CBS Evening News

I'm sure the whole world was watching (in four time zones) as Katie Couric went out there for the first time. Did anybody else catch the FCP Hitler footage? It had to be Final Cut, the fluttering fields were clearly out of order.

I've never seen an Avid do that--at least not in four time zones. On the other hand, our Final Cut machines do that all the time.......

Koz

Fluttering fields? What fluttering fields? I've never seen any fluttering fields.

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There was a split screen with Hitler on the bottom (I wish I'd taped the show). As he waved his arms he had the classic stuttering look of a video whose fields were going the wrong direction half of the time. I forget who was on top of the split, but that video looked perfectly normal. They may have changed the speed to make the segment times work out, but that looked OK.

I can tell you what happened. Nobody was watching in Real Television until the first time the piece hit the air. Either that, or it happened and nobody could figure out how to cure it fast enough to make the show.

There is another possibility. Because the show is so new, it's possible nobody in the control room saw it, either. The latest technology is to have four or five huge flat panels on the wall with time shared video simulating a million individual television monitors (like a surveillance monitor) instead of actually having the monitors. The last time I saw one of these in a control room, the big master and preview monitors were still glass, but everything else was fake. If *all* the monitors were, for example, LCDs, this problem would have gone right out the door with nobody the wiser.

I don't know anybody at CBS.

Koz

good point.
still poses the question of how TV stations are going to deal with interlaced video, even 1080i when there are no more tube TV's.

CBS News is AVID - at least in their Washington Bureau --

Wow people are watching Katie do the news. I wonder how long it will last I hope she does well she's pretty cool.

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Did anything in Washington change for the new show? I bet you wouldn't recognize the NY studio. I gotta see if anybody taped/TIVO'd it....

Koz

nothing changed much in DC (friends who work there -- I spend most of my time at the network that's angering the Clinton adminstration right now)