[Leverson]

I label my stems however the deliverables sheet says I should label them.

If there is no delivery sheet specification I've gotten into the habit of really spelling things out. I've actually gotten calls from production companies in the past that didn't know what DX and MX were, so now I'll write out _DialSTEM and _MusicSTEM just to be extra clear. It's a little silly, but I've never had a call about it since. When it doubt, spell it out.

As far as dialogue splits and sub groupings in a documentary mix, I usually have my tracks organized as follows:

Narration/VO

Sit-down interview tracks

Verite footage

Archival footage

Futz tracks (if needed)

And any non-dialogue production sounds goes on the Production FX tracks, which gets sent via the PFX stem to the FX stem.

Often I don't get asked to split the dialogue elements for delivery, other than separating out the Narration/VO. But I like to group my tracks in a way that if a distributor asks me for an archival-only stem I can easily do that as I've got it all organized that way anyways.

If you have a narrator-less documentary that is great, one less delivery requirement to split out.