What it asks of you
Nothing. You are a destination on the delivery list like any other.
For a captioning / localization
One place that says what is ready and what is cleared
You need the finished picture, the right variant, and certainty about what is cleared to travel where.
Variants keep their clearances
An INTL cut inherits the parent’s packages except the ones not cleared for it — and it names what it left behind rather than dropping it quietly.
Your deliverable is its own line
With its own spec, owner and due date, and its own gate if it waits on a QC pass.
As-broadcast captions stay searchable
What was said, on which episode, without reopening a master.
The question that stops
“"Is this the version that goes to the international cut?"”
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
- Assistant EditorStop being asked for the same file twice
- Online EditorKnow the cut is locked before you conform
- Audio / SweeteningGet the handoff with the version on it
- 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.