Editing Film crew (section)

=== Visual effects ===
Visual effects commonly refers to post-production alterations of the film's images. The on set VFX crew works to prepare shots and plates for future visual effects. This may include adding tracking markers, taking and asking for reference plates and helping the director understand the limitations and ease of certain shots that will effect the future post production. A VFX crew can also work alongside the special effects department for any on-set optical effects that need physical representation during filming (on camera).

; Visual effects producer
: The visual effects producer works with the visual effects supervisor to break down the script into storyboards, and advises the director as to how she or he should approach the scenes. Together they determine which sequences are to be shot as live action elements, which would work well in miniature, and which (if any) should be computer generated.
; [[VFX creative director|Visual effects creative director]]
: VFX creative directors are very much like production designers, except they direct and supervise the creative side of the film's visual effects. The position is particularly in demand for films with massive amounts of computer generated imagery and scenes.
; [[Visual effects supervisor]]
: The visual effects supervisor is in charge of the VFX crew, working with production and the film's director to achieve the desired in-camera optical effects of the film.
; Visual effects editor
: The visual effects editor incorporates visual effects into the current cuts of live action sequences, producing multiple versions of each shot. Altered scenes are then evaluated by the visual effects supervisor and creative director for aesthetic and technical direction, and by the producers for review and final editing.
; [[Compositing|Compositor]]
: A compositor is a visual effects artist responsible for compositing images from different sources such as video, film, computer generated [[3D computer graphics|3D]] imagery, [[2D computer graphics|2D]] animations, matte paintings, photographs, and text.
; [[Rotoscoping|Rotoscope]] artists / Paint artists
: Rotoscope and paint artists may rotoscope the footage, manually creating [[Matte (filmmaking)|mattes]] for use in compositing. They may also paint visual information into or out of a scene, such as removing wires and rigs, logos, dust busting, scratch removal, etc.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html |title=Art of Roto (compositing and paint) |first=Matt |last=Silverman |date=June 15, 2004 |access-date=September 19, 2010 |publisher=[[Fxguide]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918231459/http://www.fxguide.com/fxtips-243.html |archive-date=September 18, 2010}}</ref>
; [[Matte painting|Matte painter]]
: Matte painters draw and paint entire sets or extend portions of an existing set.