Help please, few questions!

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Shacke

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Hi, i've just finished editing my first ever video ( a music video) on Premiere Pro 1.5 and have a few questions please:-

1. What format do music tv stations usually want videos to be in and how do I get my video into it? Do I have to first save onto dvd and take it elsewhere to get it converted or do the stations broadcast from dvd?

2. At the moment, the video starts straightaway on the timeline but is it usual practice to have something else in there before the video starts? E.g. the universal countdown thing or the colour bars? If I must insert that at the start, will this mean that in pushing the sequence along I lose all my render files?!!

Any tips and advice will be much appreciated, thanks!
 
Hi.

1, depends on the staiton. I'm going to guess that you are working in DV. Stay in DV - whatever you do, don't drop down to DVD (unless you are buring the .avi as Data onto the DVD-R. Most TV stations will want it in another format, probabaly one of the following: DigiBETA, DVCPRO50, BETACAM SP, BETACAM SX, DVCPRO25 or DVCAM (probabaly not the last 2). You will probabaly need to take your video on MiniDV to a dubbing house for them to copy it up to another format for the station(s)

2, Yes there is a number of things. Normally: Bars & tone, Slate & Countdown, 2sec of black, program, black again. With Premiere pro you have a couple of options: A: you can either use the "track select" tool with [shift] depressed (you will get two arrows, grab the first clip at the start of the timeline) to move all the contests of the timeline (the shift will cause it to select all tracks) over enough to crop in the leader clips. If all you are dooing is sliding clips over, Preimeire won't need to render again. or B: you can creat a new "master" sequence and place the leader clips into that and then the sequence with yoru project in it, and then the black on the back. - This will probably need a bit of rendering though.

- Mikko
 
Thanks for the reply Mikko, when you say stay in dv, do you mean send the finished video back into my camcorder and record on MiniDv?

Also, I went into Adobe and created a Universal countdown leader which I pressed shift and dragged onto the timeline. That then inserted the countdown into the start of the video. Is that enough, or do I definitely need to add the bars and tone as well?
 
TV stations want tape. Most will accept miniDV (just output the video back to a new miniDV tape through your firewire to the camera) although some want Betacam or DigiBeta. When I send videos to MUCH MUSIC (or MUCH LOUD) they want DigiBeta. This means sending the miniDV tape to a conversion house and paying them to convert it for you. Always send a miniDV master to be converted.

At the start of each tape, I run 30-seconds of Bars then 5-seconds of black video followed by my video. I rarely use the countdown leader, unless I'm using it for effect in my video. Then after my video I follow with another 5-seconds of black video and another 30-seconds of Bars. Broadcasters will sometimes find it confusing. Your safest bet is to sandwich with Bars and Black.

Justin
www.beyondtimemedia.com
 
Thanks jchenier, just one more thing please? What type of information do the stations want to see at the start of the video. I assume I need to put artiste, song title, record label, director, is there anything else? Does this go just before the video starts or at the end? Sorry about all the questions if they appear too newbie. Thanks
 
Skacke,
As Justin described, yes run out to MiniDV to your camera,a nd then send in that tape either directly, or via a conversion house.

Bars are generally requred... 30sec is the general requirement.

The "slate" which is the information regarding a video goes before the video. - often simply overlayed over the countdown - it kills 2 birds with one stone.
Slate information norammly includes:
Title.
TRT (Total Reel Time) - the duration of the actual video.
date produced.
the producer (person responsible for the video, AKA: you).
some for of conatct info for the producer.
and then for a music video; the information you listed.

One note about the countdown, please be sure to check the duraiton of the countdown - sometimes Premiere makes it too long at the end, and the "2" marker isn't always 2 sec from the start of the video. Make sure it is and trim or add black as necesary. A countdonw that is inacurate is workse than no countdown.

- Mikko
 
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