The Task Exposure Indexv2026.Q3
Occupation · SOC 27-4032.00 · Job Zone 4

AI exposure: Film and Video Editors

Edit moving images on film, video, or other media. May work with a producer or director to organize images for final production. May edit or synchronize soundtracks with images.

Reading this score

computed

51.0% of this occupation's weighted task load is exposed, which puts Film and Video Editors at the 89th percentile of 923 occupations. The capability is largely there. Its average task scores 2.7 out of 4 on what a current system can produce, and the frictions that hold other jobs in place are comparatively weak here.

What holds the line here is context. Across this occupation's 22 tasks it averages 1.80 out of 3, the highest of the five friction dimensions. In plain terms, the work depends on knowledge the model cannot hold. Much of this job runs on things that were never written down: what this particular organisation does, what happened last week, what the person across the table actually meant. That context is the barrier, and it erodes as systems are given more access.

The most exposed thing this job does is Verify key numbers and time codes on materials, at 80.0%. The least is Mark frames where a particular shot or piece of sound is to begin or end, at 0.0%. A gap of 80.0% between two parts of the same job is the reason this index publishes at task level. An occupation-wide number would have hidden both.

Within arts, design, entertainment, sports and media occupations, this one is more exposed than most. The median across the 40 roles in the group is 36.4%, and only 8 of them score higher than this. Occupational families are not uniform, and the spread inside them is often wider than the gap between them.

What would move this score. Of 22 tasks, 18 are currently banded exposed, 0 assisted and 4 untouched. For that distribution to shift materially would take systems being given deeper access to the organisation's own records and history, which is already happening. The score is re-computed every quarter against a fresh capability reference, and the change is published rather than quietly applied.

Task by task

22 tasks, O*NET 31.0
TaskExposedAssistedUntouchedImportanceBand
Verify key numbers and time codes on materials.80.0%20.0%0.0%4.16exposed
Conduct film screenings for directors and members of production staffs.80.0%20.0%0.0%4.02exposed
Develop post-production models for films.80.0%20.0%0.0%3.66exposed
Program computerized graphic effects.65.0%10.0%25.0%4.11exposed
Organize and string together raw footage into a continuous whole according to scripts or the instructions of directors and producers.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.66exposed
Edit films and videotapes to insert music, dialogue, and sound effects, to arrange films into sequences, and to correct errors, using editing equipment.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.60exposed
Select and combine the most effective shots of each scene to form a logical and smoothly running story.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.58exposed
Trim film segments to specified lengths and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.39exposed
Cut shot sequences to different angles at specific points in scenes, making each individual cut as fluid and seamless as possible.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.37exposed
Manipulate plot, score, sound, and graphics to make the parts into a continuous whole, working closely with people in audio, visual, music, optical, or special effects departments.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.14exposed
Determine the specific audio and visual effects and music necessary to complete films.60.0%15.0%25.0%4.36exposed
Piece sounds together to develop film soundtracks.60.0%15.0%25.0%3.89exposed
Study scripts to become familiar with production concepts and requirements.55.0%20.0%25.0%3.96exposed
Review footage sequence by sequence to become familiar with it before assembling it into a final product.50.0%25.0%25.0%4.55exposed
Review assembled films or edited videotapes on screens or monitors to determine if corrections are necessary.50.0%25.0%25.0%4.37exposed
Discuss the sound requirements of pictures with sound effects editors.45.0%30.0%25.0%3.95exposed
Confer with producers and directors concerning layout or editing approaches needed to increase dramatic or entertainment value of productions.45.0%30.0%25.0%3.82exposed
Set up and operate computer editing systems, electronic titling systems, video switching equipment, and digital video effects units to produce a final product.43.8%18.8%37.5%4.53exposed
Record needed sounds or obtain them from sound effects libraries.15.0%10.0%75.0%4.02untouched
Collaborate with music editors to select appropriate passages of music and develop production scores.11.7%13.3%75.0%3.61untouched
Supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in film editing, assembling, and recording activities.10.0%15.0%75.0%3.75untouched
Mark frames where a particular shot or piece of sound is to begin or end.0.0%0.0%100.0%4.31untouched

Task text and importance ratings sourced from O*NET 31.0. Shares computed. The occupation score is the importance-weighted mean.

Where the score comes from

judged

Every task is scored through the standardised work activities it maps to. These are this occupation’s averages on the six rubric dimensions. Capability is what AI can do; the other five are what stands in the way.

DimensionMeanScale
Capability2.700-4
Embodiment0.590-3
Presence0.700-3
Accountability0.250-3
Context1.800-3
Verification cost0.950-3

What this means in practice

Where most of a role's weighted task load is exposed, the work that survives is usually the part of the job nobody wrote into the job description: deciding what should be produced rather than producing it, and being answerable for the result. The tasks lowest on this page are a better guide to where to spend your time than any general advice about the future of work.

Occupations either side of this one

The four closest scores in the same occupational family, then the four closest anywhere in the index.

Read this carefully. Exposure is not displacement. A high score means current AI systems can produce this work, not that anyone will stop paying a person to do it. Adoption depends on economics, regulation and inertia that this index deliberately does not model. How the score is built.