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What do you like best about
the Video Toaster?
The Toaster is a complete
product with many applications. The most impressive
thing is the level of integration between them
all: the ability to use graphics files, animations,
audio and video without loosing time doing conversion,
exporting and importing between the different
applications is a real bonus for the integration
of this kind of product in the Television production
workflow. Another important aspect is the user
interface, everything simulates the real instruments
present in a TV production studio - everything
is really logically placed and because of this,
it is incredibly easy to learn to use the Video
Toaster.
What could be improved for
you?
We would certainly like to
see batch capture and a print to tape function
along with an alpha channel out; and for our specific
market some kind of time-scheduling solution.
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Do you need to provide several
translations for the programme since it is shown
on satellite?
Sailing Channel is a free-to-air
channel visible around all Europe. We have a specific
agreement in France with TPS and because of this
we broadcast in Italian and French. So, all our
programs are translated into French,
we also have a project to broadcast for the English-speaking
market.
When do you start working
on each race?
We are producing a 12-minute
programme, and at around 1.00 AM the journalistic
team analyse the races and starts to plan the
content of the programme. At the same time in
Auckland our journalist organises the interviews
with the guests. At 4.00 AM the production team
starts acquiring the new material from Auckland
by video-telephone or downloading mpeg files from
an ftp server and assembling the news gathered
during the previous day. The production team also
produce the graphics content for the race results.
At the end of the production process, the entire
programme is translated into French. By about
10.00 AM the programme is on air.
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