Metadata Technician - Swing/Night Shift
SDI Media
Culver City, CAThis was removed by the employer on 5/29/2015 5:07:00 PM PST
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The Metadata Technician is responsible for providing construct and validation expertise for the Global Media Services group. This includes but is not limited to; validating client metadata, ingesting metadata into SDI's metadata management system, conforming metadata to various customer platforms and validating the metadata against the final deliverable package contents to ensure accuracy.
This position will also require the incumbent to act as a SME (Subject Matter Expert). In addition, the Metadata Technician will collaborate with SDI's Application Development team in streamlining existing workflows and tools, while also providing expert knowledge for the development of new tools.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Aggregate client and project data.
• Ingest customer metadata into SDI management system.
• Create well-formed XML, analyze, edit, correct, conform and validate metadata to meet deliverable platform specifications.
• Maintain an accurate project status using SDI production management tools ensuring all team members can access accurate and timely information of asset status, location and history.
• Identify, prioritize, resolve, document and communicate both technical and operational issues providing overall Quality Control.
• Participate in investigating client rejections, providing the business with a root cause while seeking to mitigate future risks.
Qualifications:
• 2+ years of experience using content transformation applications such as; Final Cut, Digital Rapids, Rhozet and Protools.
• 2+ years of experience using post-production hardware Tape decks, Vector scopes, captioning, text inserters, signal flow and patch-bays.
• 2+ years of experience using file transport technologies such as; Aspera, Signiant, smartjog and FTP.
• Minimum of two years of experience in the video/audio operational field.
• Possess a high degree of knowledge surrounding video, audio, metadata, tools and the post-production environment.
• Knowledge of the technical specifications and their uses i.e. codecs, wrappers, VBI, closed captioning, frame rates, aspect ratios, bit rates, color space, GOP structures, standards conversion and metadata.
• Understanding of digital media, frame rates, containers and standards.
• Experience with XML editors, schemas and terminology
• Possess a high level understanding of video and audio content, be able to evaluate and classify defects or anomalies in video, audio program material and metadata.
• Advanced experience with both Macintosh and Windows OS.
• Advanced computer skills, including the ability to work with and debug untested production software.
• Understanding of IP addressing, permissions, networking concepts and terminology.
• High school diploma or equivalent and one of the following:
-On the job experience
-Audio/Video trade school certification
-Audio/Video college degree