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First TV spot
I have just gotten my first 30 second TV spot. I ended up using some stock footage that I color corrected in After Effects. The issue I have is Broadcast colors. Can anyone tell me about the Broadcast Colors effect and what Format most TV stations will take?
Thanks,
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damn somebody awnser the mans question..or does noone know.(obviously I don’t) His big month here.
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O.k. I lied(maybe) as far as I know..there is no “format” for broadcast colors. Just apply a broadcast color filter/effect to a track/timeline/clip and it automatically keeps colors legal.
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Broadcast colors is designed to lower the saturation or luminance values for pixels that exceed “safe” values…over 235 RGB. Watch you clip on a TV. Are all the colors correct? Do any colors bleed or vibrate?
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Thanks. I have watched it on TV after burning it to DVD and it looks good. I am so new to Broadcasting something I feel like a child. Even though I have been authoring DVD’s and in house commercials for 4 years. I am just trusting that if I put the broadcast colours effect on it will be fine. Commercial will air in approx. 1 week.
Thanx,
Dan -
What I usually do is a color correction pass with scopes (waveform and vectorscope) to make sure everything is legal as I color correct (ie as I tweak to make it look like the effect I want) — then to be safe right before output I use a variant of the Broadcast Safe filter (I also use Avid and Liquid Blue) just to make sure nothing strayed out of legal while I wasn’t looking.
It is very important to use a Broadcast monitor and Hardware scopes (in my opinion) to accurately do CC. That said — I can now confess that I have done DV stuff a lot with just the software scopes in Premiere and a cheapo TV and it worked fine.
David Oulashian
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