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PBS specs
I’m having a heck of a time trying to find the deliverable specs (ie discrete channel config, etc) for PBS. We are not directly working with PBS I just want to do one of my outputs to comply with PBS specs in case we are able to get our show on there.
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You need to contact their Quality Control Department and ask for the Producer’s Handbook. Or contact the Programming Department.
You can’t simply find this online somewhere. If you do find it online, it’s probably out dated.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Go to the PBS website. They have a section for Producers. All specs are listed there in a rather large document. They have their Closed Captioning on somewhat different lines in the vertical interval than most but otherwise nothing strange about their technical specs except for the fact that they are absolute sticklers for them.
Herb Sevush
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Walter,
The info is available on-line but you need to know the secret weblink to download it.
I was able to obtain the info by calling PBS directiy and I spoke to the technical department.
The book you need is called the TOS 2000 (which I believe is the last version) however there may be another more recent version.
The book is quite useful for meeting the majority of broadcasters standards as PBS has one of the toughest out there.
Tony Salgado
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Thanks Tony, I’ll give them a call. I cant find it i the “Red Book”
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Tony, would you happen to have that phone number? I called the local affiliate and they had no idea what I was talking about.
Scott
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[Scott Davis] “I called the local affiliate and they had no idea what I was talking about.”
Did you ask for the Engineering department?
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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[tony salgado] “The info is available on-line but you need to know the secret weblink to download it.”
Exactly, it’s not a public document. I just had to download one from a new network we’re going to deliver to and it’s available via FTP / password protected site only
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters
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Networks don’t generally release their deliverable specs unless you are working on a show. In many cases, the deliverable specs CHANGE from show to show, or while you are in the middle of editing. We just had specs change from 720p 59.94 D5 to 1080p 23.98 HDCAM. But we can manage.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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Scott,
Provide me with your email address and I will email you the pdf TOS 2000 document.
I check how I got the document and it was emailed to me by PBS as I was mistaken that it is not available on line.
Tony Salgado
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Please contact PBS Technical Services at (703) 739-5199 for a copy of the TOS.
Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group
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