Video editor - Volunteer, Greater London

You will edit footage from Hackney History Festival talks into files suitable for uploading to our YouTube Channel so they can reach a wider audience.

What difference will you make?

It will enable people to see high quality videos of our amazing talks, and preserve them for future historians.

Responsibilities and Minimum Requirements

• Handle 4K footage.
• Sync footage from two cameras (2 tracks video, 4 tracks sound) and cut from one video track to the other.
• Export audio and compress or format as MP3 to upload to Enhance Speech by Adobe for clean sound, then download, re-import, and sync—delete unclean sound afterward. (
• Stabilise shaky shots or cover them up with audience cutaways.

Reframe to ensure speaker is in the right place. Remove disturbances and cover jump cuts with audience cutaways or speaker listening shots. Cover all camera movement with cutaways of audience and ensure audience is correctly framed when speaking. Add opening title which we’ll supply. Add end credits which we’ll supply. Import and add JPEGs or PNGs from slides at appropriate moments in a presentation. Colour correct and brighten under‑exposed footage. Export and compress to MP4 and WeTransfer. Remote

This position is remote.