Political Correspondent Vicki Young was in the studio in Salford this morning. Just very unexpected to see her there.
Vince Cable is being interviewed live from 'North West England'. Why such a vague location, and I'm sure they could have tried harder to get him in the studio this morning.
Political Correspondent Vicki Young was in the studio in Salford this morning. Just very unexpected to see her there.
Vince Cable is being interviewed live from 'North West England'. Why such a vague location, and I'm sure they could have tried harder to get him in the studio this morning.
Why do I always snigger at Vince Cable's name???
Anyway I am assuming that he was Ellesmere Port awaiting the official announcement of the MG Motors deal! If they had given the precise location it could have given the game away that the UK plant had survived. (although it was common knowledge anyway).
Political Correspondent Vicki Young was in the studio in Salford this morning. Just very unexpected to see her there.
Vince Cable is being interviewed live from 'North West England'. Why such a vague location, and I'm sure they could have tried harder to get him in the studio this morning.
"North West" does seem rather vague but I imagine they're trying to avoid the trap that the London-based programmes sometimes fall into i.e. refer to the likes of Oxford Street and Covent Garden but then say someone is "near Leeds". If they started doing it the other way around you can be sure the media would pounce as the BBC North move is quite a hot potato in the press...
It's the way North West opt. They essentialy opt in a few mins before they're due to air - hense bringing up the clock (which is noticeable as it's a few pixels out to the left) but they take the network feed.
They then cut the to their studio at the right time, as opposed to opting everything all at once which can cause a few jitters and faults. It's also a way of testing everything is in circuit to avoid any embarrassing drop outs and errors at the exact point of the opt. If there is a fault they can take London on network smoothly and apologise for it later.
Could the mixer not be configured so that the DSK that does the clock only appears over local sources and not on the network feed, much like the LIVE bug only appears on OBs and disappears on the cut to a studio camera or VT?
It's the way North West opt. They essentialy opt in a few mins before they're due to air - hense bringing up the clock (which is noticeable as it's a few pixels out to the left) but they take the network feed.
They then cut the to their studio at the right time, as opposed to opting everything all at once which can cause a few jitters and faults. It's also a way of testing everything is in circuit to avoid any embarrassing drop outs and errors at the exact point of the opt. If there is a fault they can take London on network smoothly and apologise for it later.
Could the mixer not be configured so that the DSK that does the clock only appears over local sources and not on the network feed, much like the LIVE bug only appears on OBs and disappears on the cut to a studio camera or VT?
In theory could they use a headline wipe to transition between the network and local after doing a soft-opt?
In regions which have completed DSO and have had their network feeds re-configured to take out all of the analogue stuff, yes.
The reason it's done as a cut is because of the way that regions were configured for dual running of analogue and digital. There are separate network feeds coming from London to the regions for analogue (in 4:3, known as NET1) and digital (16:9, known as DNET1). DNET1 has digital encoding and is delayed with respect to NET1.
In regions that haven't been DSO'd yet they work from NET1 and do a soft opt, by selecting network programmes on their mixers, going "into circuit" and then cutting to local sources when the director calls the opt. The digital opt happens when the network feed is no longer selected on the vision mixer (controlled by the same system which triggers red tally lights on cameras). For that reason it has to be a cut between network and local material.
So in a pre-DSO region (which is effectively just North East now? Northern Ireland is a nation with a proper presentation desk so works in a different way) if they did what you suggest with a wipe, it would be seen on analogue and digital would cut when the transition was over.
No one seen the Breakfast advert, I think it aired this afternoon before Doctors or after.
Yes, it's linked to the BBC's adverts for political coverage across the news programmes. Louise was the VO for it.There was one for News at Six as well.
No one seen the Breakfast advert, I think it aired this afternoon before Doctors or after.
Yes, it's linked to the BBC's adverts for political coverage across the news programmes. Louise was the VO for it.There was one for News at Six as well.
Why are they doing them?
Surely they don't need to trail news programmes
I was watching Breakfast on the News Channel this morning, and twice (between 7:00 and 7:30) the image got stuck in a loop (of about two or three frames) that got dimmer as time went on, It was very disconcerting, and fixed itself within about 10 seconds the first time, and within 2 seconds the second time.
If no-one else saw it I might have to ask Neil Buchanan what happened.
I was watching Breakfast on the News Channel this morning, and twice (between 7:00 and 7:30) the image got stuck in a loop (of about two or three frames) that got dimmer as time went on, It was very disconcerting, and fixed itself within about 10 seconds the first time, and within 2 seconds the second time.
If no-one else saw it I might have to ask Neil Buchanan what happened.
Video feedback
(no idea why it happened, but your description is exactly what video feedback looks like - it's when a destination is routed to it's own source, so the same picture ends up in a loop)
I was watching Breakfast on the News Channel this morning, and twice (between 7:00 and 7:30) the image got stuck in a loop (of about two or three frames) that got dimmer as time went on, It was very disconcerting, and fixed itself within about 10 seconds the first time, and within 2 seconds the second time.
If no-one else saw it I might have to ask Neil Buchanan what happened.
Video feedback
(no idea why it happened, but your description is exactly what video feedback looks like - it's when a destination is routed to it's own source, so the same picture ends up in a loop)
Yes, I imagined it was something like that - a bit like when you could connect a VCR to itself and watch the OSD slowly fade away.
