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.
One of the first rules of designing computer interfaces is to be forgiving of user mistakes. It seems, from what people have said, that Mosart and the associated camera control system have no quick way to recover from "finger trouble".
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.
One of the first rules of designing computer interfaces is to be forgiving of user mistakes. It seems, from what people have said, that Mosart and the associated camera control system have no quick way to recover from "finger trouble".
I don't think "finger trouble" is the right way to describe it. It's more likely to be not looking ahead enough to spot incorrect sequences looming.
The level of automation being implemented in W1 is definitely at the leading/bleeding edge. Other outlets may be more automated, but they don't have to be as flexible.
Whatever anyone may say, Mosart is highly complicated. Too complicated. And it is being made to do things it wasn't designed to do.
Fans will say that it can do anything you want it to do. This is correct.
But they way the BBC are running it is in a Cake and Eat It way. You cannot do flexibility by template. Fact.
Whatever anyone may say, Mosart is highly complicated. Too complicated. And it is being made to do things it wasn't designed to do.
Fans will say that it can do anything you want it to do. This is correct.
But they way the BBC are running it is in a Cake and Eat It way. You cannot do flexibility by template. Fact.
There's a reason Sky don't use it - or almost any automation...
While I'm aware TVC news operations used various degrees of automation, let's not forget News 24 and 2008-onwards News at one were by no means perfect operations. BBC World (News) also had its fair share of problems.
The automation will get better, and the people will get better at using it. I'm sure there have been plenty of mistakes and behind the scenes issues with every layer of technology added - digital video, internet-routed messaging and content management systems etc. - yet noone would suggest they shouldn't have ditched typewriters for computers in the 1990s, or shouldn't use complicated satellite feeds because every now and then you'll lose the signal.
BBC News has a decreasing budget, and in the long-run will have to become even more streamlined. At the end of the day, all that fundamentally matters is whether good quality journalism can make it to the airwaves and online, and I have seen remarkably few posts on here to suggest Mosart has prevented stories from being reported. For a dynamic, unpredictable 15-hour a day operation to run as well as it does is pretty remarkable.
While I'm aware TVC news operations used various degrees of automation, let's not forget News 24 and 2008-onwards News at one were by no means perfect operations. BBC World (News) also had its fair share of problems.
Exactly - I remember the countless problems we had on News 24 post-2008, many more than in Broadcasting House.
While I'm aware TVC news operations used various degrees of automation, let's not forget News 24 and 2008-onwards News at one were by no means perfect operations. BBC World (News) also had its fair share of problems.
Exactly - I remember the countless problems we had on News 24 post-2008, many more than in Broadcasting House.
Yeah, just go onto Youtube there are countless videos of wrong astons, BARCOs going on/off, Graphics Fails, Cutting to the wrong camera, loss of audio, playout errors. The reason there were barely any camera move fails was because, from N6 and N8, basically there was no camera moves - OK they occasionally would zoom in and out and Pan at the beginning of the One and Ten and for some programmes on BBC World News the Camera moved a bit but apart from that the cameras couldn't really go wrong.
While I'm aware TVC news operations used various degrees of automation, let's not forget News 24 and 2008-onwards News at one were by no means perfect operations. BBC World (News) also had its fair share of problems.
Exactly - I remember the countless problems we had on News 24 post-2008, many more than in Broadcasting House.
Not to mention the problems that were had in 1997...
While I'm aware TVC news operations used various degrees of automation, let's not forget News 24 and 2008-onwards News at one were by no means perfect operations. BBC World (News) also had its fair share of problems.
Exactly - I remember the countless problems we had on News 24 post-2008, many more than in Broadcasting House.
Yeah, just go onto Youtube there are countless videos of wrong astons, BARCOs going on/off, Graphics Fails, Cutting to the wrong camera, loss of audio, playout errors. The reason there were barely any camera move fails was because, from N6 and N8, basically there was no camera moves - OK they occasionally would zoom in and out and Pan at the beginning of the One and Ten and for some programmes on BBC World News the Camera moved a bit but apart from that the cameras couldn't really go wrong.
I think the only automatic camera move used routinely in the TVC News studios (News 24 at least) was the opening depress and zoom off the titles that was introduced when News 24 moved from N9 to N8 in Nov 1998. It didn't last long (as it was so easy to get it wrong by overstoring the wrong shot in the pre-defined box that Columbus recalled on Radamec...)
While I'm aware TVC news operations used various degrees of automation, let's not forget News 24 and 2008-onwards News at one were by no means perfect operations. BBC World (News) also had its fair share of problems.
Exactly - I remember the countless problems we had on News 24 post-2008, many more than in Broadcasting House.
Yeah, just go onto Youtube there are countless videos of wrong astons, BARCOs going on/off, Graphics Fails, Cutting to the wrong camera, loss of audio, playout errors. The reason there were barely any camera move fails was because, from N6 and N8, basically there was no camera moves - OK they occasionally would zoom in and out and Pan at the beginning of the One and Ten and for some programmes on BBC World News the Camera moved a bit but apart from that the cameras couldn't really go wrong.
I think the only automatic camera move used routinely in the TVC News studios (News 24 at least) was the opening depress and zoom off the titles that was introduced when News 24 moved from N9 to N8 in Nov 1998. It didn't last long (as it was so easy to get it wrong by overstoring the wrong shot in the pre-defined box that Columbus recalled on Radamec...)
Was the noisy tractor cam introduced in 2003, manually triggered?
While I'm aware TVC news operations used various degrees of automation, let's not forget News 24 and 2008-onwards News at one were by no means perfect operations. BBC World (News) also had its fair share of problems.
Exactly - I remember the countless problems we had on News 24 post-2008, many more than in Broadcasting House.
Yeah, just go onto Youtube there are countless videos of wrong astons, BARCOs going on/off, Graphics Fails, Cutting to the wrong camera, loss of audio, playout errors. The reason there were barely any camera move fails was because, from N6 and N8, basically there was no camera moves - OK they occasionally would zoom in and out and Pan at the beginning of the One and Ten and for some programmes on BBC World News the Camera moved a bit but apart from that the cameras couldn't really go wrong.
I think the only automatic camera move used routinely in the TVC News studios (News 24 at least) was the opening depress and zoom off the titles that was introduced when News 24 moved from N9 to N8 in Nov 1998. It didn't last long (as it was so easy to get it wrong by overstoring the wrong shot in the pre-defined box that Columbus recalled on Radamec...)
Was the noisy tractor cam introduced in 2003, manually triggered?
Totally forgotten that. Can't remember. There was a tracking cam (not much better - in fact in some ways worse - than a CCTV camera) installed for 1998 - but it was so bad it was never used...
