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Jumbotron technospeak
Thought here would be a good place to get started for help on this issue, let me know if I should post this elsewhere. I am more or less a noob to broadcast video with only a single local tv commercial under my belt, with lots of web video experience.
I am psyched to have landed a gig producing a 26 second spot to be displayed on a huge Prostar display inside the stadium of a major NFL team during the games. Obviously I want to make sure I get this right from the start. Here is the info they gave me on the tech specs for the video:
“All content for the ProStar Displays (the EagleVision screens) are
720×223 at 16:9 aspect ratio. This should be rastered out to 720×486
with black masks on top and bottom.”They gave me a sample frame which is 720×486 with big letterboxes top and bottom. I plan to shoot this in 16:9 HDV, and am wondering how exactly to output from FCP 6.0 to give them what they need…can anyone translate for me? Can I shoot this in HDV and what does “rastered out” mean? How do I matte the letterboxes? Do I need to worry about how I compose my shots with this letterboxing in mind? They have given me no info on audio specs, so if anyone has any jumbotron/stadium audio post experience, please chime in.
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I’m not 100% on this because I haven’t done it for a long long time in FCP, but I believe you’d edit as normal in a 16:9 sequence, and then drag the finished sequence into a 4:3 NTSC DV comp.
I guess I’d then use the crop settings to get the right image height.
It seems a little odd to me though as 720×223 doesn’t seem like it could be 16:9 by any measure I can figure out.
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Use Quicktime Export, custom size, preserve aspect, crop. This will give you a 223 high movie. Use QT Export again, use the same options but choose 720×486. You’ll end up with a 486 movie but the frame size within will only be 223. This process has multiple rounds of encoding so you should use Uncompressed for your codec.
Sean
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Thanks – this is they key:
“It seems a little odd to me though as 720×223 doesn’t seem like it could be 16:9 by any measure I can figure out.”It’s definitely not 16:9 as I was at the stadium today and the 16:9 tvs all had the letterboxing while the same images on the jumbotron was uncropped. It looks more like a 2.3x:1 to me, so I guess I’ll have to tape up or grease pencil my monitor when I do the shoot.
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