Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify post-production briefs
- Confirm technical and creative briefs for proposed productions in consultation with relevant production personnel
- Liaise with camera operators to select and test suitable codecs for acquisition
- Evaluate creative treatment for colour grade of program
- Select suitable colour grading software for the work
- Test workflow for proposed media and rectify, if required, to confirm metadata is compatible with chosen software package
- Ascertain deadlines for completion and modify approach to complete work on schedule
- Prepare assets for colour grade
- Check video monitor calibration, and organise correction as required
- Choose suitable media drive with required performance for media assets
- Ingest media and metadata assets and make required adjustments for any colourspace variations
- Check transferred metadata correctly references desired edits and adjust as required
- Perform backups of all supplied and generated media and metadata
- Perform primary colour grade
- Select appropriate lookup table (LUT) for media if required
- Use technical scopes to read and check contrast and colour values
- Adjust contrast of clips to achieve desired creative result
- Adjust colour and saturation of clips to correct for imbalances and set to a neutral tone
- Ensure sequential shots from scenes are suitably matched
- Adjust contrast and colour to meet requirements of the brief
- Perform secondary colour grade
- Choose clips that require secondary colour grading
- Make selective adjustments to parts of the images based on colour and contrast
- Make selective adjustments to images based on preset and custom shapes
- Combine multiple secondary corrections in the one clip
- Adjust and change values of secondary colour corrections over time, if required
- Create and store different colour grade versions of the same clip, if required
- Make changes as required by relevant production personnel
- Create and output deliverables
- Check brief and supplied specification documents for required output files
- Create low resolution output files
- Create high resolution output files that comply with specification documents
- Create metadata files if necessary
- Archive all media and metadata according to enterprise procedures
- Complete all required tasks within deadlines