Broadcast menus

DGrob wrote on 11/18/2003, 8:48 PM

I'm doing a 50 min. plus or minus historical DVD on the local volunteer fire department. The end product will ship to the surviving volunteers, etc. in vhs and dvd+r as a single movie. Local TV and theater have expressed their interest in broadcast/premier. Let's say I generate a DVD+R for their use.

1. Projection will show the entire 720-480 image sans safety zones off a DVD+R?

2. For Broadcast should I give a menu/chapters at breaks for local programing, ads, etc?
I.E. First chapter a 40 sec color bar with tone. Second Chapter a titling and intro segment of about 3.5 mins. Third and Forth Chapters sustained programing with logical breaks. Fifth, a 4 min credit and dedication text roll over darkened, humerous storytelling. All DVD+R.

3. Am I making sense?

DGrob

Comments

farss wrote on 11/19/2003, 1:20 AM

DVD may be a difficult format for a TV station to handle. Chapter markets are not going to achieve much for them either as the player will not stop when it hits them, all they do is let you jump into the video at a certain point.

Much better to give them a DV copy. They usually like a fade to black - fade up from black where they are going to insert a break with audio doing the same thing. Check with them how much they police video levels as well, you may need to make certain your material is broadcast legal.

If you can have your program start TC at 10:00:00:00 although they'll probably restripe the TC to suit themselves anyway.