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  Broadcast settings for master tape

  Posted by Carl Battreall on April 16, 2009 at 5:03 pm

  Greetings,
  I am cinematographer and for the first time I am handling the editing and output of a project for film festival submission.

  What is the easiest way to set up my project for master tape creation?

  1. These are the usual standards: thirty seconds of 7.5 IRE black, then 60 seconds of SMPTE color bars WITH PLUGE and tone, then 30 more seconds of 7.5 IRE black. Picture should then start EXACTLY at hour 1:00:00:00

  Its the Plunge and Tone I haven’t figured out how to create, is there a preset sound effect?

  If I add the Broadcast Colors (set at conservative)FX to the black clips, will that keep them
  at 7.5 IRE

  Or should I just let the post house deal with all of this?

  2. What are people’s experience with rendering for creating a HD master tape? Uncompressed AVI or QuickTime? The post house I contacted prefers a Quicktime file. (the project is 720 24P)

  3. Does anyone know of a good post house that creates HD master tapes from Vegas? Which post house do you guys use?

  Lots of questions, sorry.

  Cheers,
  Carl

  Asbjorn Grandt replied 16 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Douglas Spotted eagle

  April 16, 2009 at 5:24 pm

  You can download tones from any number of sites, generate them in Sound Forge, or record one from the Print to Tape option in Vegas.
  Since you need 30/black, bars, 30 black, you’ll need to generate your own leader and SMPTE pop on a timeline.
  Vegas can print bars and tones from the print to tape option, but it cannot split black/bar/black using the preset.
  You can create a black slug/blank inserting generated media at a value of 16/16/16.

  Douglas Spotted Eagle
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  Carl Battreall

  April 16, 2009 at 5:37 pm

  Thanks Douglas,

  What format do you usually use to render your projects for HD master tapes?
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  Asbjorn Grandt

  May 27, 2009 at 12:49 pm

  When creating the test tones in for instance Sound Forge (or any other editor for that matter) what dB levels would you use ?

  -8 dB seems like a sensible choice, as that would allow the +8 dB peak above reference (the test tone ?) that some apparently specify as the max.
  Or am I getting this completely wrong?

  Yes, I’m new at this 🙂

  Best regards
  A.Grandt

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