Jamie Worsfold
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Yes, I’m sure. Any UK programme specs I’ve ever seen have had a 10 second freeze frame at the end.
Are you saying that you fade up and down to black at the start/end of everything?!? Now that I really do find odd…. but then, thats you US folk… hee hee hee
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Thanks Dave
I thought it’d be more along the lines of each broadcaster having a slightly different spec. The guys at the ad agency where the job is seem a decent bunch and said to me “Just ask”, but you know how it is – you like to go in prepared as much as possible 🙂
Most stuff is gonna be pretty much set up already as I’m filling in someone’s shoes while they’re away for a couple of weeks, so a lot of things are templates already made up in AE that just need compositing and outputting from FCP, so all should be good.
Thanks!
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Yeah, I meant a freeze frame… and that would come in quite handy as far as I can see, surely? The standard for the end of a programme or going out to an ad break in the UK is to lay a 10 second freeze frame after the out point. So I was imagining it would be the same for the end of an ad….
And, yeah, I would guess that there’d be a 30 second countdown on it. Bars and tone as well, surely? I mean, if its a standard spec for a programme to have these things I’ve always thought it’d be standard practice for anything going out on a network…? Can’t do any harm 😉
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Yeah, I’ve emailed the guy back to try and pin down exactly what it is he needs doing before committing to the job….
Cheers, guys!
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My thoughts exactly…. I’m still trying to get out of the guy exactly what it is he wants doing.
But if somebody wants to pay me for doing something as daft as this sounds then so be it…! -
From what the guy’s told me (in one rather vague email), they downconverted from HDCam to DV for the edit. They now have a final edit in DV which needs to be synced up with the audio on CD. They then want that played out on to HD.
Obviously they’d be much better off going back to the original HDCam tapes and doing an online from those. Even if they didn’t want to do that then I’d be more inclined to dump the final edit back on to Digibeta as a master. The HD upconvert isn’t going to really do much for them…
Thanks for the advice though, Walter!
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Thanks Barend. Thought that was the case 🙂
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Oops, sorry – link doesnt seem to want to work! https://www.signvideo.com/firewire-switch-ieee-1394.htm
jamie@jambonfilms.co.uk
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Thanks for the advice – I’ve managed to get it sorted now through AJA’s tech support. It was actually an incompatibility between my version of Automatic Duck and FCP needing to be 5.0.2.
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