Difficult to know how to phrase this exactly, but I always feel like I'm winging it when it comes to graphics and overlays on my videos. I'm technically proficient in that I can layer up, arrange and keyframe various elements. I just don't know the rules on what makes something look professional.

I have a basic understanding of complementary colours and layouts, but I'd really like to shore up my confidence with fonts, textures... just good graphic design practices for video.

Have you guys got any courses or videos you can recommend?

I've been seeing people complain about Vimeo for a while, and have had my own qualms. I haven't found any suitable alternatives besides frame (which doesn't support embed), but recently came across https://livid.com/

It was started by former Vimeo employees (and named such haha), and curious if anyone has tried it/what your experience has been?

Hey, one less person out of the job pool I guess! After my layoff at the start of the month and thinking about my future and the film industry as a whole, it’s becoming clear that this won’t be a job I retire from. This is all I spent the last 20 years doing and can’t think of how to sell my experience in another field. I’ve worked solo on projects, and in big company teams managing creative director and client notes and expectations.

Are there editors here that have made a career change? What did you transfer too? My big issue is going back to school is out, I have too many loans since i went to film school( I know I know). I don’t mind starting over, I just have no idea how to make my experience applicable to other jobs. Any advice is appreciated.

I've been working as an editor in Australian TV for about 10 years. I've only ever worked for the public broadcasters until just recently when I worked on a much bigger commercial program and it was the first time I've had an assistant editor.

I'm so used to doing all the work that I didn't know what to ask of the assistant. I was working remotely so they weren't in the room with me and I didn't know how capable they were so I just did all the work - which was fine. There were multiple editors each working on an episode and there was 1 or 2 assistant editors working each day, so they were kept busy working with the other editors.

What would you normally ask of your assistant editor, and what are their expected duties? I'm curious for any all types of workflows - documentary, non-scripted, scripted, reality, feature films.

hi there ! i’m desperately looking for a high quality stock music library for my edits :’) –ads, dance videos, commercials, manifestos etc…–

in my office, we’re using Artlist, but i really don’t like it, it’s full of slop and really low quality musics, i spend hours looking for songs and at the end, it’s not even good

i’m open for a smaller music library, less choice but better quality !

do you have any recommendations ? :)