Send-ship: hand footage to your colorist and get it back clean

The cleanest way to hand footage to your colorist or sound mixer is to push it straight from the project the cut already lives in, and have their work come back to that same project. No separate transfer service, no shared Dropbox folder, no WeTransfer that expires before they download it. Send-ship pushes out, Receive brings it back.

The round-trip most people improvise

Color and sound are round-trips, and the round-trip is where footage gets lost. You export, upload to a transfer service, send a link, they download, they work, they upload somewhere else, they send you a link, you download into a folder you will rename three times. Every hop is a chance for a wrong version or an expired link.

The fix is to treat it as one loop inside one project instead of a chain of separate services.

How send-ship works

1. Lock the cut in the project you are already reviewing in.
2. Send-ship it to your colorist or mixer. They get a link, download the files, and start working. No account, no charge to them.
3. Their work comes back through Receive into the same project, folders preserved, so the graded passes and mixes land where they belong instead of in your downloads folder.
4. You keep one source of truth. The cut, the notes, the round-trips, and the final master all live together.

Why it matters more than it sounds

Most transfer tools move files one direction and forget about them. A post workflow is bidirectional. Footage goes out to color and sound, and graded, mixed footage comes back. Building both directions into the same project is the difference between a workflow and a pile of links.

This is part of what chimping.io bundles into one subscription: review, delivery, send-ship, and receive, instead of stitching a review tool to a transfer service to a cloud folder. If you are comparing against a transfer service specifically, the vs MASV page goes through it.

Move the footage like it is going to come back. Because in post, it always does.