Whilst we are on the subject of video editing, is there any potential to secure video production work in Kunming?

I am moving out to Kunming to teach English but I have been working as a video editor for the past three years in London. It would be amazing if I could also pick up video editing work whilst I was out there!

I also read something about a new tv and film base being developed in the city, can anyone fill me in on that?

Thanks in advance

Josh, London

Does anyone know if 4K is going to replace HD video soon?
And do the video editors support 4K?

Sorry Josh...I'm relatively new, myself and have no info on that. Though, there is definitely some pro-level activity going on in the city. One day when I was out walking, I stumbled upon this store with familiar logos and signage. I was SHOCKED to find a store that was an authorized Sony broadcast dealer. I'm not talking pro-sumer crap. This place sold the heavy-duty stuff. (HD-CAM, HD-SR, XD-CAM, etc.) Being an old broadcast salesman, I was a bit shocked to find such a company here. (There are major broadcast market cities in the U.S. than don't have a Sony broadcast dealer.) So, its definitely worth nosing around for work.

Mag, 4K is a big issue in my field...and a source of debate. The broadcast and consumer electronic industries are facing serious problems, in terms of maintaining high profits. For that reason, they are in a constant struggle to find the "next new thing". The last next new thing was 3D, which turned out to be an enormous failure. A lot is riding on 4K. The reason for this detail is that the future of 4K is not as certain as that for the previous 2K HD. In the case of 2K, there was a lot of government action to turn off analog and turn on digital. This set the table for 2K HD. In the case of 4K, there is no such mandate. 4K - like 3D - is a industry-driven effort to create a next new thing for the new/coming model years.

As to whether 4K "sticks" in the marketplace, we won't know this for a while. Lots of companies are beginning to sell 4K TV sets. Mega-expensive 4K video production gear (such as Sony HD-SR) have been sold for years, but only now are relatively inexpensive, small-scale cams being sold. The big problem is that many broadcast organizations haven't finished paying off the loans for their 2K upgrades. 4K creates new and bigger infrastructure headaches for them. There is also the issue of storage and capacity. The current Internet may not be able to handle the drastic increase in required bandwidth - needed for streaming 4K content. Many experts have a "wait and see" attitude about 4K.

As for the editing situation, the higher end, pro-level editing systems (such as Avid, Apple Final Cut, and Adobe Premiere) have had 4K capabilities for quite a while. The industrial-level video editing systems are less evolved, but you can be sure that they will come up to speed very quickly. Probably the cheapest 4K editing software on the market is going to be Apple Final Cut X.

Why not just using a Linux distro with the nice Openshot video editor?
It's 100 % free, intuitive and enough for basic video editing.

@alestes - Looks like a nice, little, basic editor. (Nothing beats free.) But, I don't think it does 4K...at least not at this point.

If you use Mac you already have a nice and simple editor called iMovie. I use it for fun projects and it works great. If you are running Windows I also recommend Sony Vegas. It has all the tools you need and easy to grow into if one day you wish to create something more elaborate.