Re: Advice for outputting for tv?

Going to a TV news affiliate for regional broadcast or to a dubbing house to be distributed around? If it's just to a local TV station, just give them the uncompressed file. I gaurantee you they have a way of outputting the file through their systems.

If you HAVE to do it all yourself ready for broadcast:

Your working resolution should be 720 x 486. .9 pix asp. You can rent digidecks for a few hundred a day. (that's what we do). Get a cheap uncompressed card like a Decklink. Generally you output SDI to the Digideck.

But there are many other factors like the VITC and LTC TC should match, Spots should always start on exactly 01:00:00:00. Then each spot exactly one minute after. So the second spot would be 01:01:00:00, etc.

Need bars and tone at -20. at the head. then slates. Usually there are ISCI codes involved as well.

But as a general rule, just ask those that need your stuff what specs they want. Then there's your answer. But honestly, unless you feel like becoming a "Post House". Don't bother. Just put your spots in an uncompressed Quicktime file at D1 settings and have someone else do all the broadcast standards stuff.



Chris Smith
http://www.sugarfilmproduction.com