Introduction
Today’s world seems to be filled with screens, both large and small, that stream moving images. From the IMAX theater to the billboard near the highway to your UHDTV, laptop, or tablet to the smartphone in your pocket: all are capable of displaying motion pictures. And every moving image that you see on these screens has been edited. Movies, television shows, commercials, music videos, and web videos of all kinds have been cut down, re-ordered, padded out, massaged, sweetened, and tweaked to some degree or another – by an editor.
A writer creates the story, a director coaches the actors, a cinematographer creates the visual style of each shot, and an editor puts all of those pieces together. Being one of the last creative people ...
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