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Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

(October 2016)

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skyviewer
IsleOfIreland posted:
skyviewer posted:
Could somebody tell if the lack of the live wipes, logos and stings is a constant change or just temporarily? I have been noticing that since sunday.


I think it appears to be a conscious decision to remove them, I don't miss them that much in themselves, however the problem is that a few times I have heard presenters talking to someone when cutting from one place to another, where before there used to be a swish or a wipe etc which is most strange, almost like the presenter thinks they are off air a second or two before they are.

The transitions have been not right for a few days, hence right at the start of "The Campaign" where Sophy did a hand off to a blank white screen, followed by her saying "thanks" and the feature starting.

Exactly, it just doesn´t feel right. Should come back IMO.
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IrelandIsle
It doesn't need to come back in my view - just need to make sure that the transitions from studio to outside function correctly and the timings of them are right, they don't appear to be now.

The thing with the swish is as well, is that behind it you can switch the broadcast from the studio to the outside broadcast or graphics, if the picture or feed is out by a second or two the viewer won't notice because it's obscured by the sting.

When you're doing hard handovers without a sting there everything has to click smoothly with no margin for error because every little thing will be easier to spot.
LL
London Lite Founding member
The Campaign - Intro/Outro.
RK
Rkolsen
Was trolling around twitter and saw some posts from Laura Scott showing the control room. I noticed in the upper left hand corner that the wall inputs look scrambled. Next to it is Spyder which controlled the video wall output but the mini multiviewer looks so scrambled. Any reason why it looks like that - everything in a nonsensical order?





Edit: I seem to recall the video wall in the old the studio was 4K or close to it. Could the different input be graphics in four segments relating to the four segments in a UHD signal?
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Markymark
Rkolsen posted:
Was trolling around twitter and saw some posts from Laura Scott showing the control room. I noticed in the upper left hand corner that the wall inputs look scrambled. Next to it is Spyder which controlled the video wall output but the mini multiviewer looks so scrambled. Any reason why it looks like that - everything in a nonsensical order?





Edit: I seem to recall the video wall in the old the studio was 4K or close to it. Could the different input be graphics in four segments relating to the four segments in a UHD signal?



Could well be, it's not really clear whether that's an MCR monitor wall or gallery. Having a UHD quad display in the latter is a bit strange?
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Rkolsen
Markymark posted:
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Could well be, it's not really clear whether that's an MCR monitor wall or gallery. Having a UHD quad display in the latter is a bit strange?


I don't know. The box is labeled "video inputs" and the way the images are scrambled in no coherent order made me think it was different segments of thee graphics unless of course it could refer to the different connections into the video wall itself. I've seen in US gallery multiviewer having "mini multiviewers" imputed in a smaller box. I remember seeing an image for NBC Nightly News and the multiviewer had an input for the video wall and inside that was a smaller segment with graphics corresponding to the output of each panel.
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Hazimworks
What's that "Take PKG" thing on one of the monitors? I presume is for a playlist of news footage straight from the video server but in autocue style.
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Charles
Hazimworks posted:
What's that "Take PKG" thing on one of the monitors? I presume is for a playlist of news footage straight from the video server but in autocue style.


That's the prompter/autocue, and that's a cue telling the director to play the package. Looks like the Martin McGuinness package is playing out on air.
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Skygeek
Charles posted:
Hazimworks posted:
What's that "Take PKG" thing on one of the monitors? I presume is for a playlist of news footage straight from the video server but in autocue style.


That's the prompter/autocue, and that's a cue telling the director to play the package. Looks like the Martin McGuinness package is playing out on air.

Yes, it doesn't automatically trigger it. Can be very useful for presenter instructions, unless you forget to hit Ctrl-Alt-P... then you get Gavin Grey saying "Pause for effect" out loud!
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Charles
Skygeek posted:
Charles posted:
Hazimworks posted:
What's that "Take PKG" thing on one of the monitors? I presume is for a playlist of news footage straight from the video server but in autocue style.


That's the prompter/autocue, and that's a cue telling the director to play the package. Looks like the Martin McGuinness package is playing out on air.

Yes, it doesn't automatically trigger it. Can be very useful for presenter instructions, unless you forget to hit Ctrl-Alt-P... then you get Gavin Grey saying "Pause for effect" out loud!


Right. Something I didn't initially realize (and probably also most people who have never worked in TV probably don't realize) is just how important the script and prompter are. It's generally assumed that the prompter is only there for some brainless robot to read the script that's written for them, but the director and producer's eyes are just as glued to the prompter to make sure everything is flowing and playing out as intended — or at least as best as it can!
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Ste Founding member
Rkolsen posted:







A couple of screens (the ones showing the orange slide) are showing the Reuters Live newswire channel which is FTA on 22W.
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mapperuo
Ste posted:
Rkolsen posted:







A couple of screens (the ones showing the orange slide) are showing the Reuters Live newswire channel which is FTA on 22W.


Interesting they appear to have it on a 'Timeslip' so a delay? Lets them see when to cut away by watching real time I guess.

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