How do they match: Film and Video Editors

  • Collaborate with music editors to select appropriate passages of music and develop production scores.
  • Determine the specific audio and visual effects and music necessary to complete films.
  • Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.
  • 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.

  • Collaborate with others to determine technical details of productions.
  • Determine technical requirements of productions or projects.
  • Edit audio or video recordings.
  • Operate audio recording equipment.