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FCP 7 Editors…need not apply!
It’s happened……looking for X only editors (and look at the riches you’ll earn with their annual salary!)
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8v**************@************st.org
Video Editor – Final Cut Pro X (Fairfax County)
compensation: $40,000 / year plus benefitsGrowing, established production company in Northern Virginia is seeking a Final Cut Pro X editor to add to our team. This is a great opportunity to push your creativity while working with a wide variety of content and clients.
This is a full-time, salary position starting at $40,000 with benefits for qualified candidates.
The position is 100% on-site in our studios in Fairfax County. Reliable transportation is required.To apply we require a reel or samples of your past work.
We also request that you demonstrate the following minimum skills in order to be considered:
• 2+ years editing experience.
• Strong Final Cut Pro X experience. (FCP7 or Premier exclusive editors need not apply)
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of color correction.
• Apple Motion experience. (Must be able to make titles, lower 3rds, etc.)
• Must be able to communicate clearly and professionally in writing.
• Must be able to demonstrate professional client interaction skills.
• Must be able/willing to assist with field production from time to time.
• Strong work ethic and love of filmmaking.
• Willingness to learn new things and work creatively with producers, directors or independently.The skills above are minimum requirements.
Other production and post-production skills are always a plus.We look forward to hearing from you!
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44 Replies
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[Andy Field] “(and look at the riches you’ll earn with their annual salary!)”
Where do I sign?!
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This gig could go to a kid a few years out of college. Forty grand and bennies is not too bad at 23 or 24…
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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40 K is about double the poverty line wage for a family of four, but less than half the median wage in that part of Virginia, which, due to proximity to all the government stuff, is going to have a higher cost of living all around. For a single person living ascetically and frugally, it’s doable, but unlikely to be sustainable if they get married or start having kids, unless it’s a 2-income relationship, or crushing student loan debt. Fairfax rents are going to be notably higher, too. Figure on a cheaper place further out, then add back the commuting costs.
40 k is an impressive amount, all at once, in your lap. 40 K a year is not exactly failing, but it’s really just a starting wage for someone at the lower rungs of the ladder, or a really sweet part-time gig on the side.
And let’s not get too hysterical: the actual copy says you mustn’t be 7 or premiere EXCLUSIVE. They don’t mind that you know more than one system, they just emphasize that they are centered around x and Motion. Nobody, repeat, nobody, thinks that it’s a BAD thing to also have, say, After Effects expertise as well.
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[Mark Suszko] “40 K a year is not exactly failing, but it’s really just a starting wage for someone at the lower rungs of the ladder, or a really sweet part-time gig on the side.”
I teach at the #1 graduate school for advertising in the country and our art directors and copywriters average between 45-50k getting out…in any market (with a masters). I would say that $40k for possibly your first job is pretty comfy. That will be filled quickly.
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Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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Here’s an interesting analysis. https://taxfoundation.org/blog/real-value-100-each-state
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[Andy Field] “(FCP7 or Premier exclusive editors need not apply)”
This type of language in a job posting always strikes me as strange. I know they are a FCP X facility, and the candidate that would be most comfortable fastest is an editor who knows and uses X already…I get that. From that standpoint the language makes sense. However, I do all the hiring and firing for my team and while we’re exclusively a Premiere Pro CC I don’t consider that the bar for which I determine whom I hire. In fact, I just hired two people who are (were?) FCP X editors and now they’re working in Premiere. Does that mean they have some transition time? Yes. But a good candidate is more than which NLE they know.
The NLE is a tool. It doesn’t define the artist. It doesn’t make the story compelling. It doesn’t know when to cut. I’m more concerned that the candidate understands rules of composition and cinematography, timing, color theory, lighting, and sound then I am with whether they know how to trim using Avid, Adobe, or Apple. It seems like you could lose out on a lot of great candidates by simply saying, “unless you know (fill in the blank software) we don’t want you.” If I had taken that approach many of the people who work for me today (who I think are rock stars) wouldn’t be working for me.
Maybe I’m crazy….just my $.02
Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
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[Andy Field] “(and look at the riches you’ll earn with their annual salary!)”
$40,000 in Northern Virginia? That’s quite a lot of money. I’d say that’s comparable to $80K in Los Angeles, maybe more. Cost of living out there is nowhere near what it is in areas where editors earn big bucks.
Shane
Little Frog Post
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[Shane Ross] ” where editors earn big bucks”
yeah, both of them. 😉
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
Professor, VCU Brandcenter -
You’re not crazy, Ryan. It’s like asking for an artist who only paints with brushes that have black handles, versus brown. That’s an H.R. Department type of POV.
Certainly, their feeling must be that they really need a person that’s ready to work on day one, on the specified system, and they have no time or budget to transition someone… But I have known people that know what every button does… they just had no idea when or how they should use them.
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[Shane Ross] “$40,000 in Northern Virginia? That’s quite a lot of money. I’d say that’s comparable to $80K in Los Angeles”
Northern Virginia means Washington, DC. I can assure you it’s not any cheaper than Los Angeles. According to the cost of living calculator a $40K salary in DC = a $38K salary in L.A.
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