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Braxton W. Gaither

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What is Proxy and Audio PrintMaster?

These are the requirements for my first project for the I work for company to which we are going to NAB for...
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The Technical Requirements

*Project MUST be submitted on an unencrypted Hard Drive, with an ESTATA Port.
*Project MUST be a maximum 4minutes in length including any credits. Submissions greater than 4minutes disqualified
*Each Entrant must provide three (3) different versions of the portrait on a hard drive:
~ Color Timed Master (CTM)
^ CTMs must be mastered in 4K resolution (4096x2304 or 4096x2160) and can be delivered as DPX, Uncompressed Quicktime, or ProRes
~ Audio PrintMaster (2ch only)
^ Audio PrintMaster must be delivered as separated stems in either WAV or AIFF format labeled and ordered as Stereo 1 & 2
~ Proxy Version (A/V muxed)
^ Proxy Version must be delivered in H.264 format (1280x720) with data rates between 3Mbs per second and 8Mbs per second

8Each entrant must also provide the Adobe Premiere Pro offline project file associated with the portrait. Finalist may be asked to provide the original audio and video files used during production of the entry. This may include R3Ds, uncompressed QuickTime files, final audio mix and/or separate audio tracks for dialogue, music, and effects.
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I just cut footage together. This some of these terms just lost me. Like... "Proxy"; "Audio PrintMaster"; "Stem"; I can assume all day what they are, but at the end of the day. I don't know. Really... I just need to know what these mean. Their association with what. And then from there. I can do what I need.

Thanks again!
Braxton!​
 
Actually that page doesn't answer one of the two questions he had.

A "Proxy" is just a small usually low res version for folks to look at.

The "print master" and "stems" requirement is a bit strange. The Print Master (two channel) would just be your final stereo mix. The "stems" part though is weird. For one thing not all of your stems would be stereo and you would have more than two pairs. Than and the fact that stems are one thing and a print master is another so you don't deliver a print-master as stems.

One possibility is that they are assuming a surround mix (LtRt) and they are asking for the four channels discretely as in L+R and Ls+Rs. So I would ask them what they mean by the audio requirements because that seems wonky.
 
what's the content you're showing? I agree that the audio requirements are weird. Why are they asking for stems?
 
People ask for stems because they want the option of mixing it themselves if your mix isn't what they want. Stems are usually:
1 stereo track of all the dialog
1 stereo track with all the music
1 stereo track of all the special effects
All with any effects mixed in.

If it's a music piece, then they may want:
1 stereo track of all rhythm instruments
1 stereo track of all lead vocals
1 stereo track of all BG vocals
1 stereo track of the keys

All with effects.
 
If this is some sort of competition, they may want to see the elements (stems, etc.) as part of the process of judging your work. I have a feeling that we don't really see the whole picture here.
 
Chadfish said:
People ask for stems because they want the option of mixing it themselves if your mix isn't what they want. Stems are usually:
1 stereo track of all the dialog
1 stereo track with all the music
1 stereo track of all the special effects
All with any effects mixed in.

If it's a music piece, then they may want:
1 stereo track of all rhythm instruments
1 stereo track of all lead vocals
1 stereo track of all BG vocals
1 stereo track of the keys

All with effects.
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Kind of depends on the situation. In film Stems would usually be mono Dialog, 5.1 FX, 5.1 Music, mono ADR, LCR Foley. You might also split hard FX and backgrounds. In the case of Stereo then the LCR and 5.1 would be stereo.

Any of these layouts though would require more than two stereo pairs.

It makes me think that what they mean by "stem" is not what a stem really is but some other split. It's like asking for the "proxy" which is not a term generally used outside of After Effects (in the film world anyway).
 
Thanks guys!

From what I've gathered... It is in fact a competition which will be held at NAB by Iron Light for REDScarlet. I was brought on as an "Editor"; but I'll be doing more than that for the company. My company. We in a kind of Infancy stage. Just building a core-team and starting from the ground up, but Doc, boss man, wants to jump in on this competition and make a foot-print at NAB (which I think is a great move).

As for the competition. From what I've gathered so far... It's just to show the best from RED's Scarlet. We are shooting all in natural light. Doc wants to use no audio (which I am not sure about, but it's his ship. So I'm going on long for the ride... Until He wants audio--Which I think would be a good thing! Nevertheless. I think the competition is simply a kind of "best of"; showing off Scarlets' power!
 
Actually that would be "Light Iron", a pretty cool company that does a bunch of on set video stuff. Digital dailies streamed to to your iPad, playback of takes to iPads at department heads who can then post notes that get embedded in the metadata of the clip. On set color correction, but again kept in metadata so it can be undone in post if needed. I saw a presentation of their stuff at the Supermeet in San Francisco and it was very cool.

They are not sound oriented at all so...
 
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