Assistant Video Editor
The Mista Pat Project is a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to inspiring young children to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). We are creating an educational YouTube show for school aged children that highlights the latest in innovation and the amazing people and companies behind it.
We are looking for a creative and organized assistant video editor to join our post-production team. The Assistant Video Editor volunteer or intern will assist and report to the Video Production Coordinator in Post-Production video editing.
Please apply for consideration at https://www.mistapat.org/internships
This is an unpaid opportunity
- This opportunity is 10 weeks long
- 10 - 15 works hours a week
- This is a remote position
- Academic credit possible if approved by your academic institution
Job Description
The Assistant Video Editor Intern will support all editor functions including preparing materials for project edit, exporting, and finishing. Qualified candidates should be knowledgeable in the fundamentals of good storytelling. The Assistant Video Editor Intern must have a strong sense for collaboration and problem solving.
Requirements
- Proficiency with the Adobe Creative Suite software (especially with Adobe Premiere) or Final Cut Pro or software equivalent.
- Experience with After Effects, Lightroom and Photoshop desirable but not required
- Understanding of digital media, video technology and post-production workflows
- Outstanding attention to detail
- Well organized and a self-starter
- Ability to prioritize under time constraints and work successfully in a fast-paced environment
- Familiar with sound effects and music license maintenance
- Highly collaborative
- Ability to astutely communicate solutions
- Understanding of file systems and database management
- Extensive experience is not necessary, however, you must have a passion and drive to learn quickly.
Responsibilities
- Work with editors and producers to ingest, convert, sync, and prepare raw footage on a project basis
- Prepare Premiere projects for projects by ingesting footage, linking media, synchronizing various video edits, organizing clips from script, and cutdown interview footage/audio
- Collaborate with editors and Video Production Coordinator to assemble project files and relevant video for organizational projects
- Excellent attention to detail both with shooting style and translating footage through editing visual content
- Upload content to organization website, Dropbox, YouTube and other business platforms
- Prepare, edit, and export photo and video content as needed
- Provide support to editors where needed
Please visit our website at mistapat.org for more information about our organization.