Media Mastering Specialist

Job Description :

The Media Operator is responsible for media ingest, media prep, asset conformance, editorial, troubleshooting file issues, fixing assets, and asset validation. This role will focus on conforming masters in preparation for creation of outputs including but not limited to IMF, ProRes, Timed Text, audio files, and downstream deliverables. The Media Operator will need to understand color workflows and deriving SDR content from HDR as well as how to validate and confirm color profiles, transfer characteristics, and metadata. The right person for this role has working experience in all manner of media operations, editorial, encoding, transcoding, asset validation and postproduction workflows. They should have a good understanding of technical aspects of audio and video media incoming from production as well as network and streaming specifications. They should be highly motivated, someone who thrives in a quick pace environment, is flexible with changing priorities and adapts quickly to new challenges. Finally, the Media Operator will need to excel in cross-team collaboration, is highly organized, and has strong communication skills

The Media Operator will need to perform the following type of work : (examples below)

• Media Prep for OTT, Streaming and necessary downstream destinations.
• Make editorial updates to final files for compliance with ingest and delivery specs;
• Insert updatedshots or updated credits;
• Perform audio loudness measurements to ensure correct specs;
• Review and derive timed text files for final distribution
• Receive and Send media via Aspera or other cloud-based delivery mechanisms
• Help to troubleshoot issues with files and recommend fixes

The Media Operator will need to understand and have knowledge of the following types of media and workflows :

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