A sign: Vacancy for Assistant Editor with Final Cut Pro X experience

This morning a job listing went up on Mandy.com:

We are looking for assistant editors with fcpx experience.
The position will require knowledge in all aspects of editor assisting including:
Posting
Stranding
Prepping for telecine
Prepping for audio mix.
The position will start as a freelance position as needed, with the possibility of a full time position.

The position is at Consulate NYC, a Manhattan-based post production company. We’ve heard of a London post house using Final Cut Pro X for offline adits of large advertsing campaigns and music videos. It is a sign that Final Cut is also being used in New York – on jobs big enough for editors to need assistant editors.

It is quicker for an experienced assistant editor to learn Final Cut Pro X than it is for a Final Cut Pro X user to understand the huge range of responsibilities of an assistant editor. More job offers like this will encourage a few forward-thinking AEs to discover more about Final Cut. The more assistant editors with X experience there are, the more likely jobs with large enough budgets to require assistants will consider Final Cut as an element of the production workflow.

30th July 2014

Feature film edited in Final Cut Pro 7 and Adobe Premiere Pro CC

1st August 2014

Final Cut Pro X: Compositing 64+ layers in real time