Currently, the only way to get your content aired on Denver Open Media is to come into our facilities at 700 Kalamath in Denver and sign up to use an edit station to encode your content into our servers. For tapes, this process is real-time. For digital files and DVDs, the process is much faster. You must be a member and have completed an orientation session before you can air content.
We will accept any length up to 29 minutes. Over 29 minutes, we request that your video be between 1 and 5 minutes short of a 30-minute increment, ie 55 to 59 min, 85 to 89 min, 115 to 119 min. Over two hours, we suggest that you break your show up into smaller segments of two hours or less. These are guidelines, not requirements. Following them will make it easier for our automated programming algorithm to schedule re-broadcasts of your show.
These are the formats we’re accepting, listed in order from our most preferred/easiest, to the least desirable/most difficult. If your media is in one of these 10 formats, we will air it.
- Mpeg2 (encoded exactly to the specifications we will post on our website)
- DVD
- Uncompressed (or DV25) Quicktime or Avi files (from an external hard-drive or data DVD)
- MiniDV
- Full-sizeDV
- Beta
- SVHS
- VHS
- Hi-8
- 3/4-inch
In 2008 we plan to accept Mpeg2 submission remotely via the web (again, the files will be rejected if they are not encoded to the specifications we put forth on our website).
If your work is in another format, you will have to find a way to convert it. Deproduction (and many other local firms) provide format conversion or encoding services for a fee (see Deproduction's format conversion fee schedule).