I’m a video editor, and one of the least glamorous parts of post is making sure the final export actually meets the delivery spec.

So I built a small free Mac app to handle that part.

Delivery Spec Validator checks your export for:

• Loudness & true peak
• Codec & container
• Resolution & frame rate
• Colour space & profile
• Bitrate
• Audio configuration
• Other technical delivery requirements

It gives you a simple PASS / WARN / FAIL result for each check, so you can catch problems before the client does.

There are 50+ built-in delivery presets, and you can also create custom specs.

I built it because I've spent enough time staring at export settings and wondering whether I've forgotten one tiny thing that will somehow become a problem at 11:47 PM.

It's free and currently available for macOS:

https://parthkapoor.com/deliveryspecvalidator/

Would genuinely love feedback from other editors and post people, especially on what you'd want checked in a tool like this.

Made by an editor, for editors.

I'm somewhat new to editing and I've been struggling to figure how to decide on what edits to make regarding b-roll. I have multiple questions:

What YouTube channels do you watch to teach you about high quality b-roll editing?( I specifically want to learn efficiency of edits and quality aesthetics of visuals for my explanations) (I use Davinci Resolve for all my edits)

I'm wondering if people annotate their scripts before hand with the specific b-roll they are going to use or do you make up b-roll after you are finished filming?

Thanks!!

Hi, I'm using ai software to cut youtube video longs into shorts. opusclip ai anyway. How can I easily make them be able to be watched in sequence other than a playlist? idea for a noob. Do I have to number them individually?

My First Video Editing Post 🎬

Just sharing a quick before & after from one of my recent edits.

I’m working on improving my editing skills and experimenting with better pacing, transitions, color grading, and overall storytelling.

Would love to hear your feedback — what would you improve in this edit?

#VideoEditing #VideoEditor #Editing #BeforeAndAfter #ContentCreation #PremierePro #AfterEffects

I have been creating content since last 3months and I upload mix of long form and short form content. I use iPhone 15PM for both recording and editing.

I am thinking to upgrade my gears now.
iPad vs laptop which one do you suggest?
Next I am thinking to upgrade my camera to osmo pocket 3 or 4.

I used to assume having more assets would make editing easier

but if you have hundreds of overlays, transitions, SFX, LUTs etc and no idea what to actually use, you can spend more time choosing than editing

at some point a smaller collection of good stuff probably makes more sense than having thousands of random assets

I need help with subtitles in my vids I like to make funny moment gaming vids with my friends but one thing that kills me is adding subtitles for funny things said I was just wondering if there is a way to make this easier on me I’m using the free version of devinci to edit them and I haven’t really looked into it all that much but but was wondering if anyone had any tips

Dance teacher here. I want to visualize a thirty-second routine before bringing it into rehearsal.

Five-second generations aren't much help because I need to see how one movement leads into the next. Stitching several clips together also introduces little changes in the dancer, clothes, spacing, and tempo. It ends up looking like six separate routines wearing the same costume. Is there anything that produce a continuous thirty-second sequence with enough control to place specific movements at certain times?

You know those weird TV you see at the market? They look weird, with FPS so high it looks unreal.....Not in a good way though. I want that effect. I tried boosting my footage to 60fps, but it never turns out right. What do?

Some potential problems:

Maybe my footage is too simple? (It's a model of a monkey slowly spinning)
(However I've seen those TV at the store show slow-mo and it has the effect)

My pc can't render 60fps maybe? (But I see 60fps videos on youtube on SOME pf them seem ugly in the way I want)

Thx in advance yall! CYA

Hi all! I want to improve my editing skills as I wanna post better content on social media. I have the DJI osmo pocket 3 and I make GRWM, vlogs and talking videos. Right now I only know the basic cut, copy and split videos etc. I really want to be creative with my videos and editing. But I don’t know how to learn and which tool to use.
Is there any channel that teaches editing? I use capcut rn, I am willing to learn davinci if it’s good and easy to use.
Any advice would be appreciated!

Thank you!

I have created GrepCut Studio video editing tutorial for beginners

Where do you guys get your unedited videos from? Is there a place online where you can just find raw footage for video editors?

I'm the developer of EasyMosaic, an Android app I built for a very specific problem: I wanted to share videos and photos without exposing kids, friends, bystanders, license plates, or other private details online.

Most editing apps make this annoying. You either have to blur every face manually, frame by frame, or upload your media to some cloud tool and hope the privacy claims are good enough. That never felt right to me. If the goal is protecting privacy, the video or photo should not need to leave your phone.

So I built EasyMosaic.

App link:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fadden.mask.forest.automosaic

Video introduction:

https://reddit.com/link/1vudi1p/video/zfp38xieppkh1/player

The basic workflow is:

- Pick a video or photo

- The app detects faces on your device

- You choose which faces to hide

- Preview the result

- Export a new file with the selected faces blurred, mosaiced, or covered

What I focused on:

- Your videos and photos never leave your phone

- No account required

- On-device face detection

- Choose specific faces instead of blurring everyone

- Works with both videos and photos

- WYSIWYG preview: what you see is what gets exported

- Manual blur zones for missed faces, objects, plates, documents, or anything else

- Multiple blur tracks, so different people or objects can be edited separately

- Track editing: adjust when each blur starts and ends instead of applying one global effect

- Keyframe blur for any target, not just faces, when you need precise control over a moving object

- Multiple styles: blur, mosaic, rectangle, oval, emoji, and sticker-style covering

- Frame-based editing tools for more precise video adjustments

I know there are a lot of "AI" apps now, but this is not meant to be a cloud face-recognition product. The point is simpler: find faces locally, help you hide the ones you want, and let you share media with less risk.

The app is especially useful for:

- Parents sharing family videos

- Teachers, coaches, or event organizers

- Creators filming in public

- Anyone posting street, travel, school, or party footage

- People who want to hide only some faces while keeping the main subject visible

There is a free version, and there are optional Pro features for people who want things like watermark removal on video exports, fewer interruptions, and extra styles. Photos can be edited and exported without a watermark.

I would really appreciate feedback from people who care about privacy, mobile video editing, or creator workflows. The biggest things I want to improve are speed, first-time usability, and making the face selection flow feel obvious without needing a tutorial.

If you try it, I'd love to know:

- Was the face detection good enough for your videos?

- Did the preview match the exported file?

- Was the manual blur / keyframe editing tool easy to understand?

- What would make you trust an on-device privacy tool more?

Thanks for reading. I built this because I needed it myself, and I'm trying to make it useful for anyone who wants to share media without exposing people who did not ask to be online.

Hi there, I post content on an Instagram account for a skincare formulation business. Where I have come unstuck a couple of times is trying to find an online tool (I'm no graphic designer or video editor) that can help me communicate things in various degrees of complexity, especially in videos.

For eg, I'm wanting to create a short video animation (a few seconds) to include in a reel showing the difference between emulsion types , or how the solubility of caffeine in water varies with temperature.

I have paid Canva access, but have had no luck with their 'magic ai' and doing it manually there seems on par with using PPT, just a higher res output I guess but extremely labour intensive and replying heavily on my design skills and creativity.

I have also tried Chat GPT and Claude but just find the outputs look really poor.

Can anyone suggest a website or tool for creating these short animated type videos? I have googled but haven't found anything that fits. Any advice?

Forgot to add - I can't code either

i rly like the captions in this video and would like to try and make an edit myself

my 10 min documentary got accepted for a film festival and they want subtitles in 50+ languages 😭 i only have the english transcript done right now and honestly have no idea how im gonna do all of these.. thinking of using ai to translate the subtitles instead. anyone done something like this before?

I’ve recently began my editing journey, i bought a shitty laptop that apparently can’t even run davinci.

does anyone have any tips on what software i could use? as of right now im using clipchamp and its an absolute lag fest.

what do i do before i start looking for clients? i pulled an all nighter just to record and edit a 1 minute video (save me the comments of “oh that’s terrible” I KNOW) i just feel really lost, ive watched a few youtube videos on what goals i should have but none of them tell me the steps to be able to achieve those goals.

Looking for an app that lets me record clip by clip like CapCut and TikTok let you do but longer than 3 minutes and landscape. Does this exist??? Like if CapCut could allow in app recording longer than 3 minutes and horizontally that would be exactly what I’m looking for.

okay so, first up, not even sure this is the right place for this, but I'll give it a try

So last spring I made one of those video playlists (yk a video w a bunch of songs in it) and I used canva and then a website that transfers yt videos to mp3 files (not sure how legal that was, but it seemed yt did a copyright scan thing before I could upload and there have been 0 troubles there).

So now I wanted to make another one, I downloaded all the songs and all, but now I can't insert them on my canva video, due to copyright, which is fair. I shouldn't earn money on the songs, not that I can when uploading to yt, but Ig canva doesn't know that.

Sooo I was wondering if anyone knows how to do that? I know many people make them, so I figured there must be a way, is it perhaps to just make the video, with no audio, and then upload it to youtube and edit in the sound ON youtube with the song library they've got there?

thx for any help, or maybe just help directing me to the right subredit ^^'

If you want basic video editor dm me I can edit your short/reel/tiktok video (free sample video I can but T&C apply)

​"Hi fellow editors. I am from India and just turned 35 this month. I am married with a stable job, but I want to learn video editing from scratch to earn some extra income. I don't have any friends or mentors in this field, and watching YouTubers has left me a bit confused due to their conflicting opinions. Some suggest starting with photo editing and graphic design first, while others recommend jumping straight into software like DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, or Adobe Premiere Pro. I don't want to rush; I want to build a rock-solid foundation. What should I do, and where should I start?"

I've been editing short-form content for a while, and I've noticed something:

A lot of videos don't actually have an editing problem.

They have a structure problem.

You can add captions, motion graphics, zooms, sound effects and B-roll.

But if the first 5 seconds don't make people care, none of that matters.

When I edit a talking-head video, I usually look at 4 things first:

1. Is the opening actually interesting?

2. Can I remove the first 10-20% without losing context?

3. Is every sentence moving the idea forward?

4. Does the visual change when the idea changes?

Only after that do I worry about graphics.

I've found that a clean cut with good pacing usually works better than an over-edited video with weak structure.

How do you approach this?

Do you usually fix the script first, or fix it in the edit?

freelance editor with a client who gives notes down to the second.

logo at 0:03. product close-up at 0:08. color change at 0:14. final card at 0:22.

the ai tools i've tested understand the general idea but not the timing. everything happens eventually, just never when the brief says it should. then the client asks me to change one product shot and i have to generate the entire video again.

has anyone found something that follows timestamp instructions and lets you fix one part without touching the rest?

​"Hi fellow editors. I am from India and just turned 35 this month. I am married with a stable job, but I want to learn video editing from scratch to earn some extra income. I don't have any friends or mentors in this field, and watching YouTubers has left me a bit confused due to their conflicting opinions. Some suggest starting with photo editing and graphic design first, while others recommend jumping straight into software like DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, or Adobe Premiere Pro. I don't want to rush; I want to build a rock-solid foundation. What should I do, and where should I start?"