TABLE OF CONTENTS
Streamlined dailies and on-set review
Give directors, producers, and studio executives instant access to footage—no matter where production is shooting.
Film and television productions often operate across multiple locations with decision-makers spread globally. Waiting for physical hard drives or overnight file transfers to review dailies slows creative momentum and delays critical production decisions.
Shade enables DITs and data managers to upload footage right after capture via the mounted drive. Directors can review takes from their hotel room, producers can assess progress from headquarters, and studio executives can evaluate performance from across the country—all before the next shooting day begins.
Shade's frame-accurate commenting allows for precise feedback on performances, technical issues, or creative choices. Version control ensures everyone reviews the latest selects, and transcript search makes it easy to locate specific dialogue or scenes across hundreds of hours of footage.
VFX coordination and asset management
Centralize plates, references, turnovers, and iterations across multiple VFX vendors without version chaos.
Visual effects workflows traditionally involve complex file exchanges across multiple vendor studios, often managed through FTP servers, physical drives, or multiple cloud platforms. Tracking versions, maintaining consistent color spaces, and ensuring everyone works from current files becomes a coordination nightmare.
Shade provides a unified workspace where editorial teams can share plates and reference material with VFX vendors, who can then upload work-in-progress shots for review by directors, VFX supervisors, and producers. Timestamped feedback and version control keep iterations organized, and AI-powered tagging helps organize shots by sequence, complexity, and status.
Smart Collections allow VFX supervisors to create vendor-specific shares with access controls, ensuring sensitive material stays secure while maintaining efficient workflows. When a VFX shot is updated, the entire team sees the latest version automatically—no manual re-sharing required.
Editorial and post-production collaboration
Enable picture editors, sound designers, colorists, and music supervisors to work in parallel from one source of truth.
Post-production involves numerous specialized teams working interdependently—picture editors refining cuts, sound designers building soundscapes, colorists developing looks, and music supervisors placing tracks. Traditional workflows create bottlenecks as teams wait for handoffs or work from outdated versions.
Shade's real-time streaming enables parallel workflows. Sound designers can begin work on scenes that picture editors have locked while other sequences remain in progress. Colorists can access raw footage to develop LUTs and looks that inform cinematography decisions on ongoing shoots.
For episodic television with compressed post schedules, this parallel processing is essential. Multiple episodes can progress through post-production simultaneously, with each department accessing exactly what they need when they need it, all while maintaining version control and collaborative oversight.
Franchise and series archives
Build searchable archives that span seasons, sequels, and shared universes—making continuity and reference material instantly accessible.
Long-running series and film franchises accumulate years of footage, plate photography, reference materials, and behind-the-scenes content that becomes increasingly valuable—and increasingly difficult to access—over time. Shade Vault maintains this material in an intelligently organized, fully searchable format.
When developing a sequel or new season, creatives can instantly access established materials: character close-ups for VFX reference, location plates for consistent world-building, previous episodes for continuity checks, or behind-the-scenes footage for promotional campaigns.
Shade's facial recognition tracks character appearances across seasons and films, making it trivial to compile every appearance of a specific character or find reference material for costume continuity. For episodic television, search transcripts to track evolving story arcs or find every mention of plot-critical information.
This searchable franchise library also supports monetization through anniversary editions, documentary supplements, and licensed content packages that would be prohibitively time-consuming to compile from traditional archives.
Studio and network review workflows
Streamline approval processes with secure stakeholder access and granular permission controls.
Film and television productions involve multiple layers of creative and financial stakeholders—studio executives, network programmers, financial backers, legal teams, and creative producers—all requiring review access at different stages. Traditional review processes involve insecure file sharing, version confusion, and time-consuming approval bottlenecks that can delay release schedules.
Shade's permission-controlled sharing enables producers to grant precisely the right level of access to each stakeholder group. Studio executives can review rough cuts and provide timestamped notes without accessing raw footage or proprietary production materials. Legal teams can review sensitive content for clearance issues while network standards departments evaluate broadcast compliance—all within the same secure platform.
Version control ensures that when a network requests changes to episode three while episode four is already in post-production, everyone works from the correct version without confusion. Approval workflows track feedback across multiple review rounds, making it clear which notes have been addressed and which require further discussion. For international co-productions or multi-territory distribution, different stakeholder groups can access region-specific versions while maintaining centralized project oversight.
Enhanced production value and workflow efficiency
Business Impact
Accelerate post-production: Enable parallel workflows and eliminate file transfer delays
Support premium deliverables: Access source material for HDR remasters, extended editions, and bonus content
Maintain creative momentum: Give directors and producers instant access to footage regardless of location
Ensure continuity: Keep franchise and series archives searchable across years of production
