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Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini: What Changed for Editors
Apple refreshed the desktop line on August 25: a Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra, and…
The Post-Production Workflow, Stage by Stage
Ask three editors where post-production starts and you’ll get three answers, all wrong in interesting ways. It doesn’t…
The Dailies Workflow Guide
Dailies have an image problem: the word sounds like something only a show with a DIT trailer and…
The Dialogue Cleanup Shootout: Adobe vs iZotope vs Resolve
Every editor has the folder. The interview shot next to an AC unit, the testimonial recorded on a…
Build a Home Edit Suite
Every edit suite I’ve ever built started the same way: a machine on whatever table was free, a…
The Edit Suite Chair & Desk Guide
Editors will agonize for weeks over a GPU that saves them four seconds per export, then spend a…
Acoustic Treatment for Edit Suites That Isn’t Snake Oil
You’ve seen the room. Gray foam wedges on every wall, arranged in a checkerboard, maybe some LED strips…
The Best UPS for Your Edit Bay and NAS
Nobody buys a UPS because they want one. You buy it the week after the power blinked at…
The Best Headphones for Video Editing & Mixing
Somewhere around hour six of a dialogue pass, headphones stop being audio equipment and become the room you…
Unraid vs TrueNAS for a Video Editing NAS: What Actually Changed in 2026
So you’re building the editing NAS yourself instead of buying one. An old workstation or a fresh mini-ITX…