[Jake Hallman]

Thanks! I’ll give it a shot. Looking at your settings, my only concern is the field order – according to the manuals, some of the older units can only handle stuff that’s interlaced upper first.

That being said, I’m eager for anything that’ll get my stuff away from Beta tape. Well, that, and incidentally looking a heckuva lot better on-screen than any of my local competitors…

[Jake Hallman]

We never found a solution that worked 100 percent of the time, so they went back to the old-school method.

If you’ve found a workflow that allows for dropping them straight in, I’d love to hear about it!

[Jake Hallman]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Audio data rate or video data rate? Or does it matter?

We had a thought that some of the spots were encoded at 29.97fps instead of 30fps (the manual says 30, never mentions 29.97).

Another problem has cropped up, and I don’t think it’s an encoding issue – when one spot plays back, it’s got random chunks of an older spot for the same client that play after the new spot ends.

The folks up at the office are a bit concerned, since this is happening to spots that are actually airing.