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What this job is
A Film and Video Editor assembles, arranges, and manipulates raw footage, audio, and visual effects to produce coherent, compelling video content for broadcast, streaming, cinema, or corporate use. Working in post-production facilities or freelance studios, they collaborate with directors, producers, and sound engineers to realise the creative vision within technical and narrative constraints. The role demands technical mastery of editing software, aesthetic judgment, and strict adherence to delivery specifications for various media formats and platforms.
Pay
A$1,975 a week
This is the median for full-time employees who are not managers and are paid at the adult rate, before tax and salary sacrifice. It is a guide to what the work pays, not a wage rate.
Source: ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
What this role asks for
- Active Listeningcore
- Adapt designers’ work to the performance venuecore
- Adapt to artists' creative demandscore
- Adaptability and Flexibilitycore
- Attention to Detailcore
- Coordinate technical teams in artistic productionscore
- Coordinate with creative departmentscore
- Digital Literacycore
- Organise rehearsalscore
- Problem Solvingcore
- Process Improvement Identificationcore
- Promote health and safetycore
- Quality Assurance and Checkingcore
- Stakeholder Communicationcore
- Team Collaborationcore
- Theatre techniquescore
- Time Management and Prioritisationcore
- Verbal Communicationcore
- Workflow Prioritisationcore
- Write risk assessment on performing arts productioncore
- Written Communicationcore
- Continuous Learning and Upskilling
- Coordinate charity services
- Electronic Document Management
- Engage artistic staff
- Entertainment industry
- Fine arts
- Goal Setting and Planning
- Manage creative department
- Music and video industry
- Negotiate health and safety issues with third parties
- Negotiation
- Organise creative performance
- Philanthropy
- Record Management
- Represent artistic production
- Research and Analysis
- Supervise art gallery staff
- Workload Self-Management
- Write technical riders