Carl Plumer has worked professionally as a writer, Web developer, multimedia designer, Help systems developer, and documentation manager for high tech companies including Oracle, Computer Associates, and Avid Technology. At Avid, the company that makes the editing system on which virtually all Hollywood films and many television shows are edited, he helped design one of the very first home video editing applications, Avid Cinema. Carl is the author of several books about video editing and has written about the topic in a variety of places online.