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Video editor — skills, knowledge and links
Where this job sits in the official classifications, what those classifications say it demands, and what it connects to. Every block names its source: our own judgements, the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET, or the U.S. Department of Education.
How it connects#
O*NET also lists (no page here yet): Editors · Producers and Directors · Special Effects Artists and Animators · Desktop Publishers · Media Technical Directors/Managers · Audio and Video Technicians · Sound Engineering Technicians · Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film
In the official classification#
Film and Video Editors
Fit with this page: same job
Job Zone 4: considerable preparation
See it on O*NET OnLine ↗What O*NET rates highest#
From O*NET 27-4032.00 (Film and Video Editors). Ordered by O*NET's importance rating; the words are O*NET's own scale anchors.
Transferable skills
- Complex Problem SolvingImportant
- Judgment and Decision MakingImportant
- Time ManagementImportant
- CoordinationImportant
- Social PerceptivenessImportant
- PersuasionImportant
- Systems AnalysisImportant
- Systems EvaluationImportant
Knowledge
- Communications and MediaExtremely important
- English LanguageExtremely important
- Computers and ElectronicsExtremely important
- TelecommunicationsVery important
- Fine ArtsVery important
- Production and ProcessingVery important
Work activities
- Working with ComputersExtremely important
- Thinking CreativelyExtremely important
- Getting InformationExtremely important
- Updating and Using Relevant KnowledgeVery important
- Identifying Objects, Actions, and EventsVery important
- Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or SubordinatesVery important
Abilities
- Oral ComprehensionVery important
- Near VisionVery important
- Oral ExpressionVery important
- Information OrderingVery important
- Written ComprehensionVery important
- Fluency of IdeasVery important
Essential skills
- Active ListeningVery important
- Critical ThinkingVery important
- Reading ComprehensionImportant
- SpeakingImportant
- Active LearningImportant
Tasks O*NET proposes to add#
O*NET's analysts propose new or reworded task statements for future data collection, drawing on what surveyed workers write in, research into new technologies and professional associations. They are candidates, not yet part of the rated task list, and they say nothing about whether automation is involved. This site does not fold them into its own task judgements.
- Write scripts.New task · 2020-08 · reported by surveyed workers · O*NET 31.0
Our task judgements#
O*NET says what this job demands. It does not say what automation is doing to it — that is what this site's 5 task judgements are for: 2 backed by a verified event, 3 platform inference. VOLO judgement
Sources and rules#
- Four kinds of source, and each block says which: this site's own judgements, O*NET, the U.S. Department of Education's CIP–SOC crosswalk, or something computed mechanically from those. Nothing on this page is a rating we made up.
- O*NET's importance ratings are used only to order and shorten the lists. They are never combined with this site's impact index or evidence counts.
- The fit between our page and an O*NET occupation is our judgement and is stated per code: same job, broader, part of it, or only the closest there is.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026 release, U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration, CC BY 4.0. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The translations of O*NET descriptors on this page are ours, not O*NET's.