Overview..
Working across our Broadcast, SVOD and Digital platforms the Edit Assistant will be responsible for Media Management, Quality control and helping to develop and enforce workflows across all areas of the business.

They will also act as first line support for our Avid and Premiere edit suites.


Responsibilities...

* Standard Edit Technician duties including but not limited to: ingesting/ digitizing to Avid/Premiere from various formats and file types, digital and tape playouts, conforms and online/dubb edit preparation
* Ability to undertake eyeball quality control process and use own judgement to identify errors
* Deal with various technical issues as they arise
* Media management on the ISIS/Nexis shared storage systems and various NAS drives
* LTO Archiving of digital assets
* Maintain edit suites in good working order by noting problems and seeking appropriate remedy with ITN managers/support staff


This Job Description identifies the main requirements of the role. It is not an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to reflect the nature, range, and context of the work, which will change over time.

Qualifications...

Requirement for strong working knowledge of:

* File Delivery to DPP spec
* R128 compliance
* PSE compliance
* International video standards and standards conversion techniques
* 4K workflows
* Digitising content from Tape
* Laybacks to Tape
* Professional and consumer file formats, codecs and encoding
* Content Agent
* Avid Media Composer
* Adobe Premiere
* Adobe Media Encoder
* Adobe After Fx
* Da Vinci Resolve
* Windows 7/10 operating systems
* LTO systems, in particular Xendata

Candidate Characteristics:

* Excellent planning, organisational and time management skills
* Team player - likes working in a tight knit team and pulling their weight wherever the opportunity presents itself
* Enthusiastic and a positive influence within the team
* Technically wired from their core
* Lives and breathes technology
* Finds working in post production more than a job and is not only excited about constant evolutions in tech but the possibilities of what can be achieved within a company willing to invest in innovation that can offer commercial reward
* Happy to work early/day/night shifts and weekend work often at last minute


Our people are at the heart of everything we do at ITN. It's vital that our workforce reflects the diversity of both our audience and the wider society in the UK, so we're proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we actively seek candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities. We also recognise the importance of a good work life balance, so we do everything we can to accommodate flexible working, including part-time and job shares for all our roles. Please just let us know in your application or at any stage throughout the process if this is something you want to explore.