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This Morning

Could it not be that this was a case of matte/key and fill rolls being a frame out?

Chances are that the sequence is made by having a foreground key of the main titles with an accompanying matte/key to provide a key to allow the daily elements to be added (probably in an edit, but you could do it live with a clever timeline on the mixer, or possibly in Viz).

If the two aren't perfectly in sync you may get results like the above?
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

AlexS posted:

Her main work over the last few months has been local radio in which I think silence can make stations fall of the air in which case she would have to speak constantly so she may have trained herself into that way of thinking.


That's bad training if that is the case. Silence detectors are not configured to be triggered by natural pauses in speech (or music), they need far longer periods of total silence to trigger.
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BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

Rkolsen posted:

On an unrelated note why are the astons on recorded programs such as those on Reporters, Africa Business Report and the weekly compilation of Newsnight not flush with the ticker? Some recorded programs have it where it is properly slighted where others are a several pixels higher where it is visibly noticeable.


Long-form pre-recorded shows will have the graphics burned in, rather than played out live from a studio Viz engine. Chances are the graphics that are burned in aren't quite correctly aligned, or during ingest for server playout, or recording, they may have moved (less likely now shows are more likely to be delivered as HD files rather than on SD tape as was the case years ago)

These days you'd think edits would have pixel accurate lower third graphics, and would be able to deliver with no horizontal or vertical shift, but I think some shows have 'DIY' captions made by the editor... And in some cases recording may not be perfectly timed vertically...
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MetalGearRex posted:

Turner have the bank to make sure that CNN is on Freeview - sadly the capacity is being used for a dull reality/crime channel on the platform (and one that is under threat of closure).


It's not a case of 'having the bank' - lots of broadcasters have the financial capacity to fund a slot. It's whether they will make money doing so, that informs the business sense in doing so. News channels don't historically generate a huge amount of commercial revenue.
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MetalGearRex posted:
Markymark posted:
London Lite posted:
RT is where impressionable young Western journalists go to get their first step on the ladder, if your career is on it's last leg or a Putin apologist.


It is extraordinary it's permitted terrestrial spectrum here. It took over twenty years of procrastination, debate, and reviews for C4 to arrive. Today, any old crap is granted a licence to broadcast, on what is a finite (and reducing) resource.

And yet other news channels such as CNN and Euronews don't have a place on the UK's DTT platform.

RT is Putin propaganda at its finest.


Putin is bankrolling RT - so they will pay. CNN and Euronews clearly don't see Freeview as financially viable?
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John Koenig posted:
As for propaganda, I think they all play that game.


Seriously - they don't. Sky, ITN and BBC are as far away from RT journalistically as it is possible to be.

RT is propaganda - clever propaganda, but propaganda nonetheless. Sky, ITN and the BBC are editorially independent of the UK govt, not a mouthpiece for it.
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Ben Shatliff posted:
TV Dan posted:
RT?


What is RT? Excuse my ignorance. I know my abbreviations on here but unfamiliar with RT.


RT is the channel formerly known as Russia Today.

It's a branch of TV Novosti (and I think TV Novosti is now increasingly branded as RT internationally). TV Novosti is part of RIA Novosti. It is widely seen as a propaganda outlet for the Kremlin and has had a number of Ofcom rulings against it due to biased broadcasting. It's a mouthpiece for Putin, not a proper news channel. Working there is likely to be the kiss of death to any journalist's career...
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CBS Late Night Changes Part 2:

Always surprises me how low US network and cable ratings are for a country 5 times the population of the UK.
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TV Dan posted:
RT?


He's a journalist, so I think that's unlikely.
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25, 30, 60 Frames Per Second

DVB Cornwall posted:
Marginally relevant at least connected ....

Having used Android TV for almost a year now, when will manufacturers enable variable video settings for Smart content. My Sony seems to play App content dependent on what input was last chosen externally or from the receiver's own tuner. Annoying at times.


My Sony TV, which doesn't claim to have Android TV and doesn't allow third party apps, but clearly is running Android ICS under the surface if you look at the Open Source software in it on Sony's website, and occasionally throws up very Android UI elements in error, seems to have video settings separate to other inputs - so you have to be within an app watching content to change the settings for the player.

Annoyingly it doesn't seem to support refresh-rate switching though...
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25, 30, 60 Frames Per Second

On many 1920x1080 and 3840x1920 panels you can only inhibit overscan on 1080i/p and 2160p sources, though it is usually enabled by default.

720p, 576i/p and 480i/p are usually overscanned, and whilst you can vary the degree of overscan, you can often not defeat it.

Many STBs will offer a 576i to 1080p upscale which will allow you to watch 576i sources without overscan - though Sky boxes annoyingly don't properly handle 4:3 576i sources if you upscale (other boxes usually offer a pillarbox option) so this isn't a great option.
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25, 30, 60 Frames Per Second

james-2001 posted:
Markymark posted:
What is awful are things like Sony's 'Motionflow' that attempt to convert 25p into 50i style 'fluidity', on modern flat screens


It's fairly obvious that trying to interpolate fake frames on the fly is never going to look good! It's usually uneven and on-and-off and looks dire.

Yep - breaks up on fast motion, patterns etc.

Also doesn't solve temporal aliasing issues. Wagon wheels will just appear to go backwards more smoothly - they won't go forwards...

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Sadly even THAT seems to have clogged people's view of higher frame rates, I remember much of the critisism of The Hobbit (again- much of which came before the people critisising it had even seen it) was based around it looking like awful TV motion smoothing. Either that or a 70s BBC costume drama. Which it obviously didn't, but people had decided they hated it before they'd seen a frame, so it was doomed from the start.


I didn't particularly enjoy the 48p in The Hobbit. It made the 3D nicer, but also showed up the visual effects a bit. Wonder if 180 rather than 270 degree shutter would have helped?