Job Details
Freelance Editor - Avid
Marquee Sports Network is looking for a team-first, ambitious, Editor to assist in creating industry-leading content for broadcast, social and digital platforms. The Editor will work in person under the direction award-winning Producers to perform all tasks needed based on editorial standards and tight deadlines.
Primary Responsibilities: Avid Editor
- Bring a positive and creative attitude daily
- Creating professional, network-quality, finished highlights, long-form features and short-form video programs for both broadcast and digital distribution
- Developing high-end motion graphics, animations and other required packaging elements for broadcast, multi-media projects and branded content initiatives
- Facilitating the approval process, including master compressions, QC final output and delivery of digital masters
- Ability to handle sound design and audio mixing; color correction as required
Requirements:
- Demonstrated expertise with various in NLE platforms
- Proficiency with AVID Media Composer desired but not a requirement
- Experience with Adobe After Effects | Photoshop
- Knowledge of HD video codecs | formats | broadcast standards
- Previous video editing experience in sports
- Strong communication skills
- Organized, detail-oriented
- Excels under deadlines
- Self-motivated, empowered to work unsupervised
- Team player, willing to collaborate and take direction from producers
- Must be willing to work weekends, nights and some holidays (schedule built around live sporting event hours)
- Knowledge of sports gambling preferred but not required
- Demonstrate the ability to work calmly under a pressurized live television environment.
- Possess the visual acuity to work in darkened edit rooms for extended periods of time to produce required content.
- Possess auditory acuity to effectively listen to instructions via intercom system, phones, etc.
- Possess the manual dexterity to effectively operate keyboard/mouse on computers, edit equipment, etc.