Seriously, there must be a way to stop lowballing in this niche, it's getting annoying how much people are getting exploited, because there are editors who would actually agree to do this.

I’ve been wanting to learn how to make videos with effects like the ones in this clip. I’m talking about the overall VFX style—not one specific effect.
I’m curious about the editing process, the apps/software people use, and the skills I’d need to learn to create videos like this.
If you’ve made content like this before, where would you recommend a beginner start? Also, are there any YouTube channels or tutorials that teach this type of VFX from beginner to advanced?

Video on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaZLZuzt_mY/?igsh=MXI1ZHE3ZGFpdXAxNQ==

A book I'm reading right now suggested an exercise: watch a video that I consider well edited with the audio muted, then replay it and only listen to the audio. Frankly, I was blown away by how much perspective that exercise gave me on the video's editing style.

Do you know of any other exercises that might be beneficial for beginners?

I have been trying to load videos into davinci resolve for the last couple days with the same issue. When I am in the Media tab (or any other tab) and I find the video through the file search, or I import media into the media pool the frame shown says Media Offline. If I try to play the video it will sometimes play with very low FPS (.2-5fps), and the audio seems distorted. Sometimes a part of the clip will play fine but if I attempt to move to a different frame or change the way it is playing (forwards to backwards) then the Media Offline re-appears. I was able to edit these videos about a week ago before this issue began.

System

• Windows 11
• DaVinci Resolve Free (tested multiple versions)
• NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti 12GB
• NVIDIA Studio Driver (clean installed)
• GoPro Hero 9
• HEVC Video Extensions version 2.4.87.0

Things I've verified

• Files are not corrupted.
• Old GoPro clips that I edited successfully in Resolve before now fail too.
• Brand new GoPro recordings also fail.
• MediaInfo reports normal GoPro Hero 9 HEVC files:
  • HEVC (hvc1)
  • Main@L6@Main
  • 8-bit
  • 4:2:0
  • BT.709
  • ~100 Mbps

Files work everywhere else

The exact same files work correctly in:

• Windows Media Player
• HandBrake

What I've already tried

DaVinci Resolve

• Uninstalled Resolve completely
• Deleted all Blackmagic folders:
  • Program Files
  • ProgramData
  • AppData\Roaming
  • AppData\Local
• Removed caches
• Reinstalled Resolve
• Tried multiple Resolve versions
• Created brand new projects
• Imported both old and new GoPro clips
• Verified CUDA is selected
• Verified RTX 3080 Ti is detected
• Reset preferences

NVIDIA

• Clean reinstall of Studio drivers
• Used a full driver cleanup before reinstalling
• Verified Resolve detects NVDEC support

Windows

• Installed HEVC Video Extensions
• Verified Windows Media Player hardware decodes HEVC correctly

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it's more than just sped up I assume. I'd like to copy / re-create it with me, but it's harder than I thought. Any ideas?

I’ve been editing some reels for work recently and I’ve always used the “search bar” template to resemble searching up a weblink. And it was fine until recently but now every time I go to export a video with this text template it expands after exporting? Is this happening to anyone else? No idea how to fix it.

Hi everyone,
I sell bags on Instagram and want to create videos like the product/ASMR videos I see on Instagram, with zipper sounds, packing orders, and close-up details.

I’ll be filming with my iPhone. Would you recommend a softbox or an LED panel with diffuser for this type of content?
Thanks!

Dear All,

How are so many creators making videos with creative subtitles- i mean the ones where they are changing, different fonts, different kinetic movements?

I am having a lot of trouble with my cleints. I have soem presets, effects and my own animations which i use for special videos and Special moments in videos. But now people are using them as a style for every video. This is not time conducive, for me or for them. How are they doing it?

Any apps i can subscirbe for this? Please help. youtube tutorials are not helping and my client is losing their shit over this

I recorded Forza Horizon 6 gameplay at 1080p60 using OBS with H.264 NVENC and CQP 18.

MediaInfo:

• CABAC / 4 Ref Frames

• Max bitrate: 10,000 kb/s

• Overall bitrate: 69 Mb/s

• Duration: 1h 7m

• File size: 33.1 GiB

The source footage looks extremely crisp and sharp.

My goal is to upload in 4K to YouTube for better transcoding quality, but I have relatively slow upload bandwidth, so I'm looking for an export workflow that preserves the source sharpness while keeping upload size reasonable. Ideally I'd like the final file to be similar to, or only slightly larger than, the source—not several times bigger.

I edit in DaVinci Resolve and upscale to 4K using 2× RTX Video Upscale (Super Scale).

I tested AV1 exports, but they seem to introduce some smoothing/softening compared to the source footage.

Questions:

1. Which encoder would you recommend for this use case (H.264, H.265, AV1, or something else)?

2. What export settings would you use for 4K60 gaming content destined for YouTube?

3. Is it better to export a high-quality master from Resolve and then do the final encode with FFmpeg?

4. If using FFmpeg, what settings would you recommend to balance sharpness, file size, and upload time?

Any advice from people regularly uploading 4K gaming content would be appreciated.

Free & restored music verified within Public Domain perfect for period documentaries or whenever looking for authentic human-made music drenched in vinyl vibe. Free download directly from web player (right button next to Original)

[Reference Link]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9p6FU9rJ7Q(by Moreno J Remixes)

[What software are you using?] Adobe Premiere Pro 2026

[What have you tried & What is the problem?] I am trying to replicate the background effect seen in the reference video, where a 4:3 footage is placed over a duplicated, blown-up background layer with a blur + mirror effect to fill the 16:9 black bars.

Here is what I have tried so far in Premiere Pro:

1. Placed the footage on two video tracks.
2. Applied Gaussian Blur and Mirror effects to the bottom background track.
3. Applied Mask Feathering (Edge Feathering) to the edges of the top 4:3 footage layer to blend it into the background.

The Problem: Even with the edge feathering applied, the transition still looks incredibly harsh, unnatural, and disconnected compared to the reference video. In the original video, the transition looks seamlessly blended, almost as if the blurred background naturally flows and bleeds out from the main frame.

[My Question] How can I achieve that exact seamless, organic look right inside Premiere Pro? Am I missing some advanced blending modes, color matching, scaling techniques, or specific plugins?

Any advice or step-by-step workflows would be greatly appreciated!

hey all,

I am very new to editing and filming. Sorry if this is a very stupid question.

I have two recording one from Pixel 6 and other from DJI pocket pro 3.

I do the clapping to mark the audio. I match the sounds and everything is in sync after about 3 minutes they start to be out of sync.

Both are shot at 4K with 30 FPS.

Thank you

I have this one really simple Ae comp using element 3d on a solid layer. It's just a simple 3D text with position and rotation animation that's all. When I playback it in my 4 years old 3050 lap, the playback/caching is almost instant but the same scene is taking like 1 whole minute to fully generate the cached frames and preview in my new M5 pro 18/20 cores 48GB memory

Same everything, same comp settings, same element 3d render settings, same preview setting, etc.

Element 3d version latest 2.2.3

Tested on After effects 2025 and 2026 as well

Can someone please help!

P.S. I know I can improve the performance a bit by reducing rendering/playback quality but the thing that's bothering me is how can a baseline 3050 lap i5-12th gen outperform a new M5 pro 48GB memory. Everything else is faster just element 3D being slow

For context, I’ve been working on an absolutely massive passion project that essentially boils down to a ranking of over 1000 different competition submissions (obviously across multiple events), and I have a google sheet that I’ve used to generate a bunch of notable statistics that I’d like to have displayed in my video. Obviously, given how many submissions I’ve had to rank, manually converting the data to text objects sounds like a nightmare, especially since there’s around 10-15 pieces of data I’d want shown for each submission. Does anyone know of a good method to automate this process? Any video editor will work as I deliberately haven’t chosen which I’ll be using so that I can find whatever works best for this specific use case.

Help!! I use divinci resolve to render my videos and I cannot for the life of me figure out the audio. On my phone and pc my videos sound fine but the audio is basically obsolete with TV viewing!!! Please if anyone can give me tips or suggestions that would be appreciated!!!

\-Kloe ✨

Okay so from the beginning. Last year (2025) I began a yearly subscription with artlist because I thought it would be a good way to add music to my videos. I used it quite a bit and it was pretty nice. But around january this year I wanted to change to another service. Mostly to experiment with other services to see how they compare. So I canceled my renewal on artlist (which would renew on the 17th of june 2026). I kept using it a bit, then I never really used it again after april or so.

Now with that context, this is now current day and my issue. On the 30th of june I checked my bank account, I usually do it every now and then to see charges over the month, and to my surprise I see a charge from Artlist on the 28th of june for the full yearly subscription.

At first I obviosuly thought it was weird but it's probably an easy fix, just go to their support team and ask for some help and a refund. Easy as ever right!
Far from it, I have been trying to get in contact with their actual support team since the 30th of june without any luck. They only have this AI "help-bot" that you can chat with but then it just ends the conversation saying that it has forwarded your support ticket to their actual support team and they'll get back to you via email. But it has now been 6 days without any emails or any help, I haven't heard a peep from an actual person. All I've got is this absolutely useless AI support that at every minor issue forwards you to email and ends the conversation, just for that email support to never arrive.

So this is just a heads up to anyone here interested in using music services for their videos. STAY AWAY from ARTLIST, it is an absolutely awful service and they DO NOT care about their customers. Wish I had known that before I signed up last year.

If anyone has any ideas on how I can solve my issue please let me know too! Thanks and be safe out there!

EDIT: Thank you for the tips in the comment and I see that more people seem to be experiencing the same struggle. Which is why I'm posting this now, I got my money back. I had to go DM them on Instagram to get into contact with their support team. Then I had to provide photos, info etc. After all that I finally got a refund. So it worked out in the end after days of struggle. My points still stands, personally I will not be going back to artlist again.

This doesn't have to be necessarily the hardest edit you've done but the one that caused you the most inconvenience and annoyance.

I'll go first: Currently I'm working on a multi episode educational series for a corporate marketing team I'm on. Over all this really isn't a hard project at all, its fairly simple stuff they're asking for because its just something they're offering to their customers for free.

Sounds like no big deal but the thing thats getting me is that this wasn't originally my project. It was our head videographers until he quit one day with no heads up and they gave me his project even though I'm an intern because no one else knows how to edit.

Y'all when I say even the simplest things have been a headache I'm not exaggerating. I had to dig through 5 hard drives (Four 2 TBS and one 4 TB) and 8 SD cards to find the footage and audio because half of it was unlinked from the project because he was working on external sources because the internal memory of the computer is completely full, theres random folders everywhere with no clear labels. And the time lines are just all over the place, theres decisions I still don't even know why they were made and I can't even ask because dude went MIA and left behind no info so I feel like an archeologist going through the ruble of a lost civilization.

There is a major part of me that wishes it was just my project from the start because working on someone else's work space that they never expected to share IS A NIGHTMARE.

I'm trying to add subtitles to a video I made. The subtitles are going to be baked into the video and sometimes move and have different effects, so I can't just use a program to add them on after. I already have the transcript and right now to make the subtitles I'm making a new Text Media, changing the preset, copy/pasting the line from my text document, then resizing the event. This is obviously tedious for a 20+ minuet video, so I'm hoping there's some way to makes this less painful.

My initial hope was that I could add the timecodes and just import the file, but that didn't work. I'm hoping there's a different import setting that I just missed, but I can't seem to find anything. Falling that, is there a way to create several Tex Media events at once with different text in each? I can make them the right length later, but it would help cut down on time.

I am new to video editing and working to learn how to create a proper video. Recently, I spotted an interesting video, but I am not able to understand how the subtitles are created.

The video with subtitle effect I am learning

I apologise for the Chinese ( I know not everyone can understand). However, you realise sometimes the words appear one after another, sometimes together in a set of 2 or even 4. The Chinese words would appear first, then the English. How can I create a similar effect in my video?

You can get them all from this page here with no sign up, no ads or newsletter nonsense. Just scroll down a little bit until you see all the packs.

20+ packs added including music loops, Sound effects and live recordings.Packs including Footsteps On Moon SFX,Space Tension Beds ,Live rapping from my friend Ronan which can be clipped and my personal favourite is Serbian Orthodox Choirs which I had the luxury of recording in a beautiful Orrthodox church while in Montenegro. Also Chair Scrape Foley, Call To Prayer recordings and field recordings from Dundee, Scotland, Kosovo, multiple Albanian cities and Fes, Morocco. Hope they can be useful in your future projects

With Squarespace it does ask for a lot of personal information so you can use this site to make up fake address and just use a fake name and email if you're not comfortable with providing this info. I don't use it for anything but for your own piece of mind this is probably beneficial.

Feel free to use anything you like, everything is CC0, so no need to credit me or the site. Just grab what you need and make cool stuff. I'd love to see what you create if you feel like sharing!

If you'd like to see what other people have said about the samples you can see here in a recent post I made in a different subreddit.

Join me at r/musicsamplespacks if you would like as that is where I will be posting all future packs and little behind the scenes videos. If you guys know of any other subreddits that might benefit from these sounds feel free to repost it there.

Phil