Michael Sanders
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Thank you – I stand corrected.
Last time I saw an AP TV journo in the field in the UK, I was sure he was using a PC – it was wrong of me to base everything on that but just looking at the specs for ENPS though it only runs on Windows.
Michael Sanders
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Which is all a shame as I reckon FCP X with its keyword search and multi event set up would work a killer in a news environment.
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AP’s head office in Camden was originally a Gin warehouse for Gordon’s gin and is called The Interchange because its where gin went from the canal boats to the railways.
In 1990-91 the building was bought by Worldwide TV News (WTN) – which was formed from the joint operation of United Press and ITN (UPITN). When we moved there in 1992 the operation was based around Betacam SP and featured one of the first Odetics cart machines in the UK. Feeds would come in via satellite and get recorded on to Beta SP. The story would get recut down to time with the rubbish/horror/reframes etc taken out on one of 10 or so machine to machine Beta SP edit suites. There were also two studios (one dedicated to chromakey and the ITV weather) and a couple of three machine suites used for the magazine show’s based around vista’s and ACE25’s.
AP started their TV news operation from scratch in 1994 but in 1999 bought WTN and merged the two TV operations into one at Camden. Last I heard they had switched in around 2000 to a form of non linear editor so the journo’s could do their own editing. I can’t remember if it was Avid newscutter or Quantel EQ.
As I’m not really news based now I couldn’t tell you what happened over the past 10 years but I do know the head of ops so I could find out..
It could be that with the switch to HD a change was due but heres the interesting bit that occurred to me last night:
AP make ENPS (Essentential/Electronic News Production System). ENPS is in use in virtually every TV and radio newsroom around the globe (including all the biggies like the BBC and ITN).
I would suggest Adobe’s plan is simple: Get Premier etc working tightly with ENPS and there’s a sodding big market. Even if integration isn’t on the cards, marketing by interference is great: If the provider of your main news production s/w uses Premier who are you to argue!
Also as I said I’m sure AP is pretty much PC based so that reduces the choice…
Michael Sanders
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And one that works on PC’s!!!
Michael Sanders
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One where the seller has a big volume licence discount and a bit of PR!
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https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/customer-success/pdfs/associated-press-case-study.pdf
As someone who worked at AP when it was WTN, cutting a news feed package is hardly the most demanding of an edit system. They’ve gone for cost over anything else and I suspect they got a great deal.
Michael Sanders
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Craig,
No it’s not a gatekeeper issue. Adam found a way round it but without the little hack the installers don’t work. The software works if you have them already installed.
Michael Sanders
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I’ve emailed Adam W about this but to spread the word: the Canon XF and FCP plugins won’t install under 10.8. If you’ve got them installed they will work but the installers don’t work so if you have a new machine – tough.
I might tomorrow try copying them across from one computer to another to see if that will work.
Michael Sanders
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Its just a bit strange Bill that’s why.
Over here (i.e. in the UK) unless its news material it’s very rare to get material originally shown on one of the commercial channels rebroadcast on the BBC. There’s the 90’s news access agreement but this was outside that. Interestingly C4 only have the rights to show it for 30 days on 4OD (their on demand site) and no secondary broadcast rights.
Sorry, just pondering really. As I say not normal for the UK.
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Weird that the BBC showed a cut down of a C4 doc that only aired about a month ago…
Michael Sanders
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