Quality Assurance Reviewer - Afrikaans Content at eMedia Investments

Key Deliverables

Specific Tasks and Outcomes

Quality Assurance

• Analysing audio and video quality of programmes in real time.
• Ensuring that the technical requirements and/or quality of all media operations material is in line with the Internal and External broadcasting specifications.
• Ensuring that all timings and other relevant information are correctly loaded on the Media and Broadcasting Management systems.
• Ensuring that all material required for broadcasts are ingested and a quality assurance review is performed on ingested material as per the schedule.
• Ensuring the correct material is captured and conforms to broadcast standards.
• Evaluating images and processes through PSE (Photosensitive Epilepsy) test, when required.
• Mastering finished material timeously and archiving existing projects.
• Flagging any classification queries to be delivered.
• Ensuring that all relevant components (audio mixes, textless elements, etc) are ingested on International Masters.
• Reviewing and responding to daily shift and missing media reports when on shift.

Editing

• Editing material as and when required according to stakeholder requirements.
• Formatting multiple file wrappers and codecs.

Key Performance Indicators

Performance Criteria

Key Performance Indicator 1

• Analysing audio and video quality of programmes in real time to ensure that the technical quality of all media operations material aligns with global and organizational broadcasting standards and specifications.
• Ensure programme timings are loaded accurately into the Broadcast Management System upon full completion of video analysis.
• Ensure subtitles are reviewed for spelling/grammatical errors.

Key Performance Indicator 2

• Programmes are edited according to client specifications.
• SRT Files, audio mixes, opening and closing credits, and textless versions are edited and administered accordingly to standard operating procedures.
• Subtitles are flagged and/or corrected to ensure there are no grammatical or spelling errors.
• Correct SOM and EOM timings are identified for segments breaks and correct markers are placed on the programme to create programming segmentation and breaks.
• Files are formatted accurately in multiple file wrappers and codecs.
• Titles are edited as per distributor/broadcaster specifications (video type, audio configuration etc).
• Key Performance Indicator 3
• Technical problems identified are resolved and/or reported timeously to supervisor.
• Non-TX reports are prepared in detail, with full description or errors and timings identified.
• Records are maintained and feedback reports are prepared and distributed.
• Shift Reports are attended to, and feedback provided to relevant stakeholders.

Key Performance Indicator 4

• Files are moved or copied to the correct folders as outlined by the standard operating procedures.
• LIVE recordings are identified, set up, recorded, and processed timeously for rebroadcast.
• Media Reports are created before download of logs and DBI’s are processed in time for broadcast.
• Ensuring that the programmes required for broadcast are ingested and a quality assurance review is performed on ingested material as per the given schedule.
• Ensure correct timings (SOM and EOM) are ingested.
• Ensure that no errors exist on broadcast ready media.

Requirements

• A National Diploma in Video Editing
• A minimum of 1-2 years experience within a similiar role
• Fluent in Afrikaans