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HD/SD cutoff and safe area
doesn anyone have practical knowledge of how ESPN does their center-cut for SD channels? We’re in a quandry of how to ensure title safe for legal…
i.e. Do they cut so that the top/bottom of the HD frame = the top/bottom of an NTSC frame? Or do they cut so that the top/bottom of the HD frame = action safe in an NTSC frame?
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If you just go with the built in title safe guides I am shure you will be fine
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i’m shure i won’t be.
Take a look: I did a quick mockup for cutting in DV with 1.78 letterbox to simulate the conformed HD image area with the center cut SD safe area. See, what ESPN does is produce the entire feed in HD and do a simple center-cut to feed the SD side. You don’t deliver them anything in SD. From what I udnerstand this is to save money on having to pay seperate license fees to the NFL/MLB/NBA for SD.
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[CharlieX2] “doesn anyone have practical knowledge of how ESPN does their center-cut for SD channels? We’re in a quandry of how to ensure title safe for legal…”
Ask ESPN to deliver the Technical Standard and Broadcast Guidelines to you. It might also be called the Producer Handbook. There will be very specific requirements for delivery and where graphics and video need to fall to protect for 4:3, things like the Ticker and the bug.
Each network is different and asking us to give advice is just taking shots in the dark. I just received a 55 page manual from a new HD network and they have 5 overlay grids describing the location of the name supers alone.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
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yeah – we’re trying to get them as I speak. thanks walter
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