Screen & Broadcast

British post professionals offered 400 subsidised AI places

Soho Editors and ScreenSkills are targeting the training at film and high-end television professionals who want to apply AI responsibly in the editing workflow.

Translated from Dutch by AI

Soho Editors is making 400 fully funded places available to British post-production professionals. The training covers AI applications in offline editing, as well as copyright, security, licensing and the checking of generated material.

The AI Assisted Workflows for Offline Editorial in HETV & Film 2026–2027 programme is designed for professionals in film and high-end television. ScreenSkills lists 200 places for film professionals and 200 for high-end television. The training consists of one live online day and is intended for people at different career stages.

Funding comes from the ScreenSkills High-end TV Skills Fund and the ScreenSkills Film Skills Fund, with contributions from British high-end television and film productions. According to ScreenSkills, the scheme is available nationwide to candidates who live in the United Kingdom, are permitted to work there and have a demonstrable connection to the film or high-end television sector.

The content goes beyond demonstrations of generative software. According to ScreenSkills, participants will learn how AI can help organise production information and notes, search footage and create temporary assets. ScreenSkills also cites work involving previsualisation, ADR, voice-over, music and sound as components of the broader workflow.

The training also covers the risks of adoption. The programme includes data security, copyright, licensing, transparency and verification of AI-generated material. AI is therefore not presented as a replacement for editing, but as a tool within existing editorial and technical processes in which human judgement remains necessary.

For producers and post-production companies, the funding structure is particularly relevant. The sector is contributing to a training offer that is intended not only to teach employees to work with software, but also to assess when a tool is legally or editorially unsuitable. That knowledge may be important when production companies work with cloud services, transcription systems and footage-search functions.

For participants, it is also relevant which software suppliers or specific AI models are used. The number of training places alone does not predict how many participants will actually deploy AI tools in productions afterwards. The training does, however, indicate the British sector’s priorities: skills, security and rights management are treated alongside efficiency as conditions for using AI.

According to ScreenSkills, applications can be made until 8 March 2027, or earlier if all places are filled. ScreenSkills says the 2027 dates were due to be published in November 2026. For freelancers and smaller post houses, the programme may lower the barrier to training, but it does not replace company policies on client material, cloud storage or consent for model use.

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