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Saturday, July 27, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: "What are you grading this week 2013?", survey results.

The digital delivery I did for NBC last December they accepted ProRes. They wanted it delivered through a dub house nearby in Hollywood because they had a distribution pipeline already set up with them. Funny because and extra 15 minutes of driving into the valley and we could have hand delivered to NBC/Universal lot. Sometimes it's not worth trying to be logical when dealing with corporate infrastructure. ;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, namyrb <namyrb@...> wrote:
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> What about XDCAM? When we were delivering to NBC a couple of years ago,
> everyone was delivering XDCAM 50mbit QTs because they were having us
> deliver the digital masters over the Internet. Prores just took way too
> long to upload. We could have literally driven back and forth between our
> building and the NBC building 200 times before the prores files would be
> uploaded.
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> On Wednesday, July 24, 2013, Dennis Degan wrote:
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> > On Jul 24, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Mark Spano wrote:
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> > > Why is this insane? ProRes is perfectly fine to deliver for broadcast.
> > Are you really getting "abysmal" gamma shifts when creating a ProRes file
> > for
> > delivery? I'm not.
> > > I cringe when I don't see it in a deliverable sheet because it means
> > "they don't really know" and I need to have a back and forth with someone
> > about why it's not great to take broadcast delivery as H.264 or worse.
> > > DNxHD and ProRes are both great for broadcast. Neither one is insane.
> >
> > I say:
> >
> > I agree. Literally EVERY edited clip, news story, B-Roll, or show opening
> > you see on NBC is played on air as DNxHD145. Central, Mountain, and Pacific
> > time zones see the Today show ENTIRELY as DNxHD.
> >
> > Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> > NBC Today Show, New York
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