Re: [Avid-L2] Rookie TC question

A crappy tape room op, who calls the VP of post everytime video or audio is brighter or louder than bars/tone, did just that. Another editor gave her a tape for encoding and it ended at 1:01:30;02, thus causing her to scream over the phone that she couldn't ingest it because it is 2 frames to long and it started at 02 and not 00. We tried to explain DF to her, but she got pissy and hasn't spoken to either of us in 3 days.

No she isn't new. She's well over 40 and has been in the business way too long to not know what drop frame TC is.

Does it matter if it's 2 frames longer or shorter? No, all SD material is compressed to mpeg2 and sent electronically to master control in Denver. All HD is FedEx'd. Everything is captured with B/T, slate, spot and some black at the end, so no it shouldn't matter.

Rick Emery
www.rickemery.com

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From: John Heiser <jpheiser@gmail.com>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, October 21, 2009 12:01:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Rookie TC question

Working for an agency, I don't deliver master tapes to broadcasters much -
we don't do shows, and any spots we do are delivered electronically. Still,
I don't understand the need for hyper-concern on this, on the part of the
broadcaster or even the client. It would seem to me the tape room op at the
network would enter the starting time code and the duration of the spot,
letting their ingest system calculate the "out" time. If the spot is :30:00,
then what's the difference?

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John Heiser
o2ideas
birmingham, alabama, USA

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Rick <a_pmb_fan@yahoo. com> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks all. The last line is the most important. Do what the client wants.
> These are promos being done in house for a cable network, so they have
> control of their own stuff. The guy who said this yesterday, ran the
> technical side of Discovery for about 15 years. I've been doing promos for
> Discovery almost that entire time at post houses and not internally, and was
> never told to end at ;02. He's the boss.
>
> An Animal Planet producer years ago, always wanted his spots 29:24 so they
> wouldn't get chopped.
>
> I've also done hundreds of political ads, and I had a couple of
> producers/consultan ts make sure we laid back to NDF tape because they didn't
> want to loose those two frames.
>
>
> Rick Emery
> www.rickemery. com
>
>

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