Video Editor
About The Position
May Street is a Boston-based video production company that creates films for independent schools, nonprofits, healthcare organizations, and corporate clients. Their work includes brand films, event and gala pieces, interview-driven storytelling, and sizzle reels, often featuring multicam footage, real interview audio, and documentary-style b-roll. They are seeking freelance editors to work on a project-by-project basis. Editors will be provided with footage, a creative brief, and a deadline, and are expected to produce high-quality work. Assignments typically range from a 90-second sizzle reel to a 5-8 minute film with multiple interview subjects. This is not a full-time role with guaranteed volume, but rather a way to build a team of editors who can be called upon during busy periods and who understand the company's workflow.
Requirements
- Fluent in Adobe Premiere Pro — you know the shortcuts, you organize your bins, and someone else could open your project file and find things
- Comfortable cleaning up dialogue audio to a broadcast-ready standard
- Working knowledge of After Effects for titles and light graphics
- Experience cutting interview-based or documentary-style work; you can find the story in an hour of talking heads
- Reliable turnaround and clear communication about your capacity — we'd rather hear "I can't take this one" than get a late delivery
- Your own hardware, software licenses, and a connection that can handle large media transfers
- A reel or portfolio with at least two pieces relevant to this kind of work
Nice To Haves
- Color grading experience
- Familiarity with nonprofit or education clients
- Comfort with cloud-based client review workflows
Responsibilities
- Assembling multicam interview footage into a clear narrative from transcripts and a brief (knowledge of Premiere multicam workflows needed)
- Cutting music-driven b-roll sequences with real sense of pace
- Basic color correction and grading, and clean audio mixing (dialogue, music beds, room tone)
- Creating lower thirds, titles, and simple motion graphics to brand specifications
- Delivering spec-correct exports for web, social, and event playback
- Incorporating client notes across two to three rounds without losing the thread of the original cut
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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