Delivery Specs confusion...

[Johnny Utah]

Here's the specs for Much Music, we did a music video and this is what they request: http://www.muchmusic.com/aboutus/musicvideosubmissions/form/MuchMusic_VideoDeliverySpecs.pdf

Under Bars and Tone they say color bars beginning at 00:59:00:00, which according to them, is 59 mins. I'm kind of confused on what the heck that is supposed to mean, is that 59 mins of black or what?

 

[MadMonkFish]

You set the time-code (in the old days, black-bursting a video tape to add time-code and make sure there'd be a continuous signal on which you'd edit or deliver your master).

Basically, your TC on the edit master deck is set to 00:59:00:00 and your program will start at 01:00:00:00... so the start/head of your tape (delivery master) is 00:59:00:00.

In this one minute prior to 01:00:00:00 you'll supply 30 seconds of bars & tone (etc) before the video starts at 01:00:00:00.

Basically, you're starting the time-code generation (and head of the tape) at 59 minutes (rather than zero).

 

[Johnny Utah]

ok got ya, how do you set that in a program like adobe prem 5.5?

 

[MadMonkFish]

Mmm - sorry, don't use Premiere...

But, if you're printing to tape - you should have some options to set time-code to start where you want etc.

Prepare your edit/time line to match... so, add 15 secs of black, then 15 seconds of bars+tone (as per specs) and then another 15 secs of black... start your video at 1 minute into the time line. Don't forget to add 30 secs of black at the tail of the promo too - start your time line TC at 00:59:00 and your video should start at 00:01:00:00. Basically, your time line reflects the timings they've asked for.

In teh old analogue days (yup - I'm old!), this used to be so much of a pain... as you didn't simply edit non-liner and dump the finished footage to tape (with the ability to move on a 'virtual' timeline etc), you actually built the edit on a linear (record and cut one shot at a time and build up a sequence... with no going back to change things, as it was a linear process!). But, this meant you'd prepare your master tape (or edit master) with all of these requirements first... so you'd always start your edit at the correct spot.

Anyway - I digress - LOL... rambling old dude!

You can play around with settings until this is right. I'm sure there are loads of DVX'ers with the Premier experience that can help you on this - maybe drop a quick question in the Premiere sub-forum

Then, you should have an option in your print to tape to either start the time-code from where you want - or use it as if your time-line is creating it. I presume you're outputting with deck-control? You might want to pre-stripe the tape with black and a TC signal... but it all depends what edit-deck you're using.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Thanks for the info mon! That clears up a lot of my questions, makes a lot more sense than the networks explanation. I'm actually exporting either h264 or m2v, and then it's being transfered to digi beta after that.

 

[MadMonkFish]

Thanks for the info mon! That clears up a lot of my questions, makes a lot more sense than the networks explanation. I'm actually exporting either h264 or m2v, and then it's being transfered to digi beta after that.

Great - glad to help out