Help! Doing our first show for TV

[Del Holford]

You didn’t say if this was a live show, live to tape, or all post production. In a live show such as Bloomberg, CNN, etc. they actually use a couple two channel character generators and a four channel DVEous or Sony video effects box to position the boxes with talking heads. This gives you excellent quality but is rather expensive (think 7 figures). To do this in a NLE takes a lot more time after taping the segments but is less expensive. If you’re going to do this HD you will need several upgrades: Premiere to current version + upgrade hardware, and Photoshop to CS3 Extended for the cool video things it now does. You might want to chat with Lyn Norstad in the Discrete Edit*ors forum as he is a resident expert on Premiere Pro and Axio hardware.

If I were you I would seriously consider hiring an experienced producer from Baltimore or Washington (Philly would work, too) to coordinate all the elements of such a show. You are walking onto the Titanic and the end result will be disaster. Asking advice here is a good start. My advice is worth what all free advice is worth but other COWntributors will add their comments to help you.

On just adding the tickers/zippers – use a large oversized wide tif file from PS and use progressive rendering to move it across the screen on the x axis. This will keep the file sharp and reveal a portion of the message like a ticker/zipper. AE can do this but so can Premiere.

Best of luck.

Del
fire*, smoke*, photoshopCS3
Charlotte Public Television

[Matthew Baker]

Thank you for the sage advice! I am now in the process of contacting experienced companies in the Balt/DC region to look at getting the much needed consultation.

To fill in the gaps from my first post, it will be mostly post production with some live to tape. Basically this is a parent company whose clients have a lot of their own footage and the program will consist of the parent company introducing clips from their clients. I would give more detailed information but they are concerned about confidentiality (because they’re the first of their type to do something of this manner).

Thank you also for the photoshop tip, I like that idea a lot!

Matthew Baker
Baker Creative Productions, LLC

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

[BCP LLC] “…would give more detailed information but they are concerned about confidentiality (because they’re the first of their type to do something of this manner).
“

Why is it I doubt that’s even a little bit true?

Nobody has ever thought of using out-of-house-supplied tapes in a TV show.

signed,
Bob Saget-speaking from the year 1989

😉

[Matthew Baker]

Perhaps I should have been more specific, the type of program they are doing will be completely unique to their industry. 🙂

Matthew Baker
Baker Creative Productions, LLC