Online Conform & QC

Here is the layout. Online conform is the tech finishing pass where the offline edit gets rebuilt at full fix from camera originals, each VFX shot is dropped in at the right handle, each title and lower-third is reconstructed at master quality, and the timeline is locked to the frame before it moves to colour and delivery.

Here is how the work shapes up. Our team lines up conform at the Tribeca and Soho finishing houses where most NYC television and feature work lands. PostWorks New York, Technicolor PostWorks NY, Light Iron NY at Harbor Picture Company, Goldcrest Post Production, MTI Film NY ops, Picture Shop NY — with conform artists running Avid Symphony, Fix, and Baselight pipelines that map cleanly onto the East-Coast Avid-heavy episodic workflow.

Here is how it adds up. AAF or XML from the offline cutting room is rebuilt against ARRIRAW, RED R3D, or Sony X-OCN originals, VFX pulls are checked against the edit reference, and extra elements — graphic packages, archival inserts, music-cleared replacements — are integrated into a single conformed master.

Here is the run-down. From conform the master moves into automated and manual QC against the exact delivery target. For HBO Hudson Yards, NBCUniversal, Bloomberg, or CNBC handoff we check ATSC A/85 loudness, broadcast-safe video levels, and SMPTE timecode integrity. For Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, or Amazon Studios we run the platform-exact QC checklist covering codec parameters, IMF CPL structure, captioning sync, and HDR PQ metadata. For Tribeca, NY Film Festival, or DOC NYC theatrical submissions we check DCP playback, subtitle timing, and CPL integrity on a reference cinema server. Interra Baton, Venera Pulsar, and manual op review run side by side, with detailed frame-accurate QC reports with each deliverable so receiving TV networks and streamers can sign off without escalation and first-pass acceptance stays the norm rather than the exception.