Deliver Mix Sessions to platforms Amazon / Netflix / ...

[evanbenjamin]

This comes up a lot, and I really think people overthink this. No one is rummaging through your session for your innovative routing techniques or mixing secrets. Award winning mixers upload their sessions on the daily. We can too.

No one from an sfx library is going to figure out where the sfx came from and hunt you down. No one is going to reuse some sound they found in a session. Who would wade through the mountain of material they get in a day to find some sound you recorded one day and steal it? They do it to make their lives easier when they need help with foreign deliverables. Your stem isn’t split off enough, or some such. Archiving purposes, so someone ten years down the road can sell this to someone else. This is work for hire, you’re not some tortured genius with some secret that’s going to get stolen. I emphatically include myself in this too, by the way.

I’m currently uploading my sessions to Netflix for a series just concluded. Next week I’ll probably have to do that for a feature on Hulu. Do it, get paid, and move on with your life. Clients will not be thrilled that you kicked up a fuss with their client (the streamer) and made their life even a tiny bit more annoying.