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Saturday, July 27, 2013

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

XDcam MXF is standard over here. But then again, Sony rules Europe
broadcast.

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From: "namyrb" <namyrb@gmail.com>
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Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] "What are you grading this week 2013?", survey
results.

> 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:
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>> 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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