AI for video and podcast production
Ultramarine Work reads the transcripts, release scans, license agreements and spreadsheets in your production folder. What comes back are paper edits, cue sheets, clearance logs and funder proposals you can check.
Clearance-log-v6.xlsxExampleOpen clearances, shoot days 4–9
- REL-112On-camera, diner ownerDay 5Cleared
The signed appearance release is in the folder and matches the shot list.
- LOC-019Location, fire hallDay 6Waiting
The fire chief agreed by email, and the signed location release is due back Friday.
- ART-007Third-party art, muralDay 7Flagged
The mural fills the frame for 14 seconds in scene 22, so get the artist’s permission or blur it.
- REL-118On-camera, minor at rallyDay 8Flagged
The minor release has no guardian signature, so send it to the parent before picture lock.
How it works
- 1
Open the production folder
The folder holds transcripts and field notes, shot lists, a release tracker, license agreements, the buyer’s delivery schedule, a past show’s cue sheet and past budgets. Signed releases can arrive as scans, and footage stays in your editor.
- 2
Ask for the document
Ask for the cue sheet keyed to the locked cut, the clearance log by shoot day, call sheets from the stripboard export, or a paper edit from the transcripts. It writes Excel or Word files in your templates, and every line names its source.
- 3
You check and decide
Spot-check cue timings against the locked cut, read each release against the shoot day and shot it covers, and mark up the log. Nothing is filed or sent, because you file the cue sheet with the PRO and hand the buyer the delivery package.
Inside the Film, Video & Podcast Production mode
Post production and delivery
Tracks releases and clearances by shoot day and shot, scopes rights by media, territory and term, builds cue sheets from the locked cut, and runs delivery QC.
Program grant proposal
Drafts the logline, topic summary and artistic approach funders ask for, plus the line-item budget and the report due after the money arrives.
- Office skills
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, PDF
- Tools
- Read, edit and write files, Search files, Run code, Search and read the web, View images
- Connectors
- SharePoint, Google Drive, Gmail, and additional custom connectors
- House style
- Your fonts, layouts and rules, on every file
Ask it for
“Turn the six Millers Run transcripts into a paper edit: group the quotes by theme, put speaker, source file and timecode on each, and flag claims with no tape.”
Millers-Run-paper-edit.docx“Build the Copper Line episode 3 cue sheet from the license files and locked-cut timings: cue title, composer, publisher, PRO, usage code, time in and out.”
Copper-Line-E3-cue-sheet.xlsx“Reconcile the release tracker against the day 4 to 9 shot lists and list every on-camera person, location and third-party item still missing a signed release.”
Clearance-log-v6.xlsx“Compare the buyer’s delivery schedule to our asset list before the March 14 handover and mark gaps: captions, loudness report, M&E, textless, chain of title.”
Delivery-QC-Copper-Line.pdf“Lay out the season 4 publishing calendar, with episodes every Tuesday from March 10, sponsor reads due the Thursday before and promo copy drafted ten days out.”
Season4-publishing-calendar.xlsx“Draft the Hollis Foundation proposal for Millers Run, with logline, topic summary, artistic approach, funding-to-date table and the budget from Budget-v4.xlsx.”
Hollis-proposal.docx
Who it’s for
Producers, directors, documentary makers, video editors, post-production supervisors, and independent creators and podcasters.
Questions
Does it edit the footage or cut anything?
No, it does not touch your media files. It works on the documents around the cut, such as transcripts, shot lists, delivery schedules and logs, and it reads images, including release scans and photos. The edit itself stays in Premiere, Resolve or Avid, which is where that work belongs.
Can I run it on embargoed footage or episodes under an NDA?
That depends on your NDA, and whether it allows a tool like this is between you and the other party. Ultramarine Work changes files only in the project’s folder. When a request needs it, it can read files elsewhere on your computer, never passwords, keys or app data, and you can turn that off in settings. The model runs on Paper Instruments’ servers, so the content it works on is sent there to be processed. Paper Instruments is SOC 2 Type II, and our security and compliance details are on our compliance page.
Will it satisfy the paperwork our E&O insurer and buyer want?
It prepares the paperwork, and your lawyer and E&O broker decide whether it satisfies them. The clearance log, the releases and the cue sheets are built from the agreements and scans in the folder, and each entry names the document behind it. It does not write legal opinions, chain-of-title memos or title reports, and nothing it drafts gets filed or submitted.
Can we trust the transcripts and logs it reads?
Every entry points back to the file it came from, and the skills tell it to note what it could not find or reconcile instead of guessing. Transcripts still mangle names, jargon and overlapping speakers, which anyone who has searched a misheard name knows. You review every file it touched before the log goes to clearance counsel.
Does it clone guest voices or make synthetic performers?
No, the only things it produces are documents. Voice replicas and synthetic performances are governed by releases, union contracts and state laws, and that consent is something the person you recorded has to give you. Ultramarine Work drafts the release language that records those permissions and stops there.
Do we have to disclose using this to funders or platforms?
That is up to the rules your funder or platform sets, so read them and decide. Many documentary funders now ask how AI was used, and platforms have started requiring disclosure of synthetic media. Because it drafts documents at your direction and you check each file it touched, a plain description of that workflow is easy to give.