The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

[CartoonJazzLover]

Sharon just said, "All right, that sounds like a plan." in HD!

Yeah, I heard that. And at 10:40 PM CT, Rich just said "Yeah, let's do that" in HD as well.

I saw these pharses as well.

[Stephen]

They used a live teaser once again on PM Edition tonight. Looks like they're not going to use a pre-recorded one anymore.

[Spring Rubber]

Matt, Your Weather Today seems to have actually refocused itself more on the weather than on some of the pointless segments they've developed over the past year+. Evening Edition, however, seems like the same old same old. I wish things would change, I really do. but it doesn't seem like change is in order for that show.

[beanboy89]

For EE tonight, the camera angle on the video wall is a bit tighter in; you can no longer see the lights at the top of the wall (at least on my TV).

[Spring Rubber]

Now they've got Dr. Forbes in the HD studio for the first time; he's using the telestrator on the end of the desk.

[beanboy89]

For EE tonight, the camera angle on the video wall is a bit tighter in; you can no longer see the lights at the top of the wall (at least on my TV).

And now for the 9:30 PM ET segment, they're back to using the wider shot from last night.

[Spring Rubber]

I wonder if EEWC will go fully live for the first time in HD tonight; there's a lot of severe weather going on tonight.

[Spring Rubber]

I wonder if EEWC will go fully live for the first time in HD tonight; there's a lot of severe weather going on tonight.

Nope, but Sharon's using the projector wall, and Rich is using the key wall. Looks like Master can only use the projector wall for one OCM per broadcast.

[wxmancanada]

I wonder if EEWC will go fully live for the first time in HD tonight; there's a lot of severe weather going on tonight.

Nope, but Sharon's using the projector wall, and Rich is using the key wall. Looks like Master can only use the projector wall for one OCM per broadcast.

Just a quick note, Master Control, and full control (X3) have the same abilities now.

[Spring Rubber]

Do they have the same amount of staff to run everything? They seem pretty understaffed during this shift and unable to change camera locations on the fly.

[beanboy89]

Random thought: Could they theoretically turn the video wall into a huge chroma key? Wouldn't all they need to do is project a solid color onto the screen and move a few cameras?

[Spring Rubber]

I actually saw that in one of the preview videos somewhere. They had part of the right side of the screen solid green.

[Spring Rubber]

Back this morning is Jen Carfagno's favorite Travel Radar with the enormous city names. There aren't any airport icons, though.

[wxmancanada]

Do they have the same amount of staff to run everything? They seem pretty understaffed during this shift and unable to change camera locations on the fly.

All cameras can be controlled by 1 (one) CCU operator who simply selects a camera, and moves the joysticks. From what I've heard there are a few extra people on hand for the new operations until things get settled.

Random thought: Could they theoretically turn the video wall into a huge chroma key? Wouldn't all they need to do is project a solid color onto the screen and move a few cameras?

It seems do-able, however chroma key is very picky on its hues and such, the color would have to be 100% consistent of its self across the whole screen, if they were to do this it would look pretty messed up as if / when the camera moves, the whole image will move with it.

[WeatherWitness]

Last night on EE (don't know if this has been mentioned), the large city names from the Weekly Planner map for precipitation were removed. I hope this is permanent because the map looks WAY better without them.