Senior Edit Assistant

About Us

We work closely with high-profile broadcasters and production companies such as BBC, Discovery, Channel4, Channel5, Sky, Netflix and Disney to name a few, and work on broadcast factual, features, feature docs, drama, short-form commercial and digital content.   

We have three sites: two in Fitzrovia, W1, and a third in the heart of The Lanes in Brighton

The Role

The Main Tasks and responsibilities include:

• Preparing and supporting offline, online and grade suites
• Installing edit software and hardware
• Taking the lead on advising and implementing workflows on specific projects
• QCing to Broadcast standard
• Conforming both long- and short-form content
• Other tasks e.g. ingesting, syncing, grouping
• Working effectively as part of a team and communicating clearly with our Head of MCR, engineer, edit assistants and post producers
• Training and advising junior staff
• shift pattern work with hours between 8am-8pm
• working occasional weekends when required.

Candidate Requirements

Skills, Ability, Experience

Essential

The ideal candidate will have:

• a minimum 2+ years' experience in a similar role within a post production environment
• an excellent knowledge of Avid Media Composer
• an excellent knowledge of Adobe Premiere
• an excellent knowledge of DaVinci Resolve
• extensive experience with shared storage systems (Avid Nexis, QNAP, Editshare)
• extensive experience of file-based workflows
• an excellent understanding of frame rates, formats and codecs
• broadcast-standard QC knowledge ideally up to 4k and HDR spec
• extensive experience creating deliverables to Broadcast Standard
• an excellent knowledge of Windows and MacOS operating systems
• experience with setting up and troubleshooting both edit suite hardware and software
• experience with remote editing workflows (Jump Desktop)
• excellent attention to detail.

Desirable

The ideal candidate will also have:

• experience of online editing
• an interest in colour grading and/or online editing.

Personal Attributes

The ideal candidate will be:

• enthusiastic and passionate about the training and assisting of junior members of the team
• calm and methodical especially under pressure
• able to prioritise and order jobs in order to work as efficiently as possible
• likeable, polite and a good communicator 
• able to show initiative and use common sense 
• able to communicate complex technical workflows and issues to less-technically experienced staff and clients
• able to and enjoy working under pressure.