Yes it's a clean feed but often Eastenders follows either The One Show or the 8pm news (both live and therefore of flexible duration) and therefore it has to be a manual event. Hitting the 'take' button frame accurately isn't the easiest thing in the world. The actual transition (in frames) is preset so there's no way of changing it once you start the junction.
Yes it's a clean feed but often Eastenders follows either The One Show or the 8pm news (both live and therefore of flexible duration) and therefore it has to be a manual event. Hitting the 'take' button frame accurately isn't the easiest thing in the world. The actual transition (in frames) is preset so there's no way of changing it once you start the junction.
This takes me back to a past VT operating job where I remember we had many series of a crappy American soap to transfer from 1"C to BetaSP. We manually assemble edited all eps. After a little practice, it's amazing how many times you
do
get the feel of when to hit
Auto Edit,
so that slave VTR's timecode is frame accurate to source VTR's VT clock, hitting TCR 10:00:00:00 for start of programme No pressure of a live situation, like you, though.
Although the playout equipment in each of the Nations is essentially the same, I know some variation in configurations does exist... However I've always found that a 35 frame audio lead into a manual event (pressing Take at the network director's minus 2 count) 9 times out of 10 will get you into the programme cleanly without any loss of audio. Basically tricking the automation. As I said though, the configuration in Scotland may not allow that trick to work.
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That was strange, Glasgow just used the 2016 ice skater sting.
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I just have to give high prise to Glasgow for yesterday Frontline Scotland doc yesterday into the human trafficking, its a ashame a network slot cant be given to this.
I just have to give high prise to Glasgow for yesterday Frontline Scotland doc yesterday into the human trafficking, its a ashame a network slot cant be given to this.
Well, it might. The last BBC Scotland Investigates doc about football abuse was repeated on the network this week.
Last week, I raised a point in the main BBC One thread about BBC One Scotland using network-branded BBC One trails in the 5.55am - 6am junction (weekdays). I thought this might just have been a one-off, due to a technical hitch. However, it actually seems to be a regular event. Yet a BBC One Scotland ident introduces Breakfast, just before 6am. BBC One NI and BBC One Wales both run locally-branded trails in that slot. Why this bizarreness in Scotland? It smacks of a union ruling from the 1970s - "There'll be no local playout until 05:59:45". What is the point in this - if there's a director sitting there in Glasgow?
Checked in this morning and looks like our strange little anomaly on BBC One Scotland between 5.55am and 5.59am has been corrected. We now have BBC One Scotland branding on the trails.
Never being up that early I always assumed Breakfast was effectively the end of the news channel simulcast so no need for continuity.
The BBC One/NC simulcast continues until 9:15 on weekdays, 9:00 on Saturdays and varying times on Saturdays depending on sport.
I have sometimes seen an NC countdown on BBC One on bank holidays, but normally they do their own set of national trailers and CA at 6am, while the NC does a normal countdown sequence.
No pressure of a live situation, like you, though.