Primetime Drama
48 invisible shots · 10-day window · Broadcast
The best cleanup work is the work nobody will ever see. Forty-eight shots across six episodes — rigs, crew reflections, modern street furniture and one very persistent boom shadow — all gone before the online.
The brief
A production company came to us in the online window of a six-part drama with a list that will be familiar to any post supervisor: safety wires on a rooftop sequence, a camera crew caught in a rain-soaked shop window, parking restrictions painted on a road that was supposed to be 1974, and continuity fixes that the edit had surfaced too late to reshoot.
How we approached it
Every shot was triaged in a single real-time review session — plates loaded into our pipeline and scrubbed live with the post supervisor on a call, so the shot list, method and quote were agreed in an afternoon rather than a week of emails. Wire and rig removal ran through planar tracking and clean-plate reconstruction; the period street was resurfaced with projected patches pulled from the production’s own location stills.
"Cleanup lists usually die by email thread. Reviewing the plates live with the post supervisor meant we agreed all forty-eight approaches in one sitting — that's the real-time pipeline paying for itself before a single frame was painted."
Daniel Evans — VFX Supervisor, vedrí
Credits
- VFX Supervisor
- Daniel Evans
- Compositing
- vedrí vfx
- Pipeline
- Assimilate Live FX · Planar tracking · Clean-plate reconstruction
- Delivery
- Rec 709, grade-ready EXR