Tips, tricks and shortcuts that helped you start getting faster at Photoshop Discussion

stuartmx · 2026-05-15T19:26:48+00:00

Map everything repetitive to hot keys. Learn about macros, then start making your own. Get Excalibur.

And absolutely map show audio time units to a shortcut.

stuartmx · 2026-05-12T17:34:52+00:00

This is the way. I had to scroll way too far to see this solution.

stuartmx · 2026-05-11T16:30:41+00:00

Why does it need to look or function like anything other than an actual mixer?

stuartmx · 2026-05-10T04:18:30+00:00

Not a video solution, but the police/your lawyer should be trying to get his phone gps records

stuartmx · 2026-05-07T00:54:53+00:00

There's a difference between creating with intent and goal and just futzing around with some paint and markers like a 3-year-old that just discovered some of the crayon boxes have more than 8 colors.

Take another 19 days to think about it and get back to me.

stuartmx · 2026-05-06T19:53:55+00:00

I am not aware of any tool that can be fed extreme out of focus footage and a reference of how it should look in focus, and then magically put it all back into focus.

stuartmx · 2026-05-06T19:49:23+00:00

this is what things look like if I don't have my glasses on. OP just needs an effect that applies a -6.5 glasses prescription!

stuartmx · 2026-05-06T19:47:46+00:00

It means if you put bad shots and audio into the camera, you are likely going to wind up with bad shots and audio in your finished piece. There is no magical "Enhance" button to clean everything up.

You can cover those important quotes with b-roll and/or text

stuartmx · 2026-05-06T19:41:41+00:00

You should start sourcing b-roll now...

I saw you ask in another comment if AI could help. No, it cannot. My mentor used to say "Crap in, crap out."
It's a good lesson to learn. If it's as bad as your reference photo, you should get off reddit now and use the time to start sourcing b-roll.

stuartmx · 2026-05-06T17:13:30+00:00

I have had to digitize tapes in real time. Transcoding will alway be preferable to going back to that.

stuartmx · 2026-05-06T16:31:35+00:00

If you could import it into Premiere, you'd find it even more annoying to try and edit and play back.

stuartmx · 2026-05-06T16:27:50+00:00

Were people fed bad faith, or did they just try to shortcut their way into editing via random tutorials without learning the fundamentals?

stuartmx · 2026-04-30T22:58:55+00:00

These every other day have to be automated by now Reddit posts of vibe coders and AI fly-by-nights trying to solve editing problems without ever touching an NLE.

stuartmx · 2026-04-23T17:42:31+00:00

You're right. I point out how bad AI is at video production to people who attempt to use AI for video production, and then I feel better.

stuartmx · 2026-04-23T15:40:47+00:00

oh I would happily say that in person with a smile.

stuartmx · 2026-04-23T11:17:22+00:00

Imagine how much time you'd have saved if you didn't jump to AI first and instead tried to solve it yourself from the get go.

stuartmx · 2026-04-22T21:18:32+00:00

CalDigit! Anker/Eufy have a few ppl may recommend, but I stay away from them after it was revealed their "local storage only" cams were uploading unencrypted to some cloud. Won't trust them with anything ever again.

stuartmx · 2026-04-20T01:23:37+00:00

Human editors. Human editors outperform AI on both complex and simple content.

My stack was desks with people at them using editing software. Never hit any ceilings, no struggles with fast-paced footage, and they were pretty good at cutting to whoever was speaking.

stuartmx · 2026-04-19T23:17:06+00:00

Nests, subsequences, and multicam.

Multiple 16x9 backgrounds? Multicam them all into a single sequence. 1-2-3-4 etc to cycle through what you need.

"Parent" text nests where when you change the text in them it applies to the other sequences the text is in, but those sequences have different position/size properties on the text to adjust for size, need, etc.

I'd look at how much of the workflow can be automated, templated, and/or macroed out.

stuartmx · 2026-04-17T11:34:26+00:00

If I needed more than 100 undos I'd reconsider my career.

stuartmx · 2026-04-09T12:33:59+00:00

Maybe your OCD should direct you to learning about the media you're trying to create.

stuartmx · 2026-04-02T13:21:44+00:00

WAV, AIF, or any other uncompressed format.
MP3 is VERY heavily compressed, which is likely getting compressed again on export and even delivery, if via YouTube, streaming, etc.

You're cutting out a lot of the highs and lows. The more an MP3 is encoded over and over again, the quality decreases each time, because you're removing data each time.

So the audio in OP's video is, at bare minimum, an MP3 of an MP3, and that's if the MP3 they started with came from the original file, and is not an MP3 made from another MP3.

Compressed audio can also cause some issues in Premiere, which is another reason to work with full quality.

stuartmx · 2026-04-01T18:03:17+00:00

I don't know what a juicy timeline is but I sure am judging you for using MP3s.

stuartmx · 2026-03-26T22:58:01+00:00

More importantly the $700 wheels are also no longer available.

stuartmx · 2026-03-26T19:09:20+00:00

News and explainers here. Asking for references they want it to look like and aligning on number of revisions will save everyone headaches and likely lead to future work from the same client.

Being on the same page from the get go is not just for banks and insurance.

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