WorkadaDomain experts

Footage Logger & Metadata QC (Film & Video)

Open in United States, Canada

$30/hr

What you'll do

Work from a provided first-draft caption and correct it against the footage. Set shot boundaries to the exact frame, classify transitions and camera moves, transcribe dialogue with speaker attribution, and log actions, sounds, and on-screen text with timestamps.
Who We're Looking For
People with post-production, footage-logging, media-cataloguing, captioning, subtitling, or audio-description experience who can describe footage accurately and consistently without embellishing or interpreting it.

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Advertised hourly rate

$30/hr

Weekly hours: Ideally at least 15 hrs/week; “100% remote and fully flexible, with 15+ hours per week recommended and no cap on hours” In the posting
Eligibility: United States, Canada
Posted: 15 Aug 2026

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Help me tailor my CV to one job. Act as an experienced recruiter for AI training platforms such as Mercor, micro1, Alignerr and Outlier. Many of them screen CVs with software first, and some, such as Mercor and micro1, then run an AI interview about the experience on the CV. My CV has to work for both, and everything in it has to be true.

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JOB POSTING START
Title: Footage Logger & Metadata QC (Film & Video)
Platform: Workada
Open to: United States, Canada
Country limits: None of the countries above is on Workada's published list of places it cannot hire from. Checked 2026-10-07.
Posted: 2026-08-15

Put your video captioning skill to work training frontier AI. Correct highly detailed, structured descriptions of short video clips so they match the footage exactly.
What You'll Do
Work from a provided first-draft caption and correct it against the footage. Set shot boundaries to the exact frame, classify transitions and camera moves, transcribe dialogue with speaker attribution, and log actions, sounds, and on-screen text with timestamps.
Who We're Looking For
People with post-production, footage-logging, media-cataloguing, captioning, subtitling, or audio-description experience who can describe footage accurately and consistently without embellishing or interpreting it.
Qualifications
- At least 1 year of relevant professional experience
- Bachelor's degree, completed or in progress
- Frame-accurate attention to detail and fluency with timecode
- Comfort describing footage in a controlled vocabulary that is accurate, literal, and consistent
- Clean written English and solid transcription habits, including speaker attribution and non-speech sound labeling
- Must be based in US or Canada
Technical Requirements
- Desktop or laptop running Windows 10 (or later) or a recent version of macOS. Chromebooks, Linux-based systems, and tablets (e.g., iPad, Surface in tablet mode) are not supported.
- The self-direction to work independently on a flexible schedule
Bonus Points
- Stock or archival cataloguing and metadata tagging experience
- Audio-description experience describing visual detail precisely
- Familiarity with Avid, Premiere, iconik, CatDV, Axle, or similar media tools
What We Offer
- $30/hour (USD) for productive time on the platform
- Paid three times a week through Stripe
- 100% remote and fully flexible, with 15+ hours per week recommended and no cap on hours
- A path to higher-paid Reviewer work for consistent, high-quality contributors
JOB POSTING END

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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in Workada's words

Posted by Workada, reproduced here so you can judge the role before clicking. Original posting ↗

Put your video captioning skill to work training frontier AI. Correct highly detailed, structured descriptions of short video clips so they match the footage exactly. What You'll Do Work from a provided first-draft caption and correct it against the footage. Set shot boundaries to the exact frame, classify transitions and camera moves, transcribe dialogue with speaker attribution, and log actions, sounds, and on-screen text with timestamps. Who We're Looking For People with post-production, footage-logging, media-cataloguing, captioning, subtitling, or audio-description experience who can describe footage accurately and consistently without embellishing or interpreting it. Qualifications - At least 1 year of relevant professional experience - Bachelor's degree, completed or in progress - Frame-accurate attention to detail and fluency with timecode - Comfort describing footage in a controlled vocabulary that is accurate, literal, and consistent - Clean written English and solid transcription habits, including speaker attribution and non-speech sound labeling - Must be based in US or Canada Technical Requirements - Desktop or laptop running Windows 10 (or later) or a recent version of macOS. Chromebooks, Linux-based systems, and tablets (e.g., iPad, Surface in tablet mode) are not supported. - The self-direction to work independently on a flexible schedule Bonus Points - Stock or archival cataloguing and metadata tagging experience - Audio-description experience describing visual detail precisely - Familiarity with Avid, Premiere, iconik, CatDV, Axle, or similar media tools What We Offer - $30/hour (USD) for productive time on the platform - Paid three times a week through Stripe - 100% remote and fully flexible, with 15+ hours per week recommended and no cap on hours - A path to higher-paid Reviewer work for consistent, high-quality contributors

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Pay across the field: Domain experts

Across 699 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $30, is in the bottom quarter. Of the 260 distinct rates we count, 9 are lower and 245 are higher.

The 5 platforms with the most roles, of the 18 counted above.
Platform	Roles	Top of range, per hour
Alignerr	149	$24 to $200 · median $80
micro1	136	$28 to $400 · median $110
AfterQuery	88	$45 to $175 · median $100
Handshake AI	79	$30 to $300 · median $85
Mercor	78	$55 to $450 · median $120

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First seen here on 8 Oct 2026, and still on Workada's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
Listed pay changed on 12 Oct 2026: $28/hr before, $30/hr after.

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Posted by Workada: 15 Aug 2026
First seen by AIPayList: 8 Oct 2026
Last seen live: 13 Oct 2026
Listing ID: da6a300e-1e30-4032-ba86-56e511553be9

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