Well there was crackling and small buzzing noise as Alex was presenting the weather and the buzzing noise, sophie apologized and the buzzing noise continued until the news at six finished
Todays issues really do show that Mosart is a mess.
This sound issue may on the surface seem like a mic fault, but there was more to it that that, due to the way Mosart allocates audio channels on the Calrec sound desk.
And the camera problems at the front of the BBC News At One were because you cannot override the pre programmes moves that Mosart wants to fire off, UNTIL they've completed.
What a mess.
Todays issues really do show that Mosart is a mess.
This sound issue may on the surface seem like a mic fault, but there was more to it that that, due to the way Mosart allocates audio channels on the Calrec sound desk.
And the camera problems at the front of the BBC News At One were because you cannot override the pre programmes moves that Mosart wants to fire off, UNTIL they've completed.
What a mess.
I don't care what anyone says, automation cannot replace people. This past 6 months has been proof positive of that. They can't pass off all these problems as teething troubles anymore.
I don't care what anyone says, automation cannot replace people. This past 6 months has been proof positive of that. They can't pass off all these problems as teething troubles anymore.
Automation can work great.
But Mosart is automation on crack. It is in control of what the technology is doing, instead of the people making the programme. The people are spending their time chasing the automation. This is fundamentally the wrong way round.
They have 2 choices. To radically simplify their ambitions and use Mosart as it was intended, which would mean a series of basic templates cutting between studio link and news report; or to switch off the automation, and use it as a live assist.
And ironically, Mosart would be great as a live assist.
I can't understand what possessed those who make the decisions at the BBC - who thought it would be a good idea to have Mosart rather than people in control of the output? I don't work in television whatsoever, but even I realise that live news output is completely fluid and can change course in an instant. So why have they introduced technology which appears to be a straightjacket when they had the perfect combination at TVC? They had automation doing a lot of the work but ultimately people were in control. Surely that is how it should be?
A very nice touch used to link into a report on the increase in TV sizes over the years, on tonight's 10...
They did that on the Six earlier. I didn't watch the 10 o'clock news to see precisely how that did it, but on the Six, the camera was zoomed in close on the middle screen so that you thought it was actually pointing directly at Sophie at the desk, but you could see it wasn't pointing directly at her as the angle was slightly off and there was a time lag between her voice and the lip movement on the video. The camera then zoomed out to reveal it was pointing at the middle screen and the left and right screens were showing images of her left and right facial profile. It looked really quite effective.
EDIT - Just to add, here is a link to the report on the Six which starts at the point described above
As we all probably expected, Newswatch featured Simon McCoy and that iPad / A4 copier paper incident. But rather unusually for Newswatch, there wasn't any of the usual 'Daily Mail' brigade wanting to hunt Simon McCoy down with pitchforks.
The comments were all quite lighthearted, which made quite a nice pleasant change.
If you want to view the Newswatch coverage, the link below will take you directly to the point in the show when they were discussing Simon.
A very nice touch used to link into a report on the increase in TV sizes over the years, on tonight's 10...
They did that on the Six earlier. I didn't watch the 10 o'clock news to see precisely how that did it, but on the Six, the camera was zoomed in close on the middle screen so that you thought it was actually pointing directly at Sophie at the desk, but you could see it wasn't pointing directly at her as the angle was slightly off and there was a time lag between her voice and the lip movement on the video. The camera then zoomed out to reveal it was pointing at the middle screen and the left and right screens were showing images of her left and right facial profile. It looked really quite effective.
EDIT - Just to add, here is a link to the report on the Six which starts at the point described above
Todays issues really do show that Mosart is a mess.
This sound issue may on the surface seem like a mic fault, but there was more to it that that, due to the way Mosart allocates audio channels on the Calrec sound desk.
And the camera problems at the front of the BBC News At One were because you cannot override the pre programmes moves that Mosart wants to fire off, UNTIL they've completed.
What a mess.
Mosart is not a mess.
The audio issues on the six were a radio mic failure.
For the 1/6/10 there is a radio sound supervisor manually mixing.
It's NOT automated.
The standby mic in the roof was even worse.
Weather will be double mic'd from now on.
As for the issues on the one, it was due to some upgrade work on the templates in preparation for a small refresh of camera moves and wide shots and the opening move templates were mistakenly deleted.
Todays issues really do show that Mosart is a mess.
This sound issue may on the surface seem like a mic fault, but there was more to it that that, due to the way Mosart allocates audio channels on the Calrec sound desk.
And the camera problems at the front of the BBC News At One were because you cannot override the pre programmes moves that Mosart wants to fire off, UNTIL they've completed.
What a mess.
Mosart is not a mess.
The audio issues on the six were a radio mic failure.
For the 1/6/10 there is a radio sound supervisor manually mixing.
It's NOT automated.
The standby mic in the roof was even worse.
Weather will be double mic'd from now on.
As for the issues on the one, it was due to some upgrade work on the templates in preparation for a small refresh of camera moves and wide shots and the opening move templates were mistakenly deleted.
Mosart might not be a mess, but it's the humans inputting into the system that are not getting it right, its like some one said with improved training these problems maybe eliminated but not for the past few months it seems where we've seen various errors.
