Finishing Knowhow
Core technical knowledge for all standards.
We scale to your exact needs — a single artist workstation or a hybrid team of 40 — and we move at the pace your pipeline demands. Chapeau works closely with your team to design efficient workflows that flex with your process, not against it. At your facility, ours, or fully distributed, we keep the work moving and the quality uncompromised.
Full List of Services we provide:
Online Editing
Mastering
Render Wrangling
Color
Sound Mixing
We finish to any delivery standard, including:
Video SD / HD / 2K / 4K / 6K / 8K H.264, H.265, ProRes (all variants), DNxHD/HR, ARRIRAW, RED RAW, MXF OP1a, IMF 23.976 / 24 / 25 / 29.97 / 30 / 59.94 / 60 fps HDR: HDR10, Dolby Vision, HLG Color spaces: Rec. 709, Rec. 2020, P3, ACES, Log (ARRI, RED, Sony, Canon)
Audio Stereo, 5.1, 7.1, platform-specific (YouTube, Meta, Apple) Sample rates: 48kHz / 96kHz, 24-bit
Deliverables Broadcast masters, streaming packages, social variants, DCP, OOH/large format, archival masters
Don't see your spec? We work to any format — just ask.
Broadcast & Film Finishing
From HD through 8K, we deliver frame-accurate masters for network broadcast, streaming platforms, and theatrical distribution. Our finishing pipeline is built for the demands of high-end production — tight turnarounds, exacting color fidelity, and delivery formats that meet any spec. Whether you're delivering to Apple TV+, Netflix, film studio or a major network, we know the requirements and how to deliver cleanly.
Social Finishing
Every platform has its own rules — aspect ratios, codec requirements, loudness standards, and file specs that continually shift. We take the guesswork out of social delivery, optimizing your content for Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and TikTok without sacrificing the creative intent of the original. Fast turn arounds are an obvious known.
OOH & Large Format
Billboards, digital signage, stadium displays, and experiential installations standardly need a different kind of finishing discipline. We've mastered the nuances of large format output — pixel-accurate scaling, luminance mapping for extreme display environments, technical file preparation for LED walls, projection systems and the ability to change quickly when executives change course. We love going big!
Retail Wall + In-Store Screens
+ WALL EXPERTISE - Chapeau has worked with the retail wall and its many technical intricacies since its prototype D3 inception at the company store. We continue to stay ahead with new LED technology.
+ IN-STORE SCREENSAVERS - Along with the wall, content for in-store screens was also produced and delivered. Working with provided footage we were asked to scale up from the initial 16x9 deliverable to 9 separate deliverables for:
• iPad Portrait
• iPad Landscape
• iPad Pro 11
• iPhone 9x16
• iPhone X, Xs, Xs Max, Xr
• Mac (Retail) 2880x1800
• Mac (Retail) 3840x2160
• Mac (Channel) 1920x1200
• Mac (Channel) 1920x1080
Additionally, we worked with the in-store engineering team in order to deliver content that wouldn’t burn the device screens out before their budgeted to do so.
Finishing Tools
Chapeau is equipped with industry-standard and specialized tools across color, online, and mastering — including Autodesk Flame, DaVinci Resolve, then Adobe suite and a calibrated monitoring environment in all finishing rooms. Our technical infrastructure is robust, current always modified for precision. We configure our toolkits around your project rather than forcing your project into a fixed pipeline.
