Ah, I hadn't realised that some programmes were already being recorded from master tapes - I can't remember which programmes I had just watched and seen the credit squeezes on, but there were a few and I generalised from those (I also mostly watch the iPhone versions).
I'd really like to see this go one step further though, and actually make different edits of programmes for the iPlayer than for broadcast. As well as changing TX based references like "next week" or even presenter links saying "we'll be on at a different time next week" (which make no sense in the context of iPlayer), you could even do things like cut down the amount of "trailing ahead" - which surely is less required on iPlayer where people have chosen to watch something specific and are in less danger of changing channel... (You could probably shave a good few minutes off from Dragons Den in this way, which trails ahead constantly in a really annoying way). Then again, if you don't want to have to do 2 edits (for efficiency's sake), then maybe just start to reduce these practices anyway... Producers are going to have to get used to making TV shows that are more suited to a video-on-demand context... Frankie 2009/9/10 Phil Lewis <[email protected]> > If you ever watch the iPhone iPlayer streams they are not the same edits > as the flash based iPlayer, they always appear to be from broadcast - > you sometimes even get completely the wrong programme if the broadcast > schedule changed at the last minute! > > - Phil > > On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 13:53 +0100, Andrew Bowden wrote: > > I thought most TV programmes that can be taken from master tapes are. > > I've never seen anything recorded off air on iPlayer, and no credit > > squeezes myself - even for programmes broadcast live. > > > > I just had a look at last nights Lottery draw for example and there > > was nothing on that, nor on Sunday's THe Big Questions. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frankie > > Roberto > > Sent: 10 September 2009 13:19 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [backstage] BBC iPlayer - encoding from broadcast > > rather than master tapes > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > Apologies if this has been answered before, but is there any > > reason why the BBC iPlayer seems to only encode programmes > > from the live broadcast stream, rather than, say, using the > > actual master tapes/digital files? Sure, it might be simpler, > > but long-term it'd be great to use the original source. > > > > Some reasons for doing so: > > > > * occasionally the live broadcast has errors (eg loss of > > signal, or playout error) > > * you could trim the programmes more precisely - no more > > having to skip the last few minutes of previous programme > > * no more "credit squeezes" and continuity announcements > > trailing programmes that you can't actually watch > > * you could even produce a slightly different edit of a TV > > show - for example, with dramas like Doctor Who you wouldn't > > have text at the end saying "Next week..." > > > > Are there any plans for this? Seems like it'd be the obvious > > next step in improving the user experience of iPlayer... > > > > Frankie > > > > -- > > Frankie Roberto > > Experience Designer, Rattle > > 0114 2706977 > > http://www.rattlecentral.com > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Frankie Roberto Experience Designer, Rattle 0114 2706977 http://www.rattlecentral.com
