Commissioning Brief - BBC
Commissioning Brief - BBC
Commissioning Brief - BBC
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Delivery requirements – Programme Descriptions<br />
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Programme descriptions must be provided 5 weeks prior to tx.<br />
In house producers must enter these in Proteus.<br />
Independent producers must use the template found via Programme Descriptions.<br />
This will provide our press and digital teams with the best possible opportunity to publicise your<br />
programmes, in an increasingly crowded market-place. (see Press and Publicity section)<br />
Delivery requirements - Technical<br />
Format<br />
Programmes must be delivered as a linear WAV, linear BWAV or FLAC file.<br />
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<strong>BBC</strong> Radio technical specification for wav files can be found here:<br />
http://www.bbcradioresources.com/TechnicalSpecificationBWAV/index.html.<br />
For technical enquiries and expert advice email<br />
Pete Scott, Digital Specialist, Western House<br />
Andy Simmonds, Operations Manager, Western House<br />
Technical Delivery process<br />
Process for BWAV delivery – <strong>BBC</strong> Production departments<br />
You will need access to the "VCS Ingester" server. For details contact Pete Scott / Andy Simmonds<br />
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From your digital editor bounce down the programme to a single 16 bit, 44.1kHz, stereo wav file.<br />
The naming of this wav file is important. It should include the Network, Title and TX date. It should<br />
not include any punctuation or spaces - use underscore to make the name readable. E.G.<br />
R2_A_Programme_120612.wav<br />
Save the programme BWAV to<br />
\\bbcmedrr006\vcs_ingester$\Radio_2\Radio_2_London_auto\R2_London_VCS_Programmes<br />
Make sure you have emailed the Pres details to Presentation-R2 (on the <strong>BBC</strong> Global Address list)<br />
cc’ing Julian Grundy, Paula Street, James Carpenter and Anna McMahon.<br />
In a few minutes, the wav file you saved will have changed to .ren. This means that the file has<br />
successfully transferred to Radio 2's VCS dira system.<br />
Contact the Radio 2 Presentation team via email (as above) or on 02 50655, 02 53112 or 02 53250<br />
to advise delivery. THIS IS CRUCIAL. They listen to the In and Out of the programme to check that<br />
they match the In and Out words on the presentation details and that the durations match. They<br />
also spot check the audio for obvious technical faults. If there are no problems, and the<br />
programme has received the required Proteus compliance sign-off, they will schedule it. The<br />
Presentation Office is staffed, Monday to Friday 1000 -1800.<br />
Failure to complete this step within 1 working day of delivering your programme can result in your<br />
programme being lost.<br />
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