What it asks of you
Nothing beyond the work. Nothing asks you to re-key what the storage already knows.
For an assistant editor
Stop being asked for the same file twice
You carry the media, the deliverables and the requests, and most of the interruptions are for things somebody could have looked up.
The delivery list is real
Every destination, its spec, its owner and what it is waiting on. Blocked is distinguished from late, so you are not defending a red row that was never yours.
What landed is seen, not reported
A program watching your storage confirms a master exists. You stop confirming it by hand.
Requests arrive attached to the thing
A request for an element sits on the episode or package it belongs to, not in a thread you have to search.
The question that stops
“"Can you re-send the ALT master?" — for the third time, about a file that already went.”
Everyone else
It has to be worth something to every link, or it gets abandoned
A board only stays true if the people upstream and downstream of you are also getting something out of it. Here is what it does for them.
- Post SupervisorStop being the place answers live
- Post CoordinatorThe status chase ends
- Post ProducerSee the whole season without a status meeting
- EditorBe told what is yours, then left alone
- Online EditorKnow the cut is locked before you conform
- Audio / SweeteningGet the handoff with the version on it
- Captioning / LocalizationOne place that says what is ready and what is cleared
- Standards & PracticesYour note is attached to the episode, not an inbox
- Showrunner / EPOne screen, no status meeting
- Line Producer / UPMSee post from the production side
- Network / DeliveryKnow what shipped, where, and whether it passed
- IT / EngineeringNothing new is exposed to the internet
See it on a real board
The demo is the actual software on a made-up show. Open it and look at the part that is yours.
Walkthroughs are with Kevin Kelsey — 15 years an assistant editor, Children's & Family Emmy-nominated, and the person who built this. More about him.