Time Warner Cable Upload Delivery specs

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Time Warner Cable Upload Delivery specs

Posted by Jason Stephens on December 22, 2009 at 6:58 am

I am delivering a commercial to Time Warner and they are accepting uploads of an SD and HD version of their 30 second commercial spots. I am posting the specs they gave me below. I’ve been trying to complete a test of the spot using compressor (Im using version 3.0.5) and Final Cut Pro 6. Their “settings” aren’t jiving with the options I have.

Anyone out there delivering this way that can point me in the right direction as far as my settings?

The commercial was shot in DVCPro HD on a Varicam. It was uprezed to 1080P on a Davinci 2K plus and I am using the ProRes 422 (HQ) as my new source for the commercial output.

Here are the specs for the delivery:

Standard Def Parameters –

QuickTime Parameters: (typical video size is 200MB for :30 seconds)
Video: MPEG4 – No H264
GOP Sequence = IBBPBBPBBPBB
Video Profile = 720×480 with a ratio of 4:3
29.97 Fps
6.4Mbs CBR or better
Enable Interlacing
Lower Field First
Motion Estimation Factor= 100
Enable GOP= Closed
Frame Mode= Interlaced Lower Field First
Audio:
AAC/MPEG1 Layer 2 or PCM
Audio mixed MONO or STEREO on both channels 1 and 2

HD Parameters –

QuickTime Parameters: (typical video size is 200MB to 600MB for :30 seconds) .mov
GOP Sequence = IBBPBBPBBPBB
Video Profile = Mpeg4 1440X1080 with a ratio of 16/9
1080i/HDV and/or HDV2
29.97 Fps
6.4Mbs CBR or better
Enable Interlacing
Upper Field First
Motion Estimation Factor= 100
Enable GOP= Closed
Frame Mode= Interlaced Upper Field First
Audio:
AAC/MPEG1 Layer 2 or PCM
Audio mixed MONO or STEREO on both channels 1 and 2

Thanks for the help with my settings. Jason

UnknwnProd@ msn dot com

Tom Chartrand replied 16 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Rafael Amador
December 22, 2009 at 9:24 am

Hi jason,
I think that you need Telestream “Episode” or so.
I think you can get something similar in Compressor or QT, but there you have no control over the GOPs structure.
Rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com
Tom Chartrand
December 22, 2009 at 3:19 pm

Episode is a great tool. IMO, I would stick with ProRes and not HQ because DVCProHD is an 8Bit codec and not 10Bit.

Shoreline Digital Productions
P2 Consultant | Videographer | Editor

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