Hogarth

Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world's top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.

The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.

Our global team of over 6,000 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today's content experience.

Video Editors are a central part of the Moving Image team. They need to be quick on their feet, creative and adaptable in the rapid & ever-changing landscape of our digital marketplace. They combine their skill sets to produce a single combined result such as a clocked TV commercial for broadcast, digital video, animations, cinemagraphs, animated GIFs and layout of stills for digital or internal usage.

Responsibilities

• Editing digital, corporate, mood and test films.
• Making precision editorial changes to TVCs.
• Creation of simple graphics for moving or still visuals.
• Animating motion graphics for videos and animated GIFs.
• Encoding and transfer for approval and final delivery.
• Uploading asset kits to Digital Asset Management platforms.
• Assisting other operators and producers in gathering resources for deliverables.
• Transcoding and assembling video assets for rough cuts.
• Possess a good understanding of current TV & digital standards and being proficient in identifying compliance issues.
• Quality check to deliver finished deliverables at the highest possible standard for relevant platforms.
• Combine both creative editing skills with broadcast know-how and motion graphics expertise, possess an eye and ear for dynamic video editing, animation and 2D layout; and be able to realise and deliver ideas in audio/visual form.
• Demonstrate attention to detail, be proactive when placed under constant deadline pressure, and have an understanding of storytelling, advertiser messaging and branding.
• Proactive team players who can work with strategists, producers, project managers and creatives to attain a high level of work plus smoother project processes within Hogarth. Also, being able to work alongside other cross-departmental operators from print DI, digital, creative and broadcast to deliver polished end-products to advertising agencies, planning / research agencies and direct clients of Hogarth Worldwide.
• Being the aggregator from other disciplines, Content Editors are empowered to drive content excellence, advising on best practises to optimise creativity, efficiencies and organisation. During content factory crunches, Content Editors oversee from juniors and freelancers, ensuring consistency & production excellence

Qualifications

• Have at least 4 years media industry experience.
• Fluency in Cantonese and Mandarin a must due to the nature of work
• Candidates should have attained a good level in an industry-recognized diploma.
• A clear understanding of the meaning of customer care/service.
• A good working knowledge of post-production processes and services.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Good conceptualization skills.
• Positive "can-do" service attitude.
• Excellent time management skills & multi-tasking abilities.
• A good understanding of the broadcast QC process.
• Quality checks, ensuring highest stand of output for self and others.
• Have a good understanding of modern file formats and codecs.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Well-presented and polite.
• Able to adapt to new working methods & practice technology advances.
• Strong working knowledge of Adobe Premiere Pro & After Effects & photoshop.
• Understands good animation practices and is comfortable with 2D & 2.5D animation.
• Holds some knowledge about standard AE plugins such as Optical Flare and Particular.
• Comfortable with Mac OSX, Photoshop, Illustrator & Media Encoder.
• A thorough understanding of video codecs and intermediary process (e.g. EDL, XML, standards conversions etc.) and other post production workflows and services
• Be able to work independently as well as part a team.

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Diversity & Inclusion

Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.

We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.

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