Hey editors,
Quick question for the hive mind:
We all know client work can drain the tank. So, when you're feeling creatively empty, what's your weirdest or best source of non-film inspiration that actually recharges you?
For me? Scrolling Pinterest for mood boards, color palettes, and interesting typography. It's like a visual cheat sheet!
What's the secret sauce that fills your creative well?
#VideoEditing#CreativeLife#EditorProblems#Inspirational25
This is what it feels like to be a @RiversidedotFM paid customer.
The software is always glitchy and the support "live chat" well I have been waiting for an agent for over 10 minutes... Doesn't feel very "Live"
Where is the "Mind-blowing Support?"
#CXFail#EditorProblems
Because it is a day ending in "Y" a male PR person has cced a male reporter on my staff when emailing me because clearly a Y chromosome is needed to be a newspaper editor. #venting#editorproblems
Yeah, I'm gonna need someone to go ahead and invent an alternative to uncompressed AVI files that don't use a full external hard drive worth of storage per minute. Yeah, thanks. #EditorProblems
ALT Office Space GIF by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
I don't understand myself...someone asks me to edit a video for them, I'm like YES! and I can whip up an amazing video in like 4 hours or less. But my own videos...I spend months on that shit and then end up hating it. 😂 #editorproblems#videoeditor
What’s the weird fixation on labeling Paul an apostle but not Peter, or Phillip, or Matthias? I never read anyone say “the Apostle Matthew says . . .” but I always see “the Apostle Paul says . . .” #editorproblems
That record-scratch, nails-on-chalkboard feeling when an ex-editor sees the overused non-word “impactful” in copy. There is an adjectival form — “impactive” — but it’s better to find a more suitable word instead. #editorproblems#lonelycrusade
if you’re going to shoot porn with two different types of camera bodies please at least white balance them. Probably should do that for mainstream too. 🤷🏻♂️#editorproblems
Last night I dreamed that Word auto-sent a text message to my phone for every comment a client replied to or resolved 🫠😂
#WritingCommunity#EditorProblems
If I have to remove “utilised” from one more article….Terrible things will happen! 😠
“Used” is absolutely fine and far less pompous! So is “among”’instead of “amongst” and “while” instead of “whilst”.
Any other #editors have words they ban? #writing#petpeeves#editorproblems