Re: Help with broadcast requirements

Lloyd,
I admire your ambition. You are a newbie, yet are working very hard to understand what is going on. You must be commended for this. No matter how I respond, with your determination, you may find alternate ways of doing things -
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when i convert the video to 16:9, does it matter if I then put letterboxing on that?

REPLY - letter boxing has typically happened when shooting in film or HD video which is native 16:9, and converted to 4:3 for broadcast. To keep the 16:9 aspect ratio, you wind up with letterboxing, which some people find objectionable. So if you shoot at 16:9, you don't ADD letterboxing to this - it's already "letterboxed". You don't continue to squish a 16:9 image in a 16:9 display. If you convert to standard def, for 4:3 distribution it will automatically become letterboxed if the 16:9 aspect ratio is kept, and if you want to get rid of the letterboxing for 4:3, you make it anamorphic (at least with an AJA card).



With the 625/50 (horizontal line resolution and field frequency), is this easy to change in after effects/premiere? this wont be hard to do will it?
REPLY - this is done by a STANDARDS converter, which is a piece of hardware (a box with connectors on it), that converts NTSC to PAL or PAL to NTSC. You hand your master tape to a facility that has a standards converter, and they make an NTSC or PAL master for you, with a standards converter, and a VTR that records in the standard that you want your master to be delivered in.

bob Zelin