Delivery List for Film and Video

(including trailers, teasers, music videos, EPK clips, TV spots, and commercials). If cinema, television, video, and VOD/web versions are produced, all these should be submitted.

Master (digital foundation document)

‘Master copy’ refers to the final edited, mastered film and/or video in the best quality, with complete audio and text.

Variants and versions should be submitted so that masters reflect the distribution formats.

The master should be without further compression, packaging, or data reduction in any other way. This means that resolution, color space, lighting, etc., in the timeline are maintained.

The file format is to be delivered in open and standardized formats, given support in software and production equipment. Preferably, this should be submitted in one or more formats for cinema, TV, VOD, and UHD masters:

EXR (lossless)
DPX (lossless)
TIFF (lossless)
Jpeg2000 (lossless)
Prores4444
DNxHR444

Minimum quality for TV master and festival film:

ProresHQ
DNxHR HQX / HQ

Master formats commonly used for video, web, and screening copies:

css
Mpeg4 – H264 (with a minimum bitrate of 1500 kbps)
Mpeg2 files (minimum bitrate of 50 Mbps, and only I-frame encoded)

Audio master (digital foundation document)

Including audio for audio description and audio subtitling

The final mix/audio master should reflect the audio systems used in the film or video, such as stereo, 2.0, 5.1, 7.1, Atmos, etc. M&E and Stems can be voluntarily delivered. The audio is preferably delivered in one of these formats:

Wav
Bwf
Aiff
Flac

Text (digital foundation document)

Subtitles for all produced languages should be submitted in file format PAC, XML, and/or SRT. Title and credit sequences and any textless sequences should be delivered in the same format as the master.

Credit list and dialogue list should be submitted, preferably as PDF, or in its original format (e.g., Word).

User copy / Screener– distribution format, published format

(in all produced language variants)

Cinema and festival film: Unencrypted DCP (in DCI/SMPTE standard) or IMF package. All DCP versions, such as in 2D and 3D, in 2K and 4K, with 5.1- and 7.1-audio, etc., should be submitted. This also applies to the IMF package.

Co-productions (and imports): Unencrypted DCP or IMF package – Norwegian version, alternatively international version.

Distribution of foreign quality film: Preferably unencrypted DCP or IMF package – Norwegian and/or Sami version, or if necessary as DCP or IMF with KDM.* Other formats are accepted according to agreements between the distributor and NFI. (LINK: https://www.nfi.no/sok-tilskudd/lansering-og-distribusjon/distribusjon-av-utenlandsk-kvalitetsfilm)

Video: DVD, Blu-ray, -UHD and/or other distribution format. A minimum of three copies of each format.

Television: User copy/screener not to be delivered, only submission of master copy and/or broadcast master – MXF/XDCAM. Alternatively delivered in an IMF package.

Web/VOD: User copy delivered as an IMF package or delivered as a master copy (see master format list).

• Notify if the delivery is made as encrypted DCP or IMF. This way, we can issue a ‘cert’ to the supplier or post-production company and receive the KDM key to open the distribution package in return.

Other

Promotional documents: Posters, brochures, press images, PR documents, etc. as print files or equivalent. Paper copies delivered in two copies.

We gladly accept scripts and storyboards for submission, but this is voluntary.