Wouldn’t “sound editing” be, well, the editing of the audio? In conjunction with the editing of the image? Like, you put one bang here, and then another bang three seconds later. There, you’ve done some sound editing.
Not exactly.
JEDIT: this seems to explain it pretty well https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/movies/sound-mixing-sound-editing-explainer.amp.html
Well, that’s pretty much what I meant. I guess looking back at my post I didn’t do too good a job. 😃
Sound editing is finding the right sounds and placing them where they’re supposed to go, mixing is of course layering all the different sounds with proper volume levels and, in the case of three-dimensional sound, panning the different sounds across different speakers.