Post production is problem solving. Not occasionally — constantly. From the moment a shoot wraps to the moment a file is delivered, you are making decisions that affect the story, the budget, the timeline, and everyone downstream of you. Some of those decisions are creative. Most of them are logistical. All of them matter.
That's the part that's hardest to find good information about. There are plenty of tutorials on how to use the tools. Plenty of courses on the software. But the actual job — the supervision, the coordination, the systems that hold a production together when everything is trying to fall apart — that's harder to find. That's what this site is for.
A bit about me
I'm Ash. I've been working in post production professionally since 2015, and in broadcast since 2016 when I joined a Warner Brothers International Television Production facility as an assistant editor. I spent four years there, moving through to senior editor and then colourist — learning to manage large volumes of production footage, edit broadcast series end-to-end, and eventually deliver colour graded long-form content to international broadcast standards.
Alongside that, I've worked freelance on documentary and broadcast series — including travelling to Israel and Palestine to ingest, back up, and edit a documentary for Whitiora Productions, and sole editing a broadcast series of Life Flight from offline cut through to colour and delivery. I also worked on a TVNZ kids television series called Reset, which was my introduction to being on set managing continuity, and communicating with the Director about how the edit was going to come together.
Since 2020 I've been the Post Production Supervisor for a large comedy channel on YouTube, where I architect and run the full post pipeline: editorial, colour, finishing, delivery, archiving, VFX coordination, platform publishing, and the technology infrastructure underneath all of it. The credits across my career include work with Warner Brothers ITVP NZ, TVNZ productions, solo productions and a heap of other bits and pieces.
I started as the person checking rushes for sync errors. Now I'm the person responsible for the whole thing. That range is where this site comes from, as well as lessons learnt along the way.
What this site covers
The content here is aimed at working editors, supervisors, coordinators, and the kind of generalists that smaller productions rely on to do a bit of everything. The focus is practical:
- Post production workflow and supervision — how to structure a pipeline, manage a timeline, and make decisions that don't blow up on you later
- Editing — technique, process, and the habits that keep a project clean
- VFX supervision for indie productions — practical approaches when you don't have a dedicated VFX house behind you
- Sound design — the fundamentals, and how to work effectively with audio post
- DaVinci Resolve for teams — collaboration, database setup, multi-user workflows, and getting Resolve to behave when more than one person is in a project
- Tooling and automation — the scripts, utilities, and workflows that cut down on manual work and the mistakes that come with it
Some of it will be introductory. Some of it will go deep. The goal isn't to cover everything — it's to cover the things that are genuinely useful and hard to find straight answers to.
Who this is for
If you're an editor trying to get more organised, a coordinator stepping into a supervision role for the first time, a filmmaker trying to build a post pipeline from scratch, or someone who's been doing this for years and still thinks there has to be a better way — this is for you.
There's no single right way to do post production. But there are better and worse ways, and a lot of hard-won experience about what breaks and why. That's what I'll be sharing here.
Welcome to Hotshot Media. I hope something here ends up being useful to you.