[Junaid Ahmed]

Mr. Hamlin
I recommend you a CG called as “TitleBox”. Please refer the following link for details. It is good I am using it in Live shows. It covers all the basic CG requirements and can go beyond that depends on your creativity.

https://www.playbox.tv/go.idecs?i=296

Regards

Junaid

[Junaid Ahmed]

Dear Meijer,

You are towards right direction playing on different hardware.

Your problem is related to aspect ratio. There are TVs in the market that have sub-standard quality. The screens are not actually 4:3 or 16:9. Some go out of “safe area”. So if you ever want to check/test a video, do it on professional monitor only.

As far as conversion is concerned, it decreases the quality of video.

Regards
Junaid
Technical Coordinator

[Junaid Ahmed]

Dear Stark

-Standard-def or Hi-def, or both?
Ans: SD and HD, work on both to coup up the scalibility and upcoming future demands of HD.

-What size?(aspect ratio)
Ans: When you start working on above the aspect ratio will be set according to SD or HD. 4:3 is for SD and HD I dont know.

-Frame rate.
Ans: if NTSC 29 fps
if PAL 25 fps

-File formats
Ans: DV stream is the best video file format because it is not compressed and rich. The audio is not locked.
MPEG2 is good but I prefer “DV Stream”.

-Square pixels or both?
Ans: Only Square. (infact I dont know)

-Should I add a time code to anything.
Ans: Better you provide a referance to all the broadcast devices. (Black Burst)

Regards

Junaid