Grading a commercial

A commercial is a short cut of many shots that all have to look like one piece, often with a client watching. Voxel grades the whole cut from your notes, without a colorist booked.

How it works

1. Export the edit from your editing software as an XML timeline and load it in Voxel with its clips. Voxel lines up every shot as it is in the cut.
2. Set the look on one hero shot by describing it: "clean and bright, a little warm, skin looking healthy".
3. Ask Claude to carry the look across the cut. It copies the grade to the other shots and then evens out the differences between them, shot by shot, so the cut plays as one piece.
4. Play the whole cut in real time and give notes as they come: "shot four is too dark", "the product needs to pop more", "the sky in the last shot looks green".
5. Ask Voxel to check the cut against its limits. It measures where whites, blacks or colours go out of range and names the step responsible, so you can fix it before delivery.
6. Export one movie of the whole cut in ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 4444 or H.264.

With the client in the room

Open the client viewer on a second screen. It shows only the graded picture and a timecode, so the client sees the work and nothing else. Their notes go straight to Claude in plain words, typed or spoken, and the picture changes while they watch.

What you need

A Mac with Apple Silicon, your own Claude Code sign-in, and your edit as an XML timeline with its clips. Voxel renders on your Mac's graphics chip and does not upload your footage.