[bradley greenwell] "When the station gets the DVCPRO HD MOV file they load it in the Avid Adrenaline and downconvert to SD via hardware for broadcast."
SO they have done this before? You just said that you were GOING to do this. Again, if you export as a DVCPRO HD codec...QT movie, self contained...there is ZERO quality loss, but they will NOT be able to see it unless they have FCP installed, or get that Calibrated decoder. Without those, the file is unviewable.
[bradley greenwell] " I'm assuming they have the proper codecs, just because all the previous SD shows have aired. "
So this is where I am asking, have you done this before? Given them the file as DVCPRO HD? If so, and they worked with it before, than that is fine. That is the best quality you can give them. What they do with it is up to them.
[bradley greenwell] "I just want to make sure its not being over compressed, would it be better for me to rent a sonyHD deck and output myself? "
It isn't...exporting a self contained QT movie is the SAME compression...zero loss. And you can always rent a deck, as long as you have a capture card and an HD monitor and know how to prep a show for network delivery.
[bradley greenwell] "The audio mixdown I was referring to is actually "audio normalization" in the modify tab. Is that something that might benefit the over all audio? "
You don't just mix audio with the press of a button. That is the lazy and WRONG way to do it. Like color correcting with one button. No...either go through clip by clip and correct it, or send it to an audio mixer and let him do it. Audio is not the thing you should pay the least amount of attention to. Audio is by far MORE IMPORTANT than picture. If you have a grainy shot, or something isn't lit just so...the eye can be forgiving. But a pop or bad audio of any kind, and your ear and brain pick that up...more than visual errors.
Do not skimp on your audio. Don't just press a button and go "there, all done." You need to make sure the music isn't overpowering, that the SFX are properly adjusted, that you can hear people.
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