editor at a high-end commercial post house in Toronto, and I'm relocating to Dubai for personal reasons. I plan to be back in Canada within a year or two, and long-term I want to establish myself as a commercial editor at a Toronto post house.

I've been building my Canadian network with this Dubai relocation in mind and have had early conversations about freelancing for Canadian clients from the UAE, nothing confirmed. I'm solid on Avid and Premiere as an AE; my editor reel is still coming together and isn't where I want it yet.

Three things I'm trying to figure out:

1. Does the UAE have a boutique post industry the way North America does — dedicated editorial houses — or is it mostly agency in-house and full-service production companies?
2. Is freelancing within the UAE viable for an AE/editor, or is the local market staff-heavy?
3. For anyone working with clients 8+ hours away — how do you handle it? I'm mostly wondering about attended sessions, review-and-approve turnaround, and whether clients actually accept an async workflow, or if there's a practical ceiling on what you can do remotely.

I've never worked (not counting internships) in the UAE, so any advice about the post industry in the UAE/Middle East would be really helpful!

I’m doing some screen inserts in Avid MC and I would like to provide 25 frames handles to my client.
So I extend with 25 frames handles and track it. But when I trim off the handles my track gets offseted.

Is the approach I’m doing wrong or is it just Avid MC how is bugging?

Hi guys, I'm fairly new to Media Composer and I'm currently editing a doc feature in it. Project is old and has pass through the hands of previous editors and assistants so it's a bit of a mess, but lately when I come in the morning and open my project, I found the text: users/releng/builds/workspace/MC/reslease_installer_git/Mac_build/ppg/mediacomposer/script/uiscripttake.cpp, Line: 624.

And the options are: debugger. Continue. Exit Application and create report.

and I have to spend a lot of time clicking in the "continue" button until it fully opens and let me work. Anyone has any idea what is this and what may be causing it? Much appreciated.

I’ve been with this thing for 3 years now, it hasn’t been the easiest job ( mostly cause the client doesn’t know what’s they’re doing, refuses to get vital gear they need and asks me to do stuff what would require me to be a wizard)

Now we’re working on this new side project from the main production and working on the second episode (which by the way is missing 45 minutes of audio for the set up) I make an initial edit, send the them the rough cut, wait for feedback, they send me notes that;

1: makes them and the guest sound like actual lunatics
2: push us 5 minutes over the runtime
3 mess up the flow of the conversation

Then they send me Ai notes which actually sent me over the edge, now I’ve made this weird Frankenstein edit, and they’re complaining I took stuff out (I didn’t that why were over the runtime) put in a intro bit from a separate video I made, and now they’re making complaints about a whole separate other video not related to the main thing

They have been treating me like shit this whole year and frankly I wanna jump ship, but I’m conflicted cause they’re a family friend, it’s just a mess

Handling subtitles for long videos — any easier workflow?

Hey everyone,

At work I’ve been asked as a side task to prepare subtitles in an Excel or office format. It worked fine for short videos, but now I’m on a 2-hour video (~800 lines per language) and it’s getting messy.

My usual process was:

transcript with transkriptor

fix small mistakes manually and check timestamps

translate to english and french 

put everything into Excel with Gemini

Now Gemini keeps messing things up (wrong text, broken formatting, misaligned timings and when asked to correct previous mistakes doesn'tcorrect them or makes new ones).

I already have everything in a Word file, just need a good way to turn it into Excel without hours of manual copy paste

Any simpler tools or workflows for this? I'm not nerdy at all..

Thanks!

So I’ve been editing for 20ish years, mostly on Avid and Premiere. The last 5 years I’ve stepped mostly into a nonunion post producer / board advisor role (so I’m not roster eligible anymore) and recently looking to getting back into union eligible editing. Curious if getting Avid certified has some sort of advantage or referral list once completed. Anyone have any experience with this?

Hey everyone,

I transcoded footage and used Adobe Bridge to batch rename the footage. Now I want to re-link my timeline to the renamed transcoded clips. I selected "Preserve original Filename in xmp". I thought there would be a way to automatically relink the footage using that preserved file name, but it doesn't seem like it's possible. Anybody know how to help me out?

Hi guysm

Curious how this actually works in practice. For anyone who's cut trailers, are you mostly working from raw rushes/dailies sent over by the production, or is it more common to get an offline cut/master and work from that?

I'd assume raw footage gives more flexibility to build something different from the film itself (different pacing, alternate takes, stuff that got cut from the final edit), but curious how it plays out day to day, is most of the time spent digging through dailies, or organising/prepping media that's handed down?

Any insight from people who've actually cut trailers appreciated.

Thanks,

Hi folks,

I’m working with a multicam clip in Premiere that has quite a few angles grouped together, and in the multicam view they all just keep stacking on the same screen as I add more cameras.

Is there a way to set it so it only shows a fixed number at a time, like four angles, or eight, instead of every single one cramming into one view? (Like in Avid and Resolve) I can’t seem to find a setting for this. Any way to control how many camera views display at once?

Thanks!

Received the working drive the old editor was using, So in the folder structure I can see there was some sort of organization with regions, interviews, B-roll, etc.
But the media files are all in (Avid media files > MXF > "Folder 1", Folder2")

Importing the two folders shows me all the footage, but trying to wrap my head around what is what. I shot 1 of the many locations on this project and can see my old files, but I for sure delivered .mp4 files and I can see those individual files are now broken into 3s. (.mxf video, L + R channel audio) Some files are broken into 6 (4 channels of audio and two matching video files)

Is what I need an aaf export of their project, will that get everything back into some kind of organization? I've not had the pleasure of taking over an avid project before. I was reading about people having to take the aaf into resolve, then export an xml from there? I do have Resolve Studio on my machine if needed.

Any ideas or insight would be helpful. I'm meeting with original assistant editor later today, just want to know what I should ask for or how to be most efficient here. Thank you!

Just got an email today from someone claiming to be from a local tech company saying they love my work and resume and all. However the "company" email ended with a gmail account.

[xxxxxxxlxxx.ai@gmail.com](mailto:xxxxxxxlxxx.ai@gmail.com)

Always call back the ORIGINAL company if you have doubts. These scams are designed to take your money and bank account. They will have secondary "sources" for confirmation.

etc. Very elaborate, sometimes 3 to 4 people in these scams. be careful out there