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MID-TO-SENIOR AVID ASSISTANT EDITOR

Advertising Producers Association

Greater London

On-site

GBP 10,000 - 40,000

30+ days ago

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Job summary

Join a dynamic and award-winning offline editing company in the heart of Soho as an Assistant Editor! This exciting role offers the chance to work on commercials, music videos, and online content, providing ample opportunities to enhance your showreel and grow professionally. The ideal candidate is confident, detail-oriented, and eager to learn, with a strong foundation in Avid Media Composer. You'll collaborate with talented editors and producers, gaining invaluable experience in a supportive environment. If you're passionate about editing and ready to take the next step in your career, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Qualifications

  • 2-3 years of experience using Avid Media Composer at a professional level.
  • Familiarity with offline to online workflows and digital camera formats.

Responsibilities

  • Assist in editing commercials, music videos, and online content.
  • Collaborate closely with editors and producers on creative projects.

Skills

Avid Media Composer

Digital camera formats

Creating EDLs

Creating AAFs

Creating uncompressed QuickTimes

Workflow design

Tools

EditShare/Unity

Job description

We are an award-winning offline editing company specialising in commercials, music videos and online content. We are seeking an assistant editor, with at least 2-3 years of experience using Avid Media Composer, to join our team in the heart of Soho.

At Marshall Street Editors, we promote close collaboration between our editors and assistants. Our aim is to provide ample opportunities for assistants to work on creative editing projects with the best in the business.

We strive to provide an environment in which our assistants can build upon their existing showreels as well as progress professionally. Assistants with enough experience at the company are often able to start cutting in edit suites with clients as they begin their transition to becoming rostered editors.

The ideal applicant will be:

  • Confident, positive, personable and professional with an eye for detail and the ability to smile under pressure.
  • Ambitious to become a commercials editor and greatly interested in the industry as a whole.
  • Comfortable learning how to edit on-set in the UK and happy to travel worldwide.
  • Able to use Avid Media Composer to a professional standard.
  • Able to liaise with producers and post houses in order to design efficient offline to online workflows.
  • Experienced with a wide range of digital camera formats and their respective file-based workflows.
  • Familiar with our EditShare/Unity system or similar.
  • Extremely proficient at creating EDLs, AAFs and uncompressed QuickTimes.

A more comprehensive job description will be discussed during the interview.

We have a fun and hardworking team here at Marshall Street Editors and we look forward to hearing from you.

Email: cv@mse.tv and in the subject header please write ‘Assistant Job Application’.

Unfortunately, we won’t be able to reply to all applicants – apologies in advance.

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