Ingest Technician

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Warner Bros.Discovery is looking for an Ingest Technician on a permanent position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Knowledge or work experience in television program broadcasting.

• Experience in audio and video editing, Being up to date with professional and commercial media formats and standards. Mastering the use of audio optimization and audio/video editing software like Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe Anywhere, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, Grass Valley EDIUS, Dolby DP series.

• Suitable knowledge about the professional tape digitalizing systems (HDCAM, Digi Beta) , storage and archive systems, transcoding and audio optimizing software.

• Ability to acquire the usage of complex technical systems (software and hardware).

• Experience in the field of localization processes, ingesting, quality checking systems is an advantage.

• Knowledge about informatics related to the job is an advantage.

• Excellent communication skills, teamwork, positive attitude, adaptability to the changing work environment.

• Detail oriented, approaching tasks thematically.

• Intermediate written and spoken English knowledge.

• Being able to work under pressure, sticking to deadlines.

• Ability and will to work in shifts.

• Ingesting the incoming files, SD/HD tapes in MAM and BPM systems in order of deadlines and urgency. Video- and audio transcoding, audio normalization.

• First QC, database registration. Fixing or forwarding to the Traffic, QC and Master or Engineering department the files which are not acceptable (arrived with incorrect parameters, with video or audio problem) while considering the type of the problem.

• Keeping up with the status of the errors, updating the status or the errors through trackable communication channels. Cooperating with the affected departments and external partners for the sake of effective problem-solving.

• Editing of audio and video files with the suitable software. Blurring the burned subtitles or replacing that part of the video with textless picture. Exporting the conformed format (mezzanine) and uploading ,linking, archiving the files according to the acceptable quality and format by HBO EUROPE.

• Updating the suitable database and registration data.

• Editing and synching the incoming (produced and licensed) localisations (audio and subtitle files) with the archived master (mezzanine) files with the suitable video- and subtitle editing software .

• Producing and editing low res (proxy) files, festival materials, promo content, and other content for Marketing, Creative Services, Original Production according to the defined specifications.

• Participating in the production of contents ordered by Original Productions, foreign HBO offices or international distributors..

• Keeping up with the ongoing processes and monitoring the tasks.

• Cooperating with Traffic, Creative Services, Programming, NOC, QC and Mastering departments and the foreign HBO offices, to guarantee the completing the content on schedule in time with the expected quality and format.

• Keeping up with the changes in schedule and edited content.

• In case of need substituting in the Ingest team, availability outside working hours and during the weekends according to working time.