Pre-production checklists
Before cameras roll, we read the AI plan against the same paperwork and flag what will need a consent or a license — so it's a signature in prep, not a reshoot or a delivery hold later.
Built for productions, post houses and studio legal
AI AUDIT TRAIL FORFILM AND TV PRODUCTION
Afterglow Trace reads:
- your contracts and releases,
- the AI metadata your edit already carries,
- starting with DaVinci Resolve — Avid and Adobe next.
Then Afterglow turns them into an audit report — for your counsel, your E&O insurer or broker, and your distributor.
WHAT WE DO
A checklist before the shoot, and an audit after the cut.
Post-production audit
When the cut locks, we check every logged AI touch against your contracts, guild and union terms, and licenses — then write the audit report your counsel, your E&O insurer or broker, and your distributor ask for at delivery.
Today this lives in a coordinator's spreadsheet and a folder of PDFs.
WHO ASKS
Sooner or later, someone asks you to prove it.
THE GUILD
A digital replica of a covered performer needs consent on file.
SAG-AFTRA requires informed consent for each new use — specific, not a blanket line in the deal memo. When the union asks, the answer is a consent record matched to the use. Without one, you're facing a grievance, and possibly a scene you have to cut.
YOUR INSURER
Your E&O renewal now carries AI representations.
Underwriters ask you to represent AI use in writing — what touched the picture, and under what right — or they add an AI exclusion to the policy. A representation is only as strong as the records behind it: without them, you sign blind or take the exclusion.
THE DISTRIBUTOR
The delivery questionnaire asks about AI use.
AI documentation is entering delivery schedules, next to chain of title and the music cue sheets. The distributor wants it in the package, like any other clearance paper — it documents the AI use, it doesn't replace chain of title. Without it, acceptance stalls — and payment usually stalls with it.
THE PERFORMER
How much did you actually clear — and from whom?
Signed consent is a contract, not something a performer takes back on a whim — but its scope is narrow, and state law — California's AB 1836 and Tennessee's ELVIS Act — now lets estates challenge uses the original deal never covered. The question on your desk is what you hold today: which use, by whom, for how long. Without that record, a challenge has no answer.
HOW IT WORKS
Afterglow reads your documents and your AI use, then builds the audit report.
BEFORE THE SHOOT
The checklist — cleared on paper before cameras roll
1
Bring your documents
Contracts, releases and licenses — plus your AI plan for the shoot, instead of a locked edit.
2
We check the plan against the paper
Every planned AI use is measured against the consents and licenses you already hold — and the guild and union terms you're under.
3
You get the checklist
A short list of what still needs a consent or a license before the camera rolls — cleared on paper now, not chased on set.
AFTER THE CUT
The audit — every logged AI touch reconciled for delivery
1
Bring the same documents
The contracts, releases, licenses and cast lists the production already has — now with a locked edit to check against.
2
Connect your editorial tools
Afterglow reads the provenance and metadata your tools already carry — starting with DaVinci Resolve. AI touches are caught automatically where the pipeline records them; the rest are declared at turnover, the same gate VFX deliverables already pass.
3
We reconcile the two
Each logged AI touch is checked against the rights on file — a person's consent or an asset's license, tracked separately. Anything without a matching right is flagged, and stays that way until a named person signs off.
4
You get the audit report
It lists the touches, the rights behind them, the open flags, and who signed off — one document you can hand to whoever asks.
Afterglow produces the record; the clearance and legal calls stay with your counsel.
WHERE IT RUNS
Afterglow reads your documents, not your footage.
Studios and post houses can't send raw footage or an unfinished cut to an outside service — TPN reviews and studio security won't allow it. Afterglow reads only your documents and the AI metadata — never the footage itself.
For clients who require the analysis to run fully inside their own perimeter, Afterglow can be deployed on-premise or in your private cloud — your VPC or datacenter, with no training on your data and no retention of your material.
The audit record itself is yours: archived, exportable, built to outlive the production. Because the footage never leaves, your security team reviews a far smaller data surface than an outside cloud upload would put in front of them.
On-Premise
Installed in your datacenter, next to your media storage.
Private Cloud (VPC)
A dedicated instance you own and control.
Your Keys, Your Rules
Your encryption keys, your firewall, your audit log.
GET STARTED
See what it finds on your next production.
Book a demo and we'll show it on real paperwork — what it reads, what it flags, and the audit report you walk away with. No cleanup before the call; bring it as it is.
Rights & consent infrastructure for AI in film & TV — and the contract-analysis engine behind it is already running in production.