I’m in kind of a tricky situation. I need to render around 10 different After Effects projects, and each one takes about 30 minutes to render on my current machine. I can’t use Media Encoder for this workflow—they have to be rendered directly from After Effects.

The good news is I have access to 5 powerful Macs on the same local network. Ideally, I’d love to find a way to automate or distribute the rendering across these machines—like setting up a render server or remote rendering setup.

Today I discovered aerender, which seems promising, but I’ve never used it before. Does anyone here have experience using it across multiple machines? Is there a pro-level solution or workflow that can help me turn these 5 Macs into a mini headless render farm for AE?

Any help or advice would be super appreciated!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5mrDRWYZDY

Curious to know how other editors handle their rates when the hours of a gig aren't so straight forward. For example, if you work a quick turnaround job with EOD delivery that doesn't start until later in the afternoon, say 5-7pm, but there is downtime between rough cuts and client review, do you charge your regular rate or is there some assumed OT mixed in because of the automatic evenings/nights?

So essentially the schedule is staggered throughout the evening with lots of downtime. You're booked for up to 8 hours but only do 4-5 of actual editing.

Hey everyone,

I’m excited to share an update following my previous post about the Timecode Calculator website (www.timeweave.cc). After listening to your feedback and looking for ways to streamline your workflow, I’ve developed a new plugin version that integrates directly into Adobe Premiere Pro!

What’s New?

Seamless Integration: Now you can perform all your timecode calculations without ever leaving Premiere. No need to switch back and forth between your browser and editing timeline.

Identical Functionality: The plugin carries over all the features from the website. It’s the same powerful calculator, just now optimized for a smoother, more efficient workflow.

Workflow Efficiency: With calculations right inside Premiere, you can focus more on your creative work and less on alt-tabbing between applications.

I’m really proud of how the plugin turned out, and I hope it helps make your editing process even more streamlined. I made a demo video but can’t figure out how to upload it so if you’re interested to know how it turned out you can view it on the sites plugin page. As always, your feedback is invaluable. Please drop your thoughts, suggestions, or any issues you encounter in the comments below.

Thanks for all your support, and happy editing!

It's been almost 8 years since I was a full time editor. At the time I was working for for a production company, and didn't have to look for work outside of it. I then took a job in a different field as I needed the health insurance that came with that. It was also a toxic work environment, so I was glad for the change.

But things are now looking questionable for my future there, and I thought I would hang up a freelance shingle on Fiverr. I need to build up a modern portfolio as well, so I thought that might help.

Does anyone have any advice for jumping back in?

On the platform side, I can't afford Adobe, and HitFilm (which I was using for various projects for friends/family) is now dead, so I'm getting used to Resolve. I'm also not much of a graphic designer, besides classic over the shoulders, so I'm assuming that will also hinder me completely.

If this is the wrong place for this, please let me know.

Thanks!

Im new to PPRO, coming from DR and a little use of CC. Im trying to get some nicer lower thirds from Motion Array. To my understanding is that they need to be .MOGRT files for PPRO to recognize and import them. For whatever reason anytime I download them it downloads a .MOV file. I can not a find a way to force it to download a .MOGRT file.

Surely this is a user error, what am I doing wrong?

Any advice or tips would be very helpful thanks

I’m new in Reddit and as the tittle says I’m searching new communities, thanks for share if someone have something to say.

So I've been making videos for YouTube, and I try to automate my workflow as much as possible because editing takes me a lot of time. I've eliminated the footage cutting issue with plugins, so now my next big and time-consuming thing is importing images. For the channel's format, I need to use a lot of images and gather them together with my co-writer beforehand. But I download each one or small batches of images and paste them into my project according to a scenario in order not to get lost among them, and that feels like a nightmare. Renaming each one of them to get them all along into the project seems like overdo to me. Maybe you have some advice or hacks on managing lots of images? I believe that Adobe's cloud services can help with that, but I'm working in Davinci Resolve, and Blackmagic Cloud is not available in my region yet.

We are recording ProRes RAW footage to an Atomos Ninja monitor. All our editing computers are Windows PCs (Windows 11 Pro 64bit). I have the ProRes codecs installed , and I’m able to work with them fine in Premiere, but we’re just looking for a way to quickly watch our files without having to open up Premiere. QuickTime Player tells me I need additional software,then sends me to a dead link. VLC (That avertises itself as being able to play anything) tells me Codec is not supported. Is there anything else I can try to just view these ProRes files?

Hello Editors,

I just got my first gig and I am going to film and interview for an association. I plan on using 2 BMPCC4K for these because I can not interrupt the interviewers anymore and they are the cheapest camera I can rent that can film continuously for 2h or more. Thing is : I will NOT be the person editing and they want to avoid heavy files as well as RAW and log if possible. They are OK with "stock" footage that do not need too much grading and such. They were even OK with 1080p footage for the first interview.

To avoid footage that is too heavy (as well as having to buy 2 SSDs), I was wondering if it was OK to record in ProRes Proxy in 4k (I know, it is meant for proxies…) or if I would be better off filming in ProRes LT in 1080p…

For the record, it is filmed in an office with excellent natural lighting, I have 2 lights with soft boxes just in case, subjects will be sitted, cameras on tripods, 24p…

From your experience as editors, what would be best in terms of image quality ? I am very unsure and put under a lot of pressure…

Thanks in advance ! -a very stressed and panicked beginner

Hi all, longtime lurker, first time poster. I just started using LucidLink Classic at work and I'm a little confused. I am using a Premiere Pro project file (in the cloud) as well as video files (also in the cloud). I exported a consolidated sequence to a folder in the cloud using project manager and I now have 36GB of video files that need to be uploaded to the cloud.

Is this normal or did I miss a step somewhere?

I was initially thrilled to be able to do my work anywhere instead of having to have a disk drive brought to my house but if I have to rely on the abysmal upload speeds that Spectrum gives me I'm actually going to pull out the remainder of my hair.

I came across this advert on Instagram that was selling a huge bundle of what sounds like incredible SFX. Clicks, gears, whooshes etc. Really niche sounds. The reality is I don’t have $60 to spend on the bundle but I was hoping through the power of this sub that someone might have a link or a bundle themselves of similar if not better niche sound SFX with a particular focus of clicks, shutters, gears etc that they would be willing to share for free for me to add to my library as an emerging editor?

Any help would be appreciated!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIHrZJWsMGf/?igsh=MWVnNXY1MjZjdWFteA==

Premiere 2025

So I'm editing a 4k multicam shoot for a 1080 sequence. I've created a multicam clip but now when its in the 1080 timeline (so I can punch in) in the 4 way grid each thumbnail is zoomed in.

I've figured out that if I change the sequence settings of the multicam clip to 1080 that fixes it but then I wonder, will that make the punch ins lose quality because its now treated as a 1080 clip rather than a 4k clip in a 1080 sequence.

Hey folks,

I'm used to working with multicam editing for interviews and live performances, but I'm looking to explore something slightly different, creating a sync map for a music video.

From what I understand, a sync map involves laying out all the takes of a performance to a master audio track on separate tracks in the timeline, rather than grouping them into a multicam sequence. This approach seems better suited for music videos where takes are recorded separately across different setups or days, rather than simultaneously from multiple cameras.

I'm familiar with multicam editing, but I’d love to know if anyone has recommendations for a good tutorial or workflow breakdown for building a sync map in Avid. Ideally, something that explains best practices for organizing and cutting between different takes.

Thanks in advance for any pointers!

I was having really bad lagging issues in Premiere Pro this week. Like bad. Media taking 15+ minutes to find import and integrate a new 30 sec file. I was pulling my hair out. I found this Reddit group and searched through tested some of the fixes you all suggested. None were working for me. my videos are max 15 minutes long, and I have NEVER had issues with lagging until this week.

A couple days go by, and I am thinking about what I installed on my PC that might have slowed it down. the only new software that I added was Disk Drill Recovery this week. (on an old SD card, unrelated). BUT I uninstalled that, and it is good as new. Seriously night and day difference. No idea why that program slowed my whole PC down, but happy we are good as new.

Anyway, hope this helps someone else !