What the work actually is

You are not cutting a show. You are watching video the way an editor watches it — shot boundaries, coverage, continuity, transitions, pacing, audio sync — and writing that reading down in a form a model can learn from. A typical assignment might involve segmenting a sequence into shots and labelling each cut type, describing what a colourist or assistant editor would notice in a clip, flagging where a timeline's versioning has gone wrong, or writing a paragraph explaining why one arrangement of footage reads as coherent and another does not. Some tasks ask you to compare two model-generated descriptions of a sequence and say which is closer to how post-production actually works, with reasons.

Guidelines change between batches. Much of the job is reading a spec carefully, applying it consistently across dozens of clips, and raising the ambiguity you find rather than quietly resolving it in your head. Written documentation of your reasoning matters as much as the label itself.

What micro1 screens for

  • Hands-on Avid time, not familiarity — bins, subclips, sequence versioning, media management, relinking, project sharing. Screeners ask how you organise, not whether you can.
  • Vocabulary you own. You should be able to name and distinguish cut types, describe coverage, and talk about broadcast deliverables without reaching for terms you can't unpack under follow-up.
  • Consistency under a written spec. The screen probes what you do when a guideline doesn't cover the clip in front of you.
  • Plain written English. Annotation notes are read by people who are not editors.

Senior credits are explicitly not required. Entry and mid-career editors, assistant editors, and post coordinators are in scope.

Logistics

Fully remote, contractor engagement, invoiced hourly against logged task time. Work is asynchronous — you pick up batches when you're available, though projects often carry weekly throughput expectations and occasional live calls with a technical lead. Pay within the band reflects task complexity and assessed depth, not a negotiation; the $15–80/hr range is what the platform has posted, not a guarantee for any given contributor. Volume fluctuates with customer demand, so treat this as supplemental rather than a replacement for a staff post job.