Re: IRE Black level at 0 (zero)?

Thanks again for your detailed information and responses, Bob.

Yes, Tony, the best thing would be for me to have asked the festival in time what machines they are using, etc... But, the festival begins on Friday (MountainFilm in Telluride), and I had to FedEx them the tape today.

I did some more color correction yesterday, and then outputed to an UVW-1800 BetaSP deck taht I rented (at an IRE of 7.5), and sent it off.

I feel pretty confident that their setting specs were wrong.

For one thing, I sent them a priliminary BetaSP tape for them to test (before I sent the final), and I set the BetaSP audio tone to "0 db", and they said that the audio was o.k. (In their specs, they asked for audio tone at -20 db, so I am almost sure they are refering to digitial specs, and as Bob mentioned, probably a DigiBeta deck.

I appreciate everyone's thoughts and feedback.

Khashyar