Production: Ideas & Best Practices

[Wavelength Admin]

This forum will be a great way for us to learn from each other, so please comment below with any questions or suggestions about production ideas and best practices.

[Tiff Pua]

Quick question: can you post the latest video/audio specs for both MMG Arts uploads as well as PBS’ TOS here?

That will make it easy to find later on.

Thanks,
Tiff Pua
Milwaukee PBS

[Yeliz Alakas]

Hi Tiff,

You can find the PBS TOS in our “How It Works” page, however I’ve included them below as well for your reference:

PBS Recommended Video Specifications:
File Format: XDCAM 422
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Minimum Width: 1920, Minimum Height: 1080
File Container: MXF OP1a
Video Frame Size: 1920x1080i
Video Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Video Color Sampling: 4:2:2 8-bit
Video Codec: MPEG-2 Long GOP @ 50 Mbps
AudioBit: Depth: 24 Bit
Audio Sample Rate: 48 KHz sampling rate
Audio Bit Rate: 1152 kbps Bitrate

PBS Recommended Audio Specifications:
File container: .WAV or .AIFF
Audio Channels: 1 or 2 channels
AudioBit: Depth: 24 Bit
Audio Sample Rate: 48 KHz sampling rate
Audio Codec: Linear PCM

As for MMG Arts uploads, we will take anything that you submit and have our media services conform it to our in-house specs.

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

Best,
Yeliz

Yeliz Alakas
Digital Platform Specialist
Wavelength
WLIW/WNET

• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Yeliz Alakas.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by Yeliz Alakas.

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