Color Assist

Full Time Job
Opportunity:
Assistant to the Colorist in a fast-paced post production company. Creates and helps manage the Colorist projects and sessions.

Responsibilities:
• Importing project elements
• Creating Timelines, linking elements, parsing media and ensuring accuracy
• Maintaining timeline accuracy while using edl's and aaf's to import various elements
• Cutting and dropping in clips between multiple timelines within the same project
• Color tracing
• Round tripping from Color back to Editorial
• Rendering various file formats
• Platform and panel skill with one or more of the following: Resolve, Baselight, Nucoda
• Familiar switching between monitor user settings and inputs
• Scope knowledge and understanding
• Video signal broadcast legalities
• Waveform signal comprehension
• Possess outstanding HD, UHD, 4K and HDR workflow understanding
• Able to troubleshoot and think outside the box when faced with technical difficulties
• Daily communications with the Colorist, In-House Producer and surrounding team about sessions, projects and equipment
• Able to understand and communicate the status of the projects at any given time
• Achieves operational objectives by ensuring workflow standards and procedures are followed

Required Skills:
• Can work well in a team environment.
• Comprehension of studio security standards, guidelines, and practices, and the ability to maintain the highest levels of discretion as it relates to unreleased client content
• Critical understanding of both tape and file-based deliverable specs
• Must be familiar and comfortable with HD, UHD, 4K, and DolbyVision HDR workflows - including online editing, color correction, title and graphics creation, knowledge of network broadcast standards, title safe, timecode, etc. - for multiple studios and networks, across multiple editorial and color correction platforms, such as AVID, Flame, Resolve, Baselight, and Nucoda
• Must exhibit excellent verbal and written communication skills; must be organized, efficient, and accurate under pressure.
• Must be able to work on multiple projects simultaneously while displaying the highest level of professionalism, commitment, and work ethic.

Preferred Skills:
• Prior work experience in a post-production facility is required.
• Strong understanding and experience with the television workflow post processes

Qualifications:
Education:
• High School education or equivalent required.
• BA/BS in applicable field preferred.