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Quality Control

I make sure your video clears, first time.

Broadcast and online video QC for agencies, production companies and brands. Loudness, deliverable specs, captions, legal and technical compliance, checked before your file reaches the broadcaster or the platform, not after it bounces back. Send it to me before it ships.

Delivery check
Loudness (EBU R128)PASS
Codec & frameratePASS
Captions & timingPASS
Safe areas & legalPASS
Cleared for delivery
TV broadcastOnline & socialLoudnessCaptions & complianceDeliverables & specs

01 The problem

The edit is signed off. That doesn’t mean it’s deliverable.

A finished cut and a compliant master are not the same thing. The broadcaster or platform catches the fault, the file bounces, and now you’re re-rendering against an air date. Your editors are paid to make the work good, not to police forty pages of delivery spec. That’s the job I do.

  • Loudness out of spec, or audio levels that won’t pass.
  • Wrong codec or framerate, captions that drift, a logo outside title-safe.
  • A legal line a frame short, and a rejection that costs you the slot.

02 What I do

One pass between “finished” and “delivered”.

So nothing bounces.

Check it

Full QC pass

Every deliverable checked against the broadcaster’s or platform’s spec, frame by frame: video, audio, captions, metadata, legal.

Catch it

Faults before they cost you

Loudness, levels, codec, framerate, safe areas, flashing and PSE, text and legal. The things that trigger a rejection, found before submission.

Report it

A fix-list editors can action

A clear, prioritised report with exact timecodes and what to change. No vague “something’s off”.

Build it

Your own QC process

I built a broadcast QC department from scratch once. I can set up repeatable QC for your team so this stops being ad hoc.

03 Track record

Six years catching what would have bounced.

Freedman Int’l99.6%First-pass success rate on TV broadcast submissions across a year, cutting returns for quality issues.
QC departmentBuiltSpearheaded the company’s first dedicated video QC function and designed its processes from scratch.
Broadcast + online6 yrsQuality control across TV and online advertising deliverables.
BrandsRangeCoordinated ingest and QC across campaigns for brands including Mondelez, Intel, Bacardi, P&G and HTC.

Adobe Premiere Pro · Adobe Audition · MediaInfo. Works in English and Polish.

04 The reputation

The Titan of QC.

Also the King of QC. The names tend to follow once the returns stop.

05 How I work

Two ways in.

Per project

QC pass

Send the deliverables and the spec. You get back a clear pass or a fix-list, fast, around your air date.

Ongoing

QC partner

I sit at the end of your pipeline, so every file goes out clean without hiring a full-time QC lead.

New to QC as a formal step? I’ll build the process and the checklist with your team, then run it.

06 Start here

Send me something before it ships.

Tell me what you’re delivering and where it’s going. I’ll tell you what will bounce and what won’t.

or find me on LinkedIn

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