USA Dubs is a Broadcast duplication & post-production company offering the best in High Definition (HD) Services. Our state-of-the-art facilities processes a variety of HD conversions daily.
Team USA provides the following HD Services:
HD Nitris Avid Editing , HD Closed Captioning, HD Spot Distribution , HD Up & Down Conversion, Cross Conversion between HD formats, HD Blu-ray Disc Creation, HD to Cinema Spot Distribution, HD Windows Media, and HD Quicktime Creation, Conversion to or from Standard NTSC or PAL.
Ad agencies, independent producers and corporate managers entrust USA Dubs with various HD projects including commercial spots, original programming, music videos, movies, corporate reels and more.
USA Dubs provides services for each of the 5 HD tape formats in mainstream use today: HDCam, HDCam SR, HDD5, DVC Pro HD and HDV. Even if your source is not already HD, USA Dubs has the capability to upconvert your SD video and computer media to HD.
Using the Alchemist Platinum standards converter, which utilizes full bandwidth video processing, 12-bit color, digital noise reduction and motion compensation, USA studios delivers conversions to our clients that truly look as good as the original master.
FAQ's for HD formats
HD video generally refers to a higher resolution than standard definition (SD) NTSC or PAL video. HD display resolutions are most commonly presented at the following resolutions: 720p - 1280x720 or 1080i & 1080p – 1920x1080. “I” stands for Progressive Interlace Scanning”
“P” stands for Progressive Image Scanning”
HDCam is the most commonly used HD tape format at this time. HDCam uses 4:2:2 sampling, 4 audio channels and includes all 1080 line formats (i.e. 60i, 59.94i, 50i, 30Psf, 29.97Psf, 25Psf, 24Psf, 23.98Psf).
HDCam SR offers improved picture quality over standard HDCam. SR offers a choice between 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 sampling, up to 12 audio channels and includes all 1080 line formats in addition to 720 59.94p / 50p.
HDD5 supports the same HD formats as HDCam, with the addition 720/59.94p and up to 8 audio channels. (HDD5 can also be used for SD recording)
DVC Pro HD's sampling is 4:2:2 with 8 audio tracks and includes 1080 line 59.94i/50i and 720p 59.94p.
HDV tapes are essential miniDV tapes recorded in HD. The HD format uses MPEG 2 compression 4:2:0 sampling and stereo audio.
PAL HD is the High Definition Format most commonly used overseas. It is formatted at 1080i50 which means it has 1920 x 1080 pixels, interlaced encoding with 50 fields per second. The United States uses NTSC which has 60 fields per second.
