Social Media Video Editor

A Video Editor is a professional who is responsible for reviewing audio and visual footage and using computer software to organize clips into a cohesive unit. Their duties include splitting or combining video clips, adding appropriate sounds or graphics and watching the finished product to catch mistakes before submitting it for review. The Video Editor must follow an outline and script and any special instructions given about what should happen in each scene. Other duties include combining raw footage from different sources and shoots to create a coherent story, examining edited footage to ensure it is consistent with the storyline and the director’s narrative goals, making a story more compelling for the audience, editing the footage into timelines, or cutting out certain shots, and adding drama to the story, combining audio sound effects with dialogue and ambient sound 1.