Watched, never handed over.
Dailies are streamed, not sent. Each one plays encrypted, with the watcher's name over the picture, and only for as long as they are on the film.
The lights go down. The daily plays.
@Ravi Shankar the sky is too heavy here. Lift it a little?
Ravi Shankar Half a stop, in the grade.
Hold on him longer before the cut.
One copy, played through AeroSync.
Each daily is made into one streaming copy, encrypted as it is made. It is played through AeroSync every time, so when someone's access ends, their next play is refused.
- The watcher's name on the picture. Whoever is watching sees their own name over the frame.
- Frame by frame. The timecode on screen, the frame named exactly, the previous and next take a key away.
- Only for whom the role allows. Who watches dailies is set by the role, film by film, never by a link that can be passed on.
- Whoever is named is told. By a bell and an email, and neither carries the words or the file's name.
Notes on the frame they are about.
The director leaves a note on a frame or a range of frames, draws on the picture, and names who should answer. The answer is left in the same place.
- Drawn on the picture. An arrow, a line, a box or a free hand, in four colours, or a pin on a spot.
- Into the cutting room. A file's notes as a spreadsheet, as text, or as markers for Avid, Premiere or Resolve at the file's own timecode.
- From a phone, too. Notes on dailies are one of the things done from a phone.
Every play on the film's record.
Who watched what, and when, is a line on the film's Activity, with everything else done on the film. A line cannot be taken off, and the page says when nothing has been changed.
How a film is kept safe