Every guide, comparison and workflow we’ve published on Finishing.
10 articles
replace_slideshow_slide bills a new image; remove and reorder do not refund or generate. Surgery on a board you have not locked, or on a reel you already exported, is the expensive order.
Players guess Rec.709 and gamma 2.2 when nclc and colr are missing, so grades shift after upload. Tag Rec.709, P3 and PQ, then inspect before you send.
A signed one-pager for codec, luma range, loudness, captions, textless and checksum, so the master the client accepts is the file you send.
A filename grammar for _pic, _mix, _grade, and _del, plus a matrix of who owns each suffix, and why final2 is not a version.
Generated music parked in 5.1 L/R starves dialogue on stereo TVs. Fold down with center protected and LFE discarded for social and web masters.
Models return exact-length clips. Pad 8-12 frames on each end so dissolves, J-cuts, and limiter look-ahead do not hit hard cuts.
Hold lips to ±1 frame on film and ±2 on broadcast. Slip generated SFX inside that window, and regenerate only when a slip would break the rest of the scene.
Define picture lock when a shot can still regenerate: a signed change-list, and which picture changes reopen grade and mix.
Generated faces sit off the skin-tone line. Read the vectorscope, then use hue and sat moves to unify a sequence without running a beauty pass.
8-bit timelines stripe skies after a mild S-curve. Make 10-bit 4:2:2 the house intermediate, and keep stills that prove the banding was the file.
