Notes from the lab.

How stills get run on a production, written down: intake, tagging, approvals, metadata and delivery.

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Tell us what you're shooting next.

Start with one title. Upload a shoot, bring its metadata in from a CSV, and confirm the cast. Then decide.

A person on our team reads it and writes back.