Two crew members on a film set reviewing a shot on an iPad next to a camera, under the PacPost logo

PacPost

The client

PacPost is a remote video review platform for post-production: it lets directors, editors and colourists review the same footage together without being in the same room. CodigoDelSur built its iPad MVP, covering multi-room streaming, Apple Pencil markup on the frame, and Face ID with two-factor authentication on the way in.

Person in a plane using PacPost.live to edit film footage on the go.
Person signaling that filming will begin for a movie scene.
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The challenge

Post-production review used to happen in a room: a director, an editor and a colourist looking at the same screen, pointing at it. Doing that remotely is not a video call with a shared screen. The image has to arrive with low enough latency that several people react to the same frame at once, the annotation has to land on a specific frame, and the content is unreleased film, so the security requirements are the studio's, not the app's.

Film crew working on movie set

our approach

CodigoDelSur built the iPad application for multi-room remote review. Low-latency streaming came through Millicast, with Twilio Video handling participant rooms so separate groups could review in parallel sessions. Markup was built on Apple's PencilKit, so a reviewer draws on the frame and the annotation attaches to the exact point in the timeline. Access was protected with Face ID and two-factor authentication. Stack: Swift, PencilKit, Millicast, Twilio Video, React, iPad.

Cameramen watching footage on a movie set.

The result

An iPad MVP for multi-room remote video review was delivered, with low-latency streaming and parallel review rooms via Millicast and Twilio Video. Reviewers mark up the content frame-accurately with an Apple Pencil, behind Face ID and two-factor authentication appropriate to unreleased material.