Case Study: Netflix achieves award-winning documentary storytelling with Adobe

Uncovering undersea mysteries in My Octopus Teacher

Netflix’s *My Octopus Teacher* faced major post-production challenges, including thousands of hours of footage, multiple camera formats, varying frame rates and resolutions, and work spread across several hard drives. Adobe Premiere Pro was central to the editing workflow, helping the team manage the complexity of the project while supporting a remote, collaborative production process.

Adobe provided an integrated Creative Cloud solution that included Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Lightroom, Photoshop, and InDesign, enabling smoother organization, proxy workflows, dynamic linking, and efficient color and image processing. The result was a streamlined edit for a highly complex documentary, with Adobe helping the team move quickly through difficult relinking, color-matching, and timeline management while supporting the film’s award-winning final release on Netflix.

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