Complete guide
Video post-production, from rushes to delivery
The technical backbone of an edit in five steps, each a deep-dive guide: organise your rushes, lock the sound to picture, hand the audio off to the mix, and subtitle to standard.
By Hanna Eng·Audio engineer, Abbey Road Institute Paris
A clean edit is built on a clean workflow. Log your rushes well and the cut comes together fast. Lock sync early and nothing drifts later. Conform the sound properly and the mix engineer starts from a usable session. Subtitle to the right spec and the file passes on the first delivery. This guide maps that chain and links to a focused, factual deep-dive for each step.
The workflow, step by step
- 1Log and organise your rushesDérushage: how to watch, select and label your footage so the edit starts from an organised, searchable project.Read the guide→
- 2Sync sound to pictureLine up dual-system audio with the camera, from clap and waveform to timecode, and verify the result on a sharp transient.Read the guide→
- 3Conform the audio for the mixExport an AAF or OMF with handles so the sound engineer opens a clean, fully conformed session, not a flat bounce.Read the guide→
- 4Subtitle to standardReading speed, line length and timing per the Netflix and ATAA norms, so subtitles read comfortably and pass QC.Read the guide→
- 5Choose your subtitle formatBurned-in or a separate SRT file: which one fits your platform, your languages and your delivery, and why.Read the guide→
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