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Originally Posted by Penton-Man
the BBC was relatively quiet at the smpte conf,
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but, BBC does have a new upcoming feather in their hat namely,
Blue Planet 2 which is a BBC Studios Natural History Unit production and a co-production with BBC America
from IBC reporting…..
While viewers in the UK can see Blue Planet 2 in HD on their TV sets (and potentially in higher resolution formats via BBC iPlayer at some point in the future), the series itself is bound for a number of different destinations around the world - and will be viewed in a number of different ways. As such, a huge number of deliverables were required. Again, this responsibility fell to Films at 59.
As well as the BBC transmitted version, the Bristol post house will deliver seven more in HD and two in UHD HDR. This is nine principal versions for each of the six programme: or 63 versions across the series in total. And then there are different sound deliverables too, for both stereo and 5.1.
Films at 59 post producer Miles Hall, the project manager on Blue Planet 2, says the extent of the deliverables means that the delivery processes need to be embedded in the whole post-production workflow from the outset, especially with “challenging” delivery deadlines in mind.
“Delivery deadlines are often different for each version,” he says. “So while the BBC TX version is the focus, this may be last to deliver with the Worldwide and DVD versions being needed first to allow for localisation and creation and distribution of the DVDs.”
To facilitate the delivery process, the constituent parts that make up each programme - the stings, titles, main body of the programme, presenter-less sections, calls to action, the ‘making of’ diary, credits and end boards - are all treated as separate elements. Hall describes it as being a bit like a model kit.
“Each of the elements go through their individual post processes as required and they only come together on a single timeline for the final review and export for each version,” he says. “The BBC version, for example, includes the ‘making of’ diary and an Open University call to action but the BBC Worldwide version has its own sting, no ‘making of’ diary and a different end board.”
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the UHD HDR versions, Films at 59 is delivering both a 25fps Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) series for BBC Worldwide and a 23.98fps PQ one for Blu-ray. The latter requires careful attention to the metadata tagging as this will impact on downstream distribution and how the final version is viewed.
All the versions then go through a Quality Control (QC) and file delivery process, with each taking a number of hours to complete.
Like the series itself, the post-production of Blue Planet 2, is no mean achievement.
“Resources are stretched further as editorial changes are made along the way,” adds Hall.
“These often need to be incorporated into files that have already been made and sometimes even delivered. Having a solid set of internal procedures to manage all these deliverables is essential if everything is to get where it needs to go and on time.”
• Blue Planet 2 will air on BBC1 from Sunday 29 October.
All countries
Argentina
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Brazil
Bulgaria
Chile
China
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Estonia
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Indonesia
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Malaysia
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Norway
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
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South Korea
Sweden
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Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
given their grouping 
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given the very limited face time (in minutes) this thread generally occupies at the top of the totem pole in the Ultra HD Blu-ray and 4K Hardware and Technology subforum with all the device proponents/users being so expeditiously active.
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