05-01-2024, 10:16 PM
(05-01-2024, 08:09 PM)Juicy Joe Wrote: I'm not sure about other BBC regions but does anyone feel the overhead lighting in the studio completely washes out the background screens? Ever since they've moved to the new studio. Especially with the weather - the weather map always looks especially murky & pale rather than a nice vibrant green & blue image. Or the gamma of the screens is set completely wrong, they should go to lagom.nl to calibrate their screens. I would say it looks worse than the old studio.The weather map itself looks as though it's being output at SD resolution and upscaled, we know these screens handle HD inputs but the blurriness around letters through the upscale is bordering on awful. I suspect this is to do with how they currently overlay them to OBs in the mixer - they effectively add a magenta background to everything they don't want to be seen, and key it out so just the graphics remain - a technique they've used since 2008 - issue is it's starting to show it's flaws and it's age.
There is definitely something wrong with something, but I think it's only particular cameras and particular shots as you said it's very obvious during celebrity squares when you compare them to other regions, including Tunbridge Wells who are still on the ancient Thomson cameras and Grass Valley mixer...
I would show you a cap but unfortunately the camera they were sending down the line was not the opening shot on today's Six...
Given how it looks off the studio cameras:
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I would suggest it's again a racking issue with the cameras themselves, similar to the strange green colour the PTZ was emitting before (which while still not perfect, does look better than before) - which speaking of, doesn't have washed out screens in it, as opposed to a major lighting issue.