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Export, archive, and review

Deliver technically correct files and preserve the project for future use.

About 24 minutes • Finish with a concrete deliverable
Adorama · Master Your CraftHow to Set Exposure in Manual ModeYouTube
Course primer

How to Set Exposure in Manual Mode

From Adorama · Master Your Craft. Watch here or open it on YouTube .

Compare final exports on more than one screen and ask whether the exposure decisions demonstrated in the video survived compression and display differences.
Before you begin

What this lesson is really solving.

Export for the actual platform or client using current resolution, codec, aspect, audio, caption, and file-size needs. Watch every delivered file, keep editable masters and rights records, preserve originals in more than one place, and critique against the brief.

Why this works

Understand the idea before touching the steps.

The master protects quality; delivery copies fit specific platforms; the archive protects future options.

Do this

Follow these steps in order.

Take the action in each step; then use the deliverable below to prove the lesson is finished.

  1. 1

    Export a high-quality master at the correct resolution, frame rate, color space, and audio settings.

  2. 2

    Create platform-specific copies from the master and inspect the uploaded result for compression, crop, sync, and text size.

  3. 3

    Archive originals, project files, licensed assets, exports, releases, and notes with verified backups.

  4. 4

    Review the work after a break and record one lighting, composition, capture, and editing lesson for the next project.

Worked example

See the standard in context.

Kai exports a high-quality master plus vertical and horizontal delivery versions, checks titles and audio on phone and desktop, preserves the project with licensed music receipt, and backs up originals and masters separately. The critique flags inconsistent skin tone for the next shoot.

Quality check

Inspect before you move on.

  • Every export is watched from first frame through final audio.
  • Aspect ratio, crop, captions, color, codec, and file naming match destination needs.
  • Originals, project, masters, licenses, consent, and backup locations are documented.
Make it real

Your deliverable

A verified master, platform deliverables, organized archive, and four-point project review.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Keeping only the social-media upload or deleting source files before final approval and backup verification.

You’re ready when

Prove it—don’t just recognize it.

You can recreate any delivery format without reopening a fragile or incomplete project.

Objective evidence · 3 questions

Quick knowledge check

Answer from the lesson—not from confidence alone. Score at least 2 of 3 to unlock completion.

Not yet passed

This curriculum-aligned check is scored automatically and stored with your account when signed in. It is an objective learning signal, but it has not yet been independently validated as a standardized assessment.

1Which action belongs in the recommended process for “Export, archive, and review”?
2Which result is the clearest evidence that this lesson’s work is complete?
3Which choice matches the failure this lesson specifically warns against?
0 of 3 answeredEach question measures the action, evidence, or failure condition taught above.
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One check remains

Pass the knowledge check above first.

Completion unlocks after a score of 2 out of 3. Then confirm that you produced the lesson deliverable.

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