Short-Form Video Editor for Artist Commons

Short-Form Video Editor for Artist Commons Share via: facebook x linkedin email New York , New York Hybrid Position Post Production - Editing, Compositing, Motion Graphics, & Visual Effects Contracted 20.00 20.00 per hour Artist Commons Apply Artist Commons is looking for a thoughtful, detail-oriented short-form video editor to help transform long-form educational recordings about contemporary art into compelling vertical video clips for social media. Artist Commons is a year-long development program for early- and mid-career visual artists. Our lectures, interviews, and panels bring artists into conversation with curators, scholars, cultural writers, and museum and gallery professionals. We are looking for someone who can help us share the strongest moments from those conversations in a way that feels intelligent, accessible, and visually compelling. What you'll do: You will work with recorded lectures, interviews, and panels, each approximately ninety minutes in length, to turn them into polished, captioned vertical videos for social media. Each lecture recording should result in 15-20 strong short-form clips. Your role is to review recordings, select the best moments, refine the edits, clean up automated captions, and prepare finished vertical videos for review. This role requires both technical care and editorial judgment. You should be comfortable working across video editing and captioning tools, including Adobe Premiere, Opus Clip, and other short-form video platforms as needed. We're looking for someone who can recognize when a video clip contains a strong idea, a clear emotional or intellectual hook, or enough context to stand on its own. Responsibilities include: - Selecting and ranking the strongest moments from each recording. - Creating and tightening edits for pacing, clarity, and flow. - Making sure clips feel complete and understandable on their own. - Experimenting with AI-generated rough cuts of short-form clips for you to refine. - Correcting automated caption and transcription errors. - Adjusting visual framing, captions, title cards, and lower thirds. - Ranking and renaming final exports in an organized manner. - Maintaining simple tracking notes for each batch of clips. - Flagging unclear references, names, or possible errors. You might be a strong fit if you are: - A video editor with strong skills and taste. - Excited about the intersection of art, education, and digital media. - Familiar with formatting vertical video for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or similar platforms. - Detailed oriented, with strong captioning and proofreading skills. - Organized and comfortable with file management. - Able to work independently and meet deadlines. Opus Clip or CapCut experience is helpful but not required. Experience with Premiere Pro is preferred. Compensation and structure: This is a remote contract position at $20/hour. New York-based candidates are preferred, especially recent graduates of local schools. To apply, email us with your: - resume - 3-5 captioned vertical video editing samples - a link to any social media accounts you run with comparable vertical video content - a short introduction; include a few sentences about your relationship to contemporary art and what makes a short-form video clip compelling to you About Artist Commons Artist Commons is a year-long online program for early- and mid-career visual artists looking to get serious about their work. Artists accepted into the program are paired with a cohort and mentor who offer feedback and accountability to help you deepen your art practice. Through weekly lectures on the contemporary art world and the business of art, you'll develop your voice, refine your goals, and better understand how to build a thoughtful, sustainable life in art. Report Job Is there something wrong with this Job? Let us know and we'll take care of it. What's the problem? Cancel Report Job