ABSTRACT
Video editor means finding order amongst the chaos. The viewer knows if they like it or not, but it is up to the editor to guide them to a particular thought or emotion. The editor is usually given the material they are editing, so they must work within this world. People who have edited projects with mediocre or poor footage will be better directors and better editors because they have seen the problems and hope not to have to revisit them. Spending time scanning the same footage over and over is also the mark of an inexperienced editor. Unfortunately, very little of the actual time an editor is working is pure creative work — there are loads of tedious and busy tasks to be carried out. Even the best editor will forget to revisit a problem area when they start working on other portions of the film.
