Avid Dailies Automation Features: Scene Bins, Retimes, VFX Tracking & More
Developing Tank handles the repetitive parts of post-production automatically
Upload your Avid sequence (AVB, AAF, ALE, or EDL). We detect and track VFX shots, create scene bins, apply retimes, generate VFX pull lists, track ADR, populate continuity reports, and sync your database - all from a single file. No manual entry. No spreadsheets.
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) re-times are automaticly before turnover, online, or color.
Your benefit: No missed offspeed clips in massive action scenes.
VFX Shots That Don't Get Lost - Even When Deleted
VFX tracking stays tied to the cut. Developing Tank detects VFX markers, remembers shots that were previously deleted, compares changes across sequences, and keeps the tracker current.
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 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.