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Digital Media Technician
Our client, a multinational telecommunications technology company is seeking a highly skilled Digital Media Technician responsible for supporting the distribution and servicing of digital assets to broadcasters, cable companies, and streaming services located around the world.
The position will be responsible for performing technical evaluation of media assets, edits, transformations, and other processing actions to ensure the assets meet client specifications. The successful candidate will enjoy working in a post-production style environment that supports the worlds leading services and their supply chains.
Responsibilities:
- Logging received assets per industry standard technician specifications
- Perform quality control and technical evaluation assessments of the assets
- Perform technical edits that correct issues that may have been introduced in the post-production process while maintaining the filmmakers creative intent
- Encoding, transcoding, and other manipulation of the files as required
- Work with XML metadata and other data manifest file formats
- Maintain records in Juice-s internal content management system, ensuring that the information contained within is kept up to date with correct status
- Interface with client and streaming platform systems to ensure on-time delivery of assets that adhere to outbound specifications
- Troubleshoot novel issues that may arise, drawing on support from across the organization
- Stay up to date with the latest technical standards and software tools
- Liaise with operations contacts at other organizations
- Provide on-call coverage as required during major television or film launches
If you would like to learn more, please reach out to Elite technical.
Required Skills:
- Diploma or Degree in Film & TV, broadcast, post-production or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years industry related experience
- Experience working with various media encoders and systems: Telestream Vantage, Episode, Adobe Premeire, Final Cut Pro, AVID Pro-Tools, Davinci Resolve
- OTT, IPTV or VOD experience
- Editing or Post-Production experience
- Knowledge of Tape Libraries, Formats and File Storage Systems
- Knowledge of Asset Management workflows
- Knowledge of common metadata formats and schemas
- Excellent teamwork, written and verbal communication
- Strong independent problem solving and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with collaborative project management and ticketing tools (i.e. Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Smartsheet, ZenDesk, Jira)
- Proficiency using Microsoft Office suite applications