| Job Description
The primary job of the Assistant Editor is to organize and ma...Job Description
The primary job of the Assistant Editor is to organize and manage the cutting room. The Assistant Editor is responsible for meeting the editor’s deadlines for preparing and digitizing dailies, storyboards, and dialogue, in addition to any additional editing work that needs to be completed.
Proficiency in Avid required.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities to Production
Delivery of worktapes, dupes and change notes to the sound and music editors
Handles all dupe requests from production
Responsible for distribution of sequences, clips, shots, lists, references, etc. to the tech departments as needed
Supplying material to the trailer house as well as for teasers, commercial, and foreign version production as per the distributor
Work with Production Coordinator in the ordering and booking of services and supplies necessary for production, i.e. sound effects libraries, film stock, booking time for transfers, telecine, etc.
Work with coordinator in updating/maintaining editorial schedule
Attend story and production meetings when the Editor is unable to attend
Overall responsible for keeping the cutting room organized and documented
Responsibilities to Editorial
Manage the film and Avid cutting rooms
Build first assemblies of storyreel sequences for the editor to cut
Log/digitize audio from recording sessions
Manage Avid drive space and project settings throughout the show
Distribute media clips into correct bins
Build first assemblies of storyreel sequences for the editor to cut
If time allows cut temp. SFX for storyreel
Support trailer, teaser, commercial and foreign version production as per the distributor
Manage Avid drive space and project settings throughout show
Attend story and production meeting when the Editor is unable to attend.
