How to Edit Photos While Exporting Video (And Why Your Laptop Is the Bottleneck)

How to Edit Photos While Exporting Video (And Why Your Laptop Is the Bottleneck)

There’s a specific kind of frustration that only photographers who also shoot video will understand. You’re sitting there with a finished edit queued up to export, and you can’t do anything else. Your machine is groaning. The fans are spinning. You’ve got a whole folder of raw photos you need to turn around by morning, and you’re just waiting. I’ve been there more times than I can count, usually in a hotel room somewhere, watching that export progress bar move like it’s personally offended by my deadline.

How to Edit Travel Photos That Actually Feel Like the Place: Lessons from Peter McKinnon

How to Edit Travel Photos That Actually Feel Like the Place: Lessons from Peter McKinnon

Every time I come back from a trip with a memory card full of RAW files, I face the same problem: the photos are technically fine, but they don’t feel like the place. The Grand Canyon shot looks flat and blue instead of warm and dusty. The landmark photo is cluttered or blown out. The sky is a blank nothing when I remember it being dramatic. These aren’t problems with my camera settings.