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Package validation

Automated and human checking that a delivery package is complete, correctly structured, synchronized, and within specification.

Also known as: delivery validation, package QC

Reviewed

Inputs

  • Approved creative material, production information, and the requirements for the task

Outputs

  • A reviewed result with a clear owner, version, and downstream handoff

Handoffs

  • Validation can cover files, checksums, naming, metadata, codecs, color, audio, captions, encryption, and playback; passing a parser does not replace editorial quality control.

In practice

Validation can cover files, checksums, naming, metadata, codecs, color, audio, captions, encryption, and playback; passing a parser does not replace editorial quality control.

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