No uplink? No problem
Don Day October 1st, 2007
We had a unique challenge at KTVB today. We have a crew in Shanghai, China for the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games. The next World Winter Games will be held in Idaho - making the coverage a natural. Anchor Carolyn Holly and photographer Xanti Alcelay were supposed to report live from the opening ceremonies during our 10pm newcast. But the president of China decided to show up - meaning no live uplink (that’s the simple version). But building blocks we’ve put in place over the past year made that less of a problem then you might think. Xanti “fed” Carolyn’s standups and a portion of a package via the Internet. Instead of choppy Internet-quality video, Xanti sent back full-quality AVI files. He exported the media from a Grass Valley NewsEdit laptop, dropped the files over the network, and we imported them back in to our Grass Valley system in Boise, and aired the video. It wasn’t exactly… quick - but was a neat work around to the challenge.
Carolyn and Xanti being told of the change of plans
5 Comments Add your own
1. fleetwood mack | October 2nd, 2007 at 8:03 am
Great quickness in the field and a lesson there for us.
When you say “wasn’t exactly quick,” how long did it actually take to get the piece home for air?
2. Jim Grossman | October 2nd, 2007 at 10:01 am
All night long as I understand from Xanti. I’m sure they will be able to comment more. Whatever it takes to get the story home. They’re doing an amazing job at an amazing event.
3. Don Day | October 2nd, 2007 at 10:47 am
Xanti didn’t get much sleep…
We’re hoping to smooth out the process since we have the same hurdle today.
4. Brad | October 2nd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
No live uplink and they thought to make files and send it over the interet. Madness. It’s good to see some Local TV folks coming around.
My advice, depending on how much bandwidth you have, make QT’s. They are bigger files but end up looking better.
You’ll also notice some color loss from export to import.
B
5. Mark Mascolino | October 3rd, 2007 at 1:09 am
so what was the non-simple version of the story
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