Junior Video Editor (Cape Town)

Job description

Black Camel makes video for B2B technology companies working on products you can't easily film: encryption, a fraud signal, an identity check, the workings of an AI platform. Things with no picture, until someone invents one. Most video in that world looks identical - the floating UI, the drone shot of a city, the soft synth, the smiling team around a laptop. We exist to do the opposite.

Our belief is simple. Clear gets you understood. Distinctive gets you remembered. On any given day about 95% of a company's buyers can't buy yet, so the only video worth making is the one they still remember when they finally can. We build that video, for technology brands you would recognise, out of Cape Town, using crew-grade talent at economics that let us outgun studios ten times our size.
Why this role exists

Here is the honest version. We don't normally take high-volume work. This studio is built for crafted, distinctive pieces, not production lines. But a project came in that was too good a door to leave shut - a foot in the door with a client that matters - and it needs a sharp editor to own it properly.

So this seat has two halves. One is that project: steady, high-volume editing you will run day to day. The other is everything else the studio makes. Do the first well and you earn your way into the second faster than you would anywhere else.
What you'll do

The volume work is real editing, done at pace. Much of the first pass is already automated. AI cleans the picture, strips the stutters and the dead air, handles the mechanical grind. Your job is everything the machine can't do: checking its work, fixing what it got wrong, and making the calls that need taste rather than a setting. We believe the judgment is the job. AI can generate a thousand versions of anything in an hour, but knowing which one is actually good still takes a human.

Beyond that project, you are in the room with the edit team on the studio's core work, the launch films and explainers we are known for. Assisting at first. Trusted with more as you prove the eye. This is a seat inside a working studio, with real people to learn from and real work to grow into.
What you need to know

• Premiere pro. The core tool. You should be comfortable living in it.
• The fundamentals of a good cut. Pacing, timing, rhythm - knowing when something drags and when it lands.
• Basic audio. Cleaning voice, cutting filler, keeping levels honest.
• Detail you can hold at volume. The fiftieth video of the day has to be as clean as the first.
• Fluency with AI tools. Reviewing and correcting a machine first pass is a real part of this job. Being quick with it is an advantage, not a threat.

Formal experience is welcome but not essential. A course, a reel, or a folder of things you have cut on your own is enough if the eye is there. We teach the rest.
The dream, plainly

This is a starting line. The studio's real work is distinctive launch and explainer video for serious technology brands - the kind built on a metaphor, a quirk, a bit of subtle humour, or a look nobody else in the category has dared. The kind sales actually send and champions actually forward.

Get sharp here and the whole craft opens up: motion, sound design, colour, and in time the creative calls that make a video unmistakably ours. We would rather grow an editor than hire a finished one. If you are ambitious, this is a rare thing - a way into a studio making work you would be proud to put your name on, from a seat where you start earning trust on day one.

The editors who go furthest treat the volume work as reps, not a chore. The path runs straight through this desk.
The details

• In-studio, Cape Town. Full-time.
• R10,000 per month to start, rising as you take on more of the studio's work.

Requirements

What you must be able to do

This is the gate. If you can't do most of this, this isn't your role.

• Cut fast in Premiere pro. Not "I've used it." Fluent, keyboard-driven, quick on the timeline.
• Place a webcam over a slide deck and keep it in the same spot, same size, on every single video.
• Sync slide changes to the voice so nothing floats or lags.
• Clean audio properly. Strip the ums, false starts and dead air without it sounding chopped, and deliver every video at a consistent loudness.
• Export to spec without being told twice. H.264, 1080p, 48kHz, the right settings every time. If "just pick a preset" is your whole answer, you're not ready.
• Follow a template exactly and repeat it. No improvising, no reinventing each video.
• Spot when the AI pass got it wrong. You watch properly. You don't trust the machine blindly.

Some of this you'll sharpen on the job. The core - a fast, accurate cut and a good ear - you need before you walk in.
Don't apply if

• Your work is all music videos, gaming montages or wedding highlights and nothing clean and spec-driven.
• You only edit in CapCut, iMovie or on your phone.
• You reach for transitions and effects to make things look "pro."
• You get bored doing the same format over and over.
• You want creative freedom on what is, day to day, production work.

Posted on 06 Jul 11:53, Closing date 4 Sep