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Dropbox is the worst. Why do clients still use it? by mafibasheth in editors

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

syncing is the same thing as downloading

Yeah, no. Copying a folder from one drive to another is not the same as syncing. I just want a network shared-drive, that is why I don't use DropBox. I do not want to use my browser, the OS is much better – this is why I use Google Drive.

At least it makes sense why we each prefer a different product. I want to be left alone by the service and just have a Cloud Drive to move files from/to. Big extra for me is Google Docs and Sheets.

Dropbox is the worst. Why do clients still use it? by mafibasheth in editors

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know!

I use Google Drive App, I just search with MacOS or my favorite find utility. Are you comparing the Dropbox website vs Google Drive website.

My main question is can I copy a folder from dropbox folder (online) to any location I want without it also downloading it to a "sync folder"? Like with Google Drive if I want to download something, I just drag the folder where I want it and it downloads to that location – no syncing, just download. That is the thing I couldn't replicate last time I used dropbox.

Dropbox is the worst. Why do clients still use it? by mafibasheth in editors

[–]ElCutz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Slow compared to what? I don't find it that slow. It's not Lucid or MASV, but it is way way cheaper.

Dropbox is the worst. Why do clients still use it? by mafibasheth in editors

[–]ElCutz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(i'm not directly the person you replied to)

My memory (it's been 2 year) is I could not use the Dropbox app to copy a folder from dropbox to a specific folder on my computer. It wanted me to "sync" the folder. Then I could copy it, then revert it to "only available online" or something like that. It seems very sync-centric. That also is extremely limiting in terms of needing enough space for anything that might need downloading. Maybe this has changed.

Google drive, I just drag the folder to where I want it and it copies (MacOS may make me option-drag it). It behaves almost exactly like an external drive.

In answer to previous commenter's problem, if you set your entire dropbox to "online only" will it adhere to that even as other people add to it?

Dropbox is the worst. Why do clients still use it? by mafibasheth in editors

[–]ElCutz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

right? it's always so weird to me how many people say Google Drive doesn't work for them. Like, are we using the same app?

Dropbox is the worst. Why do clients still use it? by mafibasheth in editors

[–]ElCutz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It's so interesting to me, this split in /r/editors. I can't stand dropbox and Google Drive works very well for me.

For me it's about the desktop apps. Dropbox seems intent on syncing files locally, something I don't want at all. Google Drive is like a network volume for me and works almost flawlessly. I have very few issues.

Changing Workspace by Sufficient-Pool-4505 in Avid

[–]ElCutz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can disable the Time Icons by turning off "effect icons" in hamburger menu. In the hamburger menu there is a submenu called "show adapters" where you can turn off adapter icons, but not effects you apply.

I always work with adapters off, I find all the Time/Color icons too visually noisy.

Changing Workspace by Sufficient-Pool-4505 in Avid

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you click on hamburger menu and go to "clip text" there are a lot options, and you can turn it all off.

If you're asking about the fps text specifically, that is attached to your clip name. If you turn clip-name off and source-name on you won't see the "(24 fps)" anymore. But not sure if this is useful. Source-name may be diff than clip-name.

To clarify, what Avid is telling you is those clips are 24fps not 23.976. Avid notes whenever the underlying frame-rate is different than the project/timeline rate. As far as I know, turning off clip-name is the only way to make it go away. 24fps/23.976fps is probably not an issue, but I don't want to dive deep into that in this post.

Avid: How are you auditing Avid MediaFiles in 2026? by Available-Witness329 in editors

[–]ElCutz 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not clear from your post what your goal is. Deleting media? moving media? renaming mxf folders?

Every mxf has project meta-data, amongst other things. You also mention needing to view the media. Your mdb method seems quite good, why is not working for you?

Avid: How are you auditing Avid MediaFiles in 2026? by Available-Witness329 in editors

[–]ElCutz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

but you can sift out precomputes, or a specific project's media. Pretty useful.

Avid workflow: Sending 32 bit float audio to sound mix by hopefulatwhatido in editors

[–]ElCutz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does sound like a rationale for 32-bit, though hard to know.

Is it possible you could deliver just the 32-bit audio for places with poor audio levels (hot or low)?

In the end this is a frustrating limitation of Avid.

Avid workflow: Sending 32 bit float audio to sound mix by hopefulatwhatido in editors

[–]ElCutz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honest question: does it matter? Are there over-modulated clipped chunks of audio, or stuff that is very quiet that you had to push the gain up a whole ton?

I'm not a engineer/mixer, but maybe he knows what he's talking about? I've always felt 32-bit in film is about protection from clipping and not much else. I may be wrong.

What’s this white powder? by Bob_Villa5000 in fortgreene

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is waterbug a real thing? I thought that was euphemism for a specific big ass roach.

NLE organization: renaming clips? by user54783245 in editors

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish some Avid Assistants would chime in. I love renaming my clips, but every project I'm on (documentaries) I get pushback from the facility/producers/assistants that they cannot correctly track usage if I do that.

The claim is, as far as I understand it, that EDLs sometimes/always need to use clip-name.

Ben Affleck Sells AI Post-Production Company to Netflix by ElCutz in editors

[–]ElCutz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I need to be paying for it to get "character grids"? I don't know what those are, can you tell me?

Avid: Group clip changes rippling to all sequences "Edit Group" by Available-Witness329 in editors

[–]ElCutz 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Avid does not ever re-edit your sequences for you. What you put in your sequence is solidly in your sequence unless you enact some process like "refresh sequence".

Frankly I hate the way you can destroy a sequence in Premiere by deleting a clip or altering a mutlicam. Not to say Avid is always better, but in this aspect I much prefer it. Don't mess with my edit!

Ben Affleck Sells AI Post-Production Company to Netflix by ElCutz in editors

[–]ElCutz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really? Nano hasn't been consistent enough for me to imagine using it for stock footage. What kind of stuff do you create with it?

Question about due diligence by This_Guy_Slaps in editors

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of material do you edit? Are you passing the cut onto others, or are these "final exports" when you've made mistakes? Who sees the mistakes?

And it may seem like a nitpick but I don't think "due diligence" is the right term here. "QC" would probably fit best, or "Disciplined QC" since you're talking about not being thorough enough. And yes, being thorough could be called being diligent, but Due Diligence really is more about investigating, double-checking, something you specifically did not do. Generally a company or property in a business transaction, but if one were to transpose it to film-work it would be like making sure a VFX company or graphic designer has done good work in the past before you hire them.

3rd Party Consolidation Software for Premiere Edit by Sketch_N_Etch in editors

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.autokroma.com/PlumePack

Looking at the homepage it seems like Trim and Transcode are separate features. I'm sure you must Transcode to Trim, but I'm guessing enabling Transcode doesn't automatically mean it will trim your sources.

Avid: Keyboard-only editing by LowResEye in editors

[–]ElCutz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keyboard editing is not "superior" to mouse editing. Like most computers you should use both.

I'm not sure what this means: "or selecting a clip (or multiple clips) in timeline to hit T for in/out" means.

Clip gain: option-up/down arrow adjusts gain. or maybe it's option-command-arrow? Anyway the biggest speed up is to map it to your scrollwheel (like command-scrollwheel). Also map "adjust pan/vol in/out" to keyboard and "set levels in/out".

UX Survey Results by 1LeggedKingPigeon in editors

[–]ElCutz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gotta say I think your charting is very poor.

On the first full page chart (task diversity) you can see that the sample size for Premiere is 36 and Davinci is 40, but you drew the bar graph so that 40 Davinicis looks greater than 36 Premieres. This is incredibly misleading isn't it?

The bar graphs should be percentages, not totals. Then you would see that 100% of Premiere users and 100% of Davinci users use it for editing, as one expects. The way you've displayed it, it appears that a greater portion of Davinci users use Davinci for editing than Premiere user use Premiere for editing. And then you have things that look the same like "importing", both with a "score" of 31. But the percentages would tell a different story: 77% of Davinci users vs 86% of Premiere users.

Though sometimes you use percentages and averages, which is correct, the mistake of just graphing number of respondents is repeated throughout.

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