Job description
Digital Technician - Media
London (Hybrid working)
Competitive salary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Digital Technician to join our clients multidisciplinary team based in London. The clients digital department is responsible for all aspects of Broadcast and VOD mastering, conforming, and delivery into top tier international platforms and broadcasters, including Netflix and iTunes as well as major studios for international distributors. The department is one of our clients largest operational teams and has succeeded in attaining industry-recognised standards based on the quality and volume of deliveries.
As a Digital Technician, you will be performing operational duties working with industry-standard kit processing jobs via their internal business system. Duties will include mastering, encoding, transcoding, manipulating files conforming to client specifications along with simple confirming and asset re-versioning. A good understanding of 4K (UHD), HDR, and IMF experience would be beneficial.
Key responsibilities to include:
- Conforming content adhering to platform specifications – Amazon Global/Classic, iTunes, Netflix etc.
- Edit/prep material confirming to broadcast guidelines.
- Knowledge and understanding in digital media workflows including tools such as Adobe Suite, DaVinci, Resolve, Clipster, Cortex.
- Must have an understanding of subtitling specifications and formats, audio samples, rates, video frame rates, SMPTE timecode, and traditional multichannel audio configurations (2.0, 5.1, 7.1) is necessary.
- Video and audio pre-qualifications, media prep, QCs, and deliverables.
- Attention to detail and a perfectionist mindset is key in this role.
- Mac Captions and Annotation Edit experience would be advantageous.
- Experience/knowledge of platforms (Amazon Global, Classic, iTunes, Netflix)
- Must have an understanding of subtitling specifications and formats, audio samples, rates, video frame rates, SMPTE timecode, and traditional multichannel audio configurations (2.0, 5.1, 7.1) is necessary.
- Understanding of video compression and the various codecs used by broadcasters and VOD platforms.
- Hands-on experience with digital media workflows is required.
- Good communication skills and have the ability to prioritise your workload
- Problem solver with a creative and innovative approach with the ability to think outside the box
- Good attention to detail and the ability to plan complex projects with urgency.
- Editor experience
- Metadata
- Mac Captions and Annotation Edit experience
