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Cat House Productions
Participant
June 7, 2022
Question

Media Encoder export settings for TV broadcast

  • June 7, 2022
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Good morning guys!

I need your help. A client of mine asked for this format because the video that I'm making for him will be broadcasted on Television:

 

High Definition
 
 
 
XDCAM HD 422
 
 
 
File Type
 
MXF op1a
 
Video Input
 
Digital SDI
 
Video Frame Rate
 
25 fps
 
Resolution
 
1920 x 1080
 
Video Codec
 
Mpeg-2 4:2:2 Profile @ Main Level
 
Video Bitrates
 
50 Mbps Long GOP
 
GOP Structure
 
IBBP
 
GOP Size
 
12 frames
 
Audio Input
 
Digital: AES / Embedded SDI  
 
Audio Tracks
 
1&2: Primary Language
3&4: Secondary or M&E or other
 
Alternatively Dolby Digital 5.1
 
Audio Content
 
As per tape
 
Sample Frequency
 
48Khz
 
Audio Codec
 
LCPM 16 or 24 bit up to 8 tracks
 
Any idea how to get these specs on media Encoder? 
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1 reply

Mylenium
Mylenium
Legend
June 7, 2022

Those specs are nonsense and whoever you talked to doesn't know what he's talking about and just read the specs off a cheat sheet. XDCAM is a pure acquisition format off the camera. Even for broadcast work you would simply send an MPEG 4/ H.264 file most of the time, with the real point being that the audio levels and color gain have been adjusted accordingly. Of course you can embed LCPM audfio (plain WAV/ AIFF) by tweaking the settings accordingly just as you could create an MXF wrapper, but honestly, find someone at the TV station who is actually responsible for the tech side of things and can tell you what's really needed.

 

Mylenium

C
Cat House ProductionsAuthor
Participant
June 7, 2022
Thank you for the response. I feel the same way too, because these specs do
not respond to export settings you would take from Media Encoder or other
software. At least not 100%. What I'll try is to export in MXF OP1a format
with codec XDCAMHD 50 PAL (4:2:2) and we'll see what happens.
C
Cat House ProductionsAuthor
Participant
August 31, 2022

UPDATE : To anyone who might have the same issue, I sent the final TV ad video, the client forwarded it to the TV station, never came back for adjustments. So, all good! This is probably the way to go when exporting with Media Encoder.

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