Editor assistant
| Highest | $4,500 / mo · United States |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2–4 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 4 years bachelor's + 1-2 years apprenticeship |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $4,500max |
| Hong KongIELTS 6.0–6.5 · HK–200k | $3,700 |
| SingaporeIELTS 6.5 · SGD 18–35k | $3,700 |
| United KingdomIELTS 6.0–7.0 · £11–38k | $3,700 |
| CanadaIELTS 6.0–6.5 · CAD 20–40k | $3,500 |
| AustraliaIELTS 6.0–6.5 · AUD 30–50k | $3,250 |
What does the day look like?
During principal photography, working hours run 10 to 12 hours per day. Work is split into day and night shifts: night assistant editors work from 7:00 PM to 5:00 AM or 8:00 PM to 6:00 AM receiving footage wrapped from set, syncing and transcoding it overnight so bins are ready when the lead editor arrives at 9:00 AM. Weekend work and overtime are routine during crunch periods.
Only 10 percent to 15 percent of the day is creative assembly cutting and temp sound or visual effects design. The remaining 85 percent to 90 percent is pure data wrangling and technical pipeline management: ingesting raw camera packages via Aspera or Signiant, generating offline editing proxies in DaVinci Resolve Studio or Avid Media Composer, syncing polyphonic audio, logging metadata, integrating lined scripts into ScriptSync, and exporting AAF, XML, and EDL turnover packages for sound and colour finishing departments.
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