What tape format does your Broadcaster require?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Myron Lenenski] “So, have you ever shipped a tape to a broadcaster yourself? If so, what tape format?

Ever ship a hard drive? Which codecs?”

As others have already noted, it doesn’t matter what any of us have shipped to anybody. If you are going to deliver to a network or broadcaster, you will require the Technical Handbook, the Red Book, whatever they call it, which will lay out in great detail, not only the formats they accept, but everything about the technical specifications of your delivery. Get any of those wrong and you’re rejected even if you deliver the correct format.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Myron Lenenski]

This is really a double question. Just trying to see if there is a trend towards harddrives. For those who don’t own an HDCAM or Digital Betacam, I am trying to see if there is a chance that a Hard Drive is just as good as tape.

It’s obvious that commercials are a lot easier to shuttle via T1 than a full length show would be. They all end up on a server in one file format or another. Quicktime or .AVI or MPEG? I am excited to hear that someone is doing it.

In Iceland they accept DV-PAL files? Doesn’t look perfect, but an FTP of a video file is pretty cool for those of us who physically cut down 500 2inch videotape commercial spot reels that had to be labeled, boxed, and shipped to TV stations in all 50 states. Good money, but not something I want to have to do again.

Can you imagine having to make several hundred copies of each “Good Eats” episode and having to ship each one to a different cable station for air? Tape duplication sucks.

I just want to know if it is going away anytime soon.

[Walter Biscardi]

[Myron Lenenski] “For those who don’t own an HDCAM or Digital Betacam, I am trying to see if there is a chance that a Hard Drive is just as good as tape. “

We don’t own either machine.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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[Stuart Simpson]

[Myron Lenenski] “FTP of a video file is pretty cool for those of us who physically cut down 500 2inch videotape commercial spot reels that had to be labeled, boxed, and shipped to TV stations in all 50 states.”

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[Chris Poisson]

Eeewww! Are they nuts?

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[Michael Alberts]

On the last several series we’ve done for The History Channel they have required 23.98 HDCAM using drop frame. Try and wrap your head around that one.
They won’t budge. However we just ship it NDF.
History Channel also requires an SD of the same show on Digibeta 29.97 drop frame.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.
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[Stuart Bruce]

We’ve recently upgraded to an HD Final Cut system, and it would be great for us to be able to deliver on hard drives.

However of the four broadcasters we’re delivering to, three of them insist on HDCAM and one of them only wants DigiBeta.

So sadly we have to hire a HDCAM deck. Hard drive delivery would’ve been much cheaper for all involved.