[Bob Grow]

> My advice: contact the company that’s going to distribute the spot for you. Simply explain your situation, without making any apologies. Explanations, perhaps; apologies, no. I think you’ll find they’ll be quite respectful and helpful.

What I’m dealing with here is layers of bureaucracy consisting of sales people who want to control the flow of information yet know nothing technically. They won’t allow me to call anyone at the agency because they think they’ll look stupid.

One of the formats they’re posting to our site is 720×405 using the Apple Animation format. What broadcast formats support this resolution? None of the standard ones as far as I can tell.

Like I said earlier, the production facility is handing the uncompressed files off to a third party to be exported out of QuickTime. Something doesn’t smell right, but I don’t know exactly what to say to my manager.

Some please give me some ammo here…

Thanks!