SIC 18203 · reproduction of video recording
Tribal People Try Ltd is a video reproduction company working from East Ham, London. Masters arrive on tape, on disc or as files; copies leave on the carrier the job calls for, labelled against a job reference and packed ready to travel.
Office 3564, 182-184 High Street North, East Ham, London E6 2JA. Bookings, quotes and job queries come in by email.
[email protected]Interlaced and progressive sources, PAL 25 fps and film-rate material, standard definition at 576 lines through to 1080-line high definition. Aspect ratio, field order and audio track layout follow the master and the order sheet.
A run is tied to one approved master, so every copy in it comes straight off that source and sits a single generation down from it. Which master carries the approval, and what checking it gets before the run starts, are settled with the client, never assumed.
The approved master, the count and the carrier are written against the job reference, and that reference stays with the material until the finished run goes out.
An older carrier has to be played through before anything can be reproduced from it. Where a job calls for that, the tape is read across to a mezzanine file, and the mezzanine is then the working master for everything after it. What a particular job needs playing is confirmed at booking.
File-to-file work covers rewrapping, transcoding and audio track mapping. Frame rate and field order carry across from the source unless the order sheet asks for a change.
DVD-Video and Blu-ray discs are built to the structure the client supplies or to a written brief: menu behaviour, chapter points, subtitle streams and playback settings.
Runs go onto recordable DVD or Blu-ray stock and are marked on the face with the title and the job reference. Any playback checking beyond that goes into the order in writing, so both sides work from the same sheet.
Where a job goes out as files, copies are transcoded to the delivery specification asked for — commonly H.264 or H.265 in an MP4 wrapper — with audio levels set and subtitle sidecars supplied alongside or muxed in.
A written file list travels with the delivery, so the receiving end can hold what arrived against what was sent. Checksums sit against each entry on that list where the delivery specification calls for them.
Copies are labelled with the job reference and the title exactly as written on the order. Client-supplied wallets, cases and printed inserts are collated by hand and wrapped where the order asks for it.
Finished runs are boxed for courier collection or held for pick-up. Masters go back with the run, or stay here on written instruction until the client calls them in.
Turnaround is set job by job, against the master once it is checked in, instead of as a blanket figure across the board.
| Format | Carrier | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| DVD-Video, MPEG-2 | DVD-R 4.7 GB, dual layer 8.5 GB | Quoted per run on the job sheet |
| Blu-ray, AVC or MPEG-2 | BD-R 25 GB, BD-R DL 50 GB | Confirmed when the master is checked in |
| ProRes or DNxHD mezzanine | Portable drive, client-supplied or ours | Set against the delivery date on the order |
| H.264 or H.265, MP4 wrapper | USB flash or a file transfer link | Agreed at booking |
| Legacy tape read | File output, or fresh tape where stock is supplied | Assessed once the tape has been read |
A quote comes back fastest when the first message already carries the shape of the job. Six lines usually cover it:
Send it to
[email protected]The reply carries a job reference, and that thread then stays the record for the job.