MTV Delivery guidelines anywhere?

[Mark Raudonis]

Uh… how about calling up MTV?

If you’re doing a show for them, the first thing they do is distribute their delivery requirements. It’s part of the contract.

Mark

[David Bogie]

You could start by telling us what you’ve already tried. The first stop would be … MTV. Their specs are either readily available or their technical contacts are far enough down the line that you can’t get them till they want you to have them.

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This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Andrew]

ask the show producer there is a packet they give you, tells you how to do the end credits, the fonts, the audio mix and bunch of other stuff, what is does not tell you is that if you have lower thirds or some sort of graphic you need to leave the graphic but remove the title/names so that they can write what they need in there language. over all it’s pretty simple, I do/did all sorts of shows for them for US and international, you should only need 1 international tape and they (the rest of the world) uses that tape to create their show.

[John Steventon]

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for all your replies. It’s not actually a programme that’s being delivered, just a music video which is getting sent to them – hence the lack of a) Someone to contact, and b) Any pre-contract stuff.

Well, hell, it might be out there somewhere, but I’m just the dumb facility guy, no-one tells me a thing 🙂

So my quesiton is really what level they’d expect the audio at. For adverts, I make the audio ‘tickly’ 6ppm. For normal TV programmes, I have general audio at 4 with transiants etc using the headroom up to 6ppm. But how do they expect the music? Mostly at 4 with some headroom? Or tickling 6?

Ripping the audio in directly from CD plays about 8ppm, so that’s not an option, so I just wanted to know if there’s a preferred amount I should take it down to – so it’s generally at what on the PPM scale.

Normally I have it to the music peaks at 6, which means it plays normally around 5ppm – but i was just looking for some particular guidance as the producer is also the producer for the artist, and is especially concerned about the audio levels matching everything else that plays on the channel.

So if I had either a tech guidelines from MTV or something I can show him that proves I don’t just play it out at 8ppm, it would take some heat off me.

Thanks again, in advance.

John

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[Walter Biscardi]

[John Steventon] “Firstly, thanks for all your replies. It’s not actually a programme that’s being delivered, just a music video which is getting sent to them – hence the lack of a) Someone to contact, and b) Any pre-contract stuff.”

Simply call MTV and request the technical specifications for all Music Video Submissions. They will have a package or a PDF to download which will list everything that’s required including the tape formats and audio settings.

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[Chad]

I do a lot of music videos, and some have ended up on MTV. The contract the label gave the producer or director will have the tech guidelines. You deliver to the label and they do the dupes and etc for the MTVs of the world. I know the audio is usually a -12db with peaks hitting zero.