🎞️Stock Footage Post-Production
Purpose
Stock footage is one of the main passive income earners for Vonas Media. Being able to produce and sell a set of stock footage is essential for funding media production.
Procedure
Step 0. Prerequisites - Prodcution Team sends Release forms - Acquire files from production : https://app.smartsuite.com/s2c0a6tm/solution/638aa045653285a398428350/638ad08f2eb7482b517d0b1d/638eafdaca7ebfbf132db0c9?editRecord=639042ead7dbb87ef516b27e
Step 1. Stock Selection and General Workflow Guideline
Create a record inside the stock footage tab in the content creation solution. This link - Input the project name (ex; Street Court Painter) - Then input the scene (ex; Street Painters Designing and Painting in the Streets) *** NOTE: You don’t have to be super specific when it comes to the scenes, just make sure that the scene you have put in the record applies to the relevant footages.
Select stock-worthy footage (only 4k footage from Passions, Tatak, and OTR)
Create proxy media for editing (720p)
Upload all proxies to GDrive inside the Stockfootage folder.
Once uploaded, open this link and submit the footages.
Input the project name (ex; Basketball Player Training) and click Vonas OPC for the “Client” tab.
Await the freelancers from Airtable to submit their deliverables.
Once you have received the updated files from the freelancers - Render the footages in the highest resolution. (Recommended Export Settings: H.264 > Apple Prores > @4k)
Render two sets; one set being color graded and one log (raw) - Render it in a file name such as (ex; [PRORES] Basketball Player Training for Graded clips; and [LOG] Basketball Player Training for raw clips)
Once rendered update the database in Smartsuite and rename the files per scene in bulk by using Kyno (ex; Project name: Street Court Painters > Scene name: Street kids dancing and playing basketball) - Just select the desired clips and right click > rename > select Custom (1) for graded footages and Custom (2) for raw footages.
Once renaming is done start uploading in Filmsupply or Artgrid or Blackbox
Once all done, apply the proper status of the project in Smartsuite
Step 2. Color Grade
Color Grade based on stock footage website standard
Filmsupply: https://filmmakers.filmsupply.com/send-footage/
Step 3. Upload Stock footage
NOTE: We prioritize uploading in Film Supply but if rejected we upload in Artgrid
Uploading in FILMSUPPLY
Be sure to check guidelines for color grading in Curation Guidelines:https://filmmakers.filmsupply.com/send-footage/
Rename footage based on guidelines: https://filmmakers.filmsupply.com/send-footage/
Log in to https://www.filmsupply.com/
Go to footage manager https://www.filmsupply.com/dashboard/footage-manager/shoots or you can access it in the account panel in the dashboard link under Selling
You can now upload footage in the upload panel.
Upload the release form if needed. You can ask for the talent release form from the producer.
You can update the tags in the footage manager.
Uploading in ARTGRID
Rename footage based on guidelines: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14BGUito9FiwygghD-W___-Uot3v5H5AttUTHSqDS8wo/edit#slide=id.g11f10e365e6_1_0
You can upload using ftp (ftp user: vonascreatives password: Opz1w9%cd ) but I recommend uploading directly in https://filmmaker.artgrid.io/
Upload footage and then fill up a submission form separately. This is a new requirement form from Artgrid in this link: https://forms.artlist.io/220993873393974 (our artist id is 782)
Step 4. Check Stockfootage
Wait for Approval
Make revisions/fixes if needed
Step 5. Update Records
Outputs
Film Supply
Art grid
FAQs
NOTE: We recommend using DaVinci Resolve as our NLE since most of our equipment is BlackMagic Design and is most compatible with DaVinci Resolve.
Some Tutorials to check:
a. DaVinci Resolve Program Basic Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Ln33O4p4c
b. Color grading Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZ4-CF_osk&t=1870s
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