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DVD for cable TV show
There’s a show that I work on that runs on cable TV, and I want to make sure that when I hand in the DVD to them for inputting into their system that I’m giving them the best possible quality. This channel isn’t HD, so is it safe to say that my FCP sequence settings should be set to Lower or Upper Field, since it’s not progressive? Or is it not safe to say anything, and just contact them to find out how to format the show?
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Absolutely contact them to find out what they need. They don’t want a Beta SP or Digibeta Master?
Richard Sanchez
North Hollywood, CA“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.” – Bill Hicks
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They don’t want a Beta SP or Digibeta Master?
I know it seems odd, but they do accept a DVD. I know there are some DVD byproducts that
will affect the aired product, but they’ll accept it. Anyway, thanks. -
If they’re accepting DVD as MPEG2, their system is ingesting the MPEG2 and either playing it out native or converting it upon ingestion to an airplay codec, probably proprietary to their system.
If they want MPEG2, you can encode the files with Compressor—without using DVSP— and maintina a very high level of quality, assuming you knwo how to drive the MPEG2 transcoding.
If they just need yoru files delivered on DVD-RAM, find out what codec they prefer.
bogiesan
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Hi, David. I’ve been exporting my FCP sequence to Compressor and using the high-quality two-pass 90-minute settings to create my assets for DVDSP. It’s the .m2v asset that you’re referring to, right?
(You pretty much threw me for a loop when you talked about “driving the mpeg2 transcoding 🙁
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