Re: Goodbye BetaSP...quick question

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"Matt" <mttmrrsn.nospamplease@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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On Mar 28, 9:36 am, "Matt" <mttmrrsn.nospample...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Mar 28, 8:07 am, "Matt" <mttmrrsn.nospample...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

See if they'll accept files on an external hard drive.
If they say yes, find out what format they want (AVI, MPEG, QuickTime)
and render accordingly.
You might even be able to FTP it to them.

Mike


Sorry Matt but there's no such thing as a universal file format :-(
Personally I prefer the new way.
For example, our local cable company recently installed an on-air
playback server that uses MPEG-2 as source materail.
I did some experimenting to findathe proper template (using Sony
Vegas) and now give them everything on an external hard drive.
It saves me from having to do a print-to-tape and them from having to
paly it in to the server to be able to upload it.

Oh I'm a big fan of the theory, especially with those little USB thumbdrives
dropping in price... plus I hate dubbing tapes! We just tend to work under
extreme last minute deadlines here and anything I can do to streamline the
production helps. I guess I can save export templates for each station... I
just see that as a potential "oops I sent the wrong format to the wrong
station" headache in the future.

Thanks anyways! :-)

My advice: Don't over think this.

Here's what I do.

I originate in Quicktime.

Then take the work and export it as a vanilla DV file (in other words
set the export compression to either "DV" or "none" since it's
technically already DV - and export it as a DV-AVI file.

All you're doing is setting the file type extension to AVI, not
re-compressing anything since the file has always been native DV-NTSC
whether the wrapper says quicktime or avi is irrelavent.

Well, nearly irrelevant.

AVI is read natively by all PCs

On Macs the AVI wrapper will cause the system to report that it's a
non-native format - but ignore that.

Underneath it all, it's just DV-NTSC and after the dialog box, the Mac
will just see the DV stream and it will work without rendering or
transcoding as well.

A few spots can easily go on thumb drives, or you can burn them as DATA
on DVDs (no authoring or MPEG encoding should be done at all - just drag
and burn the raw exported DV-avi files) - they're universally usable.

Tell the station to just drag the video clip (or clips) from the thumb
drive or DVD to the hard drive of WHATEVER NLE system THEY edit on and
they're good to go.

I've been selling content files to schools all across the country using
media clips set up this way and with hundreds of clients to date, NO ONE
has ever had a problem reading and using my content clips.

It would work exactly the same way for a commercial as it does for my
15sec to 3 minute editing content clips.

DV files are just digital data files. And :30 spots are really pretty
SMALL digital data files. So no need to overthink this.

GIve them the DATA. Let THEM figure out what format to put it on to get
it into their workflow - that's the station production director's job.

(I know, I used to be one.)

FWIW.
.

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