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Mastering, deliverables, and payment

Mastering, deliverables, and payment

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Mastering, deliverables, and payment

- At the end of post-production, you end up with a master, which is the final project completely finished, usually at the highest resolution. But, that's not the end of the project for the producer. You have to manage the deliverables and payment from the client so you can pay your post-production team. You know, let's talk about payment first because this is important. It's a sad truth, but once your client has the final master, or the deliverables, they no longer have a reason to pay you. They have what they want, the finished project. It does happen, it's happened to me. There are clients who either refuse to make the final payment, or they drag out that final payment for a very long time. You owe the post-production team money for their work. If you don't get paid, you're going to have to come up with a way to pay that team. You can't simply pass it along to them as well, hey look, I didn't get paid, you're not getting paid. Remember earlier, we talked about ruining your…

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