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What is a clean feed and a dirty feed?

(April 2006)

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cdukjunkie
Test Pilot posted:
cdukjunkie, methinks your choice of questions betrays your insider knowledge - you wouldn't be asking questions you already know the answers to would you??!!


What insider knowledge would that be? Confused
TP
Test Pilot
I'm thinking you already work in TV and just having a bit of fun...
CD
cdukjunkie
Test Pilot posted:
I'm thinking you already work in TV and just having a bit of fun...


No, they were genuine questions on a topic which I had a vague knowledge of but this thread has greatly strengthened my know-how.

I have worked in TV on and off, but only in a runner capacity - I'm still at college! Wink
TP
Test Pilot
I'm just v surprised you could have heard the expression "cans" and not known what it means from the context you heard it...it just sounds unlikely!
FB
Fluffy Bunny Feet
cdukjunkie posted:
Jonathan H posted:
cdukjunkie posted:
[What is a 'legalised' copy/roll?


Legalised copy - in the journalistic sense - is copy (ie: script) that has been "legalled" by a lawyer for possible infringments of reporting restrictions or other legal obstacle. The same is true of a "legalised copy" or "roll" of videotape. A package or report may have to be legalled as a finished edited piece to avoid dematory remarks or court restrictions on a story.


As straight forward as that then. Thanks.


"Legalled" Checked by Lawyers prior to TX (Transmission)

"Legalised" When a finished programme is delivered for broadcast an Station Engineer will view it and check it has been legalised.
IE That Bars/Tone/Clocks are correct and more importantly that the programme itself satisfies the technical specifications of vision and sound.
CD
cdukjunkie
Test Pilot posted:
I'm just v surprised you could have heard the expression "cans" and not known what it means from the context you heard it...it just sounds unlikely!


It is likely, trust me. Perhaps it never entered your head that although I did hear the term used in a context related with the sound aspect of a production, I didn't actually know what 'cans' were in a gallery/studio environment
PC
Paul Clark
bbclover88 posted:
the pic is from a hiccup just a while ago on BBC TWO, a still of the VT Clock into Snooker Extra.
http://pp.meldrum.co.uk/files/2005/BBCTWO-VT-24-04-06.jpg


Yup, I capped that image - no doubt you found it over at the PP, I did post it there!

If you would like video to accompany it I've got one, which also includes the preceding ident.
CD
cdukjunkie
Paul Clark posted:
bbclover88 posted:
the pic is from a hiccup just a while ago on BBC TWO, a still of the VT Clock into Snooker Extra.
http://pp.meldrum.co.uk/files/2005/BBCTWO-VT-24-04-06.jpg


Yup, I capped that image - no doubt you found it over at the PP, I did post it there!

If you would like video to accompany it I've got one, which also includes the preceding ident.


I like the way they've inserted the word 'TWI' into the centre of the clock.
TO
TechOpGeek
Just looking back at the original question (in terms of comms, not vision) have a listen to this. It's a loop of a couple of minutes running constantly (when the studio aren't using it!). I've edited out the phone number to protect their privacy, but it gives you an idea of what a clean feed / ifb / mix minus for comms is! ...just thought i'd share it with you all!
TP
Test Pilot
cdukjunkie posted:
It is likely, trust me. Perhaps it never entered your head that although I did hear the term used in a context related with the sound aspect of a production, I didn't actually know what 'cans' were in a gallery/studio environment


To be honest if you are just a keen graduate, you're wasting your time hoovering up this kind of peripheral nonsense, you'll learn all this in your first week if you do get a job in a studio...
TO
TechOpGeek
Give them a break! Where's the harm in asking a few questions about something they have an interest in? It can only create discussion - which is the whole point of a forum?? Any hints / tips / terms might be handy to learn and they can learn other things in the first week instead! Wink
TP
Test Pilot
All pretty valueless information I'm afraid, the amount of time you will have saved by knowing the proper meaning of "cans" could be measured in microseconds...

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