We are currently looking for a Video Editor.
Responsibilities
Editing High-Quality Mood Films:
* You must be able to create visually captivating mood films that reflect engaging storytelling for top tier pitches.
* You must be comfortable and have good skills in sourcing the best and most appropriate footage as well as being able to brief researchers to source it for you.
* Innovation coupled with a self-starter mentality and a desire for personal professional growth are highly desirable attributes across our business and essential for this role.
Editing TVCs and High-Quality Content:
* You must be able to work with Creatives, Directors and Producers to generate appealing and original content.
* Taking direction as well being able to come up with your own creative solutions when taking a brief.
* You must possess good aesthetic and artistic notions
* A good eye for detail for selecting and cutting material from rushes in order to achieve the best results.
Editing International Adaptation Projects:
* Working closely with Editor and Producer teams you will receive editing requests from producers. Taking client's visual, audio and graphic content, to create broadcast quality video edits.
* You must be able to handle and manage briefs independently as well as working collaboratively with Editor Team on more complex jobs.
* Advise producers on time and work required on briefs appropriately.
Qualifications
Technical skills / Experience:
We expect you to perform to high standards the basics of a Mid-weight Editor whilst maintaining the following to a very high standard:
* Editing original content including commercials, brand videos, product demos, corporate videos & Moving Image content (generally)
* Edit re-versioning - including shot replacement, re-tagging, cut-downs
* Compositing - including product replacements and keying
* Motion Graphics - including original content and re-versioning
* Experience creating work for different distribution including broadcast, cinema, digital and social media
* Quote time on jobs successfully
* 3 years' experience in this position within the industry
In addition, we expect you to deliver and maintain high standards in the following areas:
* Team working
* Problem solving and the ability to express and articulate complex information in a straight forward way
* Good understanding of post-production / international versioning / adaptation processes
* Experience working in post-production environment alongside Producers and remotely with off-shore centres
* Technically confident with advanced/complex TV & digital moving image formats, codecs, audio files etc.
* Excellent skills on post-production applications used by the company, i.e. Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, along with related plug-ins (e.g. Mocha AE, Red Giant, Optical Flares, Element3D...). In addition, you should have mid-to-high Adobe Photoshop and basic-to-mid Illustrator skills.
* You should have a good understanding of 3D CGI concepts. Knowledge and experience of 3D software and/or compositing packages is a plus (e.g. Maya, 3DS Max, Cinema4D, Nuke, Flame, Fusion...)
* Colouring skills and DaVinci Resolve skills and experience are a plus
* Sound Design and music track sourcing skills are a plus
Operational Skills
* As a Mid-weight Editor, you should perform at a high level and proactively develop your skillset.
* Take the necessary steps to develop your skills and gain experience in the different fields related to your activity.
* We want fresh ideas and inputs to help CD-EMEA continuously improve our way of working and operational processes.
* We also ask you to be commercially aware by the actions taken within the team. Efficient careful execution means better-produced work and less delivery fails.
General Competencies
* High level of creativity and creative outlook
* Excellent communication - in all forms
* High attention to detail
* Being able work well under pressure and to tight deadlines
* Delivering outcomes and results
* Providing excellent customer service
* Adapting to change and making change work
* Helping others to learn & thrive
* Knowing when to seek support and guidance of others