Feature
Hand off to sound and colour
Send the cut to the mix and the grade as an AAF or an EDL, with change lists when the cut moves. Export ProRes when you need a file.
Instead of a turnover day spent rebuilding the cut for a sound team and a colourist.
- For Editors, Post houses
- Plans Editor seat and Production
The cut is locked, or locked enough. Now it goes to the people who finish it: a sound team for the mix, and a colourist for the grade. B/side hands it over in the formats they already work with.
What you can send
- AAF, for a sound team or a colourist who will open the cut in their own system.
- EDL, for a grade or a conform that works from a list.
- Change lists, for when the cut moves after turnover.
- ProRes, for a finished file. ProRes export needs the free desktop helper.
Names that travel
The names the sound mixer gave each channel on set go with the cut. The sound team opens your AAF and sees the boom and each lav by name, on the tracks you cut them on. That is one less thing to explain in a turnover note.
Why change lists matter
Pictures rarely lock only once. A network note or a late music change moves the cut after sound and colour have started. A change list tells them what moved, so they update the work they have done instead of starting again.
Why it matters
Turnover is where a lot of time quietly goes on a show. When the hand-off is a file the next person can open, the cutting room spends that day cutting, and the mix and the grade start on time.
Which plan
The line is about who the file is for. The moment an outside vendor is involved, such as a mix house, a colourist or an online, it is professional work, and handing work to another facility is what the Editor seat plan is for. It is part of Production too. Talk to us and we will set you up.
Getting your own cut out is never a professional extra. On every plan, including Free, you can export the cut as an H.264 file and take frame grabs.
Questions
Which formats can I hand off?
For the cut itself, AAF or EDL. When the cut changes after turnover, a change list. For a finished file, ProRes, which needs the free desktop helper.
Which plan do I need?
Handing work to another facility is what the Editor seat plan is for, and Production includes it too. Exporting your own cut as an H.264 file, and frame grabs, are on every plan, including Free.
Do the mic names come across?
Yes. The names the sound mixer gave each channel travel with the cut into the files you hand off.