HI all, So.. I am kinda lost to be honest with all the existing components to build my own pc x) I'm a new professionnal editor and i'm looking for the perfect config (like everybody here i guess ^^).. I would like something stable obviously, made for today standards, so looking forward for 4K... (read more)

Hello I a film student at UNiversity and have never done editing before in my life until I was required to attend the AVID class in order for me to be able to get my degree. My final and most important editing assignment is due this week but after I shot the assignment which was a scene similar to James... (read more)

Hi, i'm watching "Born on the fourth of July" mostly because it's an editing oscar-winning movie :) And i'm wondering, at the beginning of the movie between shots 21 and 22 of the wrestling sequence when Tom Cruise wraps his arm around the other wrestler (i don't have his name... (read more)

Hi there. i have an heavy pc media composer station and i want to be able to edit on laptop so i could work in different places if needed. i need a recomandation for nice, not to expensive laptop. prefer it won't be mac. especially for dailies editing. thank you (read more)

Hello, I create a range of content from promos and TVC's to longer form content (half hour, 1 hour etc). I need to archive some special projects and would like to AAF certain projects/sequences onto an external drive. Is this the best workflow for archiving? Most of my sequences contain AMA linked... (read more)

Hi all I am not sure this can be done but... is there a way you can designate a track in the timeline to a clip in the bin? That way when you select the clip in the bin your insert option in the timeline automatically highlights and aligns the tracks you have assigned to that clip? I have four audio... (read more)

To start, I apologise if this is in the wrong forum, but I am struggling to find an easy workflow for my friend's short film that I have agreed to edit. We shot it on the Sony FS7 (4096x2160) and the Sony A7S Mkii (3840x2160) and recorded with a Zoom F4 kit. So as of now we have separate 4k footage... (read more)

Hello community, I've been working as an animatic editor in France for 5 years now, but only on Toonboom Storyboard (witch is the standard right here to keep the Storyboard/Editing workflow fluid through versions, and allows direct drawing corrections). It's limited, but does the job. I'll... (read more)

hello does system performance (better cpu - gpu - hdd , ... ) affect the video output and video file quality ? in other words , does system with higher and better specs increase the video quality or its just about the render time decrease ? for example if we render a project on an avid professional hardware... (read more)

I get this error every now and then, and starting about half hour ago. . It's been happening more frequently. The error is; Exception: DIDReader:: XraisedUnexpectedStreamStatus async timeout error. I've read that it has to do with either stoping an anti-virus software on one's computer or... (read more)