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Best practice video capturing from VHS

Orry Verducci posted:
Spencer For Hire posted:
Looking at that again, I suspect there are some interlacing issues I need to sort.

It definitely like it's interlace video that's been captured and treated as progressive.


I've done a lot of tape digitising over the years, the key is to always capture as 720x576 25fps interlaced, which is full resolution digital SD.

For sharing the clips (e.g. uploading online), it's best to stick them in to an edit application which is using a project set to 720x576 50fps, and then export using whatever your prefered codec is (I use H264). If you're dealing with 16:9 footage you will want to set your project aspect ratio as 16:9 and then export as 1024x576. I use Adobe Premiere which works really well for this as it has a decent deinterlacer, but I'm sure most professional edit applications will give similar results.


harshy posted:
I thought you had to save it with 720x576 with a 16:9 flag on it.


If you are exporting for DVD or captured at 720x576 then keeping it as 720x576 (avoiding a rescale) and ensuring that it is encoded with a non-square PAR (Pixel Aspect Ratio) is a good idea IF your player and encoding workflow flags it correctly.

If you are exporting for viewing on a PC or uploading to a social media or streaming site you may be better scaling 720x576 to 1050x576 (not 1024) or cropping to 702x576 and scaling to 1024x576. In this case a deirterlace from i25 to p50 may also be a good idea. FFMPEG has a bit of a steep learning curve - but is well worth mastering. It's trivial to convert SD MPEG2 with incorrectly flagged ratios to a nice square pixel progressive version with a YADIF or W3FDIF 2x deinterlace and scale.

Golden rule with aspect ratios :

4:3 and 16:9 SD 50Hz are 702 x 576 NOT 720 x 576.

There are 9 samples either side of the 702x576 that make 720x576 slightly wider. They are there to avoid cropping overshoots/undershoots etc. (same reason we have black at 16 and not 0/1, and white at 235 not 254/5)

If you are converting between SD and HD :

HD->SD Scale 1920x1080 or 1280x720 to 702x576 and put 9 samples of black either side (or 704 + 8 if you have to)
SD->HD Crop 720x576 to 702x576 and scale the 702x576 to 1920x1080 or 1280x720.

And if you are scaling interlaced content - whatever you do make sure you deinterlace to 2x progressive, scale, and then re-interlace. Don't try to scale in the interlaced domain - or worse treat interlaced content as progressive when you scale...
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Big Brother UK

Interesting the inclusion of Dan Osborne is not going down well in some quarters. He seems to be a nasty piece of work by all accounts.

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https://twitter.com/lauraewaddell/status/1030195966350176261
(Second tweet previews with bad language so only linking)
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ITV News

wellandtruly25 posted:
What should happen is that the bbc news should move its bulletin back to 9pm. The bbc doesn’t need to chase ratings in the same way that itv does. This then gives itv a much better chance to offer a bulletin at 10 rather than the ridiculous current situation. Simple.


The BBC would then not be able to show any post-watershed shows until 2145 at the earliest. Far too late...
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North American Affilliates/Network Set Design

Charles posted:
KTVU, the Fox station for the San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose market, just unveiled its rejigged second floor studio that overlooks the Oakland Estuary and Alameda Island. This studio has been off air for the better part of a year. The downstairs studio is now currently getting a new set.

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Here's what the set looked like before. It was a much more thrown together sort of thing in a smaller footprint. This screencap is darker because is this from their 7pm news.

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That does look very 'temporary'. (And those plasma/LCD screen stands look very 'conference room')
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Pacific Quay Productions

Yes - if you go https://www.bbcstudios.com/teams/overview/ and look at the Teams drop down you will see the various BBC Studios teams and their official names.

These can, optionally, be added to a BBC Studio logo.
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BBC News at Ten

Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
Markymark posted:

With a bit of cleverness, if/when the centralised opting system is implemented, the bed could also be centrally added 'under' the opts. (Although, there would also be the scope for comedy moments to occur too )


You'd need to fit audio mixers for every sub-region and region, with remote level control (to cope with sync or music), and need to feed clean grams (as the studio output will have the sustaining headline) separately from the studio to the switching area - so it's still not a quick or easy fix.


Yes, but all 15 or so devices would sit in the same equipment rack, so the 'op-ex' wouldn't be too bad. I'm sure it's the sort of thing our friends across the Atlantic wouldn't even blink at Cool


Yep - I guess engineering the remote audio control, monitoring, dual main and reserve from different sites etc. may just prove to be not worth the perceived value though...

However if (and I think it's still an IF - though I think an RFI has gone out) they move to an IP system for regional production (possibly using remote production techniques) then that may offer some potential solutions.
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ITV News

Luke posted:
yeah I don't get the 'interesting' interpretation either - people are ultimately tuning in for the content rather than the talking head reading the links. It's a news bulletin. Good to see Bradby hoist by his own petard - find him unwatchable personally.


Afraid I have to agree. The current ITV News at Ten 'Bradby' scripting style is usually just bad, and in some cases plain crass. You can overdo the 'personality' or 'conversational' elements in news writing, and ITN are currently crossing the line for many of us. I don't go to the pub for my news, nor do I want 'bloke in the pub' scripting.

However we all have different opinions - which is a good thing.

Personally I can't stand the current ITV News iteration, but thankfully I have a choice, and can watch the BBC News instead. As most people do.

I can't see this experiment lasting for too much longer though - it's plainly not working in bringing in viewers in their droves.
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BBC News at Ten

Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:

Do the regions still play the bed in locally during their bit? (Or does the digital network feed have extra audio channels they can send it down clean and in sync?)

Beds are played in locally. There are additional audio channels for audio description (and possibly other uses) but they aren't decoded or made available in regional galleries, and with the proposed change to opt-out architecture removing the network feed to the regions, there would be little point in adding them.


With a bit of cleverness, if/when the centralised opting system is implemented, the bed could also be centrally added 'under' the opts. (Although, there would also be the scope for comedy moments to occur too )


You'd need to fit audio mixers for every sub-region and region, with remote level control (to cope with sync or music), and need to feed clean grams (as the studio output will have the sustaining headline) separately from the studio to the switching area - so it's still not a quick or easy fix.
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BBC News at Ten

Steve in Pudsey posted:

Do the regions still play the bed in locally during their bit? (Or does the digital network feed have extra audio channels they can send it down clean and in sync?)

Beds are played in locally. There are additional audio channels for audio description (and possibly other uses) but they aren't decoded or made available in regional galleries, and with the proposed change to opt-out architecture removing the network feed to the regions, there would be little point in adding them.
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This Morning

Whataday posted:
John posted:
Why does this show need a producer, show runner (what ever that is), two deputy editors, head of production, a series director, an executive producer and an editor?


"Show Runner" is a relatively new post in the UK, mainly as a result of the success Russell T Davies had in that position on Doctor Who. It's a role that has been common in US TV for decades. I've always thought of it as an Executive Producer that actually does some work. Wink

I'm not sure about This Morning but many daily live shows have two deputy editors because there are two separate teams that split the episodes between them. The Big Breakfast for instance, had a Monday/Wednesday team and a Tuesday/Thursday team and then they'd do alternate Fridays (or something like that). Each team would be headed by a deputy editor who would report to the editor.


Yes - Dep Eds may also split VT and Live responsibilities between themselves on a VT heavy live show, or may just alternate days irrespective of the day teams so that they can work office hours one day and shift hours the other day, as they need to both work with on-air teams (and thus start early, or stay late, or both) and office teams planning future shows (who will work more office hours) The Deputy Editor may well be in the control room for the show transmission supervising the Day producer, or acting as the final editorial arbiter (unless someone more senior is also present)
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This Morning

Jonwo87 posted:
I think Holly and Phil have mentioned to guests they usually have a meeting after the show which is likely when they sit with the Editor or producer and go through what went right or wrong during the show and also a brief on what's happening tomorrow.


Yes - many shows like This Morning will have a post-show debrief, and many will have a pre-show production meeting with that day's production team, presenters, director, editor or deputy editor etc. Not too dissimilar to a daly news show.
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BBC North West Tonight

Robert Williams posted:
Markymark posted:
Robert Williams posted:
Going back to the Breakfast in Dorset homepage, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p037bgsk , it states that the Julian Clegg breakfast show can be heard on 1359, so that would be the main Solent feed. On the other hand, Wikipedia reckons that 1359 carries the Dorset version. So the situation isn't clear, but personally, I would take the BBC over Wikipedia.


The Radio Times is a bit vauge, in the Frequency listings:-

96.1 (Hampshire), 103.8 (Dorset) MW 999, 1359 (Dorset)

Yes, that just looks like an indication that 103.8 and 1359 are the frequencies to hear Radio Solent in Dorset, rather than necessarily carrying Dorset programmes.


Overall, I think the Radio Times local frequency listing is a bit of waste of space anyway. They still list Sussex and Surrey as one block with no indication which frequencies are Sussex and which are Surrey. Until recently they listed the frequency for the commercial station Radio Essex as one of the frequencies for BBC Essex (easy mistake to make though when a commercial station insists on calling itself something very close to the BBC station). And they still list Smooth Radio as being available on 1521 in Crawley, even though it closed back in 2011 when it was Gold!


I wonder if this is related to the BBC no longer having any involvement in the production of the Radio Times (they sold it a good few years ago)