Edit Assistant

The Company

PMA is an inclusive, creative marketing agency and full-service production company that works with the world’s biggest movie studios and entertainment brands. Our Post-Production team specialises in producing entertaining work to promote the release of major movies and TV shows in a wide variety of formats and lengths. 

Job Description

This is a full-time, permanent role in the Post-Production Department at PMA.  

Reporting to the Head of Post-Production, working with our in-house editors and edit producers, this role services the whole company, providing media management and edit support across all output. In addition to responsibilities across media management and workflow, this role is a great opportunity to develop your editing skills and creativity in a growing company.  

This role is currently on site 5 days a week at our London office in Shoreditch. 

Responsibilities will include:

• Ingest, organise, log and archive rushes and digital assets  
• Track, manage and distribute digital media and drives for on-set backups and media shuttles. 
• Delivering/uploading masters and other digital assets to clients on a variety of media and online portals  
• Developing your editing across various content formats and lengths  
• On-set data wrangling and post-production support during shoots 
• Preparing projects for editors 
• Transcoding and playouts  
• Populating music cue sheets 
• Preparing files for transcription 
• FedEx and courier in and out of the Post-Production Department 
• Organising and archiving projects on the post-production server  
• Researching and developing workflow improvements and pitching to the senior team

Skills Required

• Proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro, ShotPut Pro 
• Familiar with both Mac and Windows OS 
• Experience and knowledge of workflows within branded/creative promotional content or a broadcast environment 
• Working knowledge of codecs, file formats, data rates and exporting/transcoding 
• To work well within a team, and be a good ambassador for the company when client-facing  
• Reliable, quick and efficient when performing multiple tasks and meeting deadlines 
• Experience within the wider Adobe Creative Suite such as Audition, After Effects and Photoshop is preferred 
• Archiving to LTO experience is desirable

Salary

+/- £27,000 p.a. according to experience 

• 28 days of holiday plus bank holidays and additional festive office closure 
• AXA healthcare plan 
• Company pension plan 
• Free company O2 sim-only plan 
• Discretionary annual bonuses  
• Free Friday lunch ???? 
• Company socials throughout the year 

Please apply with a CV and a detailed cover letter explaining how your skills and experience are a good match for this role and our company.

PMA Film & Television