Video Editor - AI in Bombay, भारत

About the Role

Kuku TV is looking for a Mid-Senior Video Editor (2–5 years) who can turn scripts, performances, live-action footage, and AI-generated visuals into high-retention, binge-worthy micro-dramas . This role is ideal for an editor who understands that great short-form storytelling is not just about cutting footage—it’s about hooking viewers, building emotion, escalating conflict, and ending every episode with a reason to watch the next one.

You’ll work across live-action + AI-generated content in a fast-paced, high-volume episodic production environment.

What You'll Do

Storytelling & Editing

• Edit live-action and AI-generated micro-dramas for mobile-first audiences.
• Create powerful opening hooks, emotional peaks, reveals, twists, payoffs, and cliffhangers .
• Shape dialogue, performances, music, SFX, voiceovers, and visuals into compelling narratives.
• Select the strongest takes to maximise emotion, conflict, suspense, and character relationships .
• Maintain strong pacing, visual rhythm, dialogue clarity, narrative progression, and audience retention.
• Apply principles of information control, escalating conflict, pattern interruption, and retention-driven editing .

Mobile-First Storytelling

• Edit specifically for vertical 9:16 formats and mobile viewing.
• Maintain strong composition, visual hierarchy, readable performances, and screen impact.
• Understand how to optimise storytelling for short attention spans and binge consumption.

AI Video & VFX

• Work confidently with AI-generated characters, environments, performances, and shots.
• Identify and fix AI-video issues such as facial inconsistencies, lip-sync errors, flickering, warping, unnatural movement, frame instability, and continuity issues .
• Handle AI-assisted post-production including lip-sync correction, cleanup, upscaling, frame interpolation, shot extension, masking, tracking, compositing, and background replacement .
• Know when an AI shot can be fixed in post-production and when it needs to be regenerated.

Visual & Sound Finishing

• Seamlessly integrate live-action and AI footage through colour correction, grading, reframing, compositing, motion treatment, and visual matching .
• Create titles, captions, transitions, motion graphics, VFX, recaps, end cards, and promotional elements when required.
• Handle dialogue editing, music, ambience, Foley, and SFX to strengthen emotional and dramatic impact.
• Ensure clear audio balance across mobile devices and viewing environments.

Production & Collaboration

• Maintain story, character, costume, location, lighting, eyeline, spatial, and performance continuity .
• Manage multiple episodes, revisions, and priorities in a fast-moving production pipeline.
• Collaborate with directors, writers, creative producers, AI artists, and sound designers.
• Implement feedback accurately and meet tight delivery timelines.
• Maintain organised project files, proxies, media libraries, naming conventions, version histories, templates, and archival masters.
• Perform creative and technical QC and deliver final episodes to required platform, codec, resolution, frame-rate, aspect-ratio, and audio specifications .

What we’re looking for

Must Have

• 2–7 years of professional video-editing experience , preferably in fiction, micro-dramas, web series, films, TV, advertising, digital entertainment, or narrative short-form content.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling, dramatic pacing, emotional editing, and technical polish .
• Advanced Adobe Premiere Pro skills.
• Advanced Adobe after Effects skills, including compositing, masking, and tracking, cleanup, and motion graphics.
• Strong knowledge of Gen AI tool - Runaway, ElevanLabs, Kling, Veo, Adobe Firefly, Topaz or equivalent
• Working knowledge of DaVinci Resolve for colour correction, grading, finishing, and media management.
• Strong understanding of narrative structure, screen direction, continuity, performance selection, montage, shot progression, and visual rhythm .
• Experience editing dialogue-driven scenes, romance, emotional sequences, action, confrontations, reveals, and cliffhangers .
• Strong understanding of audience retention and mobile-first 9:16 storytelling .
• Experience working with both live-action and AI-generated footage .
• Strong understanding of sound editing, dialogue balancing, music placement, ambience, Foley, and SFX.
• Ability to colour-match footage from different cameras, tools, and production pipelines.
• Strong eye for character, facial, costume, prop, lighting, eyeline, spatial, and background continuity .
• Ability to manage multiple episodes, revisions, and deadlines in a high-volume production environment .

AI Experience

Experience with generative AI video/image, lip-sync, cleanup, enhancement, upscaling, interpolation, shot extension, and compositing workflows is highly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent Hindi and working proficiency in English.
• Experience with micro-dramas, vertical dramas, episodic fiction, web series, or retention-driven entertainment .
• Experience in fast-turnaround, high-volume episodic production .
• Familiarity with subtitles, dubbing, localisation, and multilingual versioning .
• Knowledge of proxy workflows, shared storage, media relinking, project templates, automated syncing, and structured post-production handoffs .
• Basic understanding of OTT and digital-platform delivery standards .
• Film editing, filmmaking, media production, animation, or related degree/diploma is a plus, but not mandatory .

About Us :
Founded in 2018, Kuku is India’s leading storytelling platform, offering a vast digital library of microdramas, audio stories, and short courses. Kuku aims to be India’s largest cultural exporter of stories, culture, and history to the world with a firm belief in “Create In India, Create For The World”.We deliver immersive entertainment and education through our OTT platforms: Kuku TV, Kuku FM, Guru, and more. With a mission to provide high-quality, personalized stories across genres in entertainment, spanning multiple formats and languages, Kuku continues to push boundaries and redefine India’s entertainment industry.

 

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