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I was quite impressed by that as well. I'd guess it was done with a crane, but there were a couple of odd things. One, my TV seemed to think it was partly "filmic" (25p instead of 50i) - but then it sometimes gets confused on video with little motion. There also seemed to be a very slight colour shift at the point where my TV finally decided it was interlaced, which could indicate a transition from one recording to another - perhaps they repositioned the crane for the second part of the shot, as it goes all the way to the far side of the square.

Or (more likely) it was just one really big crane.

I think it was two different shots edited together and treated to look like one shot which is why it looked a bit filmic.

Or you were watching on BBC 1 HD DTT where the coders will drop into 1080-25p if they sence
a 'fimic' input, they sometimes get confused by a static interlaced image, and will drop into p for that too.

Indeed I was, thanks for the info. Perhaps the colour shift (which is very subtle, if it's there at all) was a result of the same switch.

Possibly, what seems to often fox the coder is the cut from the BBC 1 ident (that always gets coded as 1080p)
into the start of the news, the slow zoom of the presenter camera often doesn't provide enough movement to kick the coder to 1080i mode.

Should the BBC creating a documentry about the real Scottish town of Tannochbrae from 1100 to the present day, anyone agree.

Yeah, I don't see why not. Certainly sounds like a laugh.

May already be known to many, but Matt Losasso who produced some of the BBC One idents has Capes uploaded with a different soundtrack to what was broadcast in 2008 at launch. It's rather nice. Click on BBC One idents at the bottom and skip past Forest and Space.

I remember when Capes was about to launch, we had a lot of videos circulating on here with different soundtrack ideas - does anyone still have any of those? Would be great to see how the ident's music developed again.

It looked like it was using one of those Octocopter camera drone things. That could explain why there were no people in the shot, I think there are rules about flying them over people...

Before Countryfile.

That Next / Later theme has been airing since early today - ties in with The Crimson Field.

Good episode of The One Show this evening. Sir Bruce Forsyth demonstrating his exercises was probably the best moment of TV I have seen all year. It was also nice to hear that his opinion of The Michael Mcintyre Chat Show and in particular James Cordon matches with every sane person in the country too.

Things went wrong at the start of EastEnders though. I couldn't hear any dialogue for at least the first five minutes. I couldn't hear much audio at all really, even though I had the volume right up. You would have thought with all the complaints they had about the audio levels during Jamaica Inn, they would have been more careful. Not even an apology at the end.

the same version is on iplayer too. ……..

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24-Apr-2014 @ 21:16