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Role

AI for Video Editors

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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.

Film and Video Editors · O*NET 27-4032.00 · Job Zone 4 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

24 of 37tools on this list have an AI solution available today

Counted by matching the tools this occupation is documented as using against a corpus of 226,452 AI products, MCP servers, skills and connectors. Where a tool has no match, we say so rather than inventing one.

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29 matched to the tools film and video editors use. Showing 24.

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  • Adobe Creative Cloud is a graphic design and video editing suite that enables businesses to publish print layouts, edit images, manage PDF documents, and collaborate with team members using various mobile and desktop applications.

  • Adobe Photoshop

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  • Adobe Premiere Pro is a cloud-based video editing software designed to help businesses create and edit professional videos using various built-in tools. Supervisors can import videos on the platform, add transition effects, and export finished footage to the required destination.

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The tools this job actually uses

37 documented for this occupation. Showing 37, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

  • Adobe After Effectshot
  • Adobe Creative Cloud softwarehot
  • Adobe Illustratorhot
  • Adobe InDesignhot
  • Adobe Photoshophot
  • AJAXhot
  • Cascading style sheets CSShot
  • Extensible markup language XMLhot
  • Hypertext markup language HTMLhot
  • JavaScripthot
  • Microsoft Excelhot
  • Microsoft Office softwarehot
  • Microsoft PowerPointhot
  • Microsoft Wordhot
  • TikTokhot
  • Adobe Director
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Apple DVD Studio Pro
  • Apple Final Cut Pro
  • Apple QuickTime
  • Apple Xsan
  • Autodesk Maya
  • Autodesk Smoke
  • Avid Digidesign Pro Tools
  • Avid Technology audio visual editing software
  • Boris FX Continuum Complete
  • Brightcove
  • DaVinci Resolve
  • Google Video
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Screencastify
  • Sorenson Media Sorenson Squeeze
  • Video editing software
  • Web browser software
  • Windows Media Services
  • YouTube

What this job involves

23 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 23.

  1. Organize and string together raw footage into a continuous whole according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers.
  2. Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.
  3. Select and combine the most effective shots of each scene to form a logical and smoothly running story.
  4. Review footage sequence by sequence to become familiar with it before assembling it into a final product.
  5. Set up and operate computer editing systems, electronic titling systems, video switching equipment, and digital video effects units to produce a final product.
  6. Trim film segments to specified lengths and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.
  7. Cut shot sequences to different angles at specific points in scenes, making each individual cut as fluid and seamless as possible.
  8. Review assembled films or edited videotapes on screens or monitors to determine if corrections are necessary.
  9. Determine the specific audio and visual effects and music necessary to complete films.
  10. Mark frames where a particular shot or piece of sound is to begin or end.
  11. Verify key numbers and time codes on materials.
  12. 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.
  13. Program computerized graphic effects.
  14. Record needed sounds or obtain them from sound effects libraries.
  15. Conduct film screenings for directors and members of production staffs.
  16. Study scripts to become familiar with production concepts and requirements.
  17. Discuss the sound requirements of pictures with sound effects editors.
  18. Piece sounds together to develop film soundtracks.
  19. Confer with producers and directors concerning layout or editing approaches needed to increase dramatic or entertainment value of productions.
  20. Supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in film editing, assembling, and recording activities.
  21. Develop post-production models for films.
  22. Collaborate with music editors to select appropriate passages of music and develop production scores.
  23. Write scripts.