Video Editor

Position Summary: Video Editor

With an understanding of how Guitar Center brings together the people, process, and product that comes with making, playing, recording and sharing music, the Video Editor will help shape the short form videos for both organic social and paid media. The short-form videos will range in formats and styles from informative and entertaining product tips and tricks to demonstrations and educational 'how to' content, interviews, performances, and promotional vehicles for events and sales campaigns.

The Video Editor must be able to quickly grasp the creative vision, narrative arc, messaging, and musical direction for the final piece to be able to effectively construct the video in line within the video brief and brand guidelines.

Tasks/Responsibilities:

• Using video footage, imagery, dialogue, music, graphics, titles, and color, craft videos that showcase the product, music, production technique, talent, and brand in the best and most compelling light possible

• Video post-production tasks include backing up media, transcoding media, organizing media, synchronizing audio and raw footage, creating proxies, reviewing footage, making editorial decisions, rough cuts, color correction, and final editing and layoff using Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, and other industry standard software

• Editing pre-shot footage provided by artists & or sourced from vendors

• Experimenting with styles and techniques for short-form video including the use of after-effects, as well as creation and implementation of motion graphics

• Carry out online editing duties, which involve finalizing technical aspects such as correcting faulty footage, grading, and coloring and adding special effects

• Provide final video deliverables to the required specifications of the distribution platforms they'll be featured on

• Work collaboratively with social & content producers, production, audio engineers, social media, graphics & design, and other video producers

• While not a requirement, experience shooting social video is a plus