Post-Production Workflow, step by step
Stages, in order, each locked before the next.
- Ingest and back upTwo copies on separate drives before any card is reused.
- Organise and syncConsistent names, bins by scene, external audio synced and labelled.
- Assembly to rough cutStructure only. Do not polish anything that may be cut.
- Picture lockStop changing the edit. Everything downstream depends on this.
- Sound and musicDialogue clean-up, effects, mix to the delivery loudness target.
- Grade and deliverColour, titles, captions, then export to the required specification.
Changing the picture after lock forces the mix and grade to be redone. That is where schedules and budgets are lost.
Questions about the Post-Production Workflow poster
- What’s on the Post-Production Workflow poster?
- 6 numbered steps. Stages, in order, each locked before the next. Ingest and back up — Two copies on separate drives before any card is reused.; Organise and sync — Consistent names, bins by scene, external audio synced and labelled.; Assembly to rough cut — Structure only. Do not polish anything that may be cut.; Picture lock — Stop changing the edit. Everything downstream depends on this.; Sound and music — Dialogue clean-up, effects, mix to the delivery loudness target.; Grade and deliver — Colour, titles, captions, then export to the required specification.. Changing the picture after lock forces the mix and grade to be redone. That is where schedules and budgets are lost.
- Who is the Post-Production Workflow poster for?
- Post-Production Workflow belongs to the Communications & Media section rather than to a school year, because humanities is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning production can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Post-Production Workflow poster?
- At the start of post, when it is still cheap to organise things. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Post-Production Workflow belongs on the wall where that humanities work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Post-Production Workflow?
- Recording Levels, The 180-Degree Rule and Angles & Height sit alongside Post-Production Workflow in the Communications & Media section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Recording LevelsThe 180-Degree RuleAngles & Height
- Is the Post-Production Workflow poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Post-Production Workflow downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Communications & Media section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Post-Production Workflow poster print at?
- Post-Production Workflow is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Post-Production Workflow loses nothing.Printing guide
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