How remote post-production works for a video podcast

What to send and what not to

Your editor needs the original files, exactly as they come off each camera and each mic. One video file per camera and one audio track per person, uncompressed and never passed through a messaging app or a phone. What does not help is a live mix already bounced down: with everything on one track you cannot clean up one guest without damaging the other. A clap on camera at the start makes syncing easy, and naming files with the episode number and the person saves time. If someone stumbled or there is a part you do not want in the episode, note the rough timestamp and send it along with the files.

How to send files that big

A multicam episode is heavy, so email is out. The usual route is a shared cloud folder provided by the production company, or a large file transfer service. Upload from a wired connection rather than a phone, and keep the computer awake until it finishes. Before you send the message, check that every file runs as long as the recording: a file cut off halfway is the most common mistake and it tends to surface late. Once the editing team receives everything, they check it is complete and confirm they can start.

What the editing team does without being in the room

With the files in hand, the work is the same as if the show had been recorded next door. Cameras and mics are synced, the multicam is cut between whoever is speaking and whoever is reacting, long silences and stumbles come out, color is matched across cameras, and the sound is mixed and mastered so it plays just as well on YouTube as on Spotify. That produces the full episode, the vertical clips for social and the thumbnails. At Bostak Films we handle remote podcast post-production from Barcelona for shows recorded in other countries: whether the studio is in London, Berlin or Asunción, the workflow is the same.

Reviews and time zones

Reviews happen on a link to the video, where you leave comments at the exact second: cut this line, use the guest's angle here. No call needed for every change, and nobody gets lost in a long email thread. The number of revision rounds is agreed at the start so both sides know what to expect. Handled well, the time difference works in your favor: within Europe everyone shares working hours, and with Latin America the Spanish afternoon overlaps with the morning there, which is when questions get answered. The rest of the day, the episode moves forward while you do something else.

Starting right: the first episode as a test

The first episode is where you fix everything a quote cannot show: how your room sounds, how the cameras are placed, whether the light holds up for the whole recording. A video call before recording to check framing and sound live, plus a short guide for the recording day, goes a long way. Once that is sorted, the following episodes come out faster and with fewer rounds. If you record a video podcast outside Barcelona and want the edit handled by a team with a film background, Bostak Films can walk you through how we would approach your show.

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