At The Finish Line, we are all about delivering the best images possible and the key to doing this is our approach; having incredible Finishing Artists who take full ownership of picture from a finished conform right through to the final review. But what is a Finishing Artist? We couldn’t explain this more eloquently than Maggie did in her recent Post Perspective interview:

For remote client monitoring we recommend using NDI Tools with Zoom for sharing as if it were a traditional client monitor. This is built into Media Composer and has the best user experience and will adapt well to any bandwidth constraints that may arise. The installation and setup instructions are below.

All drives that are shipped around with production data on them should be encrypted. Especially when shipping rushes. Below is the most simple approach to dealing with drive encryption via software when hardware encryption isn’t available.

Not enough action is being taken to improve the mental health of post house talent, says Zeb Chadfield

The Film and TV Charity has relaunched the Looking Glass Survey, two years after the original research project uncovered a mental health emergency behind-the-scenes of the industry, and they need your help. Don’t miss your chance to complete the survey now.

Every production requires a bespoke solution for editorial; whether they are located at home, in serviced offices, or in the production office, we need to take into consideration a number of variables such as internet speed and location, as well as the data management and security demands of the project. The fundamentals of our craft editing solutions are covered below. Contact our bookings team for pricing and additional information.

This is the basic process for creating a split track file for your mix. To simplify things it’s best to break it into three phases. This is to first add the timecode burn-in, second is to create the audio mixdown for all of the sound excluding the guide VO, then the same but for VO only then the third part is exporting the viewing file.

This is a quick demo using DaVinci Resolve and Simon Says

Once you have unlocked the padlocks and pulled everything out of the case you can follow this diagram for setting up our review systems.

For our 2021 tote bag I decided to pay a little tribute to my family’s business which has been sold this year. Chaddy’s Charters is a tourism business based in Taranaki, New Zealand which takes people out to the local seal colony and has been running for over 30 years.