Mastering video for broadcast

[Mark Suszko]

Or if it is for PBS, just go ahead and slash your wrists in advance
🙂

[Sam Cole]

Make your show and then send the master for a professional QC.
Then be prepared to do all the fixups.

This is an ever increasing problem nowdays with more and more people editing on small systems at home etc. The last thing they want to be concerned with is the technical aspects of their production.

My company specialises in the area of ‘fixing up other peoples mess’. And there is a lot of it. Gamet errors, out of spec audio, blanking irregulatities, bad colorgrading; the list goes on. But there is money to be made just doing the boring fixups of other peoples oversites.

We always make masters to BBC spec because they are the worlds hardest to meet and if it is OK for them it will be ok for the rest of the world.

Sam Cole
On line Mastering Facility
FCP, Avid, Adobe
Sydney, Australia

[Ivan Gonzalez]

It has to meet NTSC regulations and specs .

Mainly checking video signal levels and audio. You also check for gamma, blanking, sync and size; 720×480. (HD and Sd signals are different, depends who you are sending it to.)

It needs to be Qc by a video engineer like my self with a vector-scope and the experiance. Some legalizers can do that for you, if you have the budget it will help you a lot. Still go with an eng.

hope that’s helpful for you