Control technical quality in post production
Overview
This Standard is about creating technically satisfactory content, maintaining Standards that will satisfy the expectations of the clients and the audience for the commercial environment and the different media in which it will be viewed. This Standard should apply to anyone who is involved with controlling technical quality.
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
identify technical expectations and requirements of clients from
reliable sources
- agree schedule, time and budget requirements with relevant
people
- specify technical detail that complies with quality expectations and
technical requirements
- make critical judgments about video and audio quality against
expected artistic and technical standards
- assess content against technical quality specification and
recommend work to remedy elements that do not meet
specification
- make necessary adjustments to content to achieve technical and
legal compliance
- find compromises that are acceptable to clients, where elements
are hard to remedy or cannot be funded
- prepare quality assessment reports, documenting technical
compliance exceptions and justification in line with company
procedures
- advise relevant people on further post production needs and
processes
- maintain security for files and other materials in line with company
requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
how viewers look at content and take in visual and audio
information
- how to assess video and audio quality to expected artistic and
technical standards
- the benefits and disadvantages of automated quality control
devices including which fault conditions they can reliably detect
and which they cannot
techniques and equipment for manipulating shots and scenes
conventions for storing and naming files
principles of management of metadata and its importance
principles of standard and non-standard deliverables, file formats,
digital interconnectivity and elements of audio and video signals
how to measure critical elements of audio and video signals
computer and data network configuration
the contributions that can be made to the technical quality of a film
by post production colleagues
- current viewing standards and current professional, national and
international standards of delivery and expressions of best
practice for the range of platforms and content
technical compliance and legal requirements
processes of Quality Assessment Review
company systems for storage, back up and security