Avid Media Composer Automation Features:
Dailies, VFX Tracking, Turnover Packages, Document Organization, Editor's Binder & More
Developing Tank handles the repetitive parts of post-production automatically
Stop maintaining a second edit just to keep trackers and paperwork current. Developing Tank is Avid workflow automation (AVB/AAF/ALE/EDL) → scene bins, VFX tracking, turnover packages, continuity, and reports. Upload your Avid files (AVB, AAF, ALE/CSV, or EDL). We detect and track VFX shots, create scene bins, apply retimes, generate turnover packages, populate continuity and omission reporting, and sync your database — from the files you already have. No manual entry. No spreadsheets.
Built for Avid Media Composer workflows — AVB, AAF, ALE, EDL in, usable outputs out.
Below are the specific tasks we automate, organized by workflow stage.
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Build Every Avid Scene Bin in Seconds
Scene bin creation and dailies organization are fully automated. Upload your dailies files and Developing Tank builds organized Avid bins from the metadata already in your project.
Upload AVB or AAF Files
What it does: Reads the metadata to create organized bins.
Your benefit: No duplicate clips, no sifting though clips, and no clicking and dragging.
Automatic Bin Creation
What it does: Creates scene bins and fills them with the correct takes based on clip metadata and your naming conventions.
Your benefit: Editors get bins that are consistent day after day, and assistants avoid hours of dragging clips by hand.
Multicam Groups Ready to Cut
What it does: Matches clips by setup, scene, take, camera, and supported metadata to group takes.
Your benefit: Grouping becomes a repeatable process instead of a full morning of manual setup.
Offspeed Dailies Handled Automatically
What it does: Detects slow-motion and high-speed footage, calculates the correct motion effect, and applies the retime for the target project frame rate.
Your benefit: Footage shot at 48, 72, 96, 120 fps, and other offspeed rates arrives ready for the editor instead of needing clip-by-clip retime work.
Continuity and Paperwork From the Same Upload
What it does: Uses sequence and clip metadata to populate continuity, timing, and project reports from the same source of truth.
Your benefit: The team stops retyping information that already exists in editorial files.
Smart Finishing Prep for Retimed Media
What it does: Identifies subclips with nested (or embedded) retimes before turnover, online, or color.
Your benefit: No missed offspeed clips in massive action scenes.
VFX Dailies: Automatic Shot Tracking That Stays Current
Stop losing shots when markers get deleted. VFX dailies workflows require tracking changes across edit versions without rebuilding spreadsheets by hand. Developing Tank detects VFX markers, remembers shots that were previously deleted, compares changes across sequences, and keeps your VFX dailies tracker current without manual entry.
Automatic VFX Detection
What it does: Reads configured marker rules and identifies VFX shots directly from the uploaded sequence.
Your benefit: New shots are added without scrolling through the timeline or manually rebuilding a tracker.
Every Tracker, One Click
What it does: Generates turnover packages (VFX pull lists), CSVs, PDFs, AVBs, and EDLs from selected shots with handles and source metadata included.
Your benefit: Vendors get consistent pull packages that are accurate without making them one at a time.
Google Sheets Sync Without Manual Copy-Paste
What it does: Keeps production-friendly Google Sheets connected to the underlying tracker so departments can keep using familiar review sheets.
Your benefit: Editorial and production work from the same current data instead of parallel trackers.
No AI Guessing
Developing Tank uses deterministic file parsing and workflow rules. It is built for repeatable post-production tasks where the answer should come from the sequence, not from a generated guess.
Post-Production Documents, All in One Place
The Editor's Binder keeps lined scripts, facing pages, and the production documents your team references every day — call sheets, camera reports, sound reports, footage logs, and progress reports — stored and organized alongside the cut.
Editor's Binder
What it does: A digital binder with 2-up Book View that pairs your lined script with facing pages — stored as PDFs, organized by project.
Your benefit: Every post-production document your team references — lined scripts, facing pages, call sheets, camera reports, and sound reports — in one place without hunting through email threads.
Call Sheet Storage
What it does: Store call sheets and production schedules as reference documents in the project, organized by shoot day.
Your benefit: AEs can cross-reference the call sheet film production schedule against dailies metadata without leaving the workflow. Supports both call sheet production setups and one-off day player calls.
Camera Reports & Sound Reports
What it does: Keep camera reports, sound reports, and footage logs alongside the dailies metadata they document.
Your benefit: When a take needs verification, the reference is one click away — not in a separate email folder from production.