Audio/Video Editing

[arjue]

got all of my shit today, and hooray IT DIDN'T COME WIH ANY CABLES!

Can't get cables until the weekend, so I'm boned for now.

[Error]

I'd like to get into video editing, but the only thing i have access to other than porn online is my own ugly self on a webcam, and i'm not about to start acting out a movie on my webcam so it can be edited down using Windows Movie Maker.

[CouryC]

I am a freelance video editor. Studied in school years ago, and work freelance assistant right now. Its a hard field to get into, but I've had decent luck so far. Most recently I've worked on a documentary for Nike on Marion Jones that was bound for the NBC during the Olympics but was never aired due to her failure to qualify for anything but the long jump.

I work on Avid mostly, though I have some knowledge of FCP (final cut pro).

[cka]

off to the circuit board with ye

And the only video editting I do is via VirtualDub, and that's usually recompressing videos into different formats. Ol' emma here can't handle doing any of that fancy crap.

[Mykozo]

I am a freelance video editor. Studied in school years ago, and work freelance assistant right now. Its a hard field to get into, but I've had decent luck so far. Most recently I've worked on a documentary for Nike on Marion Jones that was bound for the NBC during the Olympics but was never aired due to her failure to qualify for anything but the long jump.

I work on Avid mostly, though I have some knowledge of FCP (final cut pro).

I have really only worked on audio, recording bands in particular. I have done some work with the prosumer stuff like Vegas and Premier, but I would love to mess with an Avid system. I was Avid/Digidesign certified in ProTools back in 2001, and although I don't have the ends to rock an HD system just yet, I can imagine that ease of editing and quality of the hardware is just the same on those Avid systems.
Thats cool that you got to do that Marion Jones piece. Too bad it didn't air. I feel you on it being a hard field to get into. Most of the breaking in you do comes in the form of unpaid internships or shitty assistant jobs. At least in the recording studio world it's like that. There are a million people that want to do it, so you have to compete with the people who will work for free to break in.
Oh quick question. Are the Avid Media systems that get used for film and the such both video AND audio editors? Or is all the video done in Avid then moved to Pro Tools for the audio?