Assistant Editor - Features

3 Months ago • All levels

Job Summary

Job Description

The Assistant Editor is responsible for technical and organizational editorial work from pre-production through post-production, maintaining an efficient editorial pipeline, and assisting editors. Key responsibilities include maintaining Avid projects, managing storyboards with Flix, importing and prepping dialogue recordings, organizing assets from various departments, outputting movie files, organizing sound effects and music, assisting editors with Avid builds, and publishing to production. The ideal candidate will have feature animation experience, proficiency in Avid Media Composer, excellent organizational skills, understanding of animation pipelines, and the ability to meet deadlines.
Must have:
  • Experience in Feature Animation required.
  • High degree of proficiency in Avid Media Composer.
  • Excellent organization skills with great attention to detail.
  • Understanding of feature animation pipeline and workflows.
  • Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines while working under tight schedules.
Good to have:
  • After Effects experience a plus.
  • Photoshop experience a plus.
  • ProTools experience a plus.

Job Details

The Assistant Editor is responsible for technical and organizational editorial work from pre production through post production. Assistant Editor is responsible for maintaining an efficient editorial pipeline and assisting editors. 

Sony Pictures Animation is a pre-production animation studio based in Los Angeles, California, creating both feature animation and animated series with artists from around the world. We pride ourselves on empowering filmmakers to lead the creative process, and allowing the hand of the artist to be truly felt, with the goal of producing bold and innovative visual storytelling. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Maintain Avid project and keep files organized. 
  • Manage and process storyboards using Flix. Also import layout, animation, and lighting shots. 
  • Import, log and prep dialogue recordings for editors: scratch dialogue, production recording sessions and ADR. 
  • Ingesting assets from sound dept, music dept, etc, and keeping them organized
  • Output movie files for various uses including turnovers for sound department, digital intermediate, and music departments. 
  • Organizing sound effects and music. 
  • Assist the editors with Avid builds in preparation for screenings and QC of outputs.
  • Responsible for publishing to production including managing EDLs and change notes.
  • Provide information to production that is timely and accurate. 

Qualifications: 

  • Experience in Feature Animation required. 
  • High degree of proficiency in Avid Media Composer. 
  • Excellent organization skills with great attention to detail. 
  • Understanding of feature animation pipeline and workflows. 
  • Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines while working under tight schedules.
  • Strong teammate with good interpersonal and interpersonal skills. 
  • After Effects, Photoshop, ProTools experience a plus. 

The anticipated base salary for this position is $1,398/week to $2,500/week. This role qualifies for benefits pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement. The actual salary offered will depend on a variety of factors. 

To apply, please include a resume and a link to your portfolio. Please make sure to include any passwords to your work in your cover letter and/or in your resume.

Sony Pictures Animation is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.

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About The Company

The studio's latest theatrical release is "Spider-Man™: Across the Spider-Verse," the highly-anticipated sequel to the Academy Award®-winning "Spider-Man™: Into the Spider-Verse" and the second film in the Spider-Verse trilogy.


The division is also behind the visually-groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed "The Mitchells vs. The Machines," the hit film series "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs," and "Hotel Transylvania," and the upcoming 2D adult comedy "Fixed" from visionary director Genndy Tartakovsky.


In 2023, the studio released its first two series - "Agent Elvis," an adult animated action comedy, and "Young Love," which expands on the story and characters introduced in the Oscar®-winning short film, “Hair Love.”


Sony Pictures Animation, which was founded in 2002, is a division of the Sony Pictures Motion Pictures Group for Sony Pictures Entertainment, a subsidiary of the Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.


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