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Broadcast Savy
I need to improve the quality of my final projects when I go to tape for BROADCAST in terms of engineering beyond what a normal G5 and FCP will get me. Anybody know of a engineer-type or knowledgable FCP Broadcaster to come into our office and walk us through to a better workflow/output.
IN LOS ANGELES ONLY.
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Dear “The Beev”,
Can you be more specific about what you need to improve? I can tell you that we use stock, out of the box g-5’s and FCP and have been outputting hours of network quality shows. We have a waveform vectorscope , a decent NTSC monitor, and a blackmagic card, but that’s about it. No other special equipment. This gear can produce “broadcast quality”… assuming what you’re feeding it is broadcast quality. You’ve heard that old adage, “Garbage in, garbage out.”. It really depends on what kind of signal you’re feeding it.
Mark
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You misunderstand.
Your G5 and FCP is FULLY CAPABLE of delivering a broadcast quality tape. It is used all the time for broadcast work, including the Superbowl and the World Series. SCRUBS is done all FCP.
What you need is training…the knowledge of how to online and prepare a show for broadcast.
You can try Moviola Digital (LA) and Video Symphony (Burbank), but I think they offer offline training, but you never know. Or they can point you in the right direction. And don’t expect someone to come to your site, you’ll most likely be going to them. Also try Digital Film Tree.
Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
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Same as above, but I’d highly recommend getting some delivery specs from your potential clients, will they accept DV/DVCam/DVCPro or will you need to rent a beta deck? (if so sp or dBeta?), what audio/black levels do they expect? You can spend the earth on equipment if you want but there’s nothing particularly limiting about final cut pro and a G5 as far as broadcast goes, I do recommend an uncompressed video card and a decent production monitor first of all, probably a scope if you can afford it but you can always do it in software if you’re conservative. If you’re in LA you’re already half way there, there are plenty of places to hire equipment or even bring in a firewire with your final sequence to lay off to tape, they’ll have scopes and if you’re good at picking brains you can learn a lot from them.
Glenn Stewart
1k Studios
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