Framestore
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Assistant VFX Editor
Contract
Hybrid in Melbourne, Australia
The assistant visual effects editor assists the VFX editor in providing support to the supervision, production and artist teams as well as working with other support departments. They help to ensure that reviews run smoothly and that artists have the correct reference and cut details.
What you’ll do
Assisting the VFX Editor in
- Processing turnover and keeping edits and databases up to date
- Importing and checking new versions of vfx shots into Avid
- Providing reference to artists, eg. witness cameras, line up, retime, resize reference to artists
- Managing Avid media and storage
- Maintaining editorial info in databases
- Having an expert understanding of all editorial tools
- Making and requesting selects for additional media requests e.g. element shoots
- Liaising with Framestore Editorial at other offices
- Liaising with cutting rooms when appropriate
- Preparing for and driving dailies sessions and client meetings and deliveries
- Working closely with internal production, artists and other support departments providing advice, reference, information and files when needed
- Cutting showreels and project reels
- Ensuring the review suites are kept at a high standard
- Respecting confidentiality and media security policies
Job requirements
Essential Skills
- Solid experience and demonstrable proficiency using editing software
- A understanding and interest in visual effects
- An understanding of film and digital formats, files, frame rates, resolutions, colourspace and codecs
- Experience using spreadsheets and databases and editing and presentation software
- Excellent problem solving skills and self motivated and keen to learn new skills and applications and help to develop new tools and workflow
- Excellent communication skills
- A strong multi-tasker
- Diligent and meticulous
- A team player
- Remain calm and focused under pressure
- Possess a love of film and VFX
You might also have
- Working knowledge of Framestore editorial and production databases and software, eg. Shotgun, Avid, RV, Cinesync, Photoshop, Linux, VLC, Keynote, Baselight
We work with you to create amazing images that entertain, communicate, influence and shape people’s views about subjects as diverse as health, music, films, television and many aspects of our society.
We create our work by getting to know what you are aspiring to do with the images we are creating with you, by getting to know your business and its strategy, and by striving to always deliver images that delight and not only hit your brief but often exceed your expectations – those are the milestones we measure ourselves by.
With more than 600 colleagues our team and skills range from computer science graduates, through to world class producers, CG artists who innovate in both production methodology as well as imagery, software developers and creators who have deep insight to how to apply often complex technology solutions to the creative process.
We work with partner clients each year in most parts of the world, with colleagues often on location in over a dozen countries in any one year.
We continue to be pleased to see our work recognised both for the success that they help create for our clients (in box office or product sales) but also for artistic and strategic achievement – all three elements which we strive to achieve each time we work with you.
Our clients include most leading advertising agencies, Hollywood studios, and major brands such as Nokia, Coca Cola, Nestlé, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Volkswagen and Cadbury.
We create our work by getting to know what you are aspiring to do with the images we are creating with you, by getting to know your business and its strategy, and by striving to always deliver images that delight and not only hit your brief but often exceed your expectations – those are the milestones we measure ourselves by.
With more than 600 colleagues our team and skills range from computer science graduates, through to world class producers, CG artists who innovate in both production methodology as well as imagery, software developers and creators who have deep insight to how to apply often complex technology solutions to the creative process.
We work with partner clients each year in most parts of the world, with colleagues often on location in over a dozen countries in any one year.
We continue to be pleased to see our work recognised both for the success that they help create for our clients (in box office or product sales) but also for artistic and strategic achievement – all three elements which we strive to achieve each time we work with you.
Our clients include most leading advertising agencies, Hollywood studios, and major brands such as Nokia, Coca Cola, Nestlé, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Pepsi, Volkswagen and Cadbury.
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