Is Film Editor actually your fit?

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Film Editor

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Film Editors are the invisible architects of a film's rhythm, structure, and emotional impact — assembling raw footage from dailies into assembly cuts, refining through rough and fine cuts, shaping the director's cut, and delivering the locked conform to the DI suite. In India the role spans Bollywood features at Yash Raj Films, Dharma Productions, and T-Series, through Netflix/Prime/Hotstar OTT originals, Tollywood prestige productions, and regional language cinema. The field is dominated by careers like Sreekar Prasad (multi-language master: Taare Zameen Par, Dangal, Baahubali, RRR), Namrata Rao (Queen, Super Deluxe), Apurva Asrani (Aligarh, Haasil), and Hemanti Sarkar (Vidya Balan-era Bollywood). Entry is exclusively through FTII Pune's editing department, SRFTI Kolkata, or unpaid assistant-editor apprenticeships on productions — portfolios of short films and IMDb credits open the next door. The NLE of choice across Indian post-production is Avid Media Composer for features and Adobe Premiere Pro for OTT; DaVinci Resolve is increasingly used through the offline-to-online pipeline.

What you'll do

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Career Interests
7 min
Tells us if the day-to-day activities of this role energize you.
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Personality Profile
8 min
Reveals whether the working style this role demands fits how you naturally show up.

What you'll get — free

A clear fit verdict for Film Editor — strong, good, worth exploring, or stretch.
The 2-3 reasons it fits (or doesn't), based on what this role actually demands.
An honest signal on whether to keep exploring this path or look elsewhere.

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Film Editor

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