Week of 14th March, 2016

9 Shift Days to Retirement

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Monday, 14th March

Last full fortnight starts today. It should be an early (the 6 o'clock shift) but I've done my usual swap, to a 10. Except for these first 2 days, when I've swapped again, to a 12. 10s or 12s make very little difference to me, but earlies or nights are to be avoided if at all possible.

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Tuesday, 15th March

And as 12 shifts, it was the usual formula - short-form material, and own productions. There was supposed to be a line feed for delayed transmission tomorrow evening, but "there was a panic in the edit room", so no offer. And we cannot take it before lunch tomorrow, because there are major upgrades being carried out tomorrow. So it'll have to come in at about 15:30 or so, or else fed as-live. In either case, we'll have to record it for later repeat.

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Wednesday, 16th March

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Thursday, 17th March

St.Patrick's Day

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Friday, 18th March

Well, the update appeared to work,but it has brought a requirement for even more mouse clicks to an already over-clicky experience. Now, on long-form programmes, we have to confirm each and every audio track is acceptable, before the tin mind will allow us to accept the programme. This does not apply to short-form material - yet.

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Saturday, 19th March

Formula 1 qualifying highlights packages from oversea to record for tape-delayed transmission - 2 of them. One went fine (the more urgent one) but mine fell over several times - mostly with oversea problems, but we had some difficulty in UK, as well. Eventually, all was resolved (reasonably satis.) but it took all day.

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Sunday, 20th March

And F1 race highlights recordings today, for a different combination of countries. Today's feeds came in, and were recorded, fine, but again I had a complaint about mine. The specification states that there shall be an ident (static slate or clock, it matters not which) before each part, and there shall be black between the clock/slate and the previous and next parts. Clock, and black after it, all present and correct, black after end of part, not so much.

This country has difficulty understanding our requirements, and I have remonstrated with them a semi-infinite number of times about it. I will complain once more, and then say, "To the devil with it...", since I will not see another one of these before retirement. Complaint, verbally, next day in.

Before you ask, there would have been no problems on air (I could get the blunt axe in to separate the transmittable portions of the offer) but it's the principle of the thing - COMPLY WITH THE SPEC., DAMMIT!

But then, it is Sport, and Sport have their own ideas about specifications, which seem to be, "Specifications? We've heard of them."

After doing that, I tried packaging some programmes. And the iMac on my desk wouldn't let me hear the programe I was working on. Eventually, we (all 3 of us present) worked out that someone had changed an audio configuration in Adobe Premiere, after which all came good.

I managed 4 programmes - 3 subtitle replacement jobs, and one other. Only to get bitten by another recent change to workflows. This is one I haven't got used to yet, despite it having been introduced some weeks ago. This is, of course, due to relative lack of experience - my preferred shifts only end up doing programme packaging (you can't really call it editing) at weekends. That's 2 days in every 7.

 
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