Luke Jacob
Bristol, Cardiff, London
Summary
Motivated and friendly, with excellent interpersonal skills. Strong background in post production with over 5 years of experience as an edit assist / technical operator and over 2 years as a freelancer. Responsible, reliable and able to learn quickly with a positive work ethic. Excellent punctuality and politeness. Confident working within a team but equally able to work alone if required.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Edit Assist
Sentient - Wildstar Films
10.2024 - 03.2025
- Backing up and ingesting large shoots via YoYotta and Davinci Resolve
- Creating mezzanine files before relinking those to RED cameras and colour managing large shoots
- Training and ingesting AI voiceover using Eleven Labs
- Collecting all the native media for episodic turnovers to send onto the post house, including all turnover assets and relevant EDL's
- Fixing and maintaining Areca RAID's including repairing and creating new volume pools
- Detailed audio fixes and liaising with the edits to fix smaller editing errors like blanking and aliasing issues
- Frontline suite support including stress testing the latest version of Avid
- Trialling and implementing new workflows to aid the smooth delivery of the project
Edit Assist / Data Wrangler
Saving Lives in Cardiff S3 - Label 1
04.2024 - 09.2024
- Consolidated relevant S2 media across to the Series 3 Nexis workspaces to give the edit generic footage to use
- Configuring the Synology to make sure all partitions were secure and using a Raid 6 array
- Monitoring the health status of the NAS and reporting all relevant issues to the relevant people
- Creation of a rushes log and close attention to detail in updating it
- Sony FX6 base camera setup, updating clip names daily, liaising with PD's to see if they have personal preferences in regards to lenses etc
- Responsible for safely backing up camera cards using Shotput Pro & Parashoot to two separate locations
- Making Dailies using DaVinci Resolve before uploading to Racoon's Tanooki platform and keeping all relevant parties informed
- Rewrapping any problem clips using DaVinci Resolve ensuring the specs of the rewrapped clips matched the natives
- Avid ingest of all footage throughout the series, including sending over the relevant Avid MediaFiles and bins to the post production facility
- Creating sync pulls for the edits as according to specific shoot criteria
- Creation of a rushes log and close attention to detail in updating it
- Created low res viewing copies of the day's rough cuts and synced and grouped some of the multi cam shoots
Edit Assist / Data Wrangler
Saving Lives in Cardiff S2 - Label 1 / Racoon Media Services
09.2023 - 02.2024
- Liaising with an external drone company to ensure that all the footage they provided was an acceptable format
- All other duties are the same as Series 3
Freelance Edit Assist
Racoon Media Services
02.2023 - 02.2023
- Ingested and prepped over 15Tb's of media across two separate projects
- Helped test Avid's new distributed processing transcode system and was shown how to fix various node related issues when it wasn't functioning properly
- Reported all various bugs etc back to the Engineering team
- Created detailed handovers looping in the relevant editors with media locations etc
Senior Technical Operator
The Farm Bristol / Picture Shop Bristol
03.2019 - 08.2023
- Joined as a tech runner before moving through the technical operator levels and eventually making the jump to senior tech op
- Regularly sat in on meetings and liaised with new / returning clients to discuss workflow setups for new projects
- Helped train up more junior members of staff and created detailed training documents to help assist them
- Domain new kit and prep new machines ready for clients to use as well as undertaking some more basic engineering-based tasks
- Syncing & Grouping Multi Cam Footage / Creating Audio & Video EDL's / AS-11 Creation including the use of the DPP Metadata App / Pro Res Creation and audio tagging (International and individual specs) / LTO Creation and Restores / H.264 BITC & Clean Screener / Aurora Profiles and Reports / Rewrapping incompatible footage (Adobe Media Encoder, DaVinci Resolve) / Detailed understanding of LUT's / source colour spaces / Ingest using Premiere Pro / QC / Conform / Grade loads
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Broadcast Journalism
University of the West of England
Bristol 09.2014 - 04.2017
Skills
Avid Media Composer
DaVinci Resolve
Yo Yotta
FACT
EasyFind
Shotput Pro
Parashoot
Hedge
Catalyst Browse
Beyond Compare
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Timeline
Edit Assist
Sentient - Wildstar Films
10.2024 - 03.2025
Edit Assist / Data Wrangler
Saving Lives in Cardiff S3 - Label 1
04.2024 - 09.2024
Edit Assist / Data Wrangler
Saving Lives in Cardiff S2 - Label 1 / Racoon Media Services
09.2023 - 02.2024
Freelance Edit Assist
Racoon Media Services
02.2023 - 02.2023
Senior Technical Operator
The Farm Bristol / Picture Shop Bristol
03.2019 - 08.2023
Bachelor of Arts - Broadcast Journalism
University of the West of England
09.2014 - 04.2017
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