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Career Details :: Film and Video Editors
Description
Edit motion picture soundtracks, film, and video.
Experience
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Education
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Training
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
Tasks
- Edits film and videotape to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.
- Studies script and confers with producers and directors concerning layout or editing to increase dramatic or entertainment value of production.
- Supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in editing and assembling filmed scenes photographed by others.
- Evaluates and selects scenes in terms of dramatic and entertainment value and story continuity.
- Trims film segments to specified lengths and reassembles segments in sequence that presents story with maximum effect.
- Reviews assembled film or edited videotape on screen or monitor and makes corrections.
Related Careers
- Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Motion Picture
- Cartoonists
- Desktop Publishers
- Directors, Stage, Motion Pictures, Television, and Radio
- Photographers, Scientific
- Sound Engineering Technicians
- Talent Directors
- Technical Directors/Managers
Important Abilities
General Work Activities
- Getting Information Needed to Do the Job
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
- Judging Qualities of Things, Service, People
- Thinking Creatively
- Monitor Processes, Material, Surroundings
Important Skills
- Synthesis/Reorganization
- Monitoring
- Information Organization
- Critical Thinking
- Reading Comprehension
Frequent Work Context
- Objective or Subjective Information
- Indoors
- Degree of Automation
- Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
- Job-Required Social Interaction
Related Majors
| Major | Add to XapPack |
|---|---|
| Art/Video |  [ add ] |
| Audio/Radio | [ add ] |
| Audio/Video/Film | [ add ] |
| Broadcast Communication Technology | [ add ] |
| Cinematography | [ add ] |
| Electroacoustic Media | [ add ] |
| Electronic Arts | [ add ] |
| Electronic Media/Arts/Communication | [ add ] |
| Film | [ add ] |
| Film Production | [ add ] |
| Film/Television | [ add ] |
| Film/Video | [ add ] |
| Film/Video Making/Cinematography/Production | [ add ] |
| Film/Video Production | [ add ] |
| Film/Video/Computer Animation | [ add ] |
| Film/Video/Performance | [ add ] |
| Media Production | [ add ] |
| Media Technology | [ add ] |
| Motion Picture Producing | [ add ] |
| Music Engineering Technology | [ add ] |
| Music Production/Engineering | [ add ] |
| Music Recording | [ add ] |
| Music/Sound Production | [ add ] |
| Music/Sound Recording | [ add ] |
| Radio/Sound | [ add ] |
| Radio/Television/Film | [ add ] |
| Sound Recording Technology | [ add ] |
| Television/Film | [ add ] |
| Television/Film Production | [ add ] |
| Television/Film/New Media Production | [ add ] |
| Television/Video | [ add ] |
| Television/Video Production | [ add ] |
Institutions Offering Related Majors
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