Digital Media Technician

Full Time Job
About the Role

The Digital Media Technician is primarily responsible for validating assets according to service specifications and the distribution (delivery) of assets to broadcasters and digital service providers. Each Digital Media Technician should be a quick learner, highly organized, a motivated self-starter and possess a discriminating eye for detail.

Responsibilities:

* Quickly comprehend technical specifications and apply that understanding on a daily basis
* Monitor and parse a high volume and time sensitive order queue
* Ensure source assets are restored and conformed as required
* Validate metadata, image, video, audio and timed text media assets against a variety of client and internal specifications
* Package source assets and metadata as per servicing profile specifications
* Communicate and document internal rejections to the appropriate teams
* Verify integrity of deliverables and delivery package prior to servicing
* Maintain servicing action logs as needed
* Succinctly and efficiently handoff projects with next-up shifts
* Operate with a high sense of urgency and discretion
* Other tasks as needed to meet project deadlines

?Required Skills:
• Understanding of various media formats such as video, audio, image and timed text.
• Understanding of industry format standards such as PAL, NTSC, timecode, framerate, codec, audio settings/configurations, metadata (title and technical – html, xml)
• Understand media encoding, transcoding, and file transfer protocols
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to communicate and collaborate with all levels of personnel
• Keen data entry and proofreading skills
• Be open to work flexible hours to meet occasional tight deadlines
• Highly organized and be able to work with minimal supervision, escalating when needed
• Proficient with both Mac and PC
• Be enthusiastic, willing to learn, and knowledge share with the team
• Thrives in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment (we all do our part!)
• Comfortable with change and able to adapt as workflow flexes to the meet the needs of our clients
• Able to work on more than one project at a time (aka multi-task)
* UHD HDR – 4K (Dolby Vision / HDR10)
• Media Formats and Codecs
• Broadcast Deliverable Specifications
• Frame Rate / Standards Conversions
• Captions, Subtitles, Forced Narrative, SDH
• Audio Normalization Guidelines
• Media Transfer Mechanisms (Aspera, Signiant, Amazon S3, FTP, etc)
• Media Content Protection
• SOP Security Protocol

Education:

- High School Diploma or GED required.

Experience:
• College degree or equivalent experience in the field
• General Editing/Studio/TV/Film/Pre or Post production experience
*This position is based in Stamford, CT 06902 and is an in-office-based position.
**This position is a 10am-6:30pm shift, Monday-Friday, overtime may be requested as needed.
*** NO PHONE CALLS, OUTSIDE AGENCIES OR RECRUITERS