IS
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
Probably someone mis-scheduled the DOG... We call 'DOGs' 'Bugs' at my work.
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
NJ
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
Seriously? A great big machine like that for an on-screen logo? Wow.
I presume that's an old model (in lieu of the fact it has a floppy disk drive in it) and modern ones are significantly smaller or built into something else?
Neil Jones
Founding member
Probably someone mis-scheduled the DOG... We call 'DOGs' 'Bugs' at my work.
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
Seriously? A great big machine like that for an on-screen logo? Wow.
I presume that's an old model (in lieu of the fact it has a floppy disk drive in it) and modern ones are significantly smaller or built into something else?
IS
Yes, they're probably just done in a card sitting in a crate alongside other video processing these days.
JA
At least it's only rack sized, I guess back in the 70s something like that would have filled a whole room!
IS
If it was done electronically yes. Back then any graphics that were superimposed over video were done by pointing a camera or similar optical device at a physical caption and then vision mixing it on which was an electrical process
The first completely electronically generated graphics came along in the late 70s/80s. But even the old BBC1 globe and clock or the =2= came from a large rack mounted crate.
See here: http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/bbc1_85.htm
At least it's only rack sized, I guess back in the 70s something like that would have filled a whole room!
If it was done electronically yes. Back then any graphics that were superimposed over video were done by pointing a camera or similar optical device at a physical caption and then vision mixing it on which was an electrical process
The first completely electronically generated graphics came along in the late 70s/80s. But even the old BBC1 globe and clock or the =2= came from a large rack mounted crate.
See here: http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/bbc1_85.htm
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DB
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
Seriously? A great big machine like that for an on-screen logo? Wow.
Haha! Nowdays its just a case of sending a targa or png file to the playout operator.
Probably someone mis-scheduled the DOG... We call 'DOGs' 'Bugs' at my work.
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
Seriously? A great big machine like that for an on-screen logo? Wow.
Haha! Nowdays its just a case of sending a targa or png file to the playout operator.
MA
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
Seriously? A great big machine like that for an on-screen logo? Wow.
Haha! Nowdays its just a case of sending a targa or png file to the playout operator.
You still need some device or keyer to burn that into the video signal, it doesn't (yet) happen by magic !
One of these
http://www.evertz.com/products/HD9725LG
(Other bug burning equipment vendors are available)
Probably someone mis-scheduled the DOG... We call 'DOGs' 'Bugs' at my work.
I think everywhere in the industry calls them bugs, in fact the bit of kit that produced them was call a Bugburner
Seriously? A great big machine like that for an on-screen logo? Wow.
Haha! Nowdays its just a case of sending a targa or png file to the playout operator.
You still need some device or keyer to burn that into the video signal, it doesn't (yet) happen by magic !
One of these
http://www.evertz.com/products/HD9725LG
(Other bug burning equipment vendors are available)
DA
I didn't know "ducking" was an industry term.
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It will also duck program audio
I didn't know "ducking" was an industry term.
TC
Always has been. The term goes way back to radio when DJs 'ducked' the music to talk over it. Engineers came up with technology to do that automatically (a voice-operated switch that reduces the level of the audio when it 'hears' a voice), and that's known as a 'ducker'.