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Broadcasting Specs
Hi everyone, if any one could help with this, that would be so awsome.
I’m doing a commercial for an international client. Unfortunately, this is their first tv and web ad, and they don’t understand what i mean by Broadcast Specification. They seem completely oblivious to the need for specs. My first port of call is always “when you want something done…” however in this case i have no idea how to get it myself as they client is based in West Africa and will be broadcasting mostly in Nigeria and UK
Any suggestions what i can do?
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13 Replies
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As you mention TV broadcasting, start by learning about the PAL TV system.
Chad Brewer
Senior Broadcast Videotape Operator
TeleVersions, LLC -
you say to the client – “exactly how in Nigeria or UK will be doing this broadcast” and then you contact those companies.
Let’s say you were doing a job in the US, and you had the broadcast delivery specs for your local ABC network affiliate channel in your town. But your new show has to get broadcast on Discovery, or ESPN, and you don’t know what their specs are. Guess what – you have to CALL ESPN, and CALL DISCOVERY and get their standards and practices TOC document, to see exactly what they want.
Because what NBC wants is not what ABC wants.
Is this a royal pain in the ass ? YOU BET IT IS. Welcome to the broadcast industry.
Bob Zelin
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Bob, I was afraid that maybe the only way forward.
Uk is easy, but W.Africa is going to be a little more challenging, however I plan to persevere.Thanks again for the pointer. Its good to know my instincts were right, but not great to find out that this may be the only way …
Charity
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If they don’t know what Broadcast Legal means, don’t give them a hard time.
Broadcast PAL has Luma NEVER over 100 IRE and Composite signal never over 133 IRE.
With Web Videos you don’t need to care about Broadcast specs.
rafael -
you are so sweet to point that out, why didn’t i think of that…
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my worry is, if they don’t meet broadcasters specs, they’ll come back to later to complain…
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Hi Charity,
I don’t know which NLE are you using, but I guess all of them had a Broadcast Safe filter.
If you are using FCS, drop the “Broadcast safe” filter set to “Conservative”.
You can pass the movie through Color with the “Broadcast Safe” checked.
That will legalize even RGB levels.
rafael -
Rafael, that sound pretty good. I hope that’ll be enough. I guess at this point, that’s probably the least i can do.
Thanks for pointing that out. Really appreciate it. -
No two broadcasters have exactly the same requirements for delivery, but as you mention UK, both the BBC and Channel 4 have their specs on their web sites [they both follow ITU-R for the PAL system so the basics are the same].
https://www.bbc.co.uk/guidelines/dq/pdf/tv/tv_standards_london.pdf
https://www.channel4.com/corporate/4producers/resources/documents/FullTechnicalRequirements.pdf -
That would cover you even for “Digital delivery” as per the specs on the BBC and Channel-4 papers linked by Andrew.
rafael
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