US Patent 7376183 Post-production processing

Post-production processing may be performed by receiving a film series of one or more data units of content related to a motion picture, determining a state for the film series, determining an operation to be performed on the film series based on the state of the film series, identifying a resource that is appropriate to perform the operation to process the film series, and interfacing with the resource to enable the operation to be performed by the resource on the film series.