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New Countdown

(March 2005)

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AN
Ant
r2ro posted:
yaloh posted:
Where did you listen from? It was broadcasted?


Someone posted a link on another thread to this website where it gave the 30minute bulletin before the old 88 second countdown. I changed the date and time and could watch it. Obviously it is at the end though.

rtsp://stream2.blinkx.com/BBCNews24/20050404/20050404_BBCNews24_News_0030.rm

It isn't working. Sad Maybe it's just my lack of braincells.
TI
Tim
Antz posted:
r2ro posted:
yaloh posted:
Where did you listen from? It was broadcasted?


Someone posted a link on another thread to this website where it gave the 30minute bulletin before the old 88 second countdown. I changed the date and time and could watch it. Obviously it is at the end though.

rtsp://stream2.blinkx.com/BBCNews24/20050404/20050404_BBCNews24_News_0030.rm

It isn't working. Sad Maybe it's just my lack of braincells.


Saving you the trouble, I have recorded the countdown from the above stream: download here
AN
Ant
Tim posted:
Antz posted:
r2ro posted:
yaloh posted:
Where did you listen from? It was broadcasted?


Someone posted a link on another thread to this website where it gave the 30minute bulletin before the old 88 second countdown. I changed the date and time and could watch it. Obviously it is at the end though.

rtsp://stream2.blinkx.com/BBCNews24/20050404/20050404_BBCNews24_News_0030.rm

It isn't working. Sad Maybe it's just my lack of braincells.


Saving you the trouble, I have recorded the countdown from the above stream: download here

Cheers.
R2
r2ro
Antz posted:
r2ro posted:
yaloh posted:
Where did you listen from? It was broadcasted?


Someone posted a link on another thread to this website where it gave the 30minute bulletin before the old 88 second countdown. I changed the date and time and could watch it. Obviously it is at the end though.

rtsp://stream2.blinkx.com/BBCNews24/20050404/20050404_BBCNews24_News_0030.rm

It isn't working. Sad Maybe it's just my lack of braincells.


It's working now anyway. Just click on the link and you will be able to watch the video of it as well.
CO
cortomaltese
God, the beginning of the new countdown is astounding (I'm talking about the music).
AD
Adam
r2ro posted:
Antz posted:
r2ro posted:
yaloh posted:
Where did you listen from? It was broadcasted?


Someone posted a link on another thread to this website where it gave the 30minute bulletin before the old 88 second countdown. I changed the date and time and could watch it. Obviously it is at the end though.

rtsp://stream2.blinkx.com/BBCNews24/20050404/20050404_BBCNews24_News_0030.rm

It isn't working. Sad Maybe it's just my lack of braincells.


It's working now anyway. Just click on the link and you will be able to watch the video of it as well.



Any chance of anyone capturing the countdown VIDEO (for the benefit of dialup users)?
TU
turnertv
peterrocket posted:
turnertv posted:
Techy Peep posted:
BTW, getting back on topic, I feel sorry for the graphic designer who had to type in all those numbers for every frame of the countdown. I bet they've got sore fingers! Smile


Chances are the designer used a generator or plugin for whatever application the post work was done in. Final Cut, After Effects, et al generally have these facilities built in (I know Final Cut does), and in many instances the parameters can be customized, including the font (again, Final Cut supports this.)

I know the BBC have used the Liquid Silver NLE system (by Pinnacle) so it may have been cut on there, or posted on something more suited. But chances are it was generated automatically.


Chances are it was done on a compositioning package, as there's not only the shots to be cut, but they've been graded and also had the beams added which would need something slightly more advanced to handle since it's mixing with live footage. Well it's not that difficult to do, once you get the basic perspective right.

My guess is a discreet package, like Flame or something, but i severly doubt the numbers were entered one by one. As said, there's plug-ins that generate numbers available and they're pretty flexible in what they can do.


Indeed. Like what I created:
http://homepage.mac.com/turnertv/cdrender.mov
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
I was just downloading this clip to my office workstation, but it appears not to have the soundtrack like it did a few days ago.

Has the clip been changed or so I have a fault on my PC?
DV
dvboy
r2ro posted:
yaloh posted:
Where did you listen from? It was broadcasted?


Someone posted a link on another thread to this website where it gave the 30minute bulletin before the old 88 second countdown. I changed the date and time and could watch it. Obviously it is at the end though.

rtsp://stream2.blinkx.com/BBCNews24/20050404/20050404_BBCNews24_News_0030.rm


Is that a permanant thing with archive half-hours of BBC News 24? I wonder if there are any other channels available.
CO
cortomaltese
dvboy posted:
r2ro posted:
yaloh posted:
Where did you listen from? It was broadcasted?


Someone posted a link on another thread to this website where it gave the 30minute bulletin before the old 88 second countdown. I changed the date and time and could watch it. Obviously it is at the end though.

rtsp://stream2.blinkx.com/BBCNews24/20050404/20050404_BBCNews24_News_0030.rm


Is that a permanant thing with archive half-hours of BBC News 24? I wonder if there are any other channels available.


Yes, it is. It's the only way for me to watch N24. I tried to change "BBCNews24" to "BBCWorld", "Skynews" etc... in the URL but unfortunately it does not work.
WI
william Founding member
Its part of www.blinkx.tv which is a *brilliant* tv/radio/video search engine.

You just stick in a phrase and it finds the clip for you.

By looks of it all of News 24 is available, they only have fairly poor quality stills for Sky, but I searched for "in the gutter" (a reference to the launch of the election campaign yesterday when Adam Boulton was in Downing Street) and it found it straight away.

Unfortunately it appears to use speech recognition rather than subtitles, so only usually catches a few words correctly, therefore the text at the side often doesn't make sense (it missed Julie Etchingham's brilliant "but you're looking at the stars Adam") but you can find things if you persevere.

Not sure what the legality of all this is, but I imagine if they're searching enough channels broadcasters are less likely to complain.

I should add it appears to have a complete archive of news on BBC radio too.
CO
cortomaltese
william posted:



Unfortunately it appears to use speech recognition rather than subtitles, so only usually catches a few words correctly, therefore the text at the side often doesn't make sense (it missed Julie Etchingham's brilliant "but you're looking at the stars Adam") but you can find things if you persevere.



Yeah, if you're looking for David Eades do type David Idiots.

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