Is there a future in the job market for video program editors?

Getting experienced with my own advanced hobby projects (which I hope to put to profitable use as selling my body is out of the question), I find myself more fascinated with video editing/syncing/production. Is this a field that's worth getting into, at all?

Thx!

but I love editing video and film. I took some film classes in my last year of college and the most fun I had making my (very stereotypical) student film was editing it. Film is much harder to edit, but since it's a destructive process chopping up the the film you have to pay very close attention to detail.

What software do you use? I gave up on Premiere about 4 years ago and went to Sony's Vegas Video. I've never used Avid in practice, but it seems to be the norm in professional shops. Honestly I think Vegas is better.

Not to mention bloody expensive. :evilgrin:

I wouldn't be able to do film with my neurological conditions (it's amazing what 10 years can do to one's ability to twiddle with intricate details)

Seems more fun to capture the film, run IVTC and other filters as needed, and work from there.

Heck, even 3:2 pulldown can be very much fun as I recently experimented with an old "Doctor Who" story and the results were overall quite good (PAL to telecine back to PAL after IVTC then to a NTSC transfer to some atypical 3:2 settings... 6 hours later, voila!).

Indeed, the ersatz video fluidity is sweet. Much better than the bogus film effect more people want to try these days because it doesn't even begin to look like film; only choppy video. Yuck.)