How do a ready a project for broadcast?
by David Del (DavidD)
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Sep 1, 2008 at 9:01:18 pm
I am working on a project - stills using the 2.5D camera. The stills are 1440 X 1080. Now I am assuming I will have to work on the colour so it is broadcast ready, so that is my first task (I assume). Any pointers would be great on this 1st time broadcast.
Re: How do a ready a project for broadcast? by Immanuel Morales on Sep 2, 2008 at 1:54:57 am
hm, well, just to checklist some stuff i guess you'd wanna check all title/action safe and make sure you're exporting NTSC DV Codec (the standard animation codec isn't necessary for broadcast too large anyway)
i always find that i can cheat my titles a bit past the title safe but i am also working with a Television set hooked up to my computer, so you could try it but use caution if you can't preview it on a tv
Re: How do a ready a project for broadcast? by Chris Wright on Sep 2, 2008 at 3:21:44 am
if you're HD broadcast, you'd be upper field and 1920×1080i pixels 16 or 32 bit, just in case...
but don't worry, most mid-level hdtv's downconvert to a smaller 1366 x 768 from hd.
although AE's built in broadcast color changer may leave some weird colors, so be careful and maybe try the broadcast tutorial that uses the levels function that just chops off the high and low ends of the brightness.
Re: How do a ready a project for broadcast? by Dave LaRonde on Sep 2, 2008 at 2:59:48 pm
In my experience, AE's Broadcast Colors effect is not even close to being a cure-all, not by any means. The only way you can be absolutely sure is to use what broadcasters use to check levels: a waveform monitor and a vectorscope. But these pieces of gear are prohibitively expensive.
What do you do? I recommend a reasonably-priced SOFTWARE vectorscope and waveform monitor called Scopo Gigio. It comes as a plugin for AE and Photoshop. Once you have it set up for your type of signal, you have a highly-accurate means of determining proper video and chroma levels.
One note: If you exceed the recommended video (not chroma) levels according to Scopo Gigio, it typically isn't that big a deal. Excessive chroma levels, on the other hand, most certainly are a big deal.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: How do a ready a project for broadcast? by David Del on Sep 7, 2008 at 9:57:01 pm
I am not using chroma keying on this one - just cuts out from photoshop using the 2.5 camera in AE.
Ok, I will try AE first and see what happens. What render settings are going to be best as well?
