1. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 1 What’s Wrong With This Picture? (and sound) Common Problems with Program Masters Tim Mangini - FRONTLINE Jim Kutzner - PBS

2. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 2  Tech Eval as Fundraiser  Focused on minutiae  They’re out to get me  I don’t have time or money for this

3. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 3 Reality  Same goals - Optimum viewer experience  Collaborative not Punitive  Good investment of resources

4. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 4 PBS Most Busted:  Macro-Blocking/Pixilation  Gamut  Aspect Ratio  Drop Frame Time-Code  Audio Phase  Synthesized/Fake Stereo  Loudness  Audio Dropouts/Hits  Adjacent Audio Track Sync  Lip Sync

5. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 5 Macro-Blocking & Pixelation

6. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 6 Gamut Uncorrected image

7. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 7 Gamut Color corrected image Hard limited image

8. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 8 Aspect Ratio

9. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 9 Aspect Ratio

10. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 10 Non-Drop Frame Time-Code  NDF program is 3;12 too long  You or PBS will need to make a cut  Always Master in Drop Frame Doesn’t matter whether you shoot on DF or NDF Doesn’t matter whether you shoot on DF or NDF

11. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 11 Audio Phase Normal Stereo Phase

12. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 12 Audio Phase 180° Out of Phase

13. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 13 Synthesized/Fake Stereo 6 ms left/right offset

14. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 14 Synthesized/Fake Stereo Synth Stereo Folded to Mono

15. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 15 Loudness/Dial Norm Audio starts low

16. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 16 Loudness/Dial Norm Audio gets progressively louder to meet spec

17. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 17 Loudness/Adjacent Containers Program clip meets Dial-Norm spec

18. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 18 Loudness/Adjacent Containers Adjacent promo is too loud

19. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 19 Audio Dropouts and Hits  Momentary dropouts can easily be missed without good monitoring  Clicks and pops can be caused by word clock errors or cut points on NLE’s

20. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 20 Adjacent Audio Track Sync  DVS/SAP/Mono tracks  5.1 should have only Narration and dialogue in the center channel

21. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 21 Lip Sync   2 Frames variance is tolerable  Broadcast distribution chain may induce sync errors (MPEG2)

22. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 22 Sync Drift  Ingest via Firewire unreliable Use RS422 Use RS422  Longer clips susceptible Break up on ingest if possible Break up on ingest if possible Some cameras are culprits Some cameras are culprits  Incompatibility with mix Add head and tail pops before splitting sequence Add head and tail pops before splitting sequence

23. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 23 Loudness management Program has -21.4 LKFS Long-term Loudness

24. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 24 Loudness management Segment has -18.8 LKFS Long-term Loudness

25. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 25 Sync Tool www.syncheck.com

26. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 26 Analysis tools www.tek.com www.broadcast.harris.com Videotek VTM seriesTektronix WVR series

27. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 27 Audio analysis tools

28. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 28 Audio analysis tools www.dolby.com Dolby LM100

29. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 29 Audio analysis tools WWW.QUALISAUDIO.COM

30. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 30 Takeaways  Plan $$$ and time for tech eval  Tools - tailor your plant to be able to meet spec  Know the specs yourself  Don’t just put it through a legalizer  Our responsibility to get it right  Pay me now or pay me later  Keep your project alive

31. Q G WGBH Public Television Quality Workshop 31 Discussion QG@pbs.org org/qualitygroup pbsconnect.org/qualitygroup