This article from IBC365 covers the effects of Covid-19 on the film and TV industry. With freelancers and staff across the entire supply chain impacted by business decisions and company closures. During Mental Health Awareness week, Alana Foster investigates what support and initiatives are out there. We have included the contribution our Founder Zeb Chadfield made to the article below:

We are able to provide synchronous and asynchronous review during our finishing process. The asynchronous approach is preferred as it saves a lot of cost to production by having members of the team review and give feedback on their own time rather than having talent, suites and equipment tied up during the process. It also gives the most reliable viewing experience regardless of internet and network challenges that can inhibit live review. The synchronous option is a great way to quickly spot check changes or adjust elements live when a finer level of control and feedback is required. Our review options are covered below. Contact our bookings team for pricing and information.

This is a basic guide on how to get your Avid Media Composer Project over to us for us to conform for final post.

The team at EditShare interviewed me recently and you can find links to both interviews here. They also wrote this story about how The Finish Line came to be which I’ve included below.

This is a basic workflow or tips for ingesting media via DaVinci Resolve to be used externally in applications like Avid Media Composer. The goal of these steps isn’t to be the perfect workflow for all productions as we customise a lot of this for specific cameras and workflows but hopefully this will help any productions looking to manage their own media to do it in a way that should make the conform process more simple for us when the time comes for final post. If you need to talk to us about a specific project so we can create a more refined template please get in-touch.

This is a demo of automated ingest, cloud hosted viewing and editing from The Finish Line.

This is an excerpt from this article in Broadcast Magazine. Zeb Chadfield, founder and CEO, The Finish Line What has been the impact of coronavirus on your business? We are built for pop-up and remote post-production so the main difference is a lot of our system installs are happening at the houses of our staff instead of the offices of our clients. Our HQ is also not client-facing so we can easily limit and manage the people coming in and out with all the standard rules in place for washing hands and disinfecting surfaces. Aside from a few minor tweaks it has been business as usual for us so far.

Now with a roster of clients ranging from boutique sizes to as big as Viacom – Can you give us some insight into the company’s history & how it has changed over the years?

We are pleased to announce that The Finish Line has been awarded the DPP’s Committed to Security mark for Production. It’s great to have The Finish Line recognised for our commitment to data security as it’s part of the business we take extremely seriously.

If you are sending a finished programme to us for delivery from Media Composer and we are going to carry out any QC fixes please follow these steps.