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  Posted by Patryk Rebisz on September 2, 2009 at 10:00 pm

  Anyone can point me to Vegas template that would comply with the standards i was sent by one of my clients?

  VIDEO DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS

  Standard Definition Digital File Delivery Requirements

  Video on digital file must be in the NTSC (525) standard.
  Files must be transferred to MTV using file transfer accelerator technology, such as Aspera, over a secure network.

  Digital File Specifications:

  MPEG 2 @ 50Mbps, I-Frame, Program Stream, .MXF file; Essence Container: SMPTE D10 (Sony IMX 50)
  Operational Pattern: OP1A
  4:2:2 @Main Level
  720 x 512
  Frame rate: 29.97
  Audio: PCM 24 bit @ 48Khz (4 discrete tracks: L, R , SAP, Descriptive)

  Video Specifications:
  NTSC component digital video blanking and synchronization signals shall comply with SMPTE 259M.
  NTSC analog video blanking and synchronization signals shall comply with SMPTE 170M-2004.
  Tapes will only be accepted in NTSC 525 (59.94Hz) standard)
  Luminance level should not exceed 100 IRE units.
  Chrominance level should not exceed 100 IRE units in bars and 120 IRE units in program
  Set up level should not exceed zero IRE units (digital), 7.5ire (analog).

  Audio Specifications:
  Tape audio shall be delivered without static, dropouts, distortion, heavy dynamic
  compression or heavy limiting.
  In bars, Test Tone audio levels should be –20Dbfs or 0Vu.
  In bars, Test Tone should be on all audio channels which program audio is present.
  Digital Audio shall comply with AES3-2003 standard.
  Digital Audio shall comply SMPTE 155-2004 for reference level and headroom.
  Headroom should achieve 20dB above nominal.
  Sampling Frequency should be 48kHz.
  Quantization should be 20 bit/sample.
  Audio should average –15dBfs and not exceed –10dBfs
  There should be no discernible aberration in the lip sync
  Audio sync relative to video frame shall not deviate by more than -15ms or +15ms.
  All multiple track recordings must be properly phased and separation shall correspond
  properly with visual separation

  Time Code:
  Time code must be continuous DROP FRAME-LTC from beginning of tape at 00:58:00:00 to at least 1:00 post program.
  SOP (Start of Program) should be at 01:00:00:00.
  Continuous SMPTE drop frame time code (DFTC) as specified in SMPTE 12M shall be recorded as longitudinal time code (LTC) on all delivered videotape.
  The time code shall be synchronous to the recorded video.
  If the videotape contains vertical interval time code (VITC) it shall contain the same time and be synchronous to the longitudinal time code (LTC).

  Patryk Rebisz replied 16 years, 8 months ago 1 Member · 0 Replies
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