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What Information Do I Need to Extract From My Delivery List?

When we look at the delivery requirements lists in Film & TV, it is essential to properly extract all of the necessary details upfront.
Dec 15
This critical step helps to ensure an organized and efficient post production process. Primarily at the start, you need to have at your disposal the right information to ensure that all items in the delivery requirements checklist can be met. You are pulling out information in order to create…

Technical Workflow Document
Facility Tender Document
These two things will feed directly into…

Post Production Budget
Post Production Schedule
It is important to critically examine your Delivery Requirements list, as you are extracting specific details for specific purposes. These purposes may include, but are not limited to, determining logistics, estimating cost, and evaluating potential risks. You are pulling out information for a reason and the information will help you!

The following is a simple guide to what you should be looking for…

Information Which Will Affect How You Set Up Post
Document management systems – (Link to page)
Secure video distribution systems (Link to page)
Approved method for transferring media? (Link to page)
Security (Link to page)
Legal (Link to page)
Naming conventions (Link to page)
Paperwork requirements (Link to page)
Information Which Will Affect How You Set Up Workflows
Camera formats, codecs, frame rates & aspect ratios (Link to page)
DIT workflow and color pipeline (Link to page)
The Dailies Lab transcoding and master back-ups process/Facility (Link to page)
Sound recordists specs and backups. Specs for the dailies streaming platform
Specs for proxy media
Data capture/storage
Stock footage – deals or blanket agreements
Music library information – approved libraries or blanket agreements
Information Which Will Affect How You Set Up Your Delivery
Technical information for delivery:

Delivery formats for final picture files – Buzzwords SDR, HDR, Dolby Vision, HDR10 etc.
Delivery formats for sound – Dolby Atmos, 7.1, 5.1
Delivery format for your Master Files – IMF, Prores files, DCP, DPP AS11.
Archive masters – LTO etc.