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.