Video Editor at Royal Media Group

Code - HRD/TVP/VE/01/2024

Royal Media Services Limited is recruiting for the above position. We are looking for a trained creative Video Editor with great production and organizational skills. The jobholder is expected to be a team player, a problem solver with great attention to detail and possess a clear understanding of overall content production process.

The jobholder’s role will include the following:

• Manage the post-production process of Video production by digitizing and organizing raw footage into polished pieces suitable for broadcast.
• Assemble recorded footage into a finished project that tells a cohesive story, matches productions’ vision and meets broadcast standards
• Convert, download and capture footage from various sources (camera persons, producers, talent)
• Work with and creatively manipulate raw camera footage, dialogue, sound effects, graphics and special effects.
• Cut shot sequences to different angles at specific points in scenes, making each individual cut as fluid and seamless as possible.
• Receive and internalize brief to grasp production team’s needs and specifications
• Review shooting script and raw material to create a shot decision list based on scenes’ value and contribution to continuity
• Creatively Input music, dialogue, graphics and effects
• Create/acquire and update, maintain database of key production elements (music, graphics, sfx)
• Ensure logical sequencing of finished product
• Mastering finished products in time and archiving existing projects to ensure that sufficient resources exist to allow for new projects.
• Continuously discover and implement new editing technologies and industry’s best practices to maximize efficiency.
• Work with director, producer and talent to achieve desired end result.
• Trim film segments to specified lengths, and reassemble segments in sequences that present stories with maximum effect.
• Archive in proper retrievable sequence raw and finished footage.
• Quality control

Requirements

• Proven working experience of over 3 years in video editing
• Bachelors/Diploma in media related or Arts field
• Solid experience with digital technology and editing software packages with a strong portfolio
• Thorough knowledge of timing, sequencing and continuity
• Familiarity with special effects, 2D, 3D and compositing
• Creative mind and storytelling skills
• Incisive knowledge of the Kenyan and global media tends/scene
• Skilled in capturing and editing video, audio and text
• Team player, good attitude and aptitude to learn
• Can understand and write in English and Kiswahili.
• Work under pressure, tight deadlines and minimum supervision