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If the Clock used in your analogue Con was spot-on (exactly in time with network's Clock, with no added delay), how did you manage to manually cut from your Clock to the network feed without (a) catching a glimpse of network's Clock ... or (b) seeing you Clock move on to one-second-past the hour?
Easy! By that time the NTA were using Compass and their cut to presenter in vision - as I'm sure you'll remember - was fixed to go bang on the second. We were still using the old manual Pro-Bel mixer, so it was just a case of being quick off the mark and hitting the big orange CUT button (well, pressing it gently actually) the nano-second that you saw presenter in vision on your preset. In effect you had a second to execute the cut, and as the presenter always left a beat pause when they were cued, it was never a problem.
49 times out of 50 it worked and indeed, when I joined, letting the second hand move into the next quadrant before the cut was regarded as something of a hanging offence!
Strictly speaking it wasn't exactly sync to the network clock, it was sync to station timecode, the master clock of which was sync to the the same standard (Rugby LW) as network.
Ahh so it wasn't exactly the same as the network clock. Similar set up to ours then.
Although from memory we had a wee bit more slack as I was always able to lead sound when our Clock was -1 to the hour, close my mic' and hit the CUT button as hard as I liked at the top of our Clock's hour.
Not sure if our analogue Clock was synced to station timecode. I remember once finding that the engineers hadn't bothered to take account of Daylight Saving and I had to call them down with seconds to spare to get it correctly set before the junction.
Steve D posted:
denton posted:
Steve D posted:
In those days there was a separate clock for the analogue pres area which was spot-on.
If the Clock used in your analogue Con was spot-on (exactly in time with network's Clock, with no added delay), how did you manage to manually cut from your Clock to the network feed without (a) catching a glimpse of network's Clock ... or (b) seeing you Clock move on to one-second-past the hour?
Easy! By that time the NTA were using Compass and their cut to presenter in vision - as I'm sure you'll remember - was fixed to go bang on the second. We were still using the old manual Pro-Bel mixer, so it was just a case of being quick off the mark and hitting the big orange CUT button (well, pressing it gently actually) the nano-second that you saw presenter in vision on your preset. In effect you had a second to execute the cut, and as the presenter always left a beat pause when they were cued, it was never a problem.
49 times out of 50 it worked and indeed, when I joined, letting the second hand move into the next quadrant before the cut was regarded as something of a hanging offence!
Strictly speaking it wasn't exactly sync to the network clock, it was sync to station timecode, the master clock of which was sync to the the same standard (Rugby LW) as network.
Ahh so it wasn't exactly the same as the network clock. Similar set up to ours then.
Although from memory we had a wee bit more slack as I was always able to lead sound when our Clock was -1 to the hour, close my mic' and hit the CUT button as hard as I liked at the top of our Clock's hour.
Not sure if our analogue Clock was synced to station timecode. I remember once finding that the engineers hadn't bothered to take account of Daylight Saving and I had to call them down with seconds to spare to get it correctly set before the junction.