First tag editing job – how to match original clip settings

[Vince Becquiot]

Hi David,

On your export panel, choose either 648×480 (4:3) or 854×480(16:9), square pixels.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[David Fuku]

Hi Vince I will try that but Time Warner told me (it’s going to local cable tv) that the 720×486 is SD and to output 720×486 SD not sure about SD so I’ll see how it goes and report back.

[Alex Udell]

Hi David….

I deal with TWC all the time at my job.

So are you working HD or SD?

For SD you should be working at 720 x 486 and exporting 720×480 at 29

If HD you could be working at any HD resolution, but you need to deliver at 29.97fps.

1280 x 720 (most likely) at 30p or 1920×1080 at 60i (compatible but a lot of data)

TWC wants to see a h264 codec for your compressed deliverables.

If you are east coast USA they have specific formatting requirements:

5 sec Bars and tone, Slate, 2 sec black, spot, 2 sec black.

hope that helps…

Alex Udell
Editing, Motion Graphics, and Visual FX

[David Fuku]

Hi, I ended up having to set my seq. as DV NTSC standard .9 aspect ratio
Then output as H264 720×486 maximum 5.75 target rate sq. pixel aspect 1.0
and that created the largest file with the correct safe SD area for graphics/fonts on my tags…

I didn’t know editors have to create for SD still in 2012, sort of a mind blower.. I still think it’s a good format if it was HD but whatever. I was seriously stressing out!!!

[David Fuku]

Hi Alex, didn’t see your post, I’m on the west coast and I saw the spec sheet but I don’t have to deal with the bars and all that jazz, just the tags/vo (of course, they will tell me I do at the last second right?)

The master I have says its an apple animation 720×486 29.97 it looks HD that’s what got me stumped plus dealing with a relative totally confusing me and the Spanish versions a lot happening at the same time.

I’m outputting 720×486 h264 per the producer/editor at TWC told me to do. I tried at 720×480 not much difference but I also tried every combo I could and by far this made the video output the largest overall without being stretched or SD looking.

Plus, I have a new 5d and no one mentioned none of the standard software is not working with the Canon RAW files (stills not video) so I lost 5 days on that job. BTW if anyone doesn’t know. Canon’s DPP makes your photos look like they’re out of focus, Lightroom loses your settings and the files don’t output the same as the screen you’re color correcting in by 1-2 stops! Serious nightmare…

[David Fuku]

OOPs

Alex you’re right 720×480 CBR 6.75 or better! h264 works, not sure why they sent the this SD version instead of an HD…

I love this forum all of you are so generous, I certainly appreciate the help I’ve received, and I realize I’m asking pretty basic questions!!!

[Alex Udell]

ok…

so if Quicktime is telling you the source is 720×486

but you keep thinking that it’s HD, it must be because the shape of the video frame is 16×9. So this would be a SD Wide Screen clip.

I’m Sure that TWC is going to want a 4×3 SD clip.

What happens if you create a SD 4×3 sequence in PPro and drop the the source there?

Alex

[David Fuku]

The producer at time warner told me to put SD as impute and I output at hd on one master it seems fine output at 720×480 but the second master is jittery
so I did a test impute at hdv 720 and out the same as above and its fine so I wasted part of night on that nice first job!!!!

i have a video today, UCLA directing class… it’s much easier when you film it first!!!

I’ll reply tomorrow… Alex, you’re so cool!!!! I owe you if you come to LA…