Run a Broadcast-Safe Pass Before Delivery
RGB and composite illegal values still fail cable and FAST QC. A Rec.709 16–235 checklist, a legalizer after the grade, and a stills compare to keep the look.
RGB and composite illegal values still fail cable and FAST QC. A Rec.709 16–235 checklist, a legalizer after the grade, and a stills compare to keep the look.
Ship masters with an xxHash manifest and packing list, plus a rule for WeTransfer versus Aspera, Signiant, MASV, or a physical drive.
A filename grammar for _pic, _mix, _grade, and _del, plus a matrix of who owns each suffix, and why final2 is not a version.
Generation QA grades a clip against its prompt. Finishing QC signs off freeze frames, black, sync, flash, loudness, captions, slate, textless, and a checksum.
Localization dies without a textless. Keep titles on a video track, export a matching textless, and ship a title sheet so markets restamp without a new grade.
Spatial and binaural masters do not survive most social and web players. When a 5.1 bed is worth the fold-down, and when stereo is the honest master.