Rendering for Broadcast in Pro 8

rainman_abroad wrote on 6/24/2008, 4:22 PM

Hi All,

My first post here so I hope to an active member of the community. I'm in Australia and have just upgraded to Pro 8 from Platinum 7, so I'm still feeling my way around.

I am filming a conference in July and have been asked to render for Broadcast (please note this will be PAL here in Australia). I note that there is a template to limit colours to broadcast legal but I have been told this template is applied only to NTSC, is this correct?

I've never rendered for Broadcast so can anyone give me any tips at all such as render formats etc.

Many thanks

Robbie

Comments

GlennChan wrote on 6/24/2008, 6:16 PM

You can use the conservative preset (the one without the 7.5 IRE setup in the name). If you want, you can raise composite max to 115 (IRE). But the exact levels vary between broadcasters.

The sony broadcast colors filter won't work in 32bit mode with 1.000 compositing gamma. With 32-bit/2.222 it needs to be setup correctly.
http://glennchan.info/articles/vegas/v8color/v8color.htm
Or you can simply stick with the 8-bit mode (which is not bad).

The broadcast colors filter might cause your colors to look bad if they are outside broadcast gamut... so you should use the color correction filters to bring those colors into legal range in a way that looks good.

2- Depending on what level you're working at and how picky the broadcaster is, making a proper broadcast master can get a lot more involved. (And at certain levels you will need the right VTR and real hardware waveform monitor/vectorscope. I am guessing that is not the case here.)

They might also have specific technical requirements... these vary from broadcaster to broadcaster.

3- Er... conferences usually aren't broadcast? Is this going to broadcast or not broadcast (e.g. DVD)? Or is it a client just throwing some terms out.
Who is the client, what is the delivery format, what are their technical requirements?