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It's All About Dailies - Parallels in Vendor and Show-Side Production Tracking

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This post covers show-side production tracking in the visual effects industry - looking specifically at tools used to maintain and communicate a database of work on film and television projects. I'm including a simple python script that I set up to quickly A/B dailies against previous versions in Nuke.

I've worked for a studio, I've worked for a vendor, but for the longest time, show-side work has been this big mystery to me. I always figured it was vastly different to anything I'd done before. I've been at Disney working on Moana (2026) for the last couple months; it's early days but I've learned a few things, so here goes:

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