Mastering is where we apply the polish to the programme, after client approval.
This will involve increasing the resolution to maximum for the application, going through each edit individually and checking for frame accuracy, colour correcting each frame to take into account varying light conditions on the shoot.
We also go through the audio track and make sure all the voice levels are consistent and within tolerance, any music is adjusted so that it fades smoothly and runs at the correct level behind voice over or presenter.
Once we are happy with all the detail above we record the programme to a broadcast quality video tape with appropriate timecode for broadcast applications. This then becomes the master that all encoding, CD-Rom & DVD-Authoring is created from. If the programme is to be broadcast or played at an event then this is likely to be played directly from the master tape.
As we create the master from our computer editing system, we can create multiple masters as backup easily.
Once the project is complete we archive all the project data from our edit
suite. This means we can easily modify your programme at a later date without
the expense of re-editing the entire programme.
