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From shoot day to payout, one connected slate for studios and streamers

Rights, localization, crew, clearances, premieres and royalty statements, handled by products designed to hand work to each other.

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HookMovies(opens HookMovies in a new tab)ArtistryBase(opens ArtistryBase in a new tab)TheCulturePost(opens TheCulturePost in a new tab)CrewFoundry(opens CrewFoundry in a new tab)HeadshotMarketing(opens HeadshotMarketing in a new tab)EventfullyManaged(opens EventfullyManaged in a new tab)FluidGrids(opens FluidGrids in a new tab)BigConsole(opens BigConsole in a new tab)

The problem

Why one title is hard to run end to end

A title passes through a crew list, dozens of review rounds, many language tracks, a stack of licenses and a quarter of partner reports. Each lives in its own tool, so a lapsed window or missing clearance surfaces only once viewers or partners find it.

A studio that also streams works like several businesses at once. It develops and shoots original series, licenses library films in and out by territory, localizes every release into several languages, and keeps a catalog available across subscription, ad-supported, rental and free linear channels. Each of those jobs has its own specialist tool, and the connective tissue between them is usually a spreadsheet, a shared inbox and the memory of one busy coordinator.

The failures show up at the seams. A license renewal agreed by email never reaches the availability list, so a promo runs in a territory where the window has closed. A dub vendor delivers against an earlier cut. A docuseries reaches delivery without a clearance record for an archival photograph. A participant's statement drops and nobody can say why without days of reconciling partner reports.

Margins are thin, release calendars are fixed around premieres and festivals, and audiences in every language expect the same day-one experience. The teams that cope best are the ones whose production, rights, localization, marketing and finance records connect, so a change in one place becomes a task, an alert or a figure in the next.

Who this is for

  • Head of content operations

    One view of every title's rights, deliverables and launch status, so nothing goes live in the wrong territory or on the wrong cut.

  • Rights and licensing manager

    Windows, holdbacks and exclusivities by territory and mode, with clashes caught before a deal is signed or a title is promoted.

  • Localization and post-production lead

    Every dub, subtitle and caption track reviewed against the locked cut, with notes on the timecode and a sign-off per language.

  • Line producer or production manager

    A crew list, call times, overtime and day costs that match the shoot schedule, without rebuilding it from messages every night.

  • Documentary and factual producer

    A clearance record for every archival insert and a checked source for every claim in the narration before delivery.

  • Royalty and finance operations

    Statements that reconcile partner reports in many layouts and currencies, and can explain a change to a participant with evidence.

A day in the life

The story behind the solution

A week at Indigo Pier Media, from a lapsed window to a live premiere

Indigo Pier Media is a fictional independent studio in a coastal city. It produces regional-language dramas and documentaries, licenses a library of films from other producers, and streams everything to subscribers at home and across the diaspora. Farah Qureshi runs content operations, the point where production, rights, localization, marketing and finance meet. This is her week before the launch of the studio's flagship Tamil-language series, Salt Road.

  1. Monday, 07:40

    A promo for a film viewers cannot watch

    Farah's phone fills with support tickets from Singapore: viewers tapped a scheduled social promo for the film Monsoon Letters and landed on a not-available-in-your-region message. The free-channel window there ended on Friday. The renewal was agreed by email two weeks ago but never entered, and the social calendar had no way of knowing. While she untangles it, the licensing manager mentions he is about to open a subscription window in the Gulf that may overlap an exclusive license already sold to a partner.

    How this is solved: Rights windows and promotions that drift apart

  2. Tuesday, 11:00

    Six languages, seventeen days, one moving cut

    Salt Road launches in six languages in seventeen days. The Malay dub of episode 4 drifts out of lip-sync at 00:31:10, the Arabic subtitle file was timed to picture version 5 although version 7 is locked, and nobody can say whether the Tamil forced narratives have arrived at all. The notes live in three email threads and a shared spreadsheet that two vendors edit at once. Farah has to tell marketing tonight which languages are safe for day one.

    How this is solved: Dubs and subtitles reviewed against the wrong cut

  3. Wednesday, 22:10

    Day 14 wraps late, and tomorrow has a hole

    After day 14 of 32 on the new series Kite Season, line producer Tomás Ferreira learns that the second camera assistant booked for tomorrow is ill, and that the gaffer wrapped at 21:00 tonight, short of the ten-hour turnaround the production promised its crew before tomorrow's 06:00 call. He rebuilds tomorrow's crew list from a chat group, calls three freelancers and guesses at overtime. The cost report that reaches Farah on Friday will be the first time anyone sees what the week really cost.

    How this is solved: Crewing a shoot from a chat group

  4. Thursday, 15:00

    A locked docuseries without a clearance log

    The docuseries Paper Harbors is locked and due to a broadcast partner on Monday, and the partner has asked for a clearance log. The cut uses dozens of archival photographs and film clips. Three photos came from a family collection with no written record of where they came from, one newspaper photograph is licensed for the home territory only, and the narration gives a date for the great harbor fire that two sources disagree on. The researcher's notes sit in a folder named final_final.

    How this is solved: Archive clearances and fact checks before delivery

  5. Friday, 10:00

    A filmmaker asks why her statement dropped

    Quarter-end statements go out today. A filmmaker whose short-film collection streams on Indigo Pier's service and on a partner's free channel writes that her share fell sharply this quarter. Revenue arrives from the service's own subscriptions, an ad-supported partner's monthly report and free-channel partner files in two currencies and three layouts. Finance can see the total but cannot explain the movement title by title without rebuilding the quarter in spreadsheets.

    How this is solved: Royalty statements nobody can explain

  6. Saturday, 18:30

    Red carpet, press line and a live stream at once

    Salt Road premieres tonight at a bayfront picture house while diaspora subscribers watch a live-streamed red carpet. Marketing has invited creators from its outreach list, the publicist has a press list with embargo terms, and cast plus-ones sit in a third spreadsheet. At the door, a journalist is missing from every list, two creators arrive with unconfirmed guests, and nobody can say which invited creators have posted the trailer clip they agreed to share.

    How this is solved: A premiere, a press line and a launch campaign in sync

None of these moments is unusual. Each is a hand-off between teams that works when the records connect and fails quietly when they do not. The challenges below show how Burdenoff products are designed to carry each hand-off, one at a time.

Challenges and how they are solved

6 problems, several products, one connected answer

Each challenge shows the problem as it happens, how the products are designed to hand work to each other, and the concepts that illustrate it. Share any challenge on its own.

Answers are in plain business terms. Choose Technical, or open any technical detail, to see how it works under the hood.

Challenge 1 of 6

Rights windows and promotions that drift apart

HookMovies(opens HookMovies in a new tab)FluidGrids(opens FluidGrids in a new tab)HeadshotMarketing(opens HeadshotMarketing in a new tab)

The problem

Availability is decided by a license, promoted by a calendar and served by a catalog, and the three are rarely the same record. Deal memos sit in inboxes while the avails list lags behind. A free-channel window closes on Friday while Monday's promo for the same film is already scheduled in that territory. A new subscription window is about to open in a region where an exclusive license to a partner still runs. Rights managers find out from support tickets, or worse, from the partner.

What it costs

Viewers hit not-available messages from paid promotion, partners see exclusivities breached, and the rights team spends mornings on takedowns instead of deals.

How the products work together

HookMovies is designed to show every title against every territory on one board, flagging clashes before a rights window opens. Each morning, FluidGrids lists the windows starting or ending within 30 days and gives each to the rights owner to renew, resolve or take down. When a window closes in a territory, FluidGrids is designed to pause that title's scheduled promotion there in HeadshotMarketing and tell the campaign owner why.

How it works — technical detail

Technical detail

HookMovies holds each rights window as territory, window, monetization mode, edit and exclusivity, and a territory avails and holdback board is designed to show the whole catalog against every region, with overlaps flagged before a window is activated. A FluidGrids workflow can run each morning on a schedule. It is designed to read the HookMovies windows that start or expire within the next 30 days and raise each finding as a decision card on the HookMovies avails board, assigned to the rights owner. FluidGrids is designed to go one step further: when a window closes in a territory, it can hold that title's scheduled posts and ads for the territory in HeadshotMarketing and tell the campaign owner why. The rights manager renews the window or confirms the takedown from one decision card, and HookMovies entitlements are designed to follow the window, so a service built on HookMovies offers viewers only what the studio can actually stream.

The outcome it is designed for

Promotions, catalog and licenses are designed to stay in step, so an expiring window becomes a morning task instead of a support queue.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 2 of 6

Dubs and subtitles reviewed against the wrong cut

ArtistryBase(opens ArtistryBase in a new tab)HookMovies(opens HookMovies in a new tab)FluidGrids(opens FluidGrids in a new tab)

The problem

A series released in several languages multiplies every deliverable: dubbed audio built on music-and-effects (M&E) stems, subtitles, captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers (SDH), forced narratives and localized artwork for each episode. Vendors deliver against whatever cut they were sent, a note about lip-sync drift at a specific timecode arrives by email, and the only status view is a tracker nobody trusts. When picture changes after lock, nobody is sure which tracks need retiming, and the call on day-one languages is made on instinct.

What it costs

Late or mismatched tracks push languages out of the launch, or ship with subtitles timed to an earlier cut.

How the products work together

ArtistryBase is designed to put every language and track for an episode in one grid, showing which cut each was made against, the notes still open and who has signed off. When a vendor delivers a file, FluidGrids opens a new review round in ArtistryBase. Approved languages pass to HookMovies, which shows which languages and territories are ready for release day, so the day-one call is not a guess.

How it works — technical detail

Technical detail

ArtistryBase keeps every cut, dub and subtitle file as a versioned work with typed assets, and reviewers leave notes on the exact timecode in review rounds that close only with a recorded approval. A dub and subtitle QC matrix is designed to lay out every language and deliverable for each episode with its round status, open notes and the picture version each track was made against. When the vendor's delivery system calls a FluidGrids webhook, FluidGrids is designed to open a new review round in ArtistryBase. When a language passes QC, ArtistryBase is designed to hand the approved version to HookMovies, where publishing and localization tracking are designed to show which languages and territories are ready for the release date, so the day-one decision is read from the record rather than guessed.

The outcome it is designed for

Every language is designed to reach launch with a named approver, a matching picture version and a clear go or hold for day one.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 3 of 6

Crewing a shoot from a chat group

CrewFoundry(opens CrewFoundry in a new tab)HookMovies(opens HookMovies in a new tab)

The problem

Productions run on freelance crew booked by the day. When a camera assistant drops out the night before a call, the line producer rebuilds the crew list from a chat group, calls freelancers one by one and hopes the call sheet reaches everyone with the right call time and location. Late wraps eat into the turnaround the production promised its crew, overtime is logged on paper, and the true cost of the week only appears when the cost report is assembled days later, long after anything could be changed.

What it costs

Crew gaps stall the shooting day, turnaround slips are spotted too late, and overtime surprises land on a budget that is already tight.

How the products work together

CrewFoundry is designed to show who is booked for each shoot day and at what rate, and to warn when a late wrap cuts into someone's promised rest before the next call. When someone drops out, it suggests available freelancers with the right skills. Crew confirm calls and log hours by phone, and approved day costs reach the HookMovies budget, so the line producer sees the week's crew cost mid-shoot.

How it works — technical detail

Technical detail

HookMovies tracks the production from greenlight to delivery and is designed to hold its shooting schedule, call sheets and budget. CrewFoundry is designed to read those shoot days and hold the crew roster against them: who is confirmed, penciled or released for each day, their day rate, call and wrap times, and a warning when a late wrap leaves someone short of the production's turnaround rule. When a role opens, CrewFoundry is designed to suggest available freelancers from its talent marketplace with the right skills, and crew are designed to confirm calls and submit hours from their phones. Approved timesheets and day costs are designed to flow back to the production in HookMovies, so the line producer and head of production see the week's crew cost while the shoot is still running.

The outcome it is designed for

Crew gaps are designed to be filled from one list, and crew cost becomes a daily figure instead of a Friday surprise.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 4 of 6

Archive clearances and fact checks before delivery

TheCulturePost(opens TheCulturePost in a new tab)ArtistryBase(opens ArtistryBase in a new tab)HookMovies(opens HookMovies in a new tab)

The problem

Factual programs lean on archival photographs, film clips and first-hand testimony, and delivery partners expect a record of where each item came from and what its license allows. In practice the researcher's notes sit in a folder, the editor's timeline has an archive insert with no source attached, and a date in the narration rests on one article that another source contradicts. The gaps surface when a partner asks for the clearance log a few days before delivery.

What it costs

Delivery slips while clearances are chased, uncleared inserts are replaced in a rush, and disputed claims can reach air unchallenged.

How the products work together

In ArtistryBase, the editor marks each archive photo, clip and narration claim at its moment in the locked cut. TheCulturePost is designed to turn those marks into a clearance log showing each item's source, rights holder, where and for how long it may be used, and whether it is cleared, with disputed claims flagged. Territory limits then pass to HookMovies, and legal decisions stay with the production's advisers.

How it works — technical detail

Technical detail

TheCulturePost is built for sourced storytelling: archive items carry provenance, rights and an access level, and claims carry citations with a verification status of corroborated, disputed or retracted. For a docuseries, a clearance log is designed to list every archival insert with its source, rights holder, licensed territories, term and clearance status. First, the editor's ArtistryBase review round pins each archive insert and narration claim to its timecode in the locked cut. ArtistryBase is designed to pass those flagged timecodes to TheCulturePost, where each becomes a clearance log entry, and a review note reading rights clearance missing is designed to link back to that entry. When the log is complete, TheCulturePost is designed to hand territory limits to HookMovies, where they shape the title's rights windows. Legal judgment stays with the production's advisers.

The outcome it is designed for

The clearance log is designed to be complete before delivery, with every insert traced to its source and every disputed claim resolved or reworded.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 5 of 6

Royalty statements nobody can explain

FluidGrids(opens FluidGrids in a new tab)BigConsole(opens BigConsole in a new tab)HookMovies(opens HookMovies in a new tab)

The problem

A title earns money several ways at once: the service's own subscriptions, ad-supported partners, rentals and free linear channels, each reported in its own file layout and currency. Participation terms differ by title and rights holder, with minimum guarantees, recoupment and distribution fees applied before a share is paid. At quarter end finance can produce a total, but when a filmmaker asks why her share fell, answering means rebuilding the quarter by hand from partner files and the royalty ledger.

What it costs

Statements go out late, disputes drag on, and trust wears thin with the creators and licensors the catalog depends on.

How the products work together

FluidGrids is designed to gather partners' revenue reports, whatever their layout or currency, and put them in one consistent form for BigConsole. BigConsole shows revenue by title, territory and period, and explains each change in a short note pointing to the figures behind it, such as a late partner report. Finance checks them against the HookMovies royalty ledger before each payout and can answer a filmmaker with the same figures.

How it works — technical detail

Technical detail

FluidGrids workflows are designed to collect partner and platform revenue reports on a schedule or when a partner system calls a webhook, normalize titles, territories, currencies and modes, and end in datasink nodes that feed BigConsole, a connection the two products are built around. In BigConsole, a royalty console is designed to show revenue by title, territory, mode and period, with drill-down from each title to a detail console, and the Explain panel is designed to give short findings, each cited to the data sink and field behind it, such as a free-channel partner report that arrived late. HookMovies is designed to hold the royalty ledger and payout schedule by rights participant; finance checks the console against the ledger before the payout run and can answer a participant with the same cited figures.

The outcome it is designed for

Statements are designed to go out on time, and a question about a change can be answered with the figures behind it.

The concepts behind it

Challenge 6 of 6

A premiere, a press line and a launch campaign in sync

HeadshotMarketing(opens HeadshotMarketing in a new tab)EventfullyManaged(opens EventfullyManaged in a new tab)HookMovies(opens HookMovies in a new tab)FluidGrids(opens FluidGrids in a new tab)BigConsole(opens BigConsole in a new tab)

The problem

A flagship release is marketed on many fronts at once: trailer and clip posts, paid campaigns, creator seeding, email to subscribers, and a premiere with a red carpet, a screening and a live stream for audiences far away. The creator list lives in the marketing tool, the press list and embargo terms with the publicist, and cast guests in a production spreadsheet. On the night the door team works from printouts, and nobody can connect who attended with who posted.

What it costs

Guests are turned away or waved through, embargo terms get lost, and the launch report cannot say which creators and channels actually moved viewers.

How the products work together

EventfullyManaged is designed to put cast, press and the creators invited through HeadshotMarketing on one guest list, with seats, plus-ones, press credentials and embargo terms, and to check guests in by QR pass. HookMovies is designed to stream the premiere live for viewers far away. Afterward, FluidGrids gathers check-ins, creator posts, campaign results and first-week viewing into BigConsole, which shows who attended, who posted and how each channel performed.

How it works — technical detail

Technical detail

HeadshotMarketing plans and tracks the launch campaign across social, paid and email, and follows each creator relationship from invitation to delivered posts. EventfullyManaged is designed to take the creator invite list from HeadshotMarketing and combine it with press and cast guests on one premiere guest list, with seats, plus-ones, press accreditation and embargo acknowledgment, checked in by QR pass at named stations. HookMovies is designed to carry the live premiere stream for remote audiences. After the night, a FluidGrids workflow is designed to collect check-ins from EventfullyManaged, creator post status and channel results from HeadshotMarketing, and first-week viewing from HookMovies, and write them into a BigConsole datasink. The launch console then shows which invited creators attended and posted beside each channel's results.

The outcome it is designed for

The premiere is designed to run from one list, and a BigConsole launch console is designed to show who attended, who posted and how each channel performed in the first week.

The concepts behind it

How it fits together

How one series moves through the products

Follow Salt Road from the shoot to the first payout. Each step is one product doing one job and handing a record to the next. The products are designed so the same title, version and territory carry through without being retyped. Factual titles such as Paper Harbors add a TheCulturePost clearance step between review and publishing.

  1. To HookMovies: Approved hours and day costs for the production budget

  2. To ArtistryBase: Every cut, dub and subtitle file, by version, sent for review

  3. To HookMovies: Approved picture and language tracks, each with its sign-off

  4. To HeadshotMarketing: Release dates and the territories going live, for the launch plan

  5. To EventfullyManaged: The creators to invite to the premiere

  6. To FluidGrids: Check-in and ticket totals for the launch report

  7. To BigConsole: One consistent set of revenue and launch figures

Step 1 of 8: Crew the shoot

How each hand-off works — technical detail

Technical detail

  1. 1. CrewFoundry — Crew the shoot: Books crew against each shoot day in the HookMovies production schedule, with calls, day rates, turnaround checks and timesheets.Hands to HookMovies: Approved timesheets and day costs for the production budget
  2. 2. HookMovies — Run the production: Tracks the series from greenlight to delivery, with its budget, crew costs and a deliverables list for every language.Hands to ArtistryBase: Cuts, dubs and subtitle files sent for review as versioned works
  3. 3. ArtistryBase — Review and lock: Runs timecode-anchored review rounds on picture and every language track, ending each in a recorded approval.Hands to HookMovies: Approved picture and language tracks, each with its sign-off
  4. 4. HookMovies — Window and publish: Sets rights windows by territory and mode, confirms approved languages and schedules the release.Hands to HeadshotMarketing: Release dates and live territories for the launch plan
  5. 5. HeadshotMarketing — Launch the title: Runs the trailer, clip, paid and email campaign, and tracks creator seeding from invitation to posted content.Hands to EventfullyManaged: Creator invite list for the premiere guest list
  6. 6. EventfullyManaged — Host the premiere: Combines cast, press and creators on one guest list with accreditation and embargo terms, and checks guests in by QR pass.Hands to FluidGrids: Check-in and ticket totals for the launch report
  7. 7. FluidGrids — Gather the numbers: Collects partner and platform revenue files, campaign results and premiere figures, and normalizes titles, territories and currencies.Hands to BigConsole: Normalized rows written into BigConsole datasinks
  8. 8. BigConsole — Explain the statements: Shows revenue by title, territory and mode, and explains each change with the data sink and field behind it.Hands to HookMovies: Figures finance checks against the HookMovies royalty ledger before the payout run

Products in this solution

What each product brings

  • HookMovies

    Rights, localization, production and payouts

    HookMovies tracks where, when and how each title may be shown, what each viewer can watch, and where each production stands. It is designed to add dub and subtitle tracking, shoot schedules, call sheets, revenue reports, a royalty ledger and payouts for a multilingual catalog.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    HookMovies holds rights windows by territory, mode and exclusivity, entitlements and a production lifecycle, and is designed to add localization tracking, shooting schedules, call sheets, revenue analytics, a royalty ledger and payouts around a multilingual catalog.

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  • ArtistryBase

    Cut and track versions and timecode reviews

    ArtistryBase keeps every cut, dub and caption file as a fixed version that cannot be overwritten, and runs reviews with notes on the exact moment, each ending in a recorded approval. That is how picture and language tracks get locked.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    ArtistryBase keeps every cut, dub and caption file as an immutable version with typed assets, and runs review rounds anchored to the timecode that end in recorded approvals, which is how picture and language tracks get locked.

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  • TheCulturePost

    Archive sources and fact-checking

    TheCulturePost records where each archive item came from, its rights and who may see it, and marks each cited claim as corroborated, disputed or retracted. It is designed to grow into a clearance and fact-check record a documentary team can show a partner.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    TheCulturePost models archive items with provenance, rights and access levels, and citations with a verification status, a model that is designed to extend into a clearance and fact-check record documentary teams can show a partner.

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  • CrewFoundry

    Freelance crew booking, hours and pay

    CrewFoundry treats freelancers and field crew as full members of the workforce, with a marketplace to find talent, hours and overtime logged against each project, and pay records. That fits productions that book crew by the day.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    CrewFoundry treats contractors and field crew as first-class workers, with a talent marketplace, time entries with overtime and project attribution, and payroll records, which fits productions that book crew by the day.

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  • HeadshotMarketing

    Launch campaigns and creator outreach

    HeadshotMarketing runs social, paid, email and event activity from one campaign and follows each creator relationship, so a trailer drop, creator seeding and subscriber email are designed to run as one launch.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    HeadshotMarketing coordinates social, paid, email and event touches from one campaign and tracks influencer relationships, so a trailer drop, creator seeding and subscriber email are designed to run as one launch.

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  • EventfullyManaged

    Premieres, screenings and check-in

    EventfullyManaged handles invitation-only events, ticket levels including VIP, and QR check-in at named stations, all on one guest record. That suits premieres, festival screenings and fan events where the door list changes by the hour.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    EventfullyManaged handles invitation-only events, ticket tiers including VIP, and QR check-in at named stations on one attendee record, which suits premieres, festival screenings and fan events where the door list changes by the hour.

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  • FluidGrids

    Automation and revenue data collection

    FluidGrids runs routine jobs on a timetable, or as soon as another system sends an update, and hands the results straight to BigConsole. That is designed to let the morning rights check, vendor deliveries and partner revenue reports move without anyone retyping them.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    FluidGrids runs scheduled and webhook-triggered workflows across a growing connector catalog and ends them in datasinks that feed BigConsole, so avails checks, vendor deliveries and partner revenue files are designed to move without manual steps.

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  • BigConsole

    Royalty and revenue consoles

    BigConsole builds reports from the figures FluidGrids sends, lets you click from the overview into any title, and is designed to point each finding to the figure behind it, so finance can explain a statement rather than only total it.

    Technical detail

    Technical detail

    BigConsole builds consoles on keyed datasinks fed by FluidGrids, with drill-down between consoles, and its Explain panel is designed to cite the sink and field behind each finding, so finance can explain a statement rather than only total it.

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One platform underneath: Burdenoff Workspaces

All eight products run on Burdenoff Workspaces: one sign-in for staff, freelancers and partners, role-based access designed so a dub vendor can be limited to the tracks and review rounds for its own languages, one audit trail across rights, reviews and payouts, and one bill for the studio.

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The Media & Entertainment solution in one minute

Independent studios and streamers juggle crews, cuts, language tracks, licenses and partner statements in separate tools. Burdenoff brings HookMovies, ArtistryBase, TheCulturePost, CrewFoundry, HeadshotMarketing, EventfullyManaged, FluidGrids and BigConsole onto one workspace, designed so each hand-off becomes a record the next team can act on.

  • Rights windows, avails and promotions designed to stay in step, with clashes and expiries raised as morning tasks
  • Every dub and subtitle designed to be reviewed on the timecode against the locked cut, with a sign-off per language
  • Crew bookings, day rates and overtime designed to be tracked against the shoot schedule while the week is still running
  • Archive clearances and fact checks designed to live in one log a delivery partner can read
  • Royalty statements designed to come with cited explanations, built from partner files FluidGrids collects on a schedule
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Questions

Frequently asked

Is this a live product suite for media companies today?

No. The Burdenoff products named here are pre-launch or early, and this page describes a concept: how they are designed to work together for a studio or streamer. The link that carries figures from FluidGrids into BigConsole is one the products are built around; the other hand-offs describe how the products are designed to pass work along.

Technical detail

Technical detail

No. The Burdenoff products named here are pre-launch or early, and this page describes a solution concept: how the products are designed to work together for a studio or streamer. Some hand-offs, such as FluidGrids datasinks feeding BigConsole, are connections the products are built around; the others describe how the products are designed to pass work to each other.

Does HookMovies replace our streaming platform or video delivery stack?

No. HookMovies is designed for streaming, catalog and studio operations, and its rights windows, viewer access and production records are the natural place to start. Playback, copy protection and video delivery through commercial providers are on its roadmap, so for now a studio could start with the operations side alongside the platform it already uses.

Technical detail

Technical detail

Not today. HookMovies is designed as a streaming, catalog and studio operations product, and its rights windows, entitlements and production records are the natural starting point. Playback, DRM and delivery through commercial providers are on its roadmap, so a studio could begin with the operational side alongside the platform it already uses.

Can dub and subtitle vendors work in the same workspace without seeing everything?

Yes, that is the intent. Burdenoff Workspaces is designed so each vendor sees only the tracks and review rounds for its own languages, and every note, approval and delivery is kept in one record of who did what.

Technical detail

Technical detail

That is the intent. Burdenoff Workspaces provides role-based access, so a vendor can be given the tracks and review rounds for its own languages only, and every note, approval and delivery is recorded on one audit trail.

Does the clearance log decide whether archive material is cleared?

No. TheCulturePost keeps the evidence: where each item came from, its license terms and the status the team gives it. Clearance decisions stay with the production and its legal advisers; the log is designed to make those decisions easier to reach and easier to show to a delivery partner.

Technical detail

Technical detail

No. TheCulturePost keeps the evidence: sources, provenance, license terms and the status the team assigns. Decisions about clearance stay with the production and its legal advisers. The log is designed to make those decisions easier to reach and easier to show to a delivery partner.

Where should a smaller studio start?

Where the pain is sharpest. A studio licensing films across territories might start with HookMovies rights windows and the FluidGrids morning rights check; a team releasing in many languages might start with ArtistryBase reviews. The products share one sign-in and are designed to pass titles, people and territories along, so others can be added later without retyping.

Technical detail

Technical detail

Where the pain is sharpest. A studio licensing a library across territories might begin with HookMovies rights windows and a FluidGrids avails check. A team releasing in many languages might begin with ArtistryBase reviews. The products share one sign-in and one set of roles, and they are designed to pass titles, people and territories between them, so others can be added later without teams retyping them.

How do royalty figures get from partners into BigConsole?

FluidGrids is designed to collect partner revenue reports on a schedule, or as soon as a partner's system sends one, put them in one consistent form and pass them to BigConsole, a link the two products are built around. HookMovies is designed to hold the royalty ledger and payout dates, and finance checks the two match before each payout.

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FluidGrids workflows are designed to collect partner and platform revenue reports on a schedule or when a partner system calls a webhook, normalize them and write the rows into BigConsole datasinks, a connection the two products are built around. HookMovies is designed to hold the royalty ledger and payout schedule, and finance reconciles the two before a payout run.

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