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Job Title: Mastering Technician

Location: Burbank

Reports to: NDTV Technical Operations

Shift: Swing; Days: TBD

Compensation: Up to $45/hour

Company:

Pixelogic Media Partners, LLC provides technology solutions to the entertainment industry. We are responsible for helping Hollywood Studios and content owners to get their content to global audiences by providing all language services including scripting, subtitling, access services and dubbing. Our products and services span the digital spectrum, from enhanced extras packages promoting digital purchase to physical disc authoring.

Our clients include major Hollywood studios and dozens of independent studios. To date, weve delivered thousands of titles to iTunes, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and others. Weve created a large percentage of iTunes Extras titles available on the App Store, developed the specification of and delivered the first Cross-Platform Extras titles, authored more than eight-thousand DVDs, two-thousand Blu-rays, as well as award-winning tablet and mobile apps.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a world class team, building innovative solutions to service our clients with their media distribution needs. Join us if youre passionate about entertainment, innovation and customer service excellence!

Job Description:

Mastering, Operator will be responsible for creating outputs including, but not limited to, Interoperable Master Packages (IMP), ProRes master files, and downstream deliverables in HDR and SDR color spaces. Prequalification of source elements pertaining to color volume, audio track assignments, frame rate, and related HDR metadata. Editorial cutdown to create TV and localized versions sometimes including graphics to obscure objectionable content. Other responsibilities include UAT of proprietary and 3rd party software tools and applications, handling all associated data entry related to work orders, working with other departments and providing feedback to Project Team, Mastering and Content Services. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of the technical aspects of the various content specifications. They will be highly motivated, possess a flexible attitude, and adapt quickly in a fast paced environment. In addition, they must able to work as part of a team that deals with changing priorities and workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Check prep and conform source materials
• Create outputs of various and different media formats
• TV and localized conform
• Data entry relating to work orders and projects
• Conduct testing relating to tools and applications
• Working with and liaising with other internal departments
• Investigate and troubleshoot a myriad of content-related issues as requested.
• Other related tasks as assigned to fulfill responsibilities

Required Skills:

• Demonstrable experience of picture and audio editing, and transcoding is required
• Solid knowledge of digital file formats
• Knowledge in color space, aspect ratio, transfer characteristics, video and audio codecs,
• compression and other characteristics associated with media is required.
• Familiarity and working knowledge with some of tools and applications including but not limited to
• DVS Clipster, Colorfront Transkoder, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Creative Suite, Vantage, Aurora are essential.
• Experience in IMF mastering is a huge plus
• Proficient with Mac OS, Windows and Linux systems
• Problem solver with creative and innovative approach with ability to think out of the box
• Ability to multi-task
• Excellent communication skills
• Passionate about quality, customer experience and customer service excellence
• Ability to handle high pressure situations and sensitive information
• Ability to prioritize, manage orders and work well close to deadlines whilst producing high quality
• work
• Detail oriented and strong organizational skills
• Ability to operate on own initiative while also working in a collaborative environment
• Ability and willingness to learn new methods, procedures, or techniques and take on new tasks
• Experience with HDR & Dolby Vision a huge plus

Experience:

• Minimum one (1) to two (2) years of experience in Post Production environment.
• Having worked with scripted episodic and/or feature workflows for major studio content a huge plus.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree from an accredited College/University or equivalent professional experience.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent experience

• 5 years of business experience designing, developing, and implementing backend services and applications
• Experience integrating with third parties; includes working with others to negotiate interfaces
• Proficiency in relational and/or non-relational databases

• Proficiency in industry standard technologies such as Web Services, JSON, and XML
• Knowledge of QuickBase API, Workato and/or Cloud (AWS) Integration is preferred
• Experience using SQL, HTML 5, Python or similar programming languages is preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of media, preferably professional film and television
• Experience working with distributed teams and vendors
• Knowledge of Agile project management methodologies and tools