Dealing with production electronically is a dramatic improvement over the days of boxes of paper, Post-Its and highlighters, but it is not without its challenges. Many files do not easily lend themselves to printing (spreadsheets, databases and accounting systems) or can’t be reduced to PDF at all (WMV, MOV, Wav, MP3, etc. – these can be reduced to a transcript but that can be expensive and time consuming – so knowing if these are important enough records to transcribe is handy). In the flood of documents, it is very easy to forget that these files exist and to ensure that they are reviewed.
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