broadcast qualities videoclips?

[raffage75]

hi y'all!

i have a question that i hope one of you can answer, or at least can tell me where i can find the answer. it's like this: some friends of mine have band and asked me to make a videoclip for them, intended for (inter)national TV. now is my question: what objective qualities should a professional viedoclip have? i mean which resolution etc...

i hope someone can help me out!

grtz

rafta

[sleepytom]

for PAL

768x576 pixles
Interlaced
Uncompressed 24 bit

(sometimes DV is accepted as ok for broadcast - but its not real broadcast quality)

[raffage75]

thx for the info! sorry for the late reply btw...

now i have some other questions: i plan to make most of it in flash. should i use those dimensions or is it be better to work bigger so that i don't have any quality-loss when i bring it to say Premiere or Aftereffects? And concerning the frames/second: will 24 do the trick or should i just try and experiment?
sorry for all the hassle guys!

grtz

rafta

[sleepytom]

for flash work at 768x576 and export uncompressed video or a seqence of tif files from flash (converting swf to video is a right pain)

use 25 fps
(you could arguably get better motion smoothness from working at 50 fps and exporting a tif seqence from flash - then import the tif sequence into after effects and convert to interlaced video at 25 fps)

[raffage75]

thx for the usefull info tom! we'll get right on it, i hope i have something decent to show you guys soon...

greetings

rafta

[scoopmeisterTF]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sleepytom
[B]for flash work at 768x576 and export uncompressed video or a seqence of tif files from flash (converting swf to video is a right pain)

Would it help to use Quicktime Pro to export from swf?

[Amukidi]

Go to www.flashants.com they make a cracking little app ($70) that converts SWfs into AVIs of very high quality (and filesize!!) The results are stunning! its called SWF2Video

[robotfunk]

I find quicktime with JPEG 90% compression (not motion JPEG mind you) more than satisfactory for broadcast material.
Even with my glasses on I can't see any difference to uncompressed and it works out to 80 mb per minute (without audio) meaning my humble system can play it back realtime. I dont have a fancy DVR at my disposal so this is a big plus for me.