Video Post Production for FMCG

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FMCG context

Fast-moving consumer goods brands operating at national media scale.

For fmcg teams, post production sits inside an approval chain, not outside it. FSSAI and ASCI compliance on every claim. We build that into the schedule rather than discovering it at the sign-off stage.

• TVCs — briefed, scripted and delivered as a distinct asset rather than a cutdown afterthought.
• Digital ad films — briefed, scripted and delivered as a distinct asset rather than a cutdown afterthought.
• Trade films — briefed, scripted and delivered as a distinct asset rather than a cutdown afterthought.
• Recipe and usage content — briefed, scripted and delivered as a distinct asset rather than a cutdown afterthought.

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What good looks like in this sector

Trade films move distributor behaviour as much as consumer ads move sales.

Every engagement begins with a working session, not a rate card. In fmcg, the most common failure is a film that is technically excellent and commercially silent — beautiful footage that never states the proposition. We test the script against the buying decision before the camera is booked.

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What video post production actually involves

A single post pipeline: conform, VFX cleanup, grade, mix and multi-platform delivery.

Every engagement begins with a working session, not a rate card. For post production, that means deciding early whether the film is doing persuasion work, explanation work or proof work — because those three jobs need different structures, different running times and different crews.

A typical engagement runs 2-4 weeks and is delivered by post supervisor, online editor, colourist, vfx artist, mix engineer. There is no shoot day and no location to permit — the work is built in our studio from resolve studio grade theatre, nuke, pro tools hdx, which is why the schedule is driven by approvals rather than by weather, traffic or access.

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What you receive

Deliverables are agreed in writing before production starts, so nothing is negotiated after the fact. The standard package for post production includes:

• Conformed timeline
• DI graded master
• 5.1 and stereo mixes
• Platform delivery bundle

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How we run the project

Six stages, each with a named owner and a dated checkpoint.

• Design and asset build: Style is locked on approved styleframes. Characters, product models, UI and typography are built to that lock so nothing is reinterpreted mid-project.
• Animation and assembly: Blocking pass, then full animation against the approved scratch voice track. You review at blocking and at first full pass, before render.
• Finishing: Render, colour, sound design, mix and graphics conform in a calibrated suite. Two structured revision rounds sit inside the schedule.
• Delivery and measurement: Platform-specific masters, captions, thumbnails, source project files on request, and an asset index. We review performance after 30 days.
• Discovery: A 90-minute session with the people who own the outcome. We leave with the audience, the proposition and the single action the work has to drive.
• Script and storyboard: A written script, then a storyboard or styleframe set that shows exactly how the finished piece will look before a single frame is built.

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Investment and what moves the number

Video Post Production projects typically sit between Rs 1.2L - Rs 14L. The variables that move that figure are finished runtime, the number of unique scenes or assets built from scratch, the complexity of the style, and how many revision rounds you need beyond the two included.

We quote in three tiers against the same script so you can see exactly what an extra day or an extra grade session buys. What we do not do is win the brief on price and rebuild the margin through change requests.

• Included as standard: delivery specs matched to each platform, not one master for everything.
• Included as standard: a named producer who answers the phone, not a ticket queue.
• Included as standard: a storyboard approved before production time is spent.
• Included as standard: two structured revision rounds priced into the quote.

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FMCG teams we produce for across Mumbai

Post production is built in our studio, so there is no site access to arrange. These are the pockets of the MMR the briefs come from.

• Uttan (Extended MMR) — Coastal frames, beach-facing hospitality and lifestyle brands. Anchored around Uttan Beach. Requests cluster around leadership interviews, annual films and internal comms.
• Vasai East (Extended MMR) — Manufacturing sheds, estates and back-of-house operations that need capability films. Anchored around Vasai MIDC. Briefs here skew to founder films, product stories and recruitment content.
• Andheri East (Western Suburbs) — Mumbai's densest cluster of corporate parks, IT exporters and post houses.
• Andheri West (Western Suburbs) — The production capital of India, with studios, agencies and talent on the same street.
• Bandra Kurla Complex (Central Mumbai) — India's financial and multinational headquarters district.

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Five ways fmcg post production projects go wrong

Most failed video projects fail for the same handful of reasons. These are the ones we plan against.

• Writing to a runtime instead of a message: Ninety seconds is a constraint, not a brief. Decide what has to land, then cut to fit.
• Treating voice over as an afterthought: The scratch track drives the timing of every cut. Cast the voice before animation, not after.
• Supplying assets late: Brand kits, product CAD and legal copy arriving mid-build is the single most common cause of a slipped delivery date.
• Approving a script without a storyboard: Words read differently from frames. Sign off the boards and the revisions collapse from ten rounds to two.

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Working with us

We are a Mumbai production company that works to a written scope, a fixed schedule and an agreed deliverable list. Briefs come in from marketing heads, founders, HR leads and agency partners, and all of them get the same first step: a conversation about the outcome.

If a video is not the right answer, we will say so. That has cost us projects and won us clients.