“Avid, Final Cut Pro, and Adobe Premiere are all important for film students to be familiar with if they want to be well rounded and flexible,” urges veteran assistant editor Brett Reed, who has worked on dozens of major Hollywood features. “All three have online tutorials, educational packages available at lower prices, and they all have active online communities where you can get excellent advice and sometimes even tech support for free in various online forums. Long before you edit an actual project, it is a good idea to go out and investigate these technologies and experiment with them whenever you can.”