Creative Editor
About the job
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Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with creative leadership to ensure the creative edit aligns with the project's creative vision.
- Review and assemble selected footage, storyboards, and images into a cohesive and engaging creative story reel, pitch visuals, and any other necessary materials for presentations, maintaining a strong narrative arc and pacing.
- Choose or collaborate on the selection of music, sound effects, and voiceovers that enhance the emotional impact of the piece.
- Make revisions based on feedback from directors, producers, and other stakeholders.
- Properly archive all project files, including raw footage, edited sequences, and final versions for future reference.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a Film or Trailer Editor, with a portfolio of completed narrative live action projects.
- Proficiency in one of the leading editorial suites.
- Familiar with shot tracking database systems (Flow/Shotgun, a plus), Word, Excel and other productivity software tools.
- Knowledge and understanding of codecs, transcoding, and QT formats.
- Strong storytelling abilities, attention to detail, and a good sense of timing, pacing, and emotional impact.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with directors, producers, and other team members.
- Quick decision-making and problem-solving skills, especially under tight deadlines.
- A deep understanding of and passion for film and future innovations in storytelling.
About The Company
Scanline VFX is an award-winning, global leader in the visual effects industry with studios in 7 core locations including London, Los Angeles, Montreal, Munich, Seoul, Stuttgart, and Vancouver. From humble beginnings over 30 years ago, we’ve grown to a team of over 1,200 made up of diverse nationalities from around the world. We believe in the power of storytelling and are committed to helping filmmakers realize their artistic vision. Underpinned by a commitment to innovation, collaboration and long-standing partnerships, we continue to develop innovative tools, techniques and technologies, to offer filmmakers the ultimate in creative freedom. Eyeline Studios, Scanline’s virtual production division, is rethinking the future of real-time filmmaking by providing content creators with unmatched flexibility.
Netflix’s investment in Scanline’s pipeline, infrastructure, and workforce allows Scanline to continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in VFX. In addition to working on projects for Netflix, Scanline continues to work with a variety of long-standing and new clients outside of Netflix.
Established in 1989 in Munich, Scanline became well-known for our ability to create photorealistic natural phenomena such as fire, smoke and water, having developed our proprietary fluid simulation software, Flowline. Scanline was the sole developer of Flowline and in 2008, and was the recipient of a Scientific and Technical Achievement Academy Award® for the software.
