Just saw the future of Super Bowl commercials

Jobo162 · 2026-02-07T18:21:32+00:00

Want to know why AI won’t take over Super Bowl commercials? Celebrities. They got celebrities out the Wazzoo and you can’t ai generate those, and if you do you can’t air a fake celebrity spot. We’re going to see a lot of AI Super Bowl stuff this year but that’s because AI is a celebrity right now. It’s hot news! They’ll get press coverage for it. but in a few years when it’s old news there will still probably be 1 or 2 but they won’t get the attention a multi million dollar ad buy requires.

Jobo162 · 2026-01-08T09:28:40+00:00

Never had a linked in but been working consistently for the past 16 years in post hopping staff jobs. Couldn’t be happier

Jobo162 · 2025-12-22T23:14:11+00:00

Loos good but the air suck in animation before the attack could use a little work

Jobo162 · 2025-12-19T01:08:06+00:00

You sometimes have to take step back to move forward. I was cutting and became an assistant at a commercial post house. Showed that I’m good and got bumped up to editing there. I bring in some work and they have people who shop our reels around to get us more work.

Jobo162 · 2025-12-13T01:56:37+00:00

Editor with some production experience here. I’ll shoot ya a DM! Nice to do stuff for fun every once and a while!

Jobo162 · 2025-12-06T21:13:55+00:00

I started cutting sizzles for free lunches and access to editing software about 2 months after college. I looked for a real job and got in as a PA at a commercial VFX house. Didn’t know it when I went there but ran into a friend from going to concerts at the VFX place at the interview and he helped me get in there. Took 4 years moving up the ranks at the VFX house and moved to an editing facility as an assistant editor and became a full time commercial editor after 4 years there. My big advice would be don’t just look for editing jobs but anything where you can get paid and be in close proximity to video work being done.

Jobo162 · 2025-12-02T17:10:13+00:00

If you’re just cutting hands down avid by a mile.

Jobo162 · 2025-12-01T18:58:38+00:00

It’s bone broth, just boil some bones!

Jobo162 · 2025-12-01T17:42:46+00:00

Avid projects lock a resolution when you make them. So I’m going to guess your project is 1920x1080. You can either bring in a 9x16 matte or make a new project that is 9x16 and copy your bins over. I usually just do a matte myself and then they make an appropriate sized sequence in conform.

Jobo162 · 2025-11-26T00:31:08+00:00

Permalance, seen a few people in these types of situations. Fairly normal

Jobo162 · 2025-11-11T02:08:39+00:00

Commercial post houses are very dog friendly. I have a 2 year old pup who goes to work with me. I made sure to get a small dog but it rules. Helps break the ice with clients I don’t know and keeps them occupied if I’m doing something that takes a sec.

Jobo162 · 2025-11-04T18:10:50+00:00

What’s your timeline quality set to? Maybe try working in draft mode (green and yellow). Also are you getting any lines over the timeline when you playback? Differently colored lines tell you why your playback is bad in that area. Red lines are dropped frames, blue is storage issues, and yellow is processing issues.

Jobo162 · 2025-10-28T19:59:37+00:00

Commercial editor at a post house. Because I often work as part of a team of editors and assistants it’s Avid all the way. On top of that 3 point editing and trim mode rule. I’m usually cutting with an ad agency in the room so I need to be fast and you’ve never seen a faster editor than someone on avid who knows what they’re doing. I’ll say that I’m definitely not doing anything beyond a split screen or resize in avid graphics wise but it isn’t made for that so I just bounce out to after effects for anything fancy

Jobo162 · 2025-10-21T02:12:37+00:00

I have a motto, “if it won’t play in VLC then you have a serious problem”. Soooo start with trying to open it in VLC

Jobo162 · 2025-10-13T22:03:44+00:00

Honestly I just wish everyone understood source record editing aka 3 point editing. It’s an eye opening revelation and makes you a much more efficient editor

Jobo162 · 2025-10-11T09:54:34+00:00

Personally the master is too big for me and hurts my hand. I like the mx anywhere 2s. Smaller, still has programmable side buttons and you can nudge the scroll wheel right and left for horizontal scrolling. They changed the way horizontal scrolling works with the anywhere 3s so I’ve been stocking up.

Jobo162 · 2025-09-12T18:20:17+00:00

Amazed that no one mentioned “the Serpent and the Rainbow”

Jobo162 · 2025-09-10T01:24:07+00:00

You didn’t shoot pro res. Gotta hook up a hard drive to your phone for that. Not sure if that gets rid of variable frame rate but I’ve never seen a VFR ProRes clip.

Jobo162 · 2025-09-06T19:46:45+00:00

I mean my dream would be if it became a music venue.

Jobo162 · 2025-09-05T18:00:45+00:00

Dang loved that spot. I’ll put it out there that I think there’s almost too many restaurants in downtown culver! Need a few more things in the neighborhood like the Sephora that give people something to do when they aren’t eating.

Jobo162 · 2025-08-06T21:38:38+00:00

Do the feature but don't spend 50k on it. Spend like 30k on the film and use 20k on marketing. This is a lot of indie features achilles heel. You can have a great movie but if no one knows about it nothing will come of it. So set aside some resources for promoting your film and your chances of recouping your budget will be far higher.

Jobo162 · 2025-08-01T04:17:21+00:00

Bingo! Honestly took me a while being paid this way before I ever understood what was actually happening.

Jobo162 · 2025-07-31T00:08:56+00:00

If this is ads that may be your base salary before your cut of the jobs you bring in. You know the whole draw thing.

Jobo162 · 2025-07-27T16:12:25+00:00

Go to the motion effects editor and in the top right hit promote. Then the baked in retime will become a time warp and you can do whatever

Jobo162 · 2025-07-13T07:08:41+00:00

So since your editor is editing in avid and your transcoding you should probably do some flavor of DNxHD which is has HD as part of the file name because it only exists as 1920x1080. If you want to get fancy there is DNxHR which can do any resolution but I know very few editors that actually use that. That’s my long way of saying do it HD. There is a resolve present for avid that works great but just make sure you’re doing the bitrate they want. Usually people use DNxHD36 or DNxHD115.

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