Satellite broadcast looks bad help please

[Jim Kinsey]

Good question. I will call today but as far as I know they take my file based DVCPRO 50 anamorphic QT file and ingest for SDI output to Beta SP. Thanks for your response.

JK

[David Bogie]

[jim Kinsey] “I have been sending out our shows file based DVCPRo 50 anamorphic. “

That’s one step away form the original, maybe two.

B>[jim Kinsey] Then the show get ingested into a FCP timeline and output SDI to beta sp I believe letter-boxed. “

You apply scaling and mattes for the letterbox, render, and transcode to SDI. that’stwo or four more steps way from the original, we’re up to four, maybe generations of transcoding between diffrerent codecs.

B>[jim Kinsey] The network gets it then encodes it to MPEG 2 for satellite distribution. “

DOH!. All of the other steps have been wasted and all careful image control is now thrown away.

B>[jim Kinsey] We are just repurposing our SD footage as all our acquisition now is Solid state PANNY P2 and EX1 SXS. So no worries for our future stuff. So there is no other step I could take to make it any cleaner than outputting to digibeta?”

Certainly. Give them an MPEG2 file that you have scrupulously examined for encoding keyframes and to which you have applied many thousands of weensy adjustments for every scene change.

bogiesan

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