[John Good]

Hello,

I was asked to design a small animation for a TV spot.

As there won't be any visual, I'd like to do it vector with flash, and export it to a format [ that's where help is needed ] that can be broadcasted on TV

Any idea if it's even possible ?

[illvibe]

Never done it myself, but def possible.

[hawken]

shouldn't be your worry really because they will encode at the broadcast stage, but broadcasts are usually made in MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 from DV format.

theres a lot to it really, like viewable areas and the safe area, never use single pixel lines on the horizontal and so on.

then you have to consider widescreen compression, pal / ntsc and HD formats too

[John Good]

Originally Posted by hawken

theres a lot to it really, like viewable areas and the safe area, never use single pixel lines on the horizontal and so on.

Do you know where I can find that kind of informations ?

[hawken]

le internet

most of it comes with experience, trial and error. but there are actual official standards for standard def 4:3 broadcast.

Can you output to TV from your computer? Theres a cable for the mac, about 15 quid. This is almost essential for testing, also it should be to the worst TV you can get your hands on.

a good article on it here:
Overscan and broadcast television

and the actual guide can be downloaded here:
Safe area - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[John Good]

le internet is wide, unless you to know where to look for.

thanks hawken, that's everything I need.