Clean Feed

What is it?

A clean feed is the program output without graphics: the switched show — cameras, cuts, the full visual program — but with no lower-thirds, no logos, no tickers, no overlays burned in. It's the broadcast stripped to its picture, produced in parallel with the dressed version, because certain downstream uses need the show without its clothing.

Practical example

International sports is the classic customer: the host broadcaster sends partners a clean feed of the match — the same camera cutting everyone sees, but graphics-free — so each country's network adds its own language scoreboard, own sponsors, own captions. Archives and editors want it for the same reason: highlight packages re-cut from a clean feed aren't fighting yesterday's burned-in score bug. The interview use: the clean recording of a show lets clips be re-graphicked for vertical — yesterday's horizontal lower-third doesn't sit fossilized across the reframed shot.

Key things to know (non-technical)

• The principle underneath: graphics are a layer, and layers you might want to change shouldn't be baked in — clean feed is keeping the layers separate at the output.
• It's produced simultaneously, not reconstructed: real switchers output clean and dirty side by side — the clean feed is a tap on the pipeline before graphics, not an afterthought.
• The buyers are predictable: international partners (re-graphic in their language), archives (future-proof masters), editors (re-purposable material), and sponsors' agencies (their cut, their branding).
• Its pair is the dirty feed — together they're one question every professional output asks: with or without graphics?

In Tupic Live

Clean feed output is a professional-tier checkbox with outsized signaling power: Tupic Live recording (or outputting) the graphics-free program alongside the dressed broadcast gives editors re-usable masters, lets clips be re-graphicked per format, and speaks the exact dialect broadcast partners ask in — a small pipeline tap that opens professional doors.