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  Prepping for boradcast

  Posted by Mark Whitney on April 9, 2009 at 1:34 am

  I’m hoping a few of you here can give me some good pointers in prepping a project for broadcast and questions to ask when looking for a post house.

  I’ve a long documentary (over 2 hours) originally released over 10 years ago that a couple friends coerced me into helping update, and that was over two years ago. Without going into the gory details, I eventually managed to coax the original six parts timelines into Premiere Pro CS3 and split it into two halves.

  When my Matrox DigiSuite died over a year ago, I got a new system and went with BlackMagic Design hardware and had always had it in mind that we’d rent a deck and I’d output directly from my system.

  Recently though I’m reading/hearing that instead, an easier option is to render out to an uncompressed quicktime file and then let a post house output that from Final Cut Pro to hardware. Sounds good to me, but I’ve some additional questions when looking for a post house.

  The project is D1 NTSC (720 X 486). It’s first delivery obligation is for the BBC, hence PAL, although I’ve read that they might accept digital sources now too. We’re waiting to hear back specifics from them and maybe it’s a moot issue.

  Is this something that FPC can do, output an NTSC timeline to PAL hardware?

  For that matter, can Ppro CS3 render out an NTSC project to a PAL specs Quicktime?

  Going this route, is 30”-60” of bars & tone at the head of each project part still necessary? I can understand it when using mechanical tape decks.

  When rendering out the timeline to Quicktime, would going with non-interlaced frames be an advantage?

  Any other “gotcha’s” or suggestions?

  Thanks,

  Mark

  Mark Whitney replied 17 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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