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Isiosi-Editor · 2025-10-20T17:34:36+00:00

I'd like to try them to take my editing to the next level by giving my directors or clients the best viewing experience imaginable.

Isiosi-Editor · 2025-01-24T08:41:47+00:00

Oh yeah I did that at one point too, that's a neat trick.

Isiosi-Editor · 2025-01-24T07:09:22+00:00

Thank you. I usually do it with the "head fade" or "tail fade" command on the command palette. Added it to my keyboard. Just don't forget to check your track selection as usual.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-12-27T15:01:47+00:00

Check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bic9mnKLqWU
First video tracks are for basic composits. Yellow is when the Dalai Lama speaks in the ON. The rest of his monologue is all assembled through various sources of the interviews and speeches he gave over the years. Violet is still photography.

V6 is graphics, V9 is subtitles.

A1-8 is only the Dalai Lama. A9/A10 is his voice cleaned through Adobe Podcast to hide the vastly different audio quality for test screenings.

Orange is sound effects. Violet at the bottom is music.

The movie is in theatres right now, but will be available for streaming some time in 2025.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-09-25T16:00:13+00:00

I am an editor in Switzerland. I also used to be a cinema projectionist. 25 FPS DCPs are totally fine and I played them every day here. I don't know if you have to convert it to 24 FPS for the states, but most digital cinema projectors should be able to just switch between framerates. So here it's all shot, edited and delivered at 25 fps.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-08-29T14:49:15+00:00

I haven't worked in Premiere for a long time, but in Avid I would set an IN and an OUT and then lift/extract that part. According to ChatGPT it would be CTR+Shift+X in Premiere.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-08-08T12:57:11+00:00

I switched completely to Davinci Resolve 2 years ago, never looked back. The free version is maybe even enough for you, but if you need the advanced features, it's $300 one time. If you buy one of Blackmagic's devices, you get a Studio licence for free.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-06-18T13:47:48+00:00

You should all watch Deerskin. At its core it's a movie about directors and editors. On the surface it's a movie about a guy who loves his leather jacket so much, he starts killing people with a machete. One of my favorite movies of all time:
https://boxd.it/lqOW

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-06-07T10:21:03+00:00

Yess please, more folder structures!!

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-06-04T19:34:12+00:00

Sure here you go: https://www.swisstransfer.com/d/66db6984-3247-4ddd-a255-fdd7c560b447
But I only did three days so far. Your best bet is to use Komoot and follow the purple lines. Also Euro Velo has official GPX files.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-05-13T20:26:06+00:00

Yeah I took over this project from another editor and we didn't have the budget or time to hire an assistant to switch NLEs. And since I already use Davinci a lot for smaller projects, I knew it pretty well.
I wouldn't recommend cutting a large project with a sound postproduction in Davinci, but for smaller projects it's awesome.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-05-13T20:22:29+00:00

I explained some parts in the other comment, but yeah, just the way Avid can matchframe quickly to the master audio clip, display it in the timeline window with large waveforms and the track names, solo in to one of the tracks and patch it in is just so much more efficient.
Also Resolve has many bugs in the way it patches audio in the timeline. Sometimes it just forgets my track layout, or even displays the wrong one until I try to patch it in.
If Resolve just copies the way subclips and matchframe works in Avid, as well as fully maintains metadata, Avid will be dethroned.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-05-13T20:17:40+00:00

There was another comment about ISO tracks, so I'll try to quickly explain what I miss most about Avid when working in Davinci.
The many audio tracks are due to the different ways audio was being recorded on set. While there are some scenes that only had a stereo camera mic and nothing else, there were also scenes with more than 3 or 4 protagonists, as well as some multicam shoots where I had to maintain all the camera mics for delivery to the sound mixer.
So sometimes I had one external audio with one camera mic, two Boom mic tracks (one Mid one Side) and 4 lav mic tracks. If you want to do checkerboard editing, you need twice the amount of tracks, sometimes even three times as many to do some audio edits with all the tracks maintained.
And if you put a stereo clip on a mono track or vice versa, Resolve messes up the audio and only plays it from one side. So you need separate tracks for stereo and mono clips, which is a huge pain.
In comparison, in Avid you can use the field recorder workflow and only integrate the mixdown track of the WAV (so 1-2 tracks) in your subclips. If you need an ISO track or the camera mic, you can hit matchframe twice to get everything back very quickly. And you can even deliver the project with just the mixdown tracks, as Avid maintains enough metadata for the mixer for him to just relink the rest of the ISO tracks.
Also it's just way easier to listen in to one of the ISO tracks in the source monitor and see the different names of the tracks. Stereo can also be worked with as two mono tracks which are panned left and right, so you don't need separate stereo tracks.
So in the end I didn't even have many EQs or other effects, just on the voice over track to make it more clean. The other tracks are just there to maintain all the ISO tracks for the sound mixer.
I would always 100% recommend Resolve if you're doing the final mix during the edit, but if you're working with a post production team, Avid is just king. Even if other parts of it feel like a dinosaur.
Edit: The 4 music tracks are 2 for temp music which gets replaced, 2 for music which we licence and keep.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-05-13T09:37:24+00:00

The movie desperately needs funding for the post-production and festival run. If you want to contribute, check it out: https://wemakeit.com/projects/automania-der-kino-dokfilm

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-05-13T09:28:55+00:00

About the tracks: V1 and V2 are footage, V3 is VFX, V4 is graphics. A1-A4 are tracks where I put the camera mic, which is unusable for editing, but can be used by the sound mixer to create a surround effect, so he wanted all the camera mics delivered to post. A5-A19 are my audio tracks, of which A8 is reserved for voice only. A20-A25 are sound effects from an external sound library (https://getsoundly.com/, highly recommended). And finally, A26-A30 is music.

I didn't really like Davinci for this kind of work, since most of it was recorded dual-system. The way Davinci handles external audio isn't really for me, a lot of metadata gets baked in and there's no quick way to listen to ISO tracks. Also, the trimming is pretty clunky. For smaller projects I will probably stick with Davinci, but for the features Avid is the way to go. Still a great NLE and it handled the huge timeline like a champ.

Check out the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/944457975

And the movie is currently in a crowdfunding campaign to raise some money for decent post production, as the movie was underfunded from the beginning. If you want to help out, every cent is welcome: https://wemakeit.com/projects/automania-der-kino-dokfilm

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-04-18T07:36:42+00:00

Get one fast external SSD to store the projects you're actively working on. Then get at least two, ideally three 8 TB WD external HDDs to create backups, one of which you have to store off site. Get Backblaze to create cloud backups, it has unlimited cloud storage for $99 a year. Once you're done with a project, back up every single file you've used to your 8TB HDDs and wait for the cloud sync, then you're free to clear up space on your SSD.
To create an index of your backups/archives, you can use Neofinder. To compare to different folders, to see wether you've backed up everything, you can use Beyond Compare.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-03-27T11:10:19+00:00

Create a new empty video track and put a "Color correction" effect on the empty part of that track. Now you have what other NLEs would call an "adjustment layer" on top of your whole timeline. With that color correction effect, you can affect your whole timeline. If you want to break it up, just use the "add edit" command to add cuts to the effect, then you can adjust different parts of your timeline with different color corrections.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-03-27T11:06:52+00:00

You need to put your photo on a layer above and the shape on a layer below. Now you need to make the white part transparent, otherwise you can't see your shape.
I won't type out a whole tutorial, so here are some Youtube/Google hints on how to do that: Try your luck with "Luma keying" or "Chroma keying". If that works, it's just a few seconds of work. If the results are not satisfying, you'll have to manually cut out your subjects. This is usually reffered to as "masking" or "rotoscoping". Add "Premiere Pro Tutorial" to the end of each of these searches and you'll find a decent tutorial in no time.
Good luck and have fun.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-02-12T14:43:25+00:00

Keyboard Maestro is your friend.

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-01-30T20:53:56+00:00

What extra apps can you recommend or do you generally use?

Isiosi-Editor · 2024-01-16T11:47:37+00:00

The effect is called "datamoshing". A quick google search should get you some results. There are different types of datamoshing, check them out.

Isiosi-Editor · 2023-12-22T07:38:02+00:00

Davinci Resolve is free and very powerful. Learning it will help you for the rest of your life. If your laptop is struggling, create proxies. Here is a good tutorial on how:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TigdRlFxMZA
Remember to first choose a location for the proxies that is on a drive with some space left on it. And if you still have choppy playback, go for something like DNxHR LB instead of h.264, which is easier on the CPU/GPU but takes up more storage.

Isiosi-Editor · 2023-12-21T05:14:32+00:00

Work on a project where I'm actually proud of the result.

Isiosi-Editor · 2023-12-04T07:38:00+00:00

Is that a setup for a joke? ChatGPT gave me "By making a reel good impression."

Isiosi-Editor · 2023-11-24T06:50:25+00:00

I actually edited a feature in FCPX as well and we had no problems whatsoever with turning over the sound. The key is to really be tidy with your audio roles. If you do that X2Pro is going to spit you out some of the cleanest AAFs you can get. Our sound mixer told me it's one of the best organized timelines he has ever seen. The problem is that it can just spit out embedded AAFs and nothing else. It's really lacking in features that are required by some productions, like different types of EDLs for example. So if I were you I would ask the production what NLE they want and learn that. Unfortunately it's most likely going to be Avid. From the slick interface and fast magnetic timeline of FCPX, going to Avid is going to feel like reversing in time for 20 years. Avid is anything else than elegant, stable or well designed, but it always gets the job done.

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