20-10-2022, 09:47 AM
Multiple observations on the London heads:
- At the start of the regional heads, on One HD, notice that the headline lower third is still in vision over the London presenter for 0.5 sec before animating off; while on the NC, the lower third gets dissapeared "immediately" after the opt to sport heads.
- At the opt in point of the regional heads, the London presenter holded off for a few seconds, allowing the titles be played in full; on NC, the titles is played midway.
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So I'm pretty sure that the sustaining feed of Studio B now plays the London heads rather than sports heads, and runs the regional heads running order for London. It's definitely not as someone mentioned the London heads and sports heads go out from the same gallery via different engines and TX lines, else both channels would see the titles running in full.
My assumption is that at the TOTH, Studio E or C (whatever gallery that plays the TOTH countdown on the NC) takes Studio B's feed "output on the output", so to allow them cut to the sport heads at the regional opt out point. Then, at some point during the titles, they activate the network switcher and switch the NC's TX to soft-opt into Studio B fully. Perhaps some insider here can correct me on how they updated the workflow for the regional opting.
However I'm still not sure if the NC/Sportsday is still the sustaining feed if regions fails to opt after the national bulletin or it'll be BBC London... I guess we'll have to wait until one of the regions faces technical difficulties in the future...
- At the start of the regional heads, on One HD, notice that the headline lower third is still in vision over the London presenter for 0.5 sec before animating off; while on the NC, the lower third gets dissapeared "immediately" after the opt to sport heads.
- At the opt in point of the regional heads, the London presenter holded off for a few seconds, allowing the titles be played in full; on NC, the titles is played midway.
www.youtube.com
So I'm pretty sure that the sustaining feed of Studio B now plays the London heads rather than sports heads, and runs the regional heads running order for London. It's definitely not as someone mentioned the London heads and sports heads go out from the same gallery via different engines and TX lines, else both channels would see the titles running in full.
My assumption is that at the TOTH, Studio E or C (whatever gallery that plays the TOTH countdown on the NC) takes Studio B's feed "output on the output", so to allow them cut to the sport heads at the regional opt out point. Then, at some point during the titles, they activate the network switcher and switch the NC's TX to soft-opt into Studio B fully. Perhaps some insider here can correct me on how they updated the workflow for the regional opting.
However I'm still not sure if the NC/Sportsday is still the sustaining feed if regions fails to opt after the national bulletin or it'll be BBC London... I guess we'll have to wait until one of the regions faces technical difficulties in the future...