EXPORTING FOR BROADCASTING - Need help urgent!

You need to set the audio levels in FCP.

Export the Timeline to QuickTime using current settings and as a self contained movie.

Bring that file into Compressor and apply the DV PAL preset.

Because your original is 16:9 you need to letterbox it into 4:3. You will need to make a few changes in Compressor.

In the Frame Controls Tab...

And in the Geometry Tab...

is the above a delivery spec sheet given to you by the Broadcaster and is it for a European transmission?

You must get that spec if this isn't from the Broadcaster so please becareful or it will be regected by the complience engineer.

In Europe, mainstream Broadcasters only accept 50Mbps files.

25 Mbps is not Broadcast quality, however local cable channels accept any rubbish thrown at them.

25 Mbit/s is standard for DV. You don't need to do anything.

DV PAL uses 4.2.0 Subsampling, not 4.2.2. Nothing you can do about that. The format is what it is.

Note that this does not mean that some chroma is not sampled at all - it is done alternately instead of simultaneously.

What you are seeing in FCP is Mega BYTES per second not Mega bits. 8 bits = 1 Byte.

DM

No. Data rates are calculated in Binary, not Base 10.

What you have is already correct.

From the Motion 4 User Manual. Click for bigger version.

Is there anyway to increase the

resolution but still keep the same specs?

No.

High quality video output is basically acquisition dependent. If you start with very high quality images (think well exposed film), even after the processing to get to DVD you'll have good (even very good) images if properly compressed.

Mediocre images will degrade to poor images.

That is the nature of video.

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ps to understand the chart Nick posted, multiply 3.6 Mega BYTES per second by 8 (Number of Bits in a BYTE) to get MegaBITS/ seccond.

also for what it's worth - Megabytes is abreviated MB, Megabits is Mb.

You're confusing bits and bytes: the broadcaster's specs call for 25Mb/s (mega bits per second) which is roughly equivalent to 3.6MB/s (mega bytes per second). It's always important to pay attention to the use of upper and lowercase letters when dealing with bits and bytes: b = bits B = bytes

DV is part of the DV25 codec family since it is 25Mb/s. DVCam and DVCPro are also part of that group.

What is confusing about the specs to me is that the first line shows DV - 4:2:0, which clearly indicates a chroma subsampling of 4:2:0. But then the 5th line states they want 4:2:2. Now that's confusing.

-DH