Kenneth Roberts used to be a director, technical director, and a videographer at TV3 Winchester-ABC. Now he's a studio production technician at WJLA-ABC in Washington, DC. He is not legally required to tell you that he is a fan of Disney and ESPN, but he is a fan of Disney and ESPN.
I know this is over a decade old, but I've learnt so much from this video! If you still monitor comments could I ask a question? What are the XKeys configured to do? I'm helping to set up a new studio, building and configuring everything from scratch and am trying to automate as much as possible. I'd love to DM if you have time? Thanks, Clive
For the last few months I have been working at setting up a and now running a live stream set up with my church at 3 other rural churches. I am really enjoying this sort of thing and I am wondering how one gets into the field professionally. I am currently in high school.
Thanks for sharing this bro. It is very helpful especially to people like me who wants to learn about doing this stuff. I'm aiming to be a TD sooner. I'm new to broadcast industry and want to learn as much as I can. Although it is an old video It is really great. I hope to watch other videos from you buddy. x
My observations, in no particular order: 1) is having the window accessible worth bending your neck to see the multiviewers? 2) buy a PH-88; they're *much* more comfortable 3) you don't push the headset cable out of the way of the panel? 4) LOVE the dimmer wall 5) what's on the little Marshall twin? Air-return? 6) Your IFB is just another intercom channel with a box? 7) Who did you call on the phone, and why weren't they on com? 8) I assume you're using DSK Tie a lot in the opening segment 9) Do your on-set talent have countdown timers? Or is it just floor dir/IFB counting back? 10) Is all that weather key-fill preproduced? I didn't see CG playing any of it -- or you.
A news bulletin is full of pre recorded stories and vision edited to scripts. The live elements are the journalists in the field (at the top of the show was a "look live" which is recorded live to tape and inserted, obviously because for that story all the action behind the journalist wouldn't have started up for the day yet and it'd be pitch black.
Hi, I'm an Italian sound engineer and I also work on TV. I love the quite that reigns in your audio control room and I see that you use mute groups to open and close the microphones and clip. I see the fantastic jingle machine instant replay 360👍 I'd like to know what model of Audio Mixer you use and what microphones you have in the studio. What is the optimal setting for good broadcst audio? I mean the returns you use between the studio (journalist), external connections and intercom. Thanks. Congratulations 👌a greeting from Italy😊✋✋ I love your way of working and making news👌👍👍
I started off as a production assistant in Jackson Tennessee. I made 6.90 an hour in 2007. When I started directing I made 8.75 an hour. Slave labor basically.
Im so impressed by this, I'm currently applying for jobs and this has definitely helped me get a better understanding of what will be expected in a more "typica" environment than i'm used to working in. I'm more experienced in 'location' directing/ technical management rather than in room studio. Thanks, this is so impressive. Perfect.
it looks complex and this TD is doing good job but dont get too impress this is not professional, bbc cnn aljazeera have big gallery crew, u students should visit then u will realise only
I love this, I'm studying Film and TV, and my dream is to become a Steadicam Operator, but I do have classes for Producing, Camera and Lighting, post production and production project, so this is still very interesting to me. I've have a passion for Cameras Eversince I was young (I'm now 20 years old) and this side of Television is so awesome.
<snicker> Depends on where the breaks roll; if they're coming from the downstream, they may have rolled right on time, clipping off the last second of his send, and he won't have to come back; he'll start out on time again in the B-block.
Do you have a favorite playout software? How does the switcher tell the playout software to play each clip... I’d like to know more about how this works. Thanks!
That can be fast moving..... I remember sitting next to the director at one of the big mega-churches during the Easter service. We were into the service about 10 minutes when the director/shader/technical director yanked his headset off gave it to me saying... take over I'm sick! All I could do is tell all the cameramen to hold their shots the director left sick and I am taking over. By the grace of God I made it through the service OK, no problems. We had about 4,000 people in the auditorium.
This control room was incredibly loud, we had a piece of equipment for our online stream intended on being installed into a server rack...but it didn't fit into ours, so it sat right next to us...this was probably the smallest station in the country. Most environments should be expected to be quiet like any other office room, with the sound tech in their own soundproof booth (as was the case when I worked at abc in D.C.)
