[Bill Celnick]

Getting back to your original question on the M1 Mini – I bought one about 18 months ago – 1 TB internal SSD, 16 GB Ram, and I think it cost me about $1200.

I was able to handle 4K edits – using 4K clips in projects that ultimately were delivered in 1080p.
The mini was able to handle Premiere, but render and export times were very slow, and we had several crashes as we progressed. I should add that I use external drives – Samsung T7 SSD for both my source and output during the edit, and edited the original files, not proxies.

I’m a recent convert to DaVinci Resolve, just edited a wedding with 3 4K tracks in my timelines on the Mac Mini. It was flawless – no crashes, reasonable render times – so the hardware is quite capable – if not with Premiere then with Resolve. Also tried FCPX – just did not like it, but it handled the material.

I hope this helps.

Bill

[Bill Celnick]

Thanks for the advice, I agree fully that my first full edit on Resolve was indeed joyful compared to Premiere…and I replaced Photoshop with Photoshop Elements – it can do almost all of what I need to do. So far so good – haven’t fully gotten into Fusion yet.

[Bill Celnick]

There is / was freeware called CN Levelator, which I don’t think has been updated in about 10 years, but I still have it on my PC (Windows 10). You simply right click, and send your source file to Levelator and it evens everything out as the name suggests…afterwards I’ll run my file through Izotope to refine it even further. Results have been quite good.

Sorry to say that I tried to install it on a new Mac and I got an error message that the developer needed to update the app, so if your on a Mac it may not be an option.

[Bill Celnick]

Thanks Michael – you’ve reaffirmed my thoughts exactly…once I’m a tad more comfortable with Resolve (just bought the Studio edition) I’ll end the never ending monthly payments.

It looks like there is allot of support out there for Affinity.

Best.

[Bill Celnick]

Thanks Ben – recall your name form the old WEVA forums…appreciate the feedback

[Bill Celnick]

Thanks for the good advice…I’ve used After Effects, but very sparingly, but there are other Adobe apps that I get with my license that I just don’t use…I’d say that Premiere had been the big one, and I do use Photoshop, but certainly don’t need everything it has to offer.

Once I feel a higher level of proficiency with Resolve I’ll cancel with Adobe and see what happens when they respond.

[Bill Celnick]

You could export your audio to 2 wav files, checking off “export each channel as a separate file”

Then create 2 mono tracks in your sequence and import the 2 files created above and place them there accordingly.

[Bill Celnick]

My experience with IT Departments is that if they feel a computer is fast enough for MS Office, it’s fast enough for editing video…for the most part they’re of a different mindset and not focused on video work.

[Bill Celnick]

I’m getting these errors more frequently with each new release it seems…it only seems to be an issue on rendering within the timeline for me, luckily I’m still able to export these sequences with all the effects. Sometimes I find it’s less frustrating to export a sequence to an mp4 file and proof it as a finished product then to try to deconstruct the timeline in the hope that I’ll come across the issue.

It’s incredibly frustrating that the error message can’t give us more specific info as to what the specific issue is that’s causing the problem.

[Bill Celnick]

I do this all the time…let’s say it’s a presentation where I have a main camera and two remotes – in an auditorium. My method may be more tedious then others, but it works for me.

I create my sequence in Premiere with the source footage I intend to use as my main shot on track #3, next most on track 2, and least on track one. Then I send to Plural Eyes…and it gives me back the synced sequence. Then I set my in and out points, and with my footage laid out on different tracks, I’ll do general adjustments individually on each clip / track – for example, color correct, brightness etc, then I’ll start playing the timeline and make my cuts accordingly.
If after I make cuts, I want to tweak anything further, its done piece by piece.

I use the audio clip mixer to mute the audio I won’t be using, although I keep it on hand just in case I want some ambient sounds from it, like applause.