Best practices from the PBS Quality Group

How to get the best quality out of the digital television standard

PBS has convened and CPB supported the PBS Quality Group's evangelism for DTV quality in 2010 and 2011. The group, including tech specialists from stations, series and PBS, and consultants, is holding a series of workshops around the country (the latest March 2 in New York), and they prepared these articles.

Here are PDFs of the pieces published in Current so far.

1 Maintaining quality. You can't always 'fix it in post.' Station engineers, PBS join to identify best practices for DTV system. By Jim Kutzner, PBS

2 HD image capture. A welter of interacting choices. By Mark Schubin, production engineering consultant

3 HD recording formats. Billions of bits, just thousands of ways to record 'em. By Dave MacCarn, WGBH

4 Broadcast audio. For DTV audio quality, there's good news and . . . hope. By Bruce Jacobs, Twin Cities Public Television

5 Field recording. Bad audio: so easy to get, and so annoying. By G. John Garrett, CAS

6 Workflow. Scared straight: To lay out a prudent workflow for file-based video, it helps to work up some paranoia. By Chris Fournelle, WGBH

For more information about the PBS Quality Group, go to its website or send an e-mail to the group.

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