BBC News 24 Relaunch

In a way, it's exciting, knowing that something may go wrong with the titles! mind you, I've only really seen it be very very jerky once, perhaps they should a broadcast quality PC rather then one with only 128MB of memory!

It's not just the jerkiness in the opening titles - the actual resolution of the headline text doesn't look too good, either...

I don't think the titles are that bad.... to be honest they're quite good considering it's 3D graphics being rendered live on screen. Or something to that effect.

Not that it's quite the same but from the 3D Work I've done it can take an age to render a single frame.

I'm sure if they had the right equipment it could look as smooth and well-rendered as the BBC NEWS logo pre-rendered version does. It's not as though the resolution needed is particularly high - it's only a TV piccy...

I hasten to add that the only reason it annoys me is that if this was fixed, I'd have no fault at all - the opening titles are marvellously designed.

11amGMT on World - someone managed to fade out the presenter microphone during the first sentence of the first story - what a shame there isn't a dedicated sound operator so you can get a more reliable quality of output.

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To post that someone in a ***very*** busy news gallery has faded out the wrong source during a headline is just extremly sad. There is nothing you can say in your defence.

How do you know that there wasn't a technical problem?

I do hope that in whatever job you do, that you've never, ever made the tiniest of mistake. But ofcourse, you're perfect, so you never make simple errors that; at the end of the day; really don't matter.

That goes a little further than what I was going to say, but I fully agree with your sentiments Dog.

To be fair, I think the only reason people are a bit sensitive towards that sort of thing on News 24 is because it seems to happen so damn often. I know technical problems are to be expected on a channel with so much live output, but Sky News never has so many technical problems as N24.

Not that I'm blaming the technical staff of N24 for this; they have far less people working in the gallery than Sky, so there would be more problems. And things do appear to be getting a bit better recently. It's just a bit unfortunate, that's all...

It's a shame the sound operators on World & News 24 have to work in current conditions - I'm sure it doesn't help them show the best of their abilities.

(AGAIN - EDITED TO REMOVE REMARK BECAUSE WE CAN'T CRITICISE PEOPLE WHO MAKE BASIC MISTAKES)

It is, however, a mistake a human being makes, in the same way that every human being can and does make mistakes. If anyone's blowing it out of proportion Drew, it's you.

Honestly - you would think I was the first on this forum to criticise someone for make a basic mistake!!

Drew, I agree with you that it is not the finest example of sound mixing. However maybe you should look at how News24 and World work before condemning someone so throughly.

There are many reasons why the sound is sometimes poor on both channels.

Firstly there is no separate sound gallery. It is often very noisy and very difficult to monitor the channel properly.

Secondly the sound mixer is not just mixing sound. They are often setting up outside sources, sorting out server problems or talking to DTL guests. The chances are the soundmixer who was mixing at the top of the hour was also trying to sort out the clip details for the first package so that there wasn't a nasty hole after the presenter finished the cue. There is a limit to how many jobs one person can do at once and often it's the sound which suffers.

Thirdly there are not dedicated sound mixers on these channels. A lot of the time they use directors who are more used to calling shots than pushing faders. Sound in TV is given a very low status and there is an attitude from above that anyone can do it if it saves a bit of money.