Junior Assistant Digital Media Technician - Skills Catalyst
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Issued on: 23.1.2021
Earner: Patricia Grant
The Junior Assistant Digital Media Technician provides support to the production Data Management team, which is overseen by the production camera department. This role is responsible for many tasks including: safely securing master video and audio files, transforming video into the appropriate colour space for onset monitoring, and preparing media for offline editorial.
Criteria
The recipient of this micro-credential has demonstrated the ability to:
- Download, backup, and transfer data utilizing industry standard workflows and software, including checksums for data integrity.
- Prepare video footage to be viewed correctly onset via colorspace transformations.
- Synchronize video and audio materials utilizing timecode and a slate clap.
- Prepare footage for Editorial departments.
- Apply an appropriate LUT or colourspace transformation to map RAW and/or logarithmic footage to an appropriate display type.
- Perform basic “one-light” colour correction, including white balancing a shot.
- Populate required metadata fields in preparation for Avid Editorial departments.
- Sync dual system audio and video.
- Identify if footage is RAW, logarithmic, or in Rec709 colourspaces, using the Media and Color pages within DaVinci Resolve software.
By providing:
A final project in which students will be provided with sample production footage and soundrolls on a USB flash drive. Students will execute the following tasks which simulates a typical workload of a Digital Media Technician. The student will organize, copy, sychronize audio and video files and then prepare populate meta-data fields to ensure an appropriate handoff between departments and save the final task as a DaVinci Resolve project file.