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CBS Outputs General Guideline

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Outputs:

CBS is only concerned with:

Naming Convention:

Show Title Season # Episode # Version Report Name

Localization Report (LR) e.g.: FBI S6 Ep. 608 Final Localization Report
Contract Inventory (CI) e.g.: FBI S6 Ep. 608 Final Contract Inventory
Key Names and Phrases (KNPs) e.g.: FBI S6 Ep. 608 Final KNPs
 

Available Resources:

The DL (sometimes called script) in the zipped archive folder under the source materials section on the assignment page.

  • Note: The DL contains EXT. and INT. OST notes that do not need to be in the LR. Please remove them.

Contract Inventory:

The report is exported from CE. In the contract inventory output, mark [X] beside only the main characters of the season with the help of credits, content, or online resources.

Key Names and Phrases:

Same rules as any KNPs report, where we mark and tag all KNPs terms on CE with the appropriate category and then work on the Loc. Lib. to add all akas, season and episode tags, as well as approve the terms. Just note that you do not need to add any notes to any of the terms added like the NDTV or D+ WF.

Localization Report:

Find CBS’s latest template in CBS’s folder on SharePoint. CE5 and CE6 do not currently export the new CBS template. Please export any LR’s and copy and paste info to the correct CBS template.


Header:
- Fill in the created by cell with “Pixelogic Media” and add your initials.
- Fill in the date cell with the creation date.
- Fill in the Show's details like the title, season and episode.

The events you need to add:
- All types of OST events. Flag if there is something in the proxy but missing from DL. 
- All songs sung by characters. Flag if missing from DL. However, please note that Any background music or any other audio use of song lyrics will not be listed in the LR. 
No background audio is added at all to the LR
- Audible Plot pertinent archival footage only, with a brief description, otherwise do not add.
- Do not add foreign language events if they have burn-in subtitles, otherwise they should be included.

Special instructions:
- Main titles should always be “not required”.
- When versioning up, make sure to highlight changes in yellow.
- All OST events, should be provided with screengrabs in the thumbnail column.

To insert a thumbnail jpg:
- Select the cell that you want to insert the thumbnail to.
- Go to the "Insert" tab on the Excel ribbon.
- Click on the "Pictures" button in the "Illustrations" group.
- Click on "Place in Cell" and choose insert pictures from "This Device".
- Browse and select the desired image file from your computer and click "Insert."
- The picture will now appear in the worksheet, tied to its specific cell.
- If your screen goes black when taking a screengrab, make sure to turn off graphics acceleration in Chrome.


BONUS POINT: Note that multiple thumbnails can be included at once. We can hold the left-click and choose all screenshots if all the events order follows the screenshots order naming [1, 2, 3...]. Then click "Insert."

Our LR should always include both picture and audio events unless instructed otherwise.

For the Header in the Template:

Please add the Series/ Feature Title, the Season, the Episode Title, if we have that info, and lastly the Episode number. Sometimes, the episode title will appear before the proxy plays.

For the Picture side:

  1. On-Screen Texts
  2. Narrative Titles
  3. For the OSTs and NTs, the TEXT TYPE in the LR could be either Dater/Locator/Speaker Identifier or On-Screen Text for the events, depending on what category suits the onscreen text best.
    - If a narrative title is a location or a date, then the type should be “Dater/Locator.”
    - If a narrative title identifies a person or a character, then the type should be “identifier.”
  4. Main Title
  5. Episode Title
  6. Subtitles
  7. Dedication
  8. Logos, during the intro and the outro of the episode/feature

  • On the Audio side:

  1.  Foreign Dialogue, only if there is no subtitle event or any burn-ins on screen for that dialogue. It should be audible and clear. And in the case of one-word mid-English dialogue, only if it is foreign and not known in the English language. The event should look like that: 
    “Esposito speaks German: "Fräulein"[No EN Subtitle burn-in in OV].”
  2. Archival License Media Material, only add important ones that affect the plot, like when there is dialogue in those events, like news and interviews, and the like. But there is no need to add silent footage or photos. The event should look like that: 
    Archival Footage from an interview with Eminem.
  3. Songs Sung by Characters, all songs sung by Characters are added to the LR. Only add them if they are audible and clear. The event should look like that: 
    "Get Crazy" by LMFAO, sung by Jane. 

Back from Paramount Guidance with comments:
- If the LR returns “with comments” and decisions from Paramount Guidance, make sure to apply these comments to the next version you work on. Please be sure to highlight any changes from between versions in yellow, including the Decisions updates and notes.
**Please flag any illegible OST events immediately as we cannot submit illegible events to the client.
 

Taking Screenshots in OM

It is not currently possible to take screenshots directly in CE6 due to security restrictions. Since screenshots are required for some client deliverables, however, we have a workaround using the "Review and Approve" (also called "RA", "RnA", "R&A") tool. You can navigate to the RnA section in OM through the pane on the left side of the screen:

Click the "Home" folder to be taken to the RnA workspaces that you have access to, which will look something like this:

Click on the "CBS" workspace to see all projects for CBS, then click into the folder for the relevant show/season that you are working on. You will then see one or more videos in a list, looking something like this:

Click on the video thumbnail to open the player. Within the RnA player, you can navigate to any timecode by typing it in at the bottom left corner of the video, or by scrubbing through the video to find the section you are looking for.

At the bottom right corner of the video, you should see a little camera icon. If you do not see this and are working on a project that requires you to capture screenshots, please reach out to a manager or coordinator immediately to grant you access. 

To take a screenshot, navigate to timecode you want to capture, then click this camera button. You can choose to take a screenshot of the full frame (preferred) or a select area. If you choose to do a select area, you will need to select the part of the frame you want to take a screenshot of, then click the camera button again. You will see a preview of the screenshot you have taken in a small window, and then you can (a) right-click the image to copy it directly and paste it into the LR spreadsheet, or (b) click the "Download" button to download it. 

If you click "Download", it will download an image in .png format, and then from there, you can insert into the LR output as normal.

 

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