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Post-production facilities

Post-production facilities: who works there and what each of them does

A post-production facility, which everyone calls a post house, is the building where a finished shoot becomes a finished film or programme. The crew go home after wrap; the footage comes here, and over weeks or months a small number of specialists turn a drive full of takes into something an audience can watch.

Some post houses do one thing well, an offline editing company with a corridor of cutting rooms or a sound house with dubbing theatres; the big Soho facilities do edit, online, grade, sound, VFX and delivery under one roof. Work moves through them in a fixed order: ingest and dailies, the offline edit, picture lock, VFX, online and conform, the grade, sound, then deliverables and quality control. Every suite is booked and paid for, which is where the tension in the corridors comes from. Soho is still the centre, and the regional facilities matter more every year.

  1. Facility or operations manager

  2. Post producer

  3. Bookings coordinator

  4. Dailies and ingest operator

  5. Machine room operator and edit support

  6. Online editor

  7. Colourist

  8. Sound editors: dialogue, effects, ADR and Foley

  9. Re-recording mixer

  10. Quality control operator

  11. Client services and reception

  12. Post-production runnerEntry-level job

Drawn from MFJF's own Foundations courses: Post-production Runner (what a post house actually does: from rushes to deliverables; a runner's day in a facility; Soho, the regions, the ladder and the people who climbed it) and Edit Assistant (the cutting room: who is in it and what it does). The words are My First Job In Film's. © My First Job In Film 2026.

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