Digital Quality Control Technician

Job Description

You are the right candidate for us if you are a deadline-oriented, team player who is a self-starter exhibiting strong follow-up and multi-tasking skills to support content and technical operations efforts for teams in both the US and India. You have a strong desire to be part of a best-in-breed distribution company with a penchant for film and tech. You have a natural eye for quality and be able to spot problems at a glance, both at the qualitative and technical level. Your work will support the successful distribution of content across FAST OTT distribution platforms.

Responsibilities/Duties:
• Perform QC evaluation on digital deliverables for technical acceptability against spec guides.
• Encode/Transcode assets based on distribution platform requirements.
• Manage the export and vetting of licensor-supplied metadata.
• Manage incoming libraries of content by categorizing and backing up files to AWS cloud storage.
• Technical lead and owner of content-partnership accounts as needed.
• Vet QC reports in our proprietary digital supply chain software and ensure assets complete in the ingest log.
• Fix titles that error on distribution platforms and ensure fixed files are ingested into proprietary software for re-delivery
• Administrative duties including but not limited to, coordinating bi-weekly technical calls, generating weekly reports, logging QC evaluation in project management software.

Specific Knowledge Abilities and Skills:
• 1-3 years prior experience in quality control, transcoding, packaging, and delivery of digital assets or performing similar duties preferred.
• Experience or a basic familiarity with programs such as Final Cut Pro, QuickTime 7 Pro, Switch Plus, and MacCaption preferred.
• Experience or a basic familiarity with Adobe CC Suite (Photoshop, After Effects, Media Encoder, Premiere, Illustrator) preferred.
• Video Editing experience and ability to troubleshoot quality control issues, software, and player anomalies.
• Ability to autonomously make frequent ''subjective'' decisions to determine the ''severity rating'' for quality defects, determining which defects are acceptable or rejectable.
• Experience or a basic familiarity with Aspera and FTP/SFTP delivery systems preferred.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite.
• General knowledge of SMPTE Standards for digital distribution.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with Monday.com or similar project management software.
• General knowledge of SMPTE Standards for digital distribution.
• Degree in related field (Film/Media/Communications) preferred but not required.
• Excellent organizational and prioritizations skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple deadlines.
• Ability to effectively communicate internally as well as with external partners.
• Excellent verbal, written, and research skills.

About us

If you love Cinema, then you already know Cinedigm.

Cinedigm continues to be a home for a diverse mix of enthusiast content all focused around a core mission of entertaining the world through a portfolio of fan-centric destinations. An innovator in the digital transformation of the entertainment industry for more than two decades, Cinedigm's ultimate goal is to build destinations that immerse viewers in content they love.

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