BBC News 24 Countdown and Idents

Does anyone know what the geniuses at the BBC created the countdown and idents in.

And I mean what software was used.

Not in a PC in a building before some wise crack is made.

Someone help. Thanx.
BB

Would it not just be a syntheziser? (I think the spelling's wrong!) And then they would be touched up on the computer?

Not the music. the actual animations

What you mean someone actually made the graphics for the countdown? well bugger me I never realised.

I thought floated down from heaven on a DVD

Well Jamez, many would argue it DID.

They're probably done using Softimage 3D or something similar, as I know that's what Lambie-Nairn use for that.

Then taken into a Quantel Hal or Paintbox to put it together and add 2D effects.

An alternative would be Flame or Avid Symphony.

Each machine at about 250k each!

Peter

Yeap, most probably Flame, importing the sound into it also

I like flame, Paintbox just seems old nowadays. Even if HAL etc. are coming to replace it.

If you ever get a chance to play with one - it's probably one of the most lovely pieces of kit you could ever find, having full real time effects, pushes paintbox out the door.

Although, nowadays many people use combustion, and junior PC version or Adobe After Effects becuase they do virtually the same work, and as high end, but not as fast.

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peter

My money goes on Inferno.

Fire is a high end editing system - you might do programme conforms in it.  But Inferno (also made by Discreet) is normally used for short form work - graphic sequences, commercials etc because it offers far more maniplualtion abilities/layering tools than Fire.  The are both based around Silicon ONXY computers.

BBC Resources recently spent a fortune buying both a Fire and Inferno - previously only available at top end facility houses in Soho. (and at £600 plus per hour to hire!).

Edit - BTW - Paintbox has been around for years - early 80's. It is used for still images only, and has very very basic animation. Paintbox is comparable to Photoshop, except with Paintbox you are working directly on a tv monitor. Paintboxes are fab to use though.

(Edited by andyrew at 1:19 pm on Oct. 7, 2001)

#Moderation Mode

Hard to decide really, but I think it should go in the TV Forum with it being about Idents etc.

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