Season 2

Season 2 is the second season of Rocco and Artie. Season 2 premiered as a broadcast preview on 2012 July 25 and featured partial animation and voices. The premiere episode and the accompanying documentary were posed on YouTube on 2012 July 27. The full season run has been postponed indefinitely and has an unknown release date. More information will be released on this wiki when it becomes available.

Number of Episodes
The number of episodes will vary depending on how difficult the production of an episode is. Currently, six episodes are expected.

Broadcast
Currently, the series is expected to be broadcast live on Ustream. On Ustream, the series will be broadcast in 1080p HD. However, it may switch to another online video streaming site if it is cost effective. The premiere episode aired on Wednesday, 2012 July 25 at 21:00 Eastern time and re-aired the following day at the same time. I will pick the day of the week that has the most viewers to regularly air the series.

The day after the Ustream airing, the episode will be posted on YouTube. On YouTube they will be posted in 1080p High Definition. I will also try to add closed captioning, which may take awhile because the episodes are long. The premiere and documentary episodes (201 a/b) were published on YouTube at 12:00 noon Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) on Friday, 2012 July 27 [UTC: 2012-07-27 T 16:00:00].

Technical Details
The animation will be done on AnimeStudio Pro. For broadcasting, the episodes will be made in 1080p HD. The first two episodes, produced in 2011-2012, were made in 720p HD and will be remade in 1080p when the full series is released. To use the whole screen efficiently, Rocco and Artie will not be 4:3 safe. If viewed on a non-widescreen device, it will be letter-boxed.

Currently, the sound is 2.0/2.1 (sound systems should add the .1 sub-woofer channel automatically). However, if there are episodes with a lot of action, I will attempt to do 5.1. Unfortunately, this would mean I would have to buy expensive audio mixer and video editing software that supports multi-channel audio. Windows Movie Maker and most "prosumer" video editing software don't support surround sound and will down-convert it to stereo.