Dailies pipeline

The dailies pipeline normalizes each shooting day’s log footage so editorial can cut with consistent, intended color — and, done right, carries the color decisions forward as data instead of baking them beyond recovery. In a color-managed project (ACEScct in the Netflix workflow), the show look is applied as a timeline DRX node and each clip gets the CDL the DIT authored on set. Two settings keep it portable: zero the Luminance Mixer and grade the balance with Lift/Gamma/Gain/Saturation only, since those are exactly what a CDL can hold. Editorial then receives footage that already looks like the movie, and the balances travel out with the edit to come home at conform via a CDL round-trip. It’s the first grading job on the ladder and the front end of the whole show pipeline.

First used in: 3.9 · Dailies & VFX interchange