Video Editor

Hogarth Worldwide is the world's leading creative content production company. Born to make the best work brilliantly, we combine craft, insight and technology to bring creative work to life for many of the world's most famous brands. **Diversity & Inclusion** Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging. Video Editors are a central part of the Moving Image team. They need to be quick on their feet, creative and adaptable in the rapid & ever-changing landscape of our digital marketplace. They combine their skill sets to produce a single combined result such as a clocked TV commercial for broadcast, digital video, animations, cinemagraphs, animated GIFs and layout of stills for digital or internal usage. **Responsibilities** - Editing digital, corporate, mood and test films. - Making precision editorial changes to TVCs. - Creation of simple graphics for moving or still visuals. - Animating motion graphics for videos and animated GIFs. - Encoding and transfer for approval and final delivery. - Uploading asset kits to Digital Asset Management platforms. - Assisting other operators and producers in gathering resources for deliverables. - Transcoding and assembling video assets for rough cuts. - Possess a good understanding of current TV & digital standards and being proficient in identifying compliance issues. **Responsibilities** - Quality check to deliver finished deliverables at the highest possible standard for relevant platforms. - Combine both creative editing skills with broadcast know-how and motion graphics expertise, possess an eye and ear for dynamic video editing, animation and 2D layout; and be able to realise and deliver ideas in audio/visual form. - Demonstrate attention to detail, be proactive when placed under constant deadline pressure, and have an understanding of storytelling, advertiser messaging and branding. - Proactive team players who can work with strategists, producers, project managers and creatives to attain a high level of work plus smoother project processes within Hogarth. Also, being able to work alongside other cross-departmental operators from print DI, digital, creative and broadcast to deliver polished end-products to advertising agencies, planning / research agencies and direct clients of Hogarth Worldwide. - Being the aggregator from other disciplines, Content Editors are empowered to drive content excellence, advising on best practises to optimise creativity, efficiencies and organisation. During content factory crunches, Content Editors oversee from juniors and freelancers, ensuring consistency & production excellence. **Qualifications** - Have at least 4 years media industry experience - A clear understanding of the meaning of customer care/service. - A good working knowledge of post-production processes and services. - Excellent interpersonal skills. - Good conceptualization skills. - Positive "can-do" service attitude. - Excellent time management skills & multi-tasking abilities. - A good understanding of the broadcast QC process. - Quality checks, ensuring highest stand of output for self and others. - Have a good understanding of modern file formats and codecs. - Excellent communication skills. - Attention to detail. - Well-presented and polite. - Able to adapt to new working methods & practice technology advances. - Strong working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro & After Effects & photoshop. - Understands good animation practices and is comfortable with 2D & 2.5D animation. - Holds some knowledge about standard AE plugins such as Optical Flare and Particular. - Comfortable with Mac OSX, Photoshop, Illustrator & Media Encoder. - A thorough understanding of video codecs and intermediary process (e.g. EDL, XML, standards conversions etc.) and other post production workflows and services - Be able to work independently as well as part a team. LI-AR1 **Data**: