Assistant Editor
Warner Bros. Pictures Animation•Burbank, CA
About The Position
The Assistant Editor provides technical and creative support to the Editors and work coming in and out of the editorial department. This position requires someone who is meticulous with their work, can juggle multiple demands simultaneously, is incredibly organized and has exemplary communication and troubleshooting skills.
Requirements
- Prior experience as an Assistant or Apprentice Editor on a Feature Animation film, or Series Animation.
- Demonstrates proficiency in using AVID Media Composer, Photoshop, FLIX, ProTools.
- Prior experience working on a film or series, project organization and archiving is essential.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to be flexible.
- Must be a member of MPEG local 700 and on the IER roster
Responsibilities
- Manages the media coming into the department from pre-production through post-production (storyboards, dialogue records, music, special effects, previs, animation, lighting).
- Imports deliveries and performs quality control for sound, technical requirements, missing footage or discrepancies.
- Applies studio/editorial naming conventions to all inputs.
- Tracks outputs from editorial, cut versions, and manages supporting materials.
- Maintains an accurate library of file source, version, description, and film sequence.
- Create and transcode media for editorial turnovers and publishes to the creative team, studio executives, vendors, and other studio functions.
- Prepares picture and sound media.
- Process, log and transcribe scratch and production dialogue.
- Organize audio files, research and manage temp music and special fx libraries
- Work closely with the 1st Assistant Editor and Editorial Production Supervisor to meet deadlines and manage inflow in the lead up to screenings and major deadlines/turnovers.
- Refine editorial processes, procedures, systems, and databases.
- Archive the final editorial project upon wrap.
- Proactively communicates scheduling challenges to remain on time and mitigate overtime.
Benefits
- Qualifies for benefits according to the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
