Christopher Cormier

Apple Issues… Editing movies for air we encode 10bit uncompressed into Final Cut to maintain the integrity of the CC. Editors need to Send to Tape using the Input Passthrough in order to maintain the CC on output.

Terry Kirk is bringing the 5 meter transportables up here tomorrow, trying to outrun the hurricane. The dishes will go out to WILM when they finish the yard. The fiber mux’s are still about 2 weeks out.

Still haven’t heard from Telestream on a FlipFactory visit. This will be the path for HD commercials.

Doing backups of archived stories from the BitCentral system to Overland tape back up drive.

Setting up Flipfactory to flip SD and HD commercials from DG Systems distribution to the Omneon servers. Eventually the plan is to flip VYVX, Pathfire and the other IP based media distribution through Flipfactory to cut out the need to dump anything to tape.

A few weeks ago I stopped by our baby sister station WILM. If you ever thought that a TV station needed some sprawling campus to transmit, this place would change your mind. These studios are located in a tiny strip mall in the suburbs of Wilmington, NC.

Wilmington, NC was selected by the FCC to be a test market for the upcoming shutdown of standard analog television service in advance of the official February 17, 2009 shutdown date.

As it stands now, WILM doesn’t broadcast ATSC but we hope to get them online in the next few weeks.

Priced out a new Mac Pro for the graphics guy. Two quotes, Apple Ent and a local outfit. The local Mac joint was nearly $1000 cheaper, same warranty. We may look to these guys for stewardship while I upgrade all the Macs to Leopard. Why the upgrade? Primarily so the editors can check email. Leopard supports MS Mail Exchange.

Worked on the Automation triggers for the Fayetteville repeater. Trying to consolidate pre and post delay GPI’s so the MCO’s only Currently we run 3 automation lists locally. I don’t know if I could count all the ways and formats signal gets out of here.

While I’m sure most people are dreading Feb 17, 2009, all I know is we get to turn off half this plant that day. Will we maintain Standard Def for cable? I don’t think so.

The dishes for the CBS netfeeds for WILM should be in this week, still waiting on word regarding the fiber mux’s. We are less than a month away from Wilmington’s analog switch. I don’t know how well prepared the other Wilmington stations are, I just know we are behind the 8 ball.

It’s Sunday, another 12 hour overnight shift.

The ATS board is here however the electricians don’t seem to have the same sense of urgency that we do and the part isn’t an exact match so there may be a need for support, so we are going to have to wait until Monday at 0207 when regular programming ends to do this swap.

I’ll stop by and see how the swap goes even though I’m off.

Testing Blog

Generator Issues. Might be scheduling some overnight shifts.

I put a few more computers on the network monitor.