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AL
ALV
Huw Edwards now presenting the 6PM domestic bulletin from Studio C to "fill time" as it awaits for 1810 national bulletin... Pretty weird as normally they will use Studio E to fill time even when the national bulletin is not at 6PM sharp...

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OF
oflahertya
ALV posted:
Huw Edwards now presenting the 6PM domestic bulletin from Studio C to "fill time" as it awaits for 1810 national bulletin... Pretty weird as normally they will use Studio E to fill time even when the national bulletin is not at 6PM sharp...

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It's not that weird as they would have been using C for the 5 o'clock hour. Fiona would have been rehearsing in E at the time. It would have been easier to just get Huw to fill.
SS
SuperSajuuk
Is something wrong with the BBC’s VT playback system? A large number of reports, both on world news and the news channel, are afflicted by flashing red squares across the screen in a checkerboard style, making them impossible to watch. Been happening since yesterday, interestingly enough, with no fix.
IR
irisscanner
I've not had a chance to see but have the countdowns been changed with a World Cup flavour?
RN
Rolling News
I've not had a chance to see but have the countdowns been changed with a World Cup flavour?

Nothing yet. If they do it they'll probably just dig out the 2014 versions since there's been no change to the countdown style since then, unlike between 2006 and 2010, and then between 2010 and 2014.
RK
Rkolsen
I just saw a package on the migrant crisis where they identified James Reynolds, Gavin Lee and Nick Thorpe not in the normal Chyron but a box that animates in the safe zone and “floats” from any other onscreen elements.
MW
Mike W
I just saw a package on the migrant crisis where they identified James Reynolds, Gavin Lee and Nick Thorpe not in the normal Chyron but a box that animates in the safe zone and “floats” from any other onscreen elements.

An aside, but interesting how in the states the term Chyron took precedence (for character generator/OSG), within the BBC 'aston' became the term of choice though slowly being phased out...
RK
Rkolsen
I just saw a package on the migrant crisis where they identified James Reynolds, Gavin Lee and Nick Thorpe not in the normal Chyron but a box that animates in the safe zone and “floats” from any other onscreen elements.

An aside, but interesting how in the states the term Chyron took precedence (for character generator/OSG), within the BBC 'aston' became the term of choice though slowly being phased out...


Likely because Chyron was an American company and got a foothold with their technology. Where as Aston was British.

I’m not sure if Xerox is used widely but people still say I’ll xerox that instead of making a copy. It’s all a generic trademark.
NG
noggin Founding member
I just saw a package on the migrant crisis where they identified James Reynolds, Gavin Lee and Nick Thorpe not in the normal Chyron but a box that animates in the safe zone and “floats” from any other onscreen elements.

An aside, but interesting how in the states the term Chyron took precedence (for character generator/OSG), within the BBC 'aston' became the term of choice though slowly being phased out...


In the BBC, before/as well as Astons you had Rileys, as some of the first electronic capgens the BBC bought (after using Anchor/Anchar - the internally developed system) were made by Riley, and their graphics would be called 'Rileys', not 'Astons'.

In the US the electronic cap gens were made by Chyron. Chyrons weren't popular in the UK in the 80s and 90s (they were more common on mainland Europe) and Astons were preferred. These days you DO see Chyrons (Strictly Come Dancing uses them ISTR) as well as Clarity being used as Aston-replacements, alongside VizRT. (CasparCG hasn't hit the industry much yet)
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AL
ALV
I'll just stick to lower-thirds... Rolling Eyes
LL
London Lite Founding member
Simon McCoy spoke to Basil Brush on Afternoon Live.



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WM
W M
...and people used to say ITV News was dumbed down. BBC is now what ITV was fifteen years previous.

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