Short-Form Video Editor
Artist Commons
New York (Manhattan), NYThis is a Freelance Job
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.
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.
Salary/Benefits
$20.00 /hour USD
New York-based candidates are preferred, especially recent graduates of local schools.
Additional Information
Artist Commons is a year-long development program for early- and mid-career visual artists seeking to advance their work. Participants are paired with a cohort and mentor who provide feedback and accountability to deepen their art practice. The program includes weekly lectures, interviews, and panels that engage artists in conversation with curators, scholars, cultural writers, and museum and gallery professionals, helping them refine their goals and understand how to build a thoughtful, sustainable life in art.
• resume
• links to 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
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