Close out a scene

Closing a scene is the point its record becomes final. Worth understanding before you click it.

The model release gate#

A scene cannot close until every performer's release is signed. This is a hard block, not a warning: close-out will not go through while any performer's release is missing or revoked, and there is no override for it. The requirement comes from the card networks, and The rules section of this Help Center covers what they ask and why.

The software enforces it rather than leaving it to memory because a missing release is the one defect that undoes the record. Everything else about a scene can be fixed after the fact; consent to publish cannot be collected retroactively.

Signing produces a finished, digest-carrying release document attached to that performer's row. It travels with the scene from there: into the production archive, and into the reports built from it.

Who is outstanding is visible at a glance in the talent section's status column, and the nudge is the resend button on their row, which issues a fresh link without leaving the product. For a performer who has gone quiet for good, cancelling the scene is the honest exit: it keeps every record already collected and simply ends the scene without a release that will never arrive.

Closing it out#

1. 1

   Review the scene

   The close-out dialog shows where you stand before anything commits. Green means every requirement is met. An amber warning with an explicit override checkbox means non-release items are outstanding, such as a missing post-shoot video or unfinished forms, and you may choose to proceed anyway. A red block means releases are missing, and that one does not proceed.

2. 2

   Sign the producer attestation

   You attest that you personally examined a government-issued photo ID for each performer in the scene, as 18 U.S.C. § 2257(b)(1) requires. The attestation is recorded with a timestamp and your IP address.

3. 3

   Confirm

   Closing is one step and it is final. The attestation and the closed status are recorded together, and a closed scene cannot be reopened. From this moment the record is complete.

Your compliance link and QR code#

Every closed scene gets a public URL and a QR code. It is what you hand to a processor, a distributor, or anyone asking whether records exist.

A visitor sees, without any account, that verified records exist for this scene: each performer by stage name or initials, with their verification standing. What the page deliberately withholds is the other half of the point: no legal names, no dates of birth, no ID images. Proof that records are held, without exposing the people in them.

Use it on the pages where the scene is published, in a distribution packet, and in response to a processor's ask. What it is not: it is not the records themselves, and it is not a substitute for the 2257 statement notice on your published pages. It proves the records exist and are held; the archive is what produces them.