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Latest issue… anyone see this?
We are putting together a budget for a production that is likely to eventually go to a cable or tv station. While likely insignificant, (my assumption) our budgeting person wants to take as many variables into account as possible. If we are asked to render out from Vegas to some format and deliver on some kind of tape, what is the usually cost for that? A few hundred? A few hours? Is there any shop that specilizes in this kind of thing for broadcast, say in LA? I bring them a hard drive and they convert it to HDV? Or what else might broadcast be using these days?
John R, didn’t you encounter this once?
Alf
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[Al Bergstein] “John R, didn’t you encounter this once?”
Yea, usually broadcasters want HDCAM tapes. The price to have them made will vary between $300 – $600 for a 30 minute show depending on if the post house can ingest what you give them or has to re-encode it. We used CaptionMax for Roger Bansemer’s PBS series “Painting & Travel with Roger and Sarah Bansemer” and CaptionMax was the most “Vegas friendly” post house we came across. They will accept Sony MXF HD422 files right out of Vegas on a hard drive. Most other houses don’t know what to do with anything that isn’t Apple ProRes422 which you can’t render on a PC so I highly recommend CaptionMax.
Don’t forget you’ll need closed captioning for broadcast. CaptionMax can do that too (as their name implies). Roger used my VASST Caption Assistant tool for all 13 episodes and really liked the workflow. It didn’t cost any extra at CaptionMax because we supplied them with compliant caption file right out of Vegas. They just included it when printing to tape.
~jr
http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com
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