Pretty self-explanatory...
Personally, I get annoyed when I have to change the file format of videos, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. The worst thing that could happen to me is that the sound and video lose sync, but that's happened once.
Got any film-editing worries to get off your chest?
I hate when the audio and video get out of sync. I have to use a analogue to digital converter and it often mis-syncs the sound. It takes quite a bit of work to get the sound back where it should be.
I dont do film editing myself, but my brother does...and here's what's always getting on his nerves:
1: That there is no decent, fully featured, free, editing program
2: Thats its incredibly difficult to get a decent export of your movie that is small enough to fit on...for example a cd, but good quality (i fixed that problem now with a propperly configured xvid codec 
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Thats it... my biggest pain is my slow computer. 2.2Ghz single core amd processor can no longer cut realtime editing. i mean i can capture and encode on the fly to mpg2 to save space but i have to devote the entire pc to this process. I have 1 gig of ram and i have hardware acceleration for transitions turned on and it speeds the final process by like 10 percent but it is painfully slow. Also software is a pain, i hate when it hangs on doing the simpilest tasks.
The most annoying thing is MOST DEFINITELY THE CODECS!!!
CODECS!!!
The word strikes hell into my mind. BLARGH!!!
SO much messing around, the right one, etc, etc. I HATE IT!!!
| LukeakaDanish wrote: |
| 1: That there is no decent, fully featured, free, editing program |
Ever heard of Cinelerra? Its Open Source and is used in professional films.Hmmmm.....
Logging and capturing can be a pain in the butt. If you are doing a fairly long program, and have an hour or so of footage to capture....you have to wait for an hour for the footage to capture onto your harddrive. Of course now some cameras are starting to head towards solid state media, but most professional camcorders are still tape based.
Having a old slow computer sucks. But that is part of the bigger problem that is you ALWAYS need to upgrade, every year or so. Faster computer, bigger harddrive, HD camera, new version of editing software, new plug ins, etc... It is just SOO expensive and time consuming to keep up with everything. And then to top it all off, you get the complaints:
"why do you charge so much? My uncle Bob has one of those digital camcorder thingies and a computer and he said he'll do it for fifty bucks...."
Cropped films.
There's a (very good) reason for a director, a cinematographer and the production designer choose a aspect ratio to shoot. To tell the history, to compose. Everything.
Then, because most televisions are 4:3, films are cropped. And pan and scan.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not the one who will say everybody need to have a widescreen television. Afterall, 16:9 is not the only aspect ratio that exists.
But I believe in letterbox films. As composing storytelling.
To me, the most annoying things in film editing is poor video quality (obviously filmed by someone else), wrong exposure, the people who are in a hurry and unwanted suggestion from non-artistic people. A good editing is like doing a sculpture on a raw stone. It takes time. So, in a hurry, a good video or film cannot be produced and the people who have no artistic sense cannot give good suggestion, though they generally try to dictate. 
Rendering.
It takes me about 8 hours to edit one of my 4 minute videos if it's fairly crazy then add another 5 hours to get the format right. I kind of miss WMMs "Best Quality For My Computer" setting - that saved my ass quite a few times.
Rendering is the biggest thing! I've got a good machine but still i wait!
| irishmark wrote: |
| Rendering is the biggest thing! I've got a good machine but still i wait! |
Yeah! Rendering is quite a bit of a boring thing! Waiting... Takes a long time to render... 
| Whong wrote: |
| irishmark wrote: | | Rendering is the biggest thing! I've got a good machine but still i wait! |
Yeah! Rendering is quite a bit of a boring thing! Waiting... Takes a long time to render... |
Yeah well, I start the rendering, then I go play some Wii, eat some food, go out, meet some friends, get home, watch some TV and when I get back to the computer - it's done!Yeah, probably when the Video and Audio get out of Sync. That pisses me off.
Oh and when the program freezes! 
| LostOverThere wrote: |
| Yeah, probably when the Video and Audio get out of Sync. That pisses me off. |
Really, that has never happened to me. =D
But I always work on sloooow computers.. like <1.7 GHzthere are many things, 1 of them is integration between programs. like the adobe suite. you should be able to go from premiere to encore without rendering out the entire sequence. this would result in less time, less compression, and less STORAGE SPACE PROBLEMS.....uncompressed DV, at 25 mbits, is alot to store. if you have an hour long sequence, you have to like render it out overnight, and then do the same thing for the final dvd in encore. you could do this all at once though if you could just import premiere projects into encore and encode straight to mpeg.
another thing taht annoys me is when aspect ratios get screwed up, like when you export something in widescreen, and then when you play it, it is 4:3, and i have yet to find a program that can change the file header or whatever to manually set the aspect ratio to widescreen, which doesnt even seem to be a difficut thing to program......to bad i dont know how to do it Oh well, I finally decided; setting up the right rendering settings annoys me most.
Like after you 3rd try of rendering you still get a blurry 300 mb file of your 10 minute long movie.
