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digi beta -one clean and two graphics masters
HELP!!! We are talking to a person about Versus network and putting a show on there and they came back with “Please remember Versus requires digi beta-one clean and two graphics masters. We have HD capabilities in our production office.”
I have the footage (shot with a Panasonic HVX200A in DVCPROHD I can get more specific if needed) but I am kinda lost with the quoted terminology. I mean, I have HD footage and know how to export it to MP4, .FLV, whatever you get the point but “digi beta- one clean and two graphics masters”???? I take that it should be on a “digi beta” format (maybe?!?!?) and that I should have a total of three “tracks”?
This is the first time dealing with a “network” and kinda VERY exciting but scary at the same time. Any ideas or should I just go back to the representative and have her walk me through it?
Thank you so much in advance.
Penny
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Hi Penny,
it sounds as if they need the following
1 x edit master of your film on Digi Beta (with no captions/Graphics)
2 x Edit masters of your fIlm on Digi Beta (with all the captions/Graphics)mark
Mark Bowes
system
Premiere Pro 3.2
Matrox RT.X2
Sony HDV-M25AP VT
Sony DSR-45AP VT
Sony J30 VT
Sony HDV-Z1E Camera
twin P4 3 gig
4gig ram
8tb storageand a very old Panasonic Mii (somebody must still use it)
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If this is your first time supplying masters for broadcast, it would really behoove you to find a local post house has that has done good broadcast masters in the past, and take your (uncompressed) files to them for the layback. It will probably cost more (but not way more) than renting a DigiBeta deck for a day or two. Suffice it to say, there are a lot of ways you can mess up a master while putting it to tape. The post house should also have hardware ‘scopes, test signal generators, audio phase meters, calibrated monitors, and the like. (Don’t just find someone with finalCut and a deck — you don’t want your masters rejected, especially the 1st time.)
-jeff
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Jeff,
Thanks for the advice. After talking to the contact they are now saying that the “technical lady” is saying that the can produce the masters for me and I think i will go with that. Seems much safer and less stressful EXCEPT now they are saying that really what they need since i am editing with Premiere Pro CS3 and shooting with DVCPROHD is for me to export in Quicktime in Apple ProRes 1080i and that they can take it from there.
Maybe you can point me in the right direction-
I am working on a PC and a couple of questions I have are1. Is there a plugin that I could purchase or ?? to convert to Apple ProRes specifically? In my media encoder under export settings I have the QuckTime Format option and under video codec I have several Apple flavors but not ProRes
2. If not (or maybe instead of) if they are just looking for a 1080i QT .mov could I use one of the other QT presets and tweak the setting to “match”/mimmick this and give the “technical lady” her .mov that it seems she is looking for to make the masters?
3.Am I totally screwed?
4.Should I be asking these questions as a separate post?
I am sorry for rambling just VERY stressed over this whole thing.
TV is scary. I watched Poltergeist when I was younger and I know what happens with TVs!
Thanks a million!
Penny -
Hi Mark,
Thank you so much!
Penny
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I don’t think you’re screwed; in fact it’s great they will master for you. But you’ll have to speak with the “tech lady” again. To my knowledge, ProRes export is not available on Windows (boo!). Mac-based facilities can forget that not everything is a Mac-based facility ;>). Ask her if they will accept a different codec: Animation and PNG QuickTime codecs are both lossless compression, and usable on any system. They will be large files, so plan on shipping a USB hard drive.
You will want to provide 1080×1920, upper-field (even) dominance. One note: the PNG codec has an option for “interlaced”. This is NOT video fields, it’s for Web display, so leave it un-checked.
-jeff
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