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Steve in Pudsey
TK12 posted:
Indeed - it's just far too easy these days! Anyone else remember the old BBC-designed vision mixers with one fader per channel like sound mixing desks??


Like the one from the Broomcupboard, NC1? Near the bottom of this page
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Square Eyes Founding member
Andrew posted:
Square Eyes posted:
Reuben posted:
On Calendar's local CSO studios, when they're doing the local bulletins during the 6pm Calendar, they show pictures next to the presenter to go with the news item.

Do they ? They don't on East, they have that generic image of those screens with "Calendar" on them the whole time. Do they have images for the Leeds opt ? If so, why ?


From The TV Room, this is what it looks like:

http://thetvroom.com/area-b/images-itv-yorkshire/images-2003/news-1.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/area-b/images-itv-yorkshire/images-2003/news-2.jpg


Anyone know why this is a Leeds only thing then, and why it doesn't happen on East ? I presume it doesn't happen for South either.
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Steve in Pudsey
Leeds is going through the main gallery and the other two versions aren't?
NG
noggin Founding member
TK12 posted:
noggin posted:
TK12 posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
I would guess that the images are done on the CSO, because then when the vision mixer cuts away from the CSO source to VT (for example) they don't also have to remove an overlay at the same time, so less chance of cockups


Well, pretty well every broadcast vision mixer around these days can do at least 2 keys on each mix-effects bank (some do 3 or 4), so there is no more chance of a cock-up when cutting from a source with 2 keys on it to a VT than from a source with only one key on it.


Even if you haven't got a mixer that can cope with lots of keys on one bank then you can either use a second bank to create the background. which is then keyed on a different bank, or get graphics to generate a composite background...


Indeed - it's just far too easy these days! Anyone else remember the old BBC-designed vision mixers with one fader per channel like sound mixing desks??


Yep - with Quadrant faders... (Though I never had to use them in anger - I do remember seeing them)
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A former member
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Leeds is going through the main gallery and the other two versions aren't?
Sounds right, East comes from Hull.
NG
noggin Founding member
Digifiend posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Leeds is going through the main gallery and the other two versions aren't?
Sounds right, East comes from Hull.


Do YTV have studios and galleries (and editing and graphics) in Hull and Sheffield for their Calendar sub-opts - or are they done from Leeds (or from remote studios working into galleries in Leeds)?
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Reuben
Are any of the bulletins local or region wide?
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A former member
Steve in Pudsey posted:
TK12 posted:
Indeed - it's just far too easy these days! Anyone else remember the old BBC-designed vision mixers with one fader per channel like sound mixing desks??


Like the one from the Broomcupboard, NC1? Near the bottom of this page


It's actually the one in the B&W picture above the picture of the NC1 mixer. It's captioned 'BBC Control Gallery / mixer used during the recording of Z Cars in the late sixties'.

In 1990 there were still three of these type of mixers in use in Television Centre, in TC6, TC7 and TC8.
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Andrew Founding member
Digifiend posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
Leeds is going through the main gallery and the other two versions aren't?
Sounds right, East comes from Hull.

No it doesn't it comes from Leeds!
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Steve in Pudsey
But South does come from Sheffield? although there is a studio available for it at Leeds if needed?

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