Meteorologist goes live underwater (it’s not sweeps)
Cory Bergman June 20th, 2007
One of our meteorologists here at KING 5, Jeff Renner, did a two-camera live shot and interview underwater in the newly-expanded Seattle Aquarium. If you work in TV, you gotta admit it’s kinda cool. Watch the video here.
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1. Swift Loris | June 21st, 2007 at 8:40 am
Definitely *very* cool!
It couldn’t be that one of the cameras was in the tank with them, could it? The one that seemed to be showing just black and white was swaying slightly back and forth as if the camera operator was trying to maintain his position under water. Almost made me seasick.
2. Greg | June 21st, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Yes indeed - One of the cameras was an underwater camera. It was a color cam that is part of the aquarium’s AV setup for the exhibit. Unfortuantely, the color burst on that camera’s signal was very low and as it hit our HD switcher (even after going through a frame sync), got striped down to what looked like a black & white source.
I gotta say, as someone who worked at Sea World in the Productions Dept back in the late 70’s/early 80’s, the technology to do video, audio and IFB underwater has come a long way. This was definitely a “10″ on the cool-remote meter and took some pretty neat work on the part of both the KING News and Seattle Aquarium tech staff(s) to make it come off smoothly.
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