Video Engineer

Video is one of the most complex areas when it comes to AV labor positions. It usually has a lot of equipment, so it takes a lot of people to make it all work. A video engineer is the one who is managing all the video. They’re usually also managing entire departments, looking at the entire vision when it comes directly to video. They’re overseeing everything from the projectors, cameras, the audio being sent out of the video, the graphics. Anything that touches video, a video engineer’s managing that portion. Typically, the video engineer is the person who’s running the switcher.
The switcher is where you take in things like multiple laptops, cameras, etc., and you need to switch between them to manage what’s going up on the screen. They understand where everything’s going, what needs to happen. A lot of times, they are also the ones calling the cameras.