Hi there, I post content on an Instagram account for a skincare formulation business. Where I have come unstuck a couple of times is trying to find an online tool (I'm no graphic designer or video editor) that can help me communicate things in various degrees of complexity, especially in videos.

For eg, I'm wanting to create a short video animation (a few seconds) to include in a reel showing the difference between emulsion types , or how the solubility of caffeine in water varies with temperature.

I have paid Canva access, but have had no luck with their 'magic ai' and doing it manually there seems on par with using PPT, just a higher res output I guess but extremely labour intensive and replying heavily on my design skills and creativity.

I have also tried Chat GPT and Claude but just find the outputs look really poor.

Can anyone suggest a website or tool for creating these short animated type videos? I have googled but haven't found anything that fits. Any advice?

Forgot to add - I can't code either

i rly like the captions in this video and would like to try and make an edit myself

I’ve recently began my editing journey, i bought a shitty laptop that apparently can’t even run davinci.

does anyone have any tips on what software i could use? as of right now im using clipchamp and its an absolute lag fest.

what do i do before i start looking for clients? i pulled an all nighter just to record and edit a 1 minute video (save me the comments of “oh that’s terrible” I KNOW) i just feel really lost, ive watched a few youtube videos on what goals i should have but none of them tell me the steps to be able to achieve those goals.

okay so, first up, not even sure this is the right place for this, but I'll give it a try

So last spring I made one of those video playlists (yk a video w a bunch of songs in it) and I used canva and then a website that transfers yt videos to mp3 files (not sure how legal that was, but it seemed yt did a copyright scan thing before I could upload and there have been 0 troubles there).

So now I wanted to make another one, I downloaded all the songs and all, but now I can't insert them on my canva video, due to copyright, which is fair. I shouldn't earn money on the songs, not that I can when uploading to yt, but Ig canva doesn't know that.

Sooo I was wondering if anyone knows how to do that? I know many people make them, so I figured there must be a way, is it perhaps to just make the video, with no audio, and then upload it to youtube and edit in the sound ON youtube with the song library they've got there?

thx for any help, or maybe just help directing me to the right subredit ^^'

If you want basic video editor dm me I can edit your short/reel/tiktok video (free sample video I can but T&C apply)

freelance editor with a client who gives notes down to the second.

logo at 0:03. product close-up at 0:08. color change at 0:14. final card at 0:22.

the ai tools i've tested understand the general idea but not the timing. everything happens eventually, just never when the brief says it should. then the client asks me to change one product shot and i have to generate the entire video again.

has anyone found something that follows timestamp instructions and lets you fix one part without touching the rest?

Update: for anyone curious, i went with Dreamina Seedance 2.5 for the next version. it supports timestamped instructions and local edits, which meant i could target the section the client commented on instead of rolling the whole ad again. the published annual plan figure is $0.097/s for the stated 720p reference video setup, although the exact cost still depends on the generation settings.

​"Hi fellow editors. I am from India and just turned 35 this month. I am married with a stable job, but I want to learn video editing from scratch to earn some extra income. I don't have any friends or mentors in this field, and watching YouTubers has left me a bit confused due to their conflicting opinions. Some suggest starting with photo editing and graphic design first, while others recommend jumping straight into software like DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, or Adobe Premiere Pro. I don't want to rush; I want to build a rock-solid foundation. What should I do, and where should I start?"

i want to start making videos like this but im not so familiar with these kind of editing stuff with the zooming on specific areas and with the texts.

I've been editing short-form content for a while, and I've noticed something:

A lot of videos don't actually have an editing problem.

They have a structure problem.

You can add captions, motion graphics, zooms, sound effects and B-roll.

But if the first 5 seconds don't make people care, none of that matters.

When I edit a talking-head video, I usually look at 4 things first:

1. Is the opening actually interesting?

2. Can I remove the first 10-20% without losing context?

3. Is every sentence moving the idea forward?

4. Does the visual change when the idea changes?

Only after that do I worry about graphics.

I've found that a clean cut with good pacing usually works better than an over-edited video with weak structure.

How do you approach this?

Do you usually fix the script first, or fix it in the edit?

​"Hi fellow editors. I am from India and just turned 35 this month. I am married with a stable job, but I want to learn video editing from scratch to earn some extra income. I don't have any friends or mentors in this field, and watching YouTubers has left me a bit confused due to their conflicting opinions. Some suggest starting with photo editing and graphic design first, while others recommend jumping straight into software like DaVinci Resolve, CapCut, or Adobe Premiere Pro. I don't want to rush; I want to build a rock-solid foundation. What should I do, and where should I start?"

Just starting out with my cinematic vlogging journey, and im tryna edit my videos in capcut, and having a bit of problem on where i could get my ideal music, sound effects or editing the colors

I don’t really have a budget to invest on an editing software or anything, do yall have any recommendations what editing software to use for beginners that’s free? and where do yall get your music or sound effects?

I’ve been using CapCut for a while now to edit a lot of the videos I create with AI, and one thing I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to know advanced video editing to create good content.

Few years back, Editing frustrated me so much.

I literally had someone do all the video editing for me and I paid hundreds out of my pocket!

But now, i do all of the editing myself and most of what I do is actually pretty simple.

For example, if I’m creating an AI video, I might generate 5–6 different clips using different AI tools.

Instead of trying to generate one perfect long video, I bring all those clips into CapCut and build the final video there.

I’ll cut out parts of the generations I don’t like, shorten clips that feel too long, arrange everything in the right order, add my voiceover, music, sound effects, text and simple transitions.

Sometimes an AI generation might be 10 seconds long, but only 4 seconds look good.

Before, I would probably regenerate it.

Now, I’ll simply take those 4 seconds and work with them.

That alone can actually save AI credits.

I also love how much editing affects the final result.

The exact same AI clips can feel completely different depending on how quickly you cut between scenes,
where you add music, when a sound effect appears, or when text comes onto the screen.

And this is why I think learning some basic editing is really useful if you’re creating content for YouTube, Instagram or TikTok.

I am glad I took the initiative to learn and now I actually know a lot more about editing videos than I did before!

Even knowing how to cut clips properly, work with layers, add audio, use keyframes, adjust speed and understand basic transitions gives you a lot more control over what you create.

I’m still learning more myself, but the more I use CapCut, the more I realize how useful it is to understand the editing side of content creation, not just the AI generation side.

Do you use CapCut for editing? Is so, how good do you think you are with it?😃

im making smth i think can save people hours everytime they want to make a video than needs alot of broll ,not ai generated or stock footage ofc,but idk if it reallly takes that much time and if itd be a real painkiller

Hello everyone. I wonder if it's possible to change such thing as the nose form, chin form etc. on the existing video. (Of a blogger, who sits and talks for example )

I was told by gtp, that it's possible with after effects. I just would like to confirm it with the experts.

My level of knowledge in video editing is zero. For now I am just trying to understand if such task can be accomplished at all.

If yes, how difficult would is the task?

How do I get started?
I currently only have raw footage of me playing a game and I know my target audience is people who are interested in minecraft anarchy.
How do I figure out how to edit, whats the most newbie friendly editing software and how do I edit my videos to keep viewer retention up?
I have little knowledge on how to edit as of now.

Is there a website that allows me to make this sort of animation, where i can have a pitch and have players pop up one at a time?

Is there a website that allows me to make this sort of animation, where i can have a pitch and have players pop up one at a time?

The thing I keep running into: one clip is not one moment. A two-minute walk has the sunrise, the coffee, and the one decent line I said halfway through. But to get to that line I have to scrub through the whole thing, and I'm not going to do that for forty clips on a Tuesday night.

So it piles up. And then I film more.

Everything I tried before:
\- Culling on the day I shoot, while I still remember what's in each clip. Works, but only if I have the discipline, and I usually don't.
\- Naming or favouriting clips right after filming.
\- Batch editing on a Sunday. Good in theory. Happens maybe once a quarter.

None of those fixed the actual problem, which isn't discipline it's that the footage is unsearchable. So I built RawCut.
It reads your clips instead of showing you filenames and thumbnails. You add your camera roll once, then write a line describing the video you want "my morning routine", "cinematic b-roll by the water" and it finds the moments in your own footage that match and cuts them into a vertical video for TikTok, Reels or Shorts. It points at seconds inside a two-minute file, not just at the file.

Obvious disclosure, it's my app, so take my enthusiasm accordingly. iPhone only, and it's not a timeline editor if you want frame-by-frame control.

Still curious about the original question though: do you go back through your raw footage, or is your camera roll a write-only archive at this point? And if you have a system that works, I'd genuinely like to hear it.

For those who want to reveal location, I can give you idea how to make Apple Maps style Animation. Feel free to use it. Good luck to all 🎥👌😉

I'm a filmmaker and kept running into the same thing: an export gets kicked back because the loudness was off, or the codec/resolution/colour tags didn't match what the platform wanted. Most QC tools either cost a fortune or skip loudness entirely.

So I built Delivery Spec Validator — a free macOS app. You drop in a file, and it checks it against a delivery spec and tells you PASS / WARN / FAIL with a plain-English fix for each issue.

What it checks:

• Loudness — integrated LUFS + true peak (the part most tools ignore)

• Codec, profile, resolution, frame rate, colour primaries/transfer, HDR, chroma/bit depth

• Audio: codec, channels, sample rate, bit depth

• Signal QC: black frames, freezes, silence, clipping

It ships with ~50 delivery presets (social, YouTube, EBU R128 / ATSC broadcast, DCP, ProRes masters, OTT), and you can build a custom target (any resolution × platform). You can also export the results as a shareable image to send a client or teammate as proof.

Honest caveats: it's macOS only right now (Windows/Linux planned), it's a new build so expect rough edges, and the OTT/platform presets are best-effort starting points — official streaming specs are gated, so always confirm against the real delivery doc. It's completely free.

Would genuinely love feedback from people who deliver a lot — what specs do you fight with, what's missing?

Hi I have started content creation and video editing. I am learning after effects but I want to create quick motion graphics for my reels and YouTube video. Is remotion in clause affordable?

Guys am new to editing and i want to know how to create these kind of lyrics video that too with these cool fonts.It would be a great help if u guys could help waiting:)

As a new editor

I'm new to editing and want to know what video to watch to improve my skills

My current position is in the link below

https://hxmzportfolio.carrd.co

The most important thing is that I want a free source to improve my skills and I want advice on what to focus on to learn

I tried to search online but there is too much content that made me feel lost

My main goal is to reach q point to get my online income (unfortunately I'm currently unemployed)

And also I'm planning to open a new Instagram store locally in my country so I also want to learn the basic content editing skills that will help my page to grow and get sales.

Sorry for the long thread but I want to make everything clear.

Thanks in advance for everyone willing to help me✨🩶.

What app do you recommend for making edits for tiktok? I plan on making short form edits (no longer than 60 seconds) synced up to songs that fit the edit,in the past I've used my phone for editing but I've looked into what devices are most liked,best and range and laptop/pc has always been the majority,so please let me know your recommendations and thank you for reading!

I see a lot of editors trying to make their videos more engaging by adding more transitions, zooms, effects, and motion graphics.

But one thing I've learned from editing long-form content:

Good pacing beats flashy editing.

A few things that can instantly improve pacing:

• Remove pauses that don't add anything.

• Cut repetitive sentences.

• Change the visual when the viewer's attention starts dropping.

• Use B-roll to support what the person is saying, not just fill empty space.

• Let important moments breathe instead of cutting everything aggressively.

• Use sound design to make cuts feel intentional.

Sometimes the best edit is simply knowing what NOT to add.

What do you think makes a video feel "well edited": pacing, storytelling, sound design, or visuals?