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files on CD for broadcast??
Here’s one for the forum. I’m pretty sure of the answer but would like a confirmation. I have a client who says he has (corporate) footage on a CD…to use in a commercial. I told him that anything that was on a CD would not be a high enough quality to broadcast. I’m pretty sure that this is true, but would like to confirm it with you guys.
Thanks in advance,
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likely not, but you need to know more.
is it a cd or dvd, and what do you mean by footage? video clips?
whats the compression, frame size, and frame rate?“is this piece of string long enough?”
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It’s possible it could work. It all depends on the frame size and compression. I had gotten one that wasn’t too bad, but then convinced the client to get a BetaSP dub instead. After all of your processing and then your videotape processing to get it into your playback system, then your transmitter… it will degrade.
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[Andrew Wise] ” I told him that anything that was on a CD would not be a high enough quality to broadcast”
What do you consider broadcast quality?
If it was DV25 footage he could fit 3 minutes on a CD.
Or if it was 8-bit SD he could fit a little over 30 seconds on a CD.
And if it was 10-bit SD he could fit around 24 seconds on a CD. -
In the newsroom where I work we are now constantly getting VNR (Video News Releases) on CD-Rom. Most of the time its some little, tiny, squished up video file running as part of a biggger “presentation” program. A lot of the time even when I can find the video file its a WMV and I’m SOL. sometimes its an AVI or an MPEG 1 or 2 and I can do something with it, but it still looks like crap.
Other times I have been surprised. When the files have been those little movies which digital still cameras can make I can usually get them to work and they are acceptable quality in the context of the news story (usually survellience stuff).
If any of you are out there making VNR’s and you are making compressed little files for your client’s web site, power point presentation or other CD Rom output, please let your client know that a TV station isn’t going to be able to do much with it. A seperate disk with just the video presentation as a quicktime file in DV quality would be great.
DWR
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To be honest, I really don’t have alot of experience trying to pull something off of a CD for broadcast use…I tried it in the past with no luck, just wasted time. I’m used to using my own footage(DV) or footage from BetaSP or DVD. I don’t know anything about the specs on the files…I just kind of cringe when people tell me that they have ‘great footage on CD’ for use in an ad. I’ve thought that it was’nt relly possible to pull great video footage off of a CD, but it sounds like in some cases it is possible.
Thanks,
Andrew -
You can 3 minutes of broadcast DVCam footage on a CD. So it’s certainly possible.
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