Edit Assistant - Junior to Mid Weight

Edit Assistant – Junior to Mid Level

Day rate: £185-225/day

Start: October

Contract Length: 3 months

Location: Hybrid / London

A leading media company is looking for an Edit Assistant to be part of their in-house post-production team based in London, providing services and support to all their clients.

As a skilled Edit Assistant with experience working in a busy post-production MCR, you will play a key role within the team by ensuring that all post-production tasks run smoothly. You will have proven customer service skills and detailed knowledge of post-production workflows, including file-based processes, and ideally QC & AS-11.

The Role:

• Ensure all offline and online edits are correctly set up and ready before use.
• Guarantee safe backup of camera card material.
• Label and manage file and tape-based material and any relevant metadata.
• Digitise/ingest file and tape-based footage.
• Conform and picture-check final cuts prior to online.
• Exporting and uploading sequences or clips at various specs for client viewing and transcriptions.
• Wrapping up of finished projects for Grade/Online and Pro Tools mix sessions.
• Assist in managing rushes onto third-party viewing platform software EditShare Flow and Blackbird.
• Exporting of AAF files.

Previous Experience:

• Previous experience and good knowledge of Avid Media Composer/Symphony and Nexis and Nearline shared storage.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal & written, able to effectively liaise with production personnel.
• Knowledge of file-based workflows and formats.
• Understanding of Avid offline editing, specifically with bin management, metadata, multi-cam and project organisation.
• Be able to troubleshoot and provide support for technical issues.
• An understanding of the post-production pipeline and final processes including online, grading & audio, AQC (Vidcheck) & QC.
• Knowledge of data wrangling and backing up rushes to external drives.
• Familiarity with cloud and FTP portals including Box and Aspera.
• Ability to work accurately under pressure to tight deadlines, prioritise workloads and take ownership whilst on a shift pattern.
• Ability to manage and guide clients who need to hit delivery deadlines in a pressurised environment.

Nice to Have:

• Experience of using either Editshare Flow or Blackbird.
• Understanding the principles of AS11 delivery.
• Familiarity with VT decks and formats such as HDCam SR, XDCam, Digibeta
• Familiarity with HP-RGS and Teradici connectivity.
• Experience of online scheduling tools, such as Farmer's Wife.
• Good knowledge of DaVinci Resolve, Baselight Editions, Content Agent, Editshare Flow and Pro-Tools.