1. Clarify post-production briefs
   • Confirm technical and creative briefs for proposed productions in consultation with relevant production personnel
   • Liaise with camera operators to select and test suitable codecs for acquisition
   • Evaluate creative treatment for colour grade of program
   • Select suitable colour grading software for the work
   • Test workflow for proposed media and rectify, if required, to confirm metadata is compatible with chosen software package
   • Ascertain deadlines for completion and modify approach to complete work on schedule
2. Prepare assets for colour grade
   • Check video monitor calibration, and organise correction as required
   • Choose suitable media drive with required performance for media assets
   • Ingest media and metadata assets and make required adjustments for any colourspace variations
   • Check transferred metadata correctly references desired edits and adjust as required
   • Perform backups of all supplied and generated media and metadata
3. Perform primary colour grade
   • Select appropriate lookup table (LUT) for media if required
   • Use technical scopes to read and check contrast and colour values
   • Adjust contrast of clips to achieve desired creative result
   • Adjust colour and saturation of clips to correct for imbalances and set to a neutral tone
   • Ensure sequential shots from scenes are suitably matched
   • Adjust contrast and colour to meet requirements of the brief
4. Perform secondary colour grade
   • Choose clips that require secondary colour grading
   • Make selective adjustments to parts of the images based on colour and contrast
   • Make selective adjustments to images based on preset and custom shapes
   • Combine multiple secondary corrections in the one clip
   • Adjust and change values of secondary colour corrections over time, if required
   • Create and store different colour grade versions of the same clip, if required
   • Make changes as required by relevant production personnel
5. Create and output deliverables
   • Check brief and supplied specification documents for required output files
   • Create low resolution output files
   • Create high resolution output files that comply with specification documents
   • Create metadata files if necessary
   • Archive all media and metadata according to enterprise procedures
   • Complete all required tasks within deadlines

This section specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included.

Evidence of the ability to:

Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.

To complete the unit requirements safely and effectively, the individual must: