Yes - now it is possible to do mixes, blurry mixes, flashes through white and slides etc. you can get rid of noddies. Until relatively recently the only transition you had available in most news edit suites was a cut - and a noddy was a useful way of editing an interview down (whilst retaining an honest reflection of the response) with the facilities available. These days there are other production techniques available. (And of course if you are a VJ it is so much easier not to have to film yourself...)
Yes - now it is possible to do mixes, blurry mixes, flashes through white and slides etc. you can get rid of noddies.
I personally dislike flashes, dissolves etc more as they are far more distracting and don't flow as neatly as a nice cutaway. Also what if an important interview is finished moments before going on air and has to be edited on tape, noddys are the only option there.
Yes - now it is possible to do mixes, blurry mixes, flashes through white and slides etc. you can get rid of noddies.
I personally dislike flashes, dissolves etc more as they are far more distracting and don't flow as neatly as a nice cutaway. Also what if an important interview is finished moments before going on air and has to be edited on tape, noddys are the only option there.
Very few places left that edit on tape - most stuff is done on servers these days. Personally I have never liked noddy's etc - the old BBC Three News never really used them and always went for another way - but it was one of the first full BBC News programmes to edit the whole show on Avid - which made doing flashes etc easier - it also tells the audience the clip was edited - a noddy doesn't do that.
Funny piece from Liz McKean on last night's Newsnight on the whole issue.
I can understand Five banning noddies and cut-aways because they look crap, but to dress this up as a response to concerns over faking TV footage is quite pathetic really.
It's hardly a major deception which distorts facts or misrepresents people is it? It's just a production technique which has been widely used for many years to prevent jump-cuts.
Yes - now it is possible to do mixes, blurry mixes, flashes through white and slides etc. you can get rid of noddies.
I personally dislike flashes, dissolves etc more as they are far more distracting and don't flow as neatly as a nice cutaway. Also what if an important interview is finished moments before going on air and has to be edited on tape, noddys are the only option there.
Except that almost nobody edits on tape - even for close-to-air stuff - these days - unless they are editing in a very basic sat-truck.
Most major news broadcasters - Sky, ITN, BBC etc. - have been shifting to a server-based non-linear production infrastructure over the last 10 years or so. Most news broadcasters are either using Avid or Quantel based production systems now - and almost everywhere has slowly been retiring tape suites.
You'd be hard pressed to find any tape-to-tape editing in use in network UK news operations these days, even location editing has moved pretty quickly to laptop based systems. Similarly most BBC and ITV regions are moving, and many have moved, to non-linear, either stand-alone or server-based. (Again Avid or Quantel)
For London based network news operations - where a lot of editing is from feeds (i.e. the original taped - or in some cases "flashed" or "disked" rushes don't get biked back but instead played down the line from a regional centre or sat truck) server editing is quicker than recording the feed to tape and then editing from tape, as you can start editing before the feed has finished - which was more difficult in the days of recording feeds to tape.
With news broadcasters increasingly looking at - or indeed already moving to - flash or optical disk based field-shooting, tape is really, finally, on the way out. (Sky are going Flash, and Al Jazeera and CNN are XDCam for example)
Yes - now it is possible to do mixes, blurry mixes, flashes through white and slides etc. you can get rid of noddies.
I personally dislike flashes, dissolves etc more as they are far more distracting and don't flow as neatly as a nice cutaway. Also what if an important interview is finished moments before going on air and has to be edited on tape, noddys are the only option there.
Except that almost nobody edits on tape - even for close-to-air stuff - these days - unless they are editing in a very basic sat-truck.
I was thinking of something like an unexpected exclusive interview with a whistleblower for example, that had to be brought in on tape - the simple kind of thing that is hardly legislated for these days and will probably cause all systems to fail when it does happen.
Yes - now it is possible to do mixes, blurry mixes, flashes through white and slides etc. you can get rid of noddies.
I personally dislike flashes, dissolves etc more as they are far more distracting and don't flow as neatly as a nice cutaway. Also what if an important interview is finished moments before going on air and has to be edited on tape, noddys are the only option there.
Except that almost nobody edits on tape - even for close-to-air stuff - these days - unless they are editing in a very basic sat-truck.
I was thinking of something like an unexpected exclusive interview with a whistleblower for example, that had to be brought in on tape - the simple kind of thing that is hardly legislated for these days and will probably cause all systems to fail when it does happen.
Not a problem if you have the right system - most decent news NLEs include a tape-to-disc edit option for cutting tapes that arrive late for close-to-air stuff. Tape to disc editing - means you don't have to digitise before editing, but can edit/digitise directly to the timeline from tape in a manner similar to standard 2mc tape to tape editing. There can be a delay exporting to the main server if you have to generate browse proxies, but again most decent News systems will allow you to playout from the timeline without having to publish - so that problem goes away as well. However the advantage is that the material on the timeline is editable non-linearly, so you can continue to improve the early edits even when you've moved on to later bits. (i.e. you can hack and slash and then finesse if there is time)
So we're not talking noddy with the cool car. The noddy mobile.
Sadly we're not talking about that! -- as cosy as Toytown is (although Noddy's car didn't have seatbelts nor a tax disc tut-tut)
Just in case you're wondering, a "noddy" refers to a shot showing an interviewer nodding his/hers head, whilst listening to the interviewee blabber on.
Noddies are shown to avoid visiual "jump cuts", where a segment of an interview has been removed. Some editors argue they look tidier than dissolves, fades etc. Or a bloke with a strange hat.
["Do I sound like somebody on
Newsround
?" emoticon]
-- as cosy as Toytown is (although Noddy's car didn't have seatbelts nor a tax disc tut-tut)