• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Cable TV Spot: Edit Format? How Output?

  Posted by Bill Bilowit on March 31, 2007 at 7:52 pm

  Hi all…

  Need to create 60-sec cable TV spot using graphics of scanned art, stock shots, supers/titles. Agency deliverable is a Betacam SP with “usual broadcast standards”. We have access to Beta SP 2800 deck; hope to master-to-tape in house. See profile for details; basically we have G5 Dual 2.5 running FCP 5.1.4 w/Kona 2 and a fibre channel RAID. We do NOT have a K-box or Io.

  The last job we delivered on Beta was in 2003 with a Media100, now gone. Since installing FCP/Kona workstation, we’ve only captured HDCAM and DV25, edited in DVCPRO HD or DV25. Output’s always been digital: Quicktimes or MPEGs, or DV tape via Firewire–we’ve never yet tried to output analog.

  1) Can our Kona 2 output the right flavor analog to a Beta SP deck? Reading the manual I fear dealbreakers, like there’s no analog audio output!?

  2) If I can’t output to Beta SP in house, I’ll take a finished file to a facility. So to begin with, what edit format should we create the spot in? Better to work “higher resolution” than the delivery format, since we’re building all content from scratch and we have a choice?

  Just when I thought it was safe to leave analog behind…

  Bill Bilowit replied 19 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  David Roth weiss

  March 31, 2007 at 9:48 pm

  There is no analog audio out on a Kona 2. Create you show as 8-bit or 10-bit uncompressed, export a self contained QT and output at a facility with Betacam.

  DRW
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  Bill Bilowit

  March 31, 2007 at 9:57 pm

  Thanks, David. Will do!
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  Walter Biscardi

  April 1, 2007 at 1:54 am

  [Show Works] “1) Can our Kona 2 output the right flavor analog to a Beta SP deck? Reading the manual I fear dealbreakers, like there’s no analog audio output!?”

  It’s only $299 for the AJA K-Box for your Kona 2, this gives you RCA Analog Audio outputs. Get yourself a set of RCA to XLR cables from Markertek and you’re good to go. This audio will be fine for an analog Beta cable TV spot. We’ve done it here in the past before we got the Flying Cow A/D converter and then the Io.

  Walter Biscardi, Jr.
  https://www.biscardicreative.com
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  Bill Bilowit

  April 1, 2007 at 3:46 am

  Thanks Walter, this makes good sense. Especially for $299, easily the cost of a Quicktime to Beta conversion at a facility, just for this job!

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