Kaptnvideo
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Tonight it happened. 4:58pm--The news tease rolls without a hitch--we hit the show open, anchors say "Good Evening, here the lastest..." and bingo, bango, bongo-- the server crashed and suddenly we are a newscast without video. No packages, no V/O-sots, nothing. Graphics were all in place, they were in a different server. Robotics, remotes, control room were all un-affected. The cry goes forth from the producer- I need stories on TAPE, NOW!
By 5:10 the first packages and v/o's were headed to the old "Tape Room", a phrase we haven't used for over two years. We are entirely Sony DNE-700 based, and all of our edited stories live in the local machines until cleared the next day. We only have two SX playback machines in Master Control, everything else is SP from the old days.
For the 5, we had to record the stories from the DNE to SX Tape, and run them to Master Control, where they aired as they arrived. We survived that trauma with some help from two remotes, including a lead story from our helicopter over a Hazardous materials site, and a house fire.
During the thirty minute break, editors finished stories for the 6pm newscast and dumped them to SX tape. All of the SX Tapes were then dubbed to SP in our lone tape-to-tape edit bay. By 5:55 the first segment had been finished, and the second segment was completed ten minutes later. Everyone not directly involved in editing helped with labeling, rewinding blank tapes for dubs, and running tapes to MC. Our EP made sure every tape had the proper playlist designation on the label as it left the edit area. Another manager kept track of which stories were being cut in which rooms, and kept traffic flowing to the dub center.
By 6:20, the last teases and vo's were done, and sent down the hall. Quite an effort by many folks, most on overtime. But it raises the question, how prepared is your operation to handle the "crash" when it comes?
By 5:10 the first packages and v/o's were headed to the old "Tape Room", a phrase we haven't used for over two years. We are entirely Sony DNE-700 based, and all of our edited stories live in the local machines until cleared the next day. We only have two SX playback machines in Master Control, everything else is SP from the old days.
For the 5, we had to record the stories from the DNE to SX Tape, and run them to Master Control, where they aired as they arrived. We survived that trauma with some help from two remotes, including a lead story from our helicopter over a Hazardous materials site, and a house fire.
During the thirty minute break, editors finished stories for the 6pm newscast and dumped them to SX tape. All of the SX Tapes were then dubbed to SP in our lone tape-to-tape edit bay. By 5:55 the first segment had been finished, and the second segment was completed ten minutes later. Everyone not directly involved in editing helped with labeling, rewinding blank tapes for dubs, and running tapes to MC. Our EP made sure every tape had the proper playlist designation on the label as it left the edit area. Another manager kept track of which stories were being cut in which rooms, and kept traffic flowing to the dub center.
By 6:20, the last teases and vo's were done, and sent down the hall. Quite an effort by many folks, most on overtime. But it raises the question, how prepared is your operation to handle the "crash" when it comes?