🎞️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 β€œClient” 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

Step 3. Upload Stock footage

NOTE: We prioritize uploading in Film Supply but if rejected we upload in Artgrid

Uploading in FILMSUPPLY

  • 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

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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