commercials specifications

[Chris Poisson]

Well, Brett’s point sure made it sound that way. But we’re not talking about revisions anyway.
The agency I used to work at did about half their spots with a fade up and a fade down.. Whenever I had to make demo reels I used to add a 7 frame fade up and out to the cut ones to make them all consistent, and to be honest it did’t seem to change the spots one bit.

[Jase]

In the UK:

bar/tone 1 min = 100%bars PAL (check with station some require 75& bars)
tc: stripe from 9.58.20.00 bars from 9.58.30.00 – 9.59.30.00
Audio: +4dBm (-18 VU ref) think it’s supposed to be intermittent on the right channel (to determine LR)
(please note that the material sometimes starts at 1.00.00.00 for some channels for programmes only and has specific gaps of black in between prog parts)

VITC should be the same as LTC (to do this put digi into preset to stripe from 58.20.00, stripe for at least 10 secs, then put into regen to allow VITC to be the same as LTC and assemble to tape from 59.30.00.

Slate: 9.59.30.00 – 9.59.58.00 countdown from 9.59.50.00 – 59.58.00 with 1 kHz beeps on first frame of each second at +4dBm

for commercials:

VO must come in 12 frames after 10.00.00.00 and must finish 12 frames before end (10.00.29.12) for 30 sec spot.

vision: 30secs + 10 frame freeze (don’t forget to de-interlace to one field in FCP) allow for 30 sec black after…

quite like the 10 frame freeze thing – allows a nice space for MCR to do a fade and not have convoluted wall to wall audio (good ole BBC eh) They don’t have this down in NZ and Australia – I think its quite unique.

and NO you should not have fades at beginning and end – this tends to freak out MCR ops.

hope this helps.

[Mark Pommett]

“for commercials: vision: 30secs + 10 frame freeze (don’t forget to de-interlace to one field in FCP) allow for 30 sec black after…”

Hi there. Question. I’m doing my first broadcast. If I have a 2 minute break for commercials, would the order go like this:

X commercial, 10 seconds of last frame, 30 secs of black, Y commercial, 10 seconds of last frame, 30 seconds of black, back to program

?

Also if it’s a 2 minute commercial break, is the 2 minutes inclusive of the 30 seconds of black and 10 second freeze frames?

Thanks in advance