Creating a Master File Differences

Episode #31 - Welcome to another COVID Feature & a Short episode: Mastering File Differences. In this workflow process share, Director/Editor Justin Joseph Hall explains how to export the proper master file for your archives or for delivery. This is important in order to future-proof your final file and what you’ve invested all of your time and your money into. Justin shares how to preserve the best possible quality for your project’s posterity by covering: equipment, creating a master file for a short film versus for a feature, high resolution, why you should avoid letterboxing, suggestions for finishing codec (not H.264!), JPEGS, for example, JPEG 200 files or Targa files for animation, incorporating audio and graphics into your master file, subtitles (don’t include them), and file labeling.