I've got a compliance story! Non native speaker, I am open to tips on improvement!

I work for a TV production company as a media manager, and because i am the only one, also the head of post production. Basically my job requires me to manage all media coming in, and, after editing, delivery to the broadcasters.

We were on the final episode deliveries for the broadcaster, of a huge project. This project was 16 episodes, a talk show, and lots of money involved. On this particular episode while making the final delivery file (Master file), I noticed one of the drones had a malfunction while filming, wich basically ment that the sky in the footage was showing horizontal black lines.

I went to the editor, and asked if he could fix it, since it is most likely the broadcaster will reject the episode. His reply was to send it anyway, and it will be fine. I even told him an easy fix, but he rejected it, because he was an editor, and he knew more about it than me.Due to earlier experiences, and the specifications required by the broadcaster, i knew it wouldn't be fine, so I involved the productionleader of this project. When we both went up to the editor again, he said the same thing, and we send the file to the broadcaster anyway.

Not even a day later, it got rejected, as expected, and we were requested to fix the footage, either replace it or figure out a way to make the lines dissapear. So up to the Editor it went.

Both me and the productionleader joined him in the editsuite. We both watched him struggle for about 5 minutes, until I asked him, What if we replaced the sky with the sky from earlier footage?

His face lit up, and he started it. In about 5 minutes he was done. I send it to colour correction, and after that to the broadcaster, at which point it was accepted.

He later got a reprimand for the whole ordeal, due to wasting time, money and sending a bad file to the broadcaster. I haven't seen him since.