Re: [Avid-L2] Rookie TC question

Well John... about your question... there is a paragraph at the end of
"The Peter's Principle" that answers it. ;-)

Marcel
Sent from my iHome

On 21/10/2009, at 12:01 PM, John Heiser wrote:

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?

----
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/consultants 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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