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>>Courtney: One man bands are now ruling news control rooms.
I'm Courtney Sivewright and this is Behind The Curtain.
Ignite. This is the future of news control rooms.
In a traditional news control room, you would have an audio person,
a director, and a technical director. With Ignite
there is just one person doing it all. Some stations are even trying incorporate robotic cameras
into Ignite. But Ignite is
a Windows based application, and while newer versions have worked the kinks out...
the older versions were teeming with errors. Here is a
newscast that was broadcast from the parking lot due to a virus.
Learning Ignite is a challenge for technical directors used to pushing
source buttons. Where once you routed all of the sources by choosing each
specific source button, now everything is programmed,
and Ignite Directors have to learn literally thousands of codes.
A one character typo can lead to infamous errors on air
like this one ..which I did while in training.
Do you think that because this was broadcast on Dateline is why he won’t friend me
on facebook? [pause] So back to Ignite
You now have a timeline -similar to ones you see in programs like Final Cut
or Avid- where all of these TME’s - or
Timed Macro Events - reside. As you step through
the timeline, the audio and picture change based on what has been programmed.
But here’s where you STILL have to manually punch things –
You may need to manually adjust an audio fader
You need to insert and take out lower thirds.
You need to manually advance the lower thirds if you have more than one per story-
as you do in most packages. So are you really saving steps?
No. And some stations, like mine, have so many shows that they
have to keep several Ignite Directors staffed
at a time to cover the workload - since thankfully
it's still illegal to not give bathroom breaks. Thank
goodness for that one! So why move your newscast to a
system that seems to have more issues than not?
You got me! Join me next week for another peek
Behind The Curtain