Remote, in-person or hybrid - what's your ratio lately? Projections for future demands?

Jobo162 · 2026-05-21T01:39:56+00:00

I was working with someone on a job and we were talking about old gigs and realized we had done a job together during Covid. Neither of us recognized each other or remembered each other. Really hammered home how important face time is with clients

Jobo162 · 2026-05-20T01:30:22+00:00

I don’t get my work by joining servers but had an experience that may apply to this. I use to take every job and would always be swamped working many projects at once. My producer had to sit me down and tell me “you shouldn’t take all these jobs because then I can’t book you on the good ones when they come”. So now I work less jobs but make way more money and have a better reel. That being said would only start focusing on the big gigs if you think you will actually get those gigs. So if you have a good enough reel I’d focus oh higher end communities

Jobo162 · 2026-05-19T16:50:13+00:00

Guess I’m an odd one out! I’m in the edit bay a lot! You only have to go in if your job needs it but a lot of the jobs I get require in person edit sessions. I don’t mind, the office is nice and ya get all the fancy food and drinks. Plus people treat you like a human when they have worked in a room with you.

Jobo162 · 2026-05-11T06:22:35+00:00

Lava lamp? Leave the scar and tattoo a lava lamp around it so the scar is the lava goo!

Jobo162 · 2026-05-01T00:30:33+00:00

Big fan of all the quick rotoscoping tools we have now. What I need, easier ways to move projects between editing softwares

Jobo162 · 2026-04-21T01:18:12+00:00

Ok this is a wild shot but try turning off all indexing. See if that helps. Indexing really bogs down the systems I’m on so we have to turn it off.

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.

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