AI Video Editor

About the Role

Travelxp is seeking an independent AI Video Editor to craft high-quality short-form promotional content, advertisements, and cinematic visual sequences primarily using AI tools like Runway and Higgsfield. This role demands a blend of expert AI video generation skills paired with advanced editing, compositing, and storytelling capabilities. The editor will handle projects from idea conception and prompt creation through AI generation, refinement, editing, color grading, motion graphics, sound design, and final output. Seamless integration of AI-created footage with traditional live-action clips is essential.

Primary Duties

• Produce AI-generated advertisements, promotional films, social media reels, and cinematic short videos using Runway and Higgsfield.
• Interpret creative briefs and scripts to devise detailed shot-by-shot AI video generation strategies.
• Craft detailed prompts specifying character actions, facial expressions, camera movements, composition, lighting, settings, and visual themes.
• Utilize text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-image, and first-and-last-frame techniques for video generation.
• Ensure visual consistency in characters, costumes, locations, props, lighting, and style across multiple AI-generated scenes.
• Analyze and correct AI outputs for errors such as facial distortions, unnatural motions, object morphing, flickering, and continuity problems.
• Create and enhance reference images and visual assets using tools like Midjourney and Adobe Firefly.
• Integrate AI-generated footage with live-action material using DaVinci Resolve and Adobe After Effects.
• Carry out editing, compositing, motion graphics, color grading, sound design, music selection, and final video export tasks.
• Adjust videos for different aspect ratios and formats suitable for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Meta Ads, and other platforms.
• Collaborate closely with Marketing to ensure delivered content meets campaign goals.
• Keep updated on the latest AI video generation tools, workflows, and techniques and experiment with their application in production.
• Manage multiple video projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery.

Required Qualifications

• 1 to 3 years of professional experience in video editing or AI content creation.
• Hands-on expertise with AI video production specifically using Runway and Higgsfield is essential.
• Knowledge of various AI video generation techniques, including text-to-video, image-to-video, reference-frame, and first-and-last-frame workflows.
• Skill in developing effective production prompts and systematically refining AI-generated content.
• Capability to maintain visual coherence of characters, scenes, and styles across sequential shots.
• Proficiency with DaVinci Resolve and working knowledge of Adobe After Effects.
• Demonstrated ability to create engaging performance advertisements, social media content, or branded short videos.
• Strong sense of pacing, narrative structure, composition, and visual design.
• Familiarity with social media content formats and best practices across platforms.
• Self-driven with the ability to independently translate briefs into polished final videos.

Preferred Skills

• Experience using Midjourney, Kling, Veo, Sora, Adobe Firefly, or similar emerging generative video tools.
• Familiarity with motion control, character referencing, masking, rotoscoping, and advanced compositing techniques.
• Background in creating content within travel, hospitality, lifestyle, or performance marketing sectors.
• Understanding of sound design, voice-over integration, and editing tailored to music.