Role

Video Editor

• Actually Audio/Video Editors
• Create the assets that are audible and visual for the site
• Largely works with recorded CNBC programming

Experience

17 & 10 years with CNBC

Day-to-day Work

CNBC programming – deals with U.S., Asia, and Europe

• Check the placeholders in Toolbelt
• Record actual feeds
• Mark ins and outs
• Transcode the video
• Drop the video in Toolbelt
• 2~5 minutes per clip to edit, depending on the amount of edits

Other projects

• Elements shot by digital crews
• Archive from Stratus
• Editors shooting videos with Digital and Production team in the studios

Using the request form

• Gets an email
• Find the placeholder if it isn’t specified in the form
  • Call the requester
  • Call Video Producers, if the requester doesn’t know how to create placeholders
• Mark it as adjusted once complete, and the requester gets an email

Communication

• Digital Producers
  • Communicate with individual show producers of the show units for CNBC broadcast
  • Determine what clips or sound bites or elements that they want for the Video Editors to cut as elements to go on CNBC.com, e.g. President Obama speaking
• Other teams that need videos
  • Through request form
• International teams
  • Through email

Prioritization

• Immediate clips to edit – in-person requests
• During the day, there are more people, so divide the work up
  • 1 person for broadcast clips, 1 person for emails and other requests
• Broadcast clips are mostly sequential, unless there’s Breaking News

Often-used Content Type and Features in Toolbelt

• Video placeholders
  • Drop in the edited videos

Pain Points

• Sometimes the thumbnail doesn’t attach itself automatically
  • They create thumbnails with the same file names with the video’s
• Requests coming through Toolbelt sometimes don’t show up
  • Due to missing or different date/time
• Takes long time to process a video in Toolbelt
  • Loading wheel

Tools & Software

Video

• Stratus
  • Browsing and searching over all assets
  • Send selected videos to Edius
• Edius
  • Editing application
  • Send edited videos to render engine
• Render engine
  • Drops the rendered video into Carbon Coder
• Carbon Coder
  • Transcoder
  • Drops the videos in the bin that the Video Editor can grab from
• All the video systems are connected to all across CNBC, for both digital and broadcast

Communication

• Toolbelt placeholders
• Request form for video editing
  • Comes through email Inbox
  • When it’s done, goes to that form and marks it as adjusted
• Email requests
  • Mainly International teams
• Phone call & In-person for videos that require immediate attention
  • e.g. Debate – Video Producer would sit together and yell out grabbing in and out
• Gchat
  • To get quick requests
• Google Doc
  • Keeping track of Bottom Line clips
  • Information, title, ID number, and date

Work Behavior & Rules

• 3 monitors at the station – 1 for Toolbelt and email, 1 for main editing screen, 1 for video files and settings
• Insert the dissolve in the beginning of the clip, add 1 second of black at the end of the clip
• Video placeholder with ‘R’ means edit & ingest, and ‘D’ means ingest only
• There are 2 video clips created, lower resolution version denoted with ‘L’. Only ingest the regular, high-resolution version

Miscellaneous

• Fairly easy to use Toolbelt in the workflow
  • Just open up the placeholder and drop the video in
• Some of the editors are integrated more into production, and publishing the clips, too – e.g. Bottom Line