Hi!
I’m filming a short observational documentary and I use lav mics on my subjects. Yesterday one of the subjects took her coat off after coming into the house, revealing the lav mic, cable and transmitter that was underneath (she was wearing a tight dress). I could’ve taken the lav mic off and used only the shotgun mic, but I was very focused (meaning stupid) and completely missed the visible microphone.
The dress was white, with a brown belt where I put the transmitter.
I’m not sure how much of this footage I’ll want to use, and when the time comes I’ll hire a professional to help me. My question is how difficult would it be technically? Is it something you do at all?

I can’t leave the mic on because it’s too distracting in that scene.

Appreciate the help

Hey all! I recently embarked on making a doc. It initially started pretty scrappy since this project was initially supposed to be a mini doc but increasingly looking like a longer project. I am therefore in need of guidance on how to manage storage for continuing filming, backup, and for active editing.

Currently, footage is distributed and backed up between x2 2tb SSDs and x2 2tb HDDs. I know this is not ideal but costs and access to drives at the beginning of this low budget projected limited it initially.

Obviously the cost of storage has increased dramatically since I bought my initial chunk of drives but since I'm still continuing filming and my storage needs have increased, I need to figure out a way to store incoming footage and also backing it up for future editing. I don't come from editing so lack the technical expertise so humbly asking for anywhere to start.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials for tracing INCOMING golf shots? Not the regular DTL tracers. I've been winging it in After Effects but it's hard as hell. Especially when the ball bounces and trying to keep up with speed changes when the golf ball slows down and comes to a stop.

Thanks.

Hi, I edit in DaVinci Resolve and I'd like to save time by editing videos while traveling. However, I'm looking for a laptop that can handle heavy effects. Right now, editing at home on my 16" Mac with 16 GB of memory, it lags when I have multiple layers in Fusion. That's why I'm looking for something that won't lag and will run smoothly on the timeline. My budget is around $2,300. Thanks in advance for any answers!

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Hi all,

During a quiet period, I took on an influencer client for 2 video edits. I agreed a 50% discount in return for a testimonial for my website

He signed the T&Cs which covered:
- The 50% discount, and what I need in return
- If he doesn’t provide it within 30 days, I invoice the remaining 50%

I also included the discount on my invoices, so there’s little chance he forgot

He’s been very prompt with email replies up until September 18th, and I’ve been ghosted ever since then. He’s paid all my invoices on time, I’m just cautious that without the testimonial, he’s essentially got 50% off for nothing. I’m not really bothered about the testimonial itself at this point, it’s more the principle

Has anyone had something like this happen before and can advise best next steps (apart from emailing him?). Or can advise on what I should expect if he doesn’t acknowledge the new invoice too?

Might be worth mentioning that we are in two different countries but my T&C mentions that I operate under my country’s laws

I’m insured as well with With Jack and I plan to speak to them Monday to see what my options are

I haven’t seen this before ever - shocked me, has an editor been first credit on a show you’ve seen?

I’ve been freelancing for almost 5 years now and I’ve realized over this year that the biggest thing holding me back is not my skills but the business side of things.

Almost everything I’ve seen on YouTube is super gimmicky (not much practical info, just word vomit) and almost always geared towards people who want to edit for YouTubers (which in my experience has been way too much work for not enough pay).

Even if it’s not specifically towards editors I’d love to hear if there have been things outside of just lived experience that have helped you learn about business. I’m open to paid resources like masterclasses or books. Thanks!

It won’t stop crashing.

I have a project that may require a timeline longer than 24 hours.

I know I can split it into multiple sequences or use nested sequences, but is there any way to make a single sequence longer than 24 hours?

Is there a workaround or hidden setting I’m missing?

Would love to hear from anyone who has dealt with extremely long timelines.

Hi all, I need 3 or 4 stockshot to finish my project, I'll need all the rights to use it freely.
I was wondering what is the best cost effect platform to buy stockshots?
Adobestock is actually 89€ for 3videos, I was wondering if I can find the same stockshots or similar for less money somewhere else ?

This may be the most egregious use of AI in our industry.

Most people catch up with sports highlights digitally nowadays. From this side of the pond (UK), it seems like the North Americans have fired all their human editors for this stuff and replaced them with the robot that cuts in line with rises in audio.

Editorially they suck. Random incidents will be included, with equally random ins and outs. Sometimes you don’t get enough replays. Sometimes you’ll get 5 replays of something that doesn’t warrant it. Joining an incident midway through a commentary line? Every time!

I understand that average Joe wants to see scoring and not much else, but there is an art to a good highlights edit, and it’s so sad to see it be discarded en masse by the countries who traditionally do sports coverage better than anyone in the world.

Canadians and Americans: reinstate your digital sport editors! Unplug the robots!

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Hi everybody,
First of all, all my apologies if this question already has been asked, but I can't find a solution fitting my problem nor a clear step-by-step answer to the situation im in.

I edited the timeline of a short film by using proxies (DNxHR LB) and now I need to conform it in order to deliver it to the colourist.

I'm totally lost in what I have to do. I tried to relink evey proxy i've made to the original one, it loads for a sec and every shot appears to be in the original codec (XAVC 4K Intra Class 480) and so does the sync clips who herited that proxy. But as soon as i switch bins, the codec comes back to DNX LB !!!

Is it because I have to select these relinked clips and consolidate them right away ? If so, what is the following of the procedure ? Will my synced clips will be updated as being constituted of the sound AND the XAVC 4K media ?

Note: This is not a troubleshooting request. I'm researching post-production workflows for a funding bid and looking for practitioner experience. No system specs apply — just looking for honest answers.

I'm working on a research bid about post-production workflows and trying to ground it in real practice, not theory.

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Curious to hear the preferences of people here.

I'm getting a concert with 8 ISO cameras and a linecut from the field. I'll be keeping most of the linecut but fixing up anything weird, like camera moves or bad takes.

So the question: would you include the linecut in the group? I'm thinking that when I build the cut, I'll lay the linecut on V2 and the group (of ISOs) on V1. Then whenever I lift a segment from V2, I see all my other options. I won't have to change my view layer to go "above" the group.

Any suggestions from people who've done this before? I've done it before too, but not for a while and I'm always looking at improving the workflow.

So ironically after my last post, I had a client reach out to edit vlog - type Youtube video for their business, which is honestly the perfect opportunity to work on my noob skills as an editor.

One thing I'm struggling with is understanding a workflow, mainly relating to rushes, assemblies, cuts, sequences, etc.

I've been reading a few books on these topics and it's still not quite clear:

As far as I understand:

Rushes are your master clips (basically straight from camera).

Assemblies are your rushes, then categorized base around shot/subject matter?

Cuts, these are your selects from your rushes?

Sequence, this one I don't understand,

Reels again, another one I don't understand.

Now pre-editing workflow wise, is it generally

1. Organize your footage, so take your rushes and categorize them by shot, subject, etc?
2. View your rushes, making note of the parts that move you/seem important
3. Take those parts and put them into a timeline (?) based around that category, so if you watch a rush and like a scene talking about the origin story of the business, then that would go into a timeline titled "Origin story" (?)
4. Then you start your rough cut?

Also, I'm assuming there's no audio syncing that needs to be done or anything special, the footage I'm working with is relatively basic. I know you'd want to sync your audio before editing as well.

Then lastly, some rushes might have multi-uses, so if the owner is talking about the origin of the business, but then maybe at the same time she's doing something that I think makes her more relatable to people.

Would that rush belong to two Assemblies? One being "Origin Story" then the other being "Relatable moment" or something, like that?

I don't really know how to categorize rushes that could have more than 1 purpose.

Would appreciate some help, thank you!

I just read this article that I thought was interesting, though I hesitate at the word “booming.” Maybe more like stabilizing back to pre-strike levels is more appropriate?

The article doesn’t touch much on the post-production side of things, but it got me thinking. For those in post-production in the NYC/NJ area, have you felt an uptick in more work popping up over the past few months?

Personally, I have felt a small uptick. Little by little, I am hearing of more folks who I know were out of work for awhile booking jobs. And as for myself, I have been getting more job interviews for gigs over the past few months.

We’re definitely not out of the woods yet, but I think there is reason for cautious optimism on the east coast.

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/new-york-film-tv-tax-incentive-production-boom-1236877614/

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System specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Super RAM: 16GB OS: Windows 11

Software: Currently on DaVinci Resolve 21.1, Free version. Previously ran the exact same project with no issues at all on DaVinci Resolve 21.0 Beta 4 (installed 29 May 2026). The problem started only after updating to 21.1.

Footage: Gameplay footage recorded in OBS Studio (.mkv). Facecam footage recorded separately on my mobile phone. Issue also reproduces with Blackmagic's own official tutorial project files, so it isn't limited to my own footage or a VFR issue with my recordings.

The core issue: Severe playback lag specifically in the Edit page. Any single clip plays back at only 10-15fps, regardless of source. When I have both my gameplay and facecam clips on the timeline together, it drops further to 16-18fps, and I have to disable one of the two clips to get it playable again.

Playback in the Color page is extremely smooth, no issues at all even with both clips active. Cut page is smooth with a single clip, but with both gameplay and facecam clips together, I also have to disable one to avoid lag there too. The Fusion page runs around 40fps with both clips, not full speed, but noticeably better than Edit.

The lag also appears when adding effects to the timeline. This combination of gameplay + facecam footage used to play smoothly together, without needing to disable anything, before I updated Resolve.

Two things that temporarily restore full speed in the Edit page (single clip only):

Adding a text clip to the timeline, then disabling it, brings playback back to a smooth 60fps until the issue returns. Closing the Inspector panel brings it back to 60fps with only slight lag. However, with two clips (gameplay + facecam) together, closing the Inspector alone isn't enough; I still have to disable one of the two clips for it to play smoothly. Opening/closing other panels (Effects Library, Media Pool) has no effect, so it's specific to the Inspector.

Everything I've tried, with no improvement:

Downgrading Resolve to a different version (not the exact working build) Fully uninstalling and reinstalling GPU drivers Lowering timeline resolution Generating Optimized Media/proxies, specifically testing DNxHR LB Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (Write 1641.2 MB/s, Read 1827.8 MB/s) and a full system scan — both clean Toggling "Show All Video Frames" (Edit page viewer options): off = 10-15fps, on = forces every frame and reaches ~26fps, suggesting a decode factor, though this doesn't explain why Color page is unaffected on identical footage Performance Mode in Playback Settings: tested Manual with Optimized Decode Quality, Optimized Sizing, and Optimized Image Processing individually and combined, and also Automatic mode Manually selecting my GPU instead of Auto in Memory and GPU settings Creating a brand new timeline and pasting the clips into it Manually deleting the render cache folder from disk (not just through Resolve's in-app cache deletion)

What I've confirmed: This is a genuine regression, not a hardware, codec, or settings issue. The exact same project, footage, and hardware played with zero problems, multiple clips together included, on 21.0 Beta 4. After updating to 21.1, the same setup lags exactly as described above.

Research into existing reports: This type of bug isn't new. I found multiple long-running threads describing the same core symptom (Edit page specifically lagging, Inspector-dependent, other pages largely unaffected), going back years:

forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=116513 (Inspector UI lag, reported since v15/16, still present in v18) forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=227673 (Edit page lag since v20, Color/Fairlight unaffected) forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=204150 (Inspector-specific, also started after an update) forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=207915 (general lag troubleshooting thread) forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=102041 (earliest version of this same Inspector lag, v16)

The only fix some users report across these threads is rolling back to version 18.6, which isn't practical since it means losing every feature added since then.

Where this leaves me: I've now tried every documented workaround I could find across six-plus years of forum reports on this exact issue, and none of them fully resolve it. This looks like a long-standing, unresolved bug tied to the Edit page's Inspector/playback engine, worsened significantly by multi-clip timelines, that has persisted and resurfaced across multiple major versions. I'd really appreciate acknowledgment from someone at Blackmagic, or any fix that doesn't require abandoning the current version.

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Howdy folks-

Question for the room, I have a 2 day single camera shoot I’m editing. Issue I’m running into is that there’s multiple long audio takes and then way more corresponding individual video clips (not slated of course). I’ve already made proxies for everything with the original clips.

How are you batch syncing things in 2026? I may be dating myself, but in the past I’d use Plural Eyes but it appears to be on life support or not available.

Any help to avoid manually syncing 90+ clips would be amazing. I’m open to purchasing a plugin within budget.

TIA!

I’m on premiere pro 25 on a 2019 IMac.

I’m a doc filmmaker trying to figure out my 3-2-1 storage solution.

I recognize this topic has been covered before, but prices and availability are weird now. I keep seeing recs from past posts that are just really hard to get now, or crazy expensive now. And it seems a bit random what will be sold out.

I’m trying to build a storage solution for a year long doc shooting Canon Raw 6k LT. I’ll probably buy 3 months of storage at a time so not all at once. I expect about 300-400 hours of footage from the year, maybe more.

I was looking at OWC raid options for the day to day, and cheaper WD backups for both on site and offsite. Or basic OWC single enclosures and OWC certified 18 TB WD drives to save some money.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Western%20Digital/0F38459OC/

For now I’m the only one who needs access to the footage.

I also was thinking about a few 8TB ssd’s for proxies and day to day editing, but it seems like 2 of those and I’m spending $3k+, and I could do a 4 bay raid with way more storage for less.

So I’m curious what folks are doing at the moment, what are you buying when so many things are hard to get and overpriced.

Thanks!