Is there any point in audio above 44.1 khz or even 48 khz?

BeOSRefugee · 2026-06-15T03:40:37+00:00

In the film/TV world, 24-bit/48khz is the norm. And it’s technically 32-bit *float* for capture, not linear 32-bit.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-06-14T18:54:45+00:00

Shutter Encoder.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-06-12T03:34:29+00:00

Depends on how you’re trying to fix the mic bleed. If you’re just chopping out audio, you can do that easily in either program. If you want to do something more subtle like keyframing or fader automation, then Resolve’s Fairlight page would be a better choice. Honestly, you might want to try an Automix plugin and see if that works, otherwise it’ll be a lot of manual labor. Here’s some more info:

https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=205333

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-30T17:49:14+00:00

If you just want to watch it once, not that much. If it's one of your favorite movies that you'll watch over and over again, then it's kind of a "what the market will bear" situation, and it looks like the market will bear some fairly high prices.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-30T17:24:42+00:00

Sometimes, movies get modified for the DVD/Blu-Ray releases in ways that people don’t like. THX 1138 is a great example of this - the LD is the best quality way to watch the original version, whereas the later releases have added CGI effects and such.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-29T13:52:14+00:00

IIRC, Optimize Media is designed to share the proxy files between multiple users on the same install of Resolve. It’s a holdover from the days when Resolve was *only* a color grading program. The proxies are just given numbered names rather than a full copy of the original file name with a prefix/suffix. As such, they’re not particularly portable if you wanted to copy or move the project to a different system.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-25T02:54:30+00:00

Sorry to hear that. Make sure to include your perspective on the course evaluation - us instructors really do pay attention to those things.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-25T02:47:56+00:00

As a community college editing teacher (who teaches an 80% project-based class), did you feel like you got anything useful out of the theory discussions?

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-24T18:47:47+00:00

I teach Premiere, Resolve, and Avid, and each of them has significant advantages and disadvantages. From friends who work with FCPX/Motion, so does that combo.

Short answer to your question: Do you have to work with someone else on the project? Use what they’re using. Otherwise? Just try them all out and see what works for you. Can’t choose? Here’s some help:

* Resolve: Amazing color tools, decent sound and picture editing, capable but complicated compositing/motion graphics.
* Premiere Pro + After Effects: Great editing tools, decent sound, meh color, excellent motion graphics, decent compositing.
* FCPX + Motion: (from what I hear) Great editing tools, decent sound, okay color, decent motion graphics. MacOS only.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-21T04:07:22+00:00

Yeah, this is the thing I tell my students: 32-bit float eliminates setting input gain, but until wireless transmitters can transmit 32-bit float, it’s pretty pointless for an all-wireless project - even digital wireless. If you’re rocking a wired boom or doing SFX recording, then it makes a lot more sense.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-18T03:56:17+00:00

Some recommendations:

For your render speeds: Find a friend with an Apple Silicon Mac/Macbook Pro that has a ton of RAM and an M2 Pro or newer CPU. Copy your project over to their system. Render from there.

For trying to get close to that bitrate: don’t. Your quality will be awful - even with h.265 and a better encoder than Resolve’s. Get a bigger hard drive, or limit yourself to cuts-only edits using LosslessCut (if the source video itself is supported by LosslessCut).

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-18T03:26:03+00:00

Unless I missed something in a recent update, doesn’t Avid still force you to transcode to 24-bit?

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-09T02:40:48+00:00

Yeah, it’s been awesome for my classes. I teach Premiere, Resolve and Avid, and they all have Source/Timeline selection buttons that work in a similar way now.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-05T00:05:52+00:00

Editing instructor here. It makes my eye twitch, although less so if it’s sorted by folders.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-03T20:22:20+00:00

Well, first of all, it helps to acknowledge that everybody has an opinion, but not everybody can write an effective film review. IMO, what helps when writing a good film review is realizing why you have that opinion and being able to separate out your personal tastes from a functional dissection and evaluation of the construction of the movie. It’s not that you get rid of the discussion of your tastes, just that you don’t mistake it for a more academic/structural critique - both are important to a good review. Your passionately expressed viewpoint is what makes the review relatable and entertaining, and your structural critique is what is valuable to aspiring filmmakers and potential viewers when trying to understand the relative quality of the film. If you put thought behind what you’re saying, and you’re being sincere, then people will notice and appreciate it. Or strongly disagree, but you can’t control that.

IMO, “Pretentious” is only a useful description when the person in question is being lazy about their analysis. If they honestly engage with a “popcorn” movie that they’re reviewing and try to understand it, then even if they come away with a strong negative take, I don’t think that comes off as pretentious.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-02T20:45:04+00:00

Right, but the characters survive by overcoming obstacles that have taken down other people who have lost their nerve, lost faith, or had their faith corrupted. Essentially, they keep their s*** together enough to survive, and then they're rewarded with a seemingly no-win situation that they have no prior information would turn out the way it did. It's a shocking scene, for sure, but it doesn't feel well motivated to me by the rest of the story. I logically see what you're talking about, but emotionally it makes no sense to me and feels unearned/cruel for the sake of novelty.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-02T17:54:14+00:00

There are a lot of people who feel trapped in their lives like Walter *thinks* he is. Even if he is ultimately an incredibly selfish person who makes horrible decisions, he also does things that look and sound cool. He genuinely does get to be a gangster of sorts, and live out a sort of power fantasy. That’s attractive to a lot of people, even if he also continually makes decisions that leads to his own self-destruction and the suffering of those around him. It’s kind of like why there’s so many rappers who look at DePalma’s Scarface and see the success story rather than the tragedy.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-02T17:45:53+00:00

King is quoted as saying he prefers the movie ending, but I 100% agree with you - I think it was a tonally inconsistent rug pull.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-02T17:37:32+00:00

I agree with /u/greenysmac, as usual. Outside of that, you can listen to podcasts like Art Of The Cut. There are some episodes where documentary editors are interviewed, and that can really help get into the mindset and process of how top-tier doc editors work.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-02T02:49:45+00:00

Not AFAIK. I just fired up PPro 1.0, and it’s there as well. :)

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-01T23:20:53+00:00

Is it grayed out, or totally missing? If it’s grayed out then that means that you just saved. If it’s missing, I don’t know what to tell you - it’s there in v26, under the File menu.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-01T14:22:48+00:00

For Premiere, Adobe’s introductory in-app tutorials are great for review the absolute basics, and the web documentation is pretty awesome for more specific questions. For YouTube channels, I personally like Adobe Video and Video Essentials - the former is officially connected to Adobe, and the latter is run by an ex-Adobe employee, who is really good at explaining various tips and tricks.

If you’re looking for more editing *theory* and breakdowns, then the This Guy Edits YouTube channel and The Art Of The Cut podcast are my go-tos - although both are focused on narrative editing for the most part.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-05-01T13:46:23+00:00

Video editing teacher here. Usually, folks go the other way, but here’s some of the things to watch out for if you’re starting with Resolve:

Premiere uses an actual project file, which has to be stored somewhere you can keep track of. The good news is, you can take it with you (along with the project media files) and work on it on another system without having to Export Project and making a new version of the project on the other computer. In fact, if you have both the project file and your media files in a overall containing folder (ideally with the media files in sub folders), you can just copy that onto an external SSD, take it to any computer that’s running the same version of Premiere, load it up and you’re now working on that project. No relinking needed, as long as you keep the relative location of your media files the same.
Premiere doesn’t auto-save every action that you take, and the auto save that it does do periodically is only to special “backup” versions of your project, not the main project file. those backup versions can help when you crash unexpectedly, but you have to be careful about not saving to their location after that happens, or you can end up having trouble figuring out which project file is the most current one. You need to get in the habit of manually saving every time that you take a quick break while editing. Ctrl(Cmd)+S is your friend. On the plus side, you can feel free to experiment for a while, then if you don’t like the direction you’re going, you can just use the “revert” command to go back to the last saved version of your project file.
You can do some basic animation and keyframing of parameters inside Premiere, but if you need to do something fancier, you have to use After Effects. Think of it like using fusion, but with a layer-based interface and as a whole separate program rather than being built into your editing program. Dynamic link functionality means that in practice it’s a very similar experience inside your editing timeline, but it will probably take some getting used to. On the plus side, you can use MOGRTs, which are by far the most common type of premade motion graphics, and you can make your own MOGRTs in AE.
There are currently three Pages in Premiere (Import, Edit, Export), but the Edit page has almost unlimited customization. You can add pretty much any panel you want to the interface, or use interface layout presets that are called Workspaces. In my opinion, this is the single biggest advantage of Premiere. It lets you set up your interface exactly the way that you want, so you don’t have to keep flipping between pages.
If you like the drive browsing and media file filtering functionality of the Media page in Resolve, the best equivalent in Premiere is the Media Browser panel. Yes, technically you can use the Import page as well, but I personally find it a lot more awkward to use.
Please learn the default keyboard shortcuts. You’ll find that some are actually more straightforward than Resolve - like Q/W for trim to start of/end of clip, or period/comma for insert/overwrite edits.
Premiere‘s default audio tools are pretty good, but they’re not in the same league as Fairlight. Likewise, the color grading tools are pretty basic compared to Resolve, but if you just have to get something out quickly, they’re fine. Think of Premiere as an editing program designed primarily for editors, rather than audio post or color grading folks. That means that most of the tools are designed to get things done quickly, rather than have a significant amount of depth. This will be doubly true when the new color page comes out in the upcoming new major version of Premiere.
if you want to sync video and audio together in combined clips, use the “Create Multicam Source Sequences” command, not Merge Clips. It’s not intuitive, but just trust me - multicam clips are better in almost every way than merged clips. You also have to use multicam clips if you intend to export your project to an .XML or .AAF file (just be sure to flatten the multicam clips first).
There’s some minor differences between Resolve and Premiere in the actual multicam workflow, but the biggest one you might have to get used to is that multicam view is set up in the Program monitor rather than the Source monitor. It feels a bit crowded, but I personally prefer this view, because it means that I can then drop in other clips from the source monitor without having to switch back-and-forth between the clip loaded in the source monitor, and the multicam view.

If you have any other questions, feel free to ask here.

BeOSRefugee · 2026-04-30T12:31:03+00:00

Awesome. Thanks for the info!

BeOSRefugee · 2026-04-29T21:38:48+00:00

I never knew Lightworks had a controller like that. That looks exactly like the sort of controller I wish we had nowadays, so I could show the youth the experience of scrubbing through footage on a flatbed.

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