Film Production

From greenlight to final delivery, on the same record.

Briefs in Slack. Approvals in email. Footage in Frame.io. Contracts in Docusign. Payments in a separate ACH portal. Mix-IP holds the whole production — brief, shoot folders, NDA-gated dailies, IP registry, contracts, and crew payouts — on one record. Built for studios and production houses, not creators-with-a-Substack.

See Pricing Start a Workspace

Bundled on every plan: Vault 88 for NDA-gated dailies · Pro Transfer App desktop transfer for the file sizes you actually shoot · Wise + Stripe rails for crew payouts in 60+ currencies.

Why studios pick Mix-IP

Five tools, five logins, five places the project state lives. Then someone leaves the production and it all has to be rebuilt.

Briefs in Slack threads. Shortlists in Google Sheets. Dailies in Frame.io. Final masters in a transfer hub. Contracts in DocuSign. ACH payouts in a separate portal. Mix-IP holds the whole production — brief through final delivery — on the same record, so the UPM stops chasing five tools and the show stops losing context every time a coordinator rotates off.

4 → 1 Tools to record One workspace replaces the brief tracker, transfer hub, contract spreadsheet, and ACH portal. The project lives in one place from posted to paid.
~48h Delivery to payment Final cut accepted, contributor splits locked, payouts routed through Wise or Stripe. The crew gets paid before the wrap dinner is invoiced.
First take Provenance from Every asset registered the moment it lands in the project — on-chain hash, contributor metadata, license boundaries. The chain of custody starts with the slate.
100% NDA-gated dailies No reviewer sees a frame until they sign. Per-recipient forensic watermark on every page. Time-window the share to the studio meeting only. Vault 88 included.
A film production through Mix-IP

Aurora Athletic, 6 spots, end to end.

One show, one record, five steps. Helio Studios takes a 6-spot Aurora Athletic campaign from greenlight to crew payout. No tool-hopping. No re-keying contributor splits into a second system. Each step below cross-links to the feature page that does the work.

01/05 Prep & crew

Post a brief, shortlist a crew, lock the rates.

Helio's UPM posts the spot brief — DP, sound mixer, colorist, two PAs — and Mix-IP surfaces matching crew based on past credits and availability windows. Rate cards arrive in the same workspace. No spreadsheet hand-off, no email back-and-forth, no "wait, what was Camila's quote again?" three weeks later.

  • Briefs are public, private, or invite-only — protect rates from competitors
  • Day-rate, project-rate, or contributor-share quotes side-by-side
  • Past-credit visibility — see what each applicant has shipped before
Open Briefs & Hiring
Camera crew setting up at the cyclorama studio before action is called Step 01 · Prep & crew
02/05 On set

Shoot folders that survive the day.

Day 3 of the Aurora shoot wraps at 11pm. Camila's DIT pushes 847 GB of ProRes 4444 dailies through Pro Transfer App to the project's day-3 folder. Slate metadata syncs from the camera. The DP on the next-day call sheet sees the new files when he opens his laptop in the morning. The folder is the project state.

  • Resumable, hash-verified uploads — hotel WiFi can drop and the transfer picks back up
  • Slate metadata (scene, take, lens, ISO) auto-tags every clip
  • Per-folder permissions — DP sees raw, editor sees proxies, client sees nothing yet
Open Projects
Camera operator at the director's monitor on a warm-lit set during a take Step 02 · On set
03/05 Post & approvals

Rough cuts that don't leak.

Maya colors the rough. Helio shares it with Aurora's brand team and DocFront's distribution lead for sign-off. Every reader signs an NDA before the first frame loads. Each viewer's screen carries a unique 8-character forensic watermark. The share auto-locks after the studio meeting. If a frame leaks, paste the watermark — it returns the reader.

  • NDA at the door — custom per share, platform default, or email OTP for externals
  • Per-recipient watermark, multi-positioned per page, traceable
  • Time-window the share to the meeting; close it the moment it ends
Open Vault 88
Director at the playback monitor reviewing a take during post-production Step 03 · Post & approvals
04/05 Deliver & register

Final cut, on-chain, splits locked.

Aurora signs off the final master. Helio registers it to the IP Registry — one click, six contributors, splits computed from the briefs. The contributor chain becomes provenance: Camila's DP credit, Maya's color credit, Jordan's mix credit, Helio's executive producer credit, two PA credits — each with their license boundaries and revenue share locked to the asset hash.

  • SHA-256 hash anchored on-chain — provenance survives the company that made it
  • License boundaries (territory, term, exclusivity) registered with the asset
  • Splits computed from the brief — no spreadsheet rebuilds at delivery
Open IP Registry
Wide cinematic landscape at golden hour — the kind of master that ships when delivery clears Step 04 · Deliver & register
05/05 License & pay

License posts. Crew gets paid.

DocFront licenses the spot — $48,000 for North America, 12-month exclusive. The contract auto-fills from the IPR record. Mix-IP routes the splits in ~48 hours: Helio's Stripe Connect account, Camila to her Wise USD wallet, Maya to her Stripe USD account, Jordan to his Wise EUR. Tax forms generate per recipient. Wrap dinner gets invoiced last.

  • Wise + Stripe rails — 60+ currencies, crew choose their payout method
  • Tax forms (W-9 / W-8BEN / 1099) generated per recipient at year-end
  • Recurring license events (renewal, sublicense) trigger automatic re-splits
Open Payments & Contracts
Neon-lit cinematic still — the licensed work in the world after the wrap Step 05 · License & pay
Where Mix-IP fits in your stack

We replace the seams. Not the craft.

Mix-IP consolidates the infrastructure layer of a production — the briefs, the transfer hub, the contracts, the rights record, the payouts. We don't replace the tools your editors and colorists actually love. NLEs stay. Color tools stay. Your accounting stack stays. We just stop the project from leaking out the seams between them.

Replaces

Stop paying for these.

  • Frame.io for review & approval Vault 88 ships NDA-gated dailies with per-recipient forensic watermarks — the review surface plus the security layer most studios bolt on after Frame.io.
  • Dropbox / WeTransfer for masters Pro Transfer App moves terabyte-class ProRes masters with resumable, hash-verified, per-recipient encrypted transfers. Free on every plan.
  • Contract Excel sheets & DocuSign chains Splits flow from the brief to the IP Registry to the contract to the payout. One source of truth per contributor — no spreadsheet rebuilds at delivery.
  • ACH / wire portals for crew payouts Wise + Stripe rails route splits in 60+ currencies. Tax forms (W-9 / W-8BEN / 1099) generate per recipient. No separate portal logins.
  • IP rights spreadsheets Every asset registered with provenance hash, contributor splits, and license boundaries the moment it lands. Chain of custody starts with the slate.
Plays nicely with

Keep the tools your team loves.

  • NLEs — Premiere, Resolve, Avid Editors keep their timeline. Mix-IP holds the source files, the proxies, the review cycle, and the final master — the NLE round-trips them.
  • Color tools — Resolve, Baselight Maya colors in Resolve, exports the final master, registers it in IPR with one click. Color credit and revenue share lock to the asset hash.
  • Accounting — Xero, QuickBooks Payment events export to your ledger as line items with project, contributor, license, and tax-form references intact. Bookkeeping reconciles itself.
  • Your DAM, if you keep one separate If your archive lives elsewhere — a Cantemo, an Iconik, a Frame.io archive plan — Mix-IP exports masters with full metadata sidecars on registration.
Real shoots, real numbers

What ships when the seams close.

Three productions that ran end-to-end through Mix-IP. Crew counts, file weights, and time-to-payment from real workflows.

6-spot brand campaign

Aurora Athletic — Spring ’26

Helio Studios · signed 14 Apr 2026 · 6 spots, 8 shoot days

12 Crew on splits
2.4 TB ProRes 4444
~47h Delivery → paid

License posted Friday afternoon. Crew payouts cleared by Sunday brunch — in four currencies through Wise and Stripe.

Documentary feature

DocFront — “Counterweight”

DocFront productions · 11-week shoot · 38 contributors registered

38 Contributors
11.3 TB Footage archived
4 Distribution licenses

Sundance acceptance. Splits re-routed automatically when the sub-license to a streaming platform closed three weeks later.

Episodic pilot

Helio Studios — “Cadence” S1 pilot

Helio Studios · 12-day shoot · 22 NDA-gated dailies shares

22 Vault shares
0 Leak incidents
~52h Brief → first call

Studio greenlit S2 inside the same workspace. Provenance chain carried forward — same contributor splits, new license boundaries.

All three productions are illustrative composites pending Jonathan-redlined customer stories.

Industry-grade trust

The compliance answer your IT will ask for.

Studios working with brand IP, talent NDAs, and rights-bearing assets need more than a startup with a shared Google Drive. Mix-IP ships the controls procurement teams actually verify.

SOC 2 In progress

Type II audit underway with a Big-Four-aligned firm. Trust services criteria: security, availability, confidentiality. Report expected H2 2026.

Per-tenant encryption keys Enterprise

Vault 88 Enterprise tier ships per-tenant KMS keys (AWS KMS or BYOK). Your keys, your control plane, your offboarding rotation.

DPA-ready Live

GDPR-compliant Data Processing Addendum signed at workspace creation. Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border transfers. EU data residency on request.

On-chain provenance Live

Every IPR registration anchors a SHA-256 hash on-chain. The provenance survives Mix-IP — if the company disappears, the chain of custody on your masters does not.

SOC 2 status reflects current audit progress. Confirm with sales before referencing in formal procurement responses.

Film Production

Run your next production through Mix-IP.

Start a workspace. Bring your crew. Ship the show — and pay everyone before the wrap dinner is invoiced.

See Pricing Start a Workspace

Includes Vault 88 for NDA-gated dailies · Pro Transfer App for the file sizes you actually shoot · Wise + Stripe rails for crew payouts in 60+ currencies.