For anyone with a hand in production, whether camera, directing, producing, or editing, this session covers what post can genuinely rescue from a locked edit, and what it can’t. Working live in DaVinci Resolve, it walks through real rescue scenarios: planned fixes decided on set, mistakes that happen mid-shoot, and mistakes nobody controls, like a live award show with one take and no reset.
It covers the cheapest fix first, from reframing to patching to masking to full paint. It also looks at where AI genuinely helps versus where it can’t be trusted, and closes with color correction as a tool for directing the eye rather than prettifying the frame. Almost everything is fixable, but the real question is always what it costs.
Key Takeaways
Learn why saying a fix out loud on set turns it into a line item post can plan for instead of an emergency discovered the night before delivery.
Get a six-item handoff list, including a clean plate, handles, extra frame room, a locked-off pass, a spare cutaway, and a ten-second note, that turns expensive post fixes into cheap ones.
Learn how to match a fix to its actual cost, from a minutes-long reframe up to a half-day paint-out, so you never reach for more than the problem needs.
Understand where AI genuinely helps in a post pipeline, through fast selection and simple erasure, and where it still can’t be trusted, such as invention and edges in motion.
Session C
The 7 Building Blocks: A Better System for Church Communication
