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Delivery specifications: Working out how to deliver video and sound

Delivery specifications: Working out how to deliver video and sound

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Delivery specifications: Working out how to deliver video and sound

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- [Instructor] Broadly speaking, if you're working professionally producing media or even if you're preparing home videos for a distribution system like YouTube, you're going to be producing content for somebody else's needs. A good delivery specification will tell you the ideal frame rate, field order, or to use progressive full frames, the frame size, pixel aspect ratio, bit depth, color mode, number of and allocation of audio channels, and we'll cover more on that later, the data rate, which is usually described in megabits per second, and that means millions of bits per second, and the codec. All of this should be specified by the person you're delivering the media too. Very often these specifications will be set by a media management system your client is using or by the distribution method. It's useful to ask for this information during pre-production, because then you can choose camera settings that minimize conversion and make it easier to deliver to these standards later on…

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