On Dec 25, 2014, at 6:51 AM, switthaus@mac.com wrote:
> Hi Dennis - Was this punched live or iso'ed and cut later? Or both?
I answer:
We take the international feed from RAI, which is switched live and includes no graphics. There are no ISOs, but additional beauty shots are fed before the program actually begins. This year, the Italian director was the best we've ever had. He got some great video of the Basilica, but also gave the program a smooth lively look; nice camera moves, interesting angles of the proceedings, all timed perfectly and in the respectful tone of the program.
This was a worldwide event we prepare for the US audience. As the RAI feed is captured, we add English commentary from Monsignor Tom Powers (who is in the Basilica), fed separately. We capture everything separately as well as mixed in case something needs to be changed or fixed. After capture (or even before the feed ends), I start to edit the RAI feed to make the program. The most challenging part of the edit is the opening and the closing. The rest consists of the RAI feed as it is, with Tom Powers' commentary. This year, we had some fantastic drone shots of the Basilica's exteriors for the opening, but no music during the feed's 'lead-in' to the Pope's entering the Basilica. So I made the opening by lifting some music and chorus from later in the feed, adding the announcer's introduction followed by Tom Powers' introduction. Pictures for the opening were rearranged as well to better lead into the Pope's entrance. Graphics were added for the opening, a couple of places for locators and Tom Powers' identifiers within the program, and the closing which consisted of the 'NBCUniversal, LLC Copyright 2014'. An 'NBC Special' announcement was added at the beginning (It's the first thing you see in the program) and a special 'Network Identification' station cue was put on the very end of the show.
Though this yearly program seems simple enough to edit, the hard part is the workflow to get it on the air. It's around 2 hours long with no breaks, no commercials. I have developed a workflow that allows this to be done as a Sequence File Transfer, which takes about a half-hour (4 times real time) to complete. To accommodate this, we need 2 additional Avid edit rooms to act as feed capture rooms (primary and backup). Once the program is edited and is being File Transferred, we also protect the FT program with a real time playout of the Avid Sequence to DPS Playback in case of trouble with the File Transfer. As an additional backup, we make an HDCAM SR tape of the program, which we hand carry down to BOC before airtime.
Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
NBC Today Show, New York
NBC Today Show, New York
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