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This chapter covers the following:
• What Is Mastering? (p. 97)
• Creating Versions of a Program with and Without Titles (p. 98)
• Format Conversion (p. 99)
• Subtitling and Closed Captioning (p. 100)
• Delivering Audio (p. 105)
This chapter provides information about mastering your program. Proper mastering
ensures that you provide all of the elements needed for delivery to a network or distributor.
What Is Mastering?
In a comprehensive post-production pipeline, mastering is an extension of the finishing
process that involves assembling all of the elements (or deliverables) that are required
by a network or distributor into a single package.
Required deliverables may include any combination of the following:
• Separate versions of the video master with and without titles (also called texted and
textless masters)
• Videotape masters in multiple formats, including a combination of high definition (HD),
standard definition (SD), NTSC, and PAL formats
• Subtitling and closed captioning
• Multiple versions of the final audio mix
The network or distributor can use these elements to facilitate long-term archiving of a
program into its content library, provide easy format conversion from one video standard
to another, and accommodate both domestic and international distribution.
Final Cut Studio provides the capabilities for addressing most, if not all, of these needs.
For more information, see:
• “Creating Versions of a Program with and Without Titles”
• “Format Conversion”
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