Description
Edit moving images on film, video, or other media. May work with a producer or director to organize images for final production. May edit or synchronize soundtracks with images.
- • Cut shot sequences to different angles at specific points in scenes, making each individual cut as fluid and seamless as possible.
- • Study scripts to become familiar with production concepts and requirements.
- • Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.
- • Select and combine the most effective shots of each scene to form a logical and smoothly running story.
- • Mark frames where a particular shot or piece of sound is to begin or end.
- • Determine the specific audio and visual effects and music necessary to complete films.
- • Verify key numbers and time codes on materials.
- • Organize and string together raw footage into a continuous whole according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers.
- • Review assembled films or edited videotapes on screens or monitors to determine if corrections are necessary.
- • Program computerized graphic effects.
- • Review footage sequence by sequence to become familiar with it before assembling it into a final product.
- • Set up and operate computer editing systems, electronic titling systems, video switching equipment, and digital video effects units to produce a final product.
- • Record needed sounds or obtain them from sound effects libraries.
- • Confer with producers and directors concerning layout or editing approaches needed to increase dramatic or entertainment value of productions.
- • Manipulate plot, score, sound, and graphics to make the parts into a continuous whole, working closely with people in audio, visual, music, optical, or special effects departments.
- • Supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in film editing, assembling, and recording activities.
- • Trim film segments to specified lengths and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.
- • Develop post-production models for films.
- • Piece sounds together to develop film soundtracks.
- • Conduct film screenings for directors and members of production staffs.
- • Collaborate with music editors to select appropriate passages of music and develop production scores.
- • Discuss the sound requirements of pictures with sound effects editors.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
