RE: [backstage] regional news - footage available online?

2010-08-24 Thread Christopher Woods
Regions output online is somewhat hit and miss. For example an album launch I was involved with was covered on BBC London evening news - a 3/4 minute VT segment which I finally managed to beg a copy of on DVD and it was completely different from the accompanying video which ended up in a Flash

RE: [backstage] regional news - footage available online?

2010-08-24 Thread Phil Lewis
Actually I am just downloading BBC London news now. However I cannot see any other regions available on iPlayer. The usual London bias I suppose ;-) On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 18:29 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: Regions output online is somewhat hit and miss. For example an album launch I was

Re: [backstage] regional news - footage available online?

2010-08-24 Thread Martin Deutsch
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Christopher Woods chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote: player accompanying the Online articles about the album launch. (Interestingly the audio was dual mono - ambient sound on L channel and overdubbed narrator on R channel? Not sure if that was a snafu by the

RE: [backstage] regional news - footage available online?

2010-08-24 Thread Christopher Woods
That's pretty standard for news packages - the studio output will then be mono'ed before it hits the transmission chain. And you're quite right, it's for archiving purposes. It seems a bit lowest common denominator, doesn't it - surely in this day and age it would be preferable to encode at