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5.1 for PBS Delivery
I have a film that a major PBS station is interested in using for a pledge week vehicle. What is the best way to deliver the program with its DTS or 5.1 sound. I have the mixes on the DVD. I guess my question is how do I incorporate it in the quicktime file of the movie for their playback. Or is that even the way it should work?
I am using FCP 6.0.6, Mac Pro 8-core, OS 10.5.8
Best,
Jay
Jay Curlee
JC Communications
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Your best bet would be to ask them – find a contact at the station who can put you in touch with whoever’s going to have to ingest and broadcast this. They will tell you exactly what they require, and then if you need, come back and we can help you figure out how to do that. It’s not much use to guess what they’d want.
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Yar, PBS acceptance standards are in a really B-I-G book. The beauty of this book is it’s all fairly clearly spelled out, in engineering and heavy geek terms, and the standards are exactly that: STANDARDIZED. Once you are finished, and the work you are going to be forced to perform may not be pretty, you will have built a deliverable that can be run on any PBS station.
You should immediately being rounding up your original media because you may be reediting, or at least reconforming, to a new format. You will NOT be delivering a DVD.
bogiesan
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If you need to deliver 5.1 audio, then you will need to go to an audio post house that can encode to that, and either layback to your tape that you output to, or give you the data files that you put on the tracks (channels) that PBS requested that they be on, then output.
Shane
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Hey David,
I haven’t talked to you since back in the M100 days. Hope all is well. I am aware of the PBS big book, though it has been 20 years since I had to worry about it. I don’t have one now. I had engineers, TD’s, tape operators, and a multi million dollar online suite at my disposal way back then. PBS only sent back one of my 13 shows (on Type C one-inch) that time. We had to tweak 2 scenes and re-conform.
I already have a stereo, 5.1, and DTS mix. I was just wondering how I or they integrate the surround mix with my master, which I was hoping to submit on a hard drive.
Frankly, I just got the call from the station last week and I want to try to anticipate what might be needed. They gave me the impression that they wanted to move fast on this.
Jay
Jay Curlee
JC Communications
Makers of Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation and Journey
http://www.rockingtheboatmovie.com -
Look like HDCAM may be your best bet….
https://www.pbs.org/producers/redbook/specs/digital_television_dtv_requirements.html
Also check out the 2007 Book (search for 5.1)…
https://www.pbs.org/producers/redbook/TOS_2007_Submission_8_20_07.pdf
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