I'm a TD for news and occasionally sports, and I find it very interesting how the TD for this broadcast is previewing and taking with one hand, rather than using the control cut button. It also seems like they don't really care about previewing, since the TD is often times just waiting until the take cue. Is someone with more experience in this specific type of sports broadcast able to explain it? Genuinely curious.
TDs for sports rarely preview anything unless it is a complicated multi layer cut or are doing a dissolve. (That is why a cut is always ready 2, take 2 and a dissolve would generally be set 2, dissolve 2 so that the TD will have it in preview and isn't caught off guard) Most sports TDs do a lot of their cutting on the EMEM pad on that ME, and will have a bank for clean, with bug, with Font 1 and with Font 2. Makes it easy to cut quickly from game camera with bug to a closeup with a font, and then back to game camera with bug. I usually see people doing preview then using the take button who learned in high school/college from someone who wasn't a sports/music guy, or learned in a news station. Both of those places are far more fond of the preview.
@@jonathanwhittaker2887 Thanks for your reply. Yeah, that makes sense. I don't really do sports often, and when I do, it's for local high school and college sports. As a news and concert TD of 12 years or so, not previewing still scares me haha.
