QC Technician
Description
General Summary:
A Quality Control Technician’s (QC Tech) principal responsibility is to evaluate Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs). In order to prepare for quality control screenings, the QC Technician ensures that the screening environment complies with required security protocols and ensures proper setup of the screening environment by performing technical procedures, play back DCPs to determine whether they pass or fail acceptable delivery requirements, and provides an administrative report of their findings to all applicable parties. These screenings are performed either internally or with clients, who may include but are not limited to: motion picture studio executives, creatives, technicians, and other studio representatives.
Job Specific Tasks:
- Verifying KDM (Key Delivery Message) validity against the DCP to be evaluated
- Verifying DCP metadata against work order requirements
- D-Cinema setup of playback server, projector, image and audio configuration
- 3D system activation and verification
- External captioning device setup
- Ensuring screening environment complies with required security protocols
- Ingesting content and KDMs to prepare for upcoming QC evaluations
- Logging data regarding QC evaluations
- Notification of QC flagged items
- Completing tasks in database
- Creating/approving KDMs
- Some light client services duties
Experience & Education:
- Bachelor's Degree from an accredited College/University or equivalent
- Professional Post Production experience is preferred
- Quality Control experience is a plus
- Multi-lingual abilities are a plus