Audiovisual Content Quality & Ingest

Job Description

This new role will report into the Director, Manager, or Supervisor of the Library Conform Team and will use their media expertise to review multiple audio, video, and timed text material for timing and quality, ensuring we are collecting the best representation of our material and deprecating the rest using traditional and cutting edge technology. You will then ingest that material into our MAM for servicing.

Your Role Accountabilities:
• QC original audio and video content for quality issues such as missing text or audio, framerate mismatches, loudness violations, among others, fixing minor issues and working with the content coordinators and supervisors to report the rest to appropriate resolving teams.
• Compare multiple versions of audio and timed text files visually and aurally to ensure quality material and conform that material to the service master.
• Concatenate episodes, end cards, bumpers etc. together, paying attention to audio and video transitions and ensure the creative choices are preserved.
• Ingest the material into our servicing MAM and coordinate with our Data Governenace team to ensure data integrity.
• Assist in testing POC tools and technology around media manipulation and workflows.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Experiences:
• Must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the post production process and the difference between operational and creative editing.
• 4+ years experience in content creation within the media industry.
• Demonstrable experience with media on a technical level including
• Video framerates (23.98/25/29.97/59.94/etc.)
• Video codecs and wrappers, (J2K, ProRes, H.264 etc.), and the differences in quality between them.
• Audio codecs and formats (2.0, 5.1, Atmos, etc.)
• Timed text formats and the differences between captions, subtitles, and forced subtitles, (.scc, IMSC, .srt, etc.)
• Experience in prioritizing work with shifting deadlines and working under pressure to meet those deadlines.
• Demonstrantable experience with a ticketing system (Zendesk, Jira, etc.)
• Comfortable with editing and subtitle/caption software, (Adobe Premiere, Resolve, Avid, MacCaptions, CapMate, OOONA, etc.).
• Superior in the ability to focus on the details, working with multiple similar files at once and keeping everything organized.
• Stong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to anticipate issues and take steps to avoid them.

Not Required but preferred experience:
• Prior experience with an internationally distributed media company or localization/distribution vendor with a high volume of deliverables.
• Experience with global content servicing workflow and technical specifications for world wide partner like Amazon, Apple, Goole, and Netflix among others.
• Proven examples of working quickly to identify issues and solutions, taking on the responsibility of generating success.
• Have proven examples that embody our company's principals that include acting as one team, empowering storytelling, and building what's next.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8weqm-35-215-180-183-42 in your application.