VFX Editor
Apply Now Apply Later Job ID 10106380 Location Mumbai, India Business Industrial Light & Magic Date posted Nov. 14, 2024Job Summary:
Primary Responsibilities and Accountabilities
(Key duties or essential priorities for fulfilling the job’s purpose)
- Update sequences with new dailies from CG artists and outsource vendors
- Communicate with client editorial: track all stages of the client cuts, internal cuts and iterations.
- Request scans from the client editorial and/or scan facility.
- Maintain an internal editorial database.
- Provide abbreviated cuts for all client reviews.
- Identify selects of material captured internally.
- Together with the VFX and/or Animation Supervisor, present creative edits to the client when required.
- Output sequence movie files, AIFF audio files, and EDLs for CG as specified by production.
- Provide visual reference for production, stage, art department, client, etc.
- Output JPEG shot frames to Production for storyboarding and Production database use.
- Responsible for show wrap-up including finals reel, layoff of movie files, consolidating media
- Drive production of internal and external marketing reels .
- Responsible for working with an assistant, mentoring and delegating.
- Film tasks: print handling, pull and prep wedges and conform workprint reels if required.
- Performs special projects under the supervision of the Senior Editor, production manager or department manager.
Key Peers or Relationships
Co-editors, assistant editors, Resource Assistant, VFX Supervisor, Production team, Animation Supervisor
Job Requirements
(Education, Experience and Skills/Competencies)
Education / Experience:
Bachelor's Degree in Film or related field desired, or equivalent experience.
Required Skills / Competencies:
- Previous experience with Avid Media Composer.
- Proven VFX editorial experience.
- Strong ability to multi-task and meet deadlines while working under tight schedules.
- Strong team player with good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of codecs, transcoding and QT formats.
- Extensive experience with shot tracking databases (i.e.: Filemaker, Shotgun).
- Understanding of traditional film/print/negative.
Preferred Skills / Competencies:
- Experience with ingesting performance captures a plus.
- Apple ActionScript experience is a plus.
- Command-line environments (ie: Linux) a plus.
- 3D Stereo experience is a plus.
- Understanding/maintaining unity management is a plus.
- Previous experience in post-production film (e.g., film handling, coding, logging).
- Previous experience in post-production HD tape acquisitions (e.g., timecode, logging, capturing).
Technical Skills:
About Industrial Light & Magic:
Founded in 1975 by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, serving the motion picture, commercial production, and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 325 feature films and has played a key role in seven of the top 10 worldwide box-office hits of all time and has contributed to 25 of the top 50. ILM has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, the company continues to break new ground in visual effects, VR, AR, and Immersive Cinema.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Lucasfilm Visual Effects (India) Private Limited, which is part of a business we call Industrial Light & Magic.