Film & video post-production workflow template

Steps in this flowchart

• Principal photography wraps
• Ingest camera media & back up to LTO
• Sync audio & create proxies for dailies
• Assistant editor organises bins
• Editor builds assembly cut in Avid or Premiere
• Director cut
• Producer & studio notes
• Picture locked?
• Turnover: EDL & AAF to departments
• VFX shots & compositing
• Sound edit, ADR & Foley
• Music composition & licensing
• Online conform at full resolution
• Colour grade in DaVinci Resolve
• Re-recording mix in Pro Tools
• Marry picture & final mix
• QC pass?
• Fix flagged issues
• Deliver DCP, ProRes masters & captions
• Distribution

How to use this flowchart template

1. Click Open in the editor. The flowchart opens on a new page in FlowDiagram — nothing is uploaded and there is no sign-up.
2. Rename, add or delete shapes and drag them where you want; connectors stay attached as things move.
3. Drop in vendor logos from the library — 1,160 of them, including every AWS, Azure and Google Cloud service icon — or restyle it with the colour and theme controls.
4. Prefer text? Edit the Mermaid source below and paste it in through ☰ → Import diagram (see the Mermaid editor); it imports as an editable diagram.
5. Export to PNG, SVG or PDF, or press Ctrl+L for a link that carries the whole diagram.

Mermaid source

The whole template is the text below. Paste it into FlowDiagram, keep it in Git next to the code it describes, or hand it to an AI assistant to extend.

flowchart TD
  A((Principal photography wraps)) --> B[Ingest camera media & back up to LTO]
  B --> C[Sync audio & create proxies for dailies]
  C --> D[Assistant editor organises bins]
  D --> E[Editor builds assembly cut in Avid or Premiere]
  E --> F[Director cut]
  F --> G[Producer & studio notes]
  G --> H{Picture locked?}
  H -->|No| F
  H -->|Yes| I[Turnover: EDL & AAF to departments]
  I --> J[VFX shots & compositing]
  I --> K[Sound edit, ADR & Foley]
  I --> L[Music composition & licensing]
  J --> M[Online conform at full resolution]
  M --> N[Colour grade in DaVinci Resolve]
  K --> O[Re-recording mix in Pro Tools]
  L --> O
  N --> P[Marry picture & final mix]
  O --> P
  P --> Q{QC pass?}
  Q -->|No| R[Fix flagged issues]
  R --> P
  Q -->|Yes| S[Deliver DCP, ProRes masters & captions]
  S --> T((Distribution))

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