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Programmes for broadcast must meet the BBC's technical standards, so a Technical Review will be carried out to assess this.
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The Technical Review should only take place once the programme is ready for transmission, with no further editing required.
The Technical Review does not normally consider editorial or contractual issues, but instead focuses on the technical quality of the video and audio recording.
Before submitting a programme for Technical Review, every effort must be made to avoid technical errors. Failure to comply with our standards will mean your programme will fail technical review and must be fixed before it can be transmitted.
Note that the decision to pass or fail Technical Review, and to ask for technical re-edits, rests solely with BBC Resources.
Common faults for failing Technical Review:
Examples of reasons that tapes fail BBC technical review are listed below:
| Incorrect VITC |
Incorrect aspect ratio |
Blanking errors |
| Unsafe Captions |
Grading errors |
High luminance |
Arcing errors
(e.g. aliasing, ghosting on cuts)
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Incorrect audio level
(e.g. high or audio recording at M6) |
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| Lip synch errors |
Wide dynamic range |
Audio hole |
| Audio or video glitch |
High RF tape errors / concealing |
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Booking a Technical Review:
It is your responsibility to book the Review (in advance)
For Network programmes, if an acceptable Technical Review (via BBC Post-Production) has been completed outside London before the Delivery Date the reviewed tape must be delivered to London by its Delivery Date.
For London Review Centre bookings you can contact reviewcentrebookings@bbc.co.uk.
Alternatively if email is not available, you can call the Bookings Manager on: (020) 8008 0958.
Independents making Open University programmes should book a BBC Technical Review via the allocated Broadcast Project Co-ordinator.
At least two days before the booking date, master tapes plus edit facility recording report and contact details should be sent to the Information and Recorded Materials Co-ordinator, who will arrange delivery to the Review Centre. The Centre will contact you direct to let you know the results of the review. If your product fails and changes are required, please contact the Information and Recorded Materials Co-ordinator to discuss delivery arrangements of the new tapes to the Review Centre. All master tapes will be returned to the Information and Recorded Materials Co-ordinator once successfully reviewed.
Payment for the review should be included in your programme budget.
VHS Copies (Network)
At the review, 1 x VHS with programme timecode in vision will be made for Access Services, for Subtitling. The exception to this, is for On Day Topical programmes for public service channels, where production are responsible for delivering the VHS to Access Services after the technical review.
If the technical review of your network programme is outside London then you should ensure the VHS is sent to Access Services in London
If you require a Production VHS copy with timecode, you must request this when you make your booking.
VHS Copies (BBC Scotland)
During Transmission Review a VHS of the programme should be made and sent to Information & Archives.
Where a programme is to be subtitled (please see exceptions for Gaelic programmes), a further VHS, which must have programme timecode, should be made during review and delivered to Access Services in London. For On Day Topical programmes, the Production Team should liaise with Access Services in London but should deliver the VHS to Subtitling (Access Services) in Glasgow.
If you require a Production VHS copy with timecode, you must request this when you make your booking.
Notes:
No Post Production operations such as dubbing onto alternative tape formats, will be performed after Review. Playout cannot undertake any tape duplexing, dubbing onto alternate formats, multi-sourcing, audio mixing or caption supering during the transmission process.
To guarantee that the correct programme version is transmitted, it is the responsibility of production to ensure that the correct programme I.D. and production code number is reflected on the clock.
It will not be the responsibility of the VT Operator to check this information at the Technical Review.
If any editorial changes are made after the Review, then new VHS copies must be provided for Access Services and Playout. Also see the section How to Use Programme ID Numbers.
If the same programme is scheduled on BBC ONE/BBC TWO and on BBC THREE but being delivered in different version (e.g. without on-screen graphics for BBC TWO and with on-screen graphics for THREE) then separate reviews will be required.
After the Technical Review:
After the review the tapes will be cached to the transmission servers.
Page Last Updated 15 February 2005
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