TVNZ COMMERICAL STANDARDS COMMERICAL DELIVERY All commercials must be supplied to TVNZ as digital files via DUBSAT, EBUS or ADSTREAM. Contact details and specifications for all three digital delivery providers are attached at the end of these commercial standards. ASPECT RATIO As from 1 st February 2009 all NEW commercial material should be supplied in 16:9 FHA (4:3 graphic safe). ID BOARD Each commercial supplied must include an ID Board containing the following information: Client Product / Title Key number Duration Aspect Ratio MATERIAL DEADLINES As per our Terms & Conditions, all advertising material shall be delivered to TVNZ not less than 2 working days prior to transmission. KEY NUMBER The following standards were implemented on the 1 st April 2009 A typical key number will include no more than 12 alphanumeric characters. Dashes, slashes and hyphens are treated as spaces and are ignored. The key number must identify the advertiser and duration of the commercial as well as contain a unique reference for each piece of material supplied by the advertiser. The correct format is advertiser/duration/material reference (e.g. ABC 030 001) - This ensures that no advertiser will ever have two commercials with the same last four digits Only technical corrections should be denoted with an R suffix. Any changes to the actual contents on the commercial require a new key number. COMMERICAL APPROVALS All commercials need to have CAB approval prior to transmission contact Commercial Approval Bureau Phone: 64 9 373 2907 Fax: 64 9 373 2912 www.commercialapprovals.co.nz
STANDARD SPECIFICAION FOR COMMERICALS Video A Commercial supplied should adhere to the following specifications: One minute colour bars and tone A minimum of 15 seconds of ID (or slate *1) Two seconds exactly of black and silence The commercial content *2 Ten seconds minimum black and silence Notes: 1. ID is just that it may include an optional countdown from ten as part of the ID but the commercial identification must be present up until two seconds prior to the start of the commercial. Aspect ratio information must also be included on the ID board. 2. The commercial content should commence at exactly 01:00:00:00 time code or the unofficial 00:01:30:00 standard if the production houses editing system is not capable of handling a zero time code edit. These are required to meet operations functions of the Nexus Ingest server. The commercial ID ensures the correct identification of each TVC. This specification applies to all commercial supplied to TVNZ Audio The following information should be noted: 1. The audio is to be either stereo (left audio on track 1, right audio on track 2) or dual mono with both track 1 and track 2 identical 2. Commercials containing extraneous audio on track 2 not intended for broadcast will not be accepted. Supply of Material Instructions: As per our terms and conditions, material instruction deadlines are 3 working days prior to transmission. Material instructions for TV ONE and all regions, TV2, Heartland and UTV should be sent to your Advertising Services Coordinator Direct clients should forward their material instructions through the TVNZ Sales Office they normally deal with.
APPENDIX 1 File Specifications For Ingest Video File Audio ID Card File: MPEG2; File Chroma Encoding: 4:2:2 (or 4:2:0 by request) MPEG Encoding bitrate: 15Mbit/sec Video Standard: PAL Aspect Ratio: 4/3 or 16/9 as specified at upload time Frame Size: 720(H) x 576(V) pixels Frame Rate: 25fps Duration: As specified at upload time Encoding: MPEG1 Layer II; Audio Encoding bitrate: 224 to 384 kbit/sec Audio Sample Rate: 48 khz File: JPEG; Frame Size: 720(H) x 576(V) pixels For more information regarding EBUS account creation, delivery options and technical requirements, please call the following number: EBUS phone 021 618 634 or email: info@ebus.tv
For more information regarding DUBSAT account creation, delivery options and technical requirements, please call the following number: DUBSAT phone 0508DUBSAT (0508 382 728)
adstream admail for NZ deliveries Commonly encoded with QuickTime (.mov): Preferred format: MPEG2 Studio profile (4:2:2) 25Mbps H.264 (QuickTime format) Photo JPEG Motion JPEG (A or B) MPEG Audio Layer-2 Bitrate: 384kbps Sample Rate: 48khz Stereo MPEG-2 Program Stream 25Mbps CBR Long GOP Profile: 422P@ML Colour Sampling: 4:2:2 (4:2:0 will not be accepted) Video Size: 720 x 576 (608 inc VBI) H.264 Quicktime MOV Video: 720x576 H.264 Best Quality no maximum bitrate Audio: PCM (uncompressed) Little Endian 16 bit stereo 48kHz Recommended Transcoding Applications: PC Telestream Flip Factory / Clipmail (http://www.telestream.net/products/flipfactory.html) Rhozet Carbon Coder (http://www.rhozet.com/productccmain.html) Procoder 3 (http://www.canopus.com/products/procodersw/index.php) Main Concept Encoder 1.5 MAC Episode Pro - please note that you will need version 4.4.2 to work on 10.5 Leopard (http://www.telestream.net/products/ episode_pro.htm) Main Concept MPEG Encoder 1.5 Quicktime Pro (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/) Contact adstream facilities on 09 9131479