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Local Forecast / Re: Christmas Playlist 2014
« on: December 19, 2014, 01:51:25 PM »
"Silver Bells" by Booker T and the MGs at 1:48! That hasn't been used since 2006 
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Local Forecast / Re: Christmas Playlist 2014
« on: December 19, 2014, 01:30:47 PM »You know, I can't find in the past Christmas playlists "O Tannenbaum" by Vince Guaraldi anywhere? Is this something new or hasn't been used in awhile?Definitely not new to TWC. It was used in 2010 and 2009.
Also, what is that song with the "dom" vocals playing? The one that just played at 1:28
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Local Forecast / Re: Christmas Playlist 2014
« on: December 19, 2014, 11:40:41 AM »
Oh my god, they just aired "Greensleeves" by Steve Glotzer! 
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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove
« on: December 11, 2014, 01:23:30 PM »Four hours?! Why not three?It is three. Same goes for all west coast feeds.
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Local Forecast / Re: TWC Songs you've heard in other places
« on: December 01, 2014, 02:29:46 PM »Earlier today, I heard "We Three Kings" by David Arkenstone on Live 365 Smooth Jazz & More (Holiday '03 list). There were some good times back when I heard that on TWC.And Holiday '93, '04, '05, '06, '07, '08, '09, '10, and '11
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Same image every single time on the Local on the 8's
« on: December 01, 2014, 02:25:00 PM »Im not an expert with STARS as I don't live in America, but from the knowledge I've gathered here I don't think DirectTV operates a National STAR as that comes from the main TWC feed. It would be interesting to see if any other National feed viewer on a different provider has the same issue.DirecTV does have an IntelliStar at their headend, although it just displays nothing on screen at the moment.
@awlweatherchannelfan could you post a screen shot of this ?
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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday, Martin!
« on: October 22, 2014, 07:35:59 PM »
I still remember that day we met back in July 2011 when I was in Norfolk haha 
Happy birthday Martin
Happy birthday Martin
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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion
« on: September 20, 2014, 02:06:21 PM »
The Weather Channel celebrating Int'l Talk Like A Pirate Day
Since when was "Talk Like A Pirate Day" a real holiday?
This I have a problem with. They decorate the LF for this
, but not Patriot Day on September 11th?! 
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Local Forecast / Re: XL Fonts and Icons?
« on: September 20, 2014, 02:02:10 PM »
The XL uses a mixture of Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica Neue for its fonts. Both fonts are commercial fonts, which would mean they're a lot of money and aren't free to obtain.
As for the icons, those are unavailable. There are some fan-made ones lying around somewhere, but other than that the official animated icons are unavailable.
As for the icons, those are unavailable. There are some fan-made ones lying around somewhere, but other than that the official animated icons are unavailable.
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Emulator Videos / Re: WeatherStar XL Emulator Question
« on: September 07, 2014, 04:07:53 PM »I shall try to do that. By the way do you know what font(s) the XL uses. I have Interstate but idk if it uses anything else.The XL uses a mixture of Akzidenz-Grotesk and Helvetica Neue. I don't remember off the top of my head which fonts go where (it has been a while since I've done an emulation), but as long as you take snapshots of the real thing and trace over with the fonts in Photoshop (or even GIMP), you should be able to figure things out.
EDIT: Thought I'd point out: The XL only uses Interstate in the "weather.com" text on the v3 graphics and the v3 LDL.
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Emulator Videos / Re: WeatherStar XL Emulator Question
« on: September 07, 2014, 09:15:42 AM »Alright that makes sense. So is radar data layered separately in After Effects. If so how do you go about doing this. I don't think after effects can import KML files? I could be wrong.I can tell you that I don't use KML files at all. My radar imagery comes directly from The Weather Channel themselves in a transparent PNG image, and I resized it to the best of my ability over the map (with that in mind, the overlay of my radar isn't 100% accurate). I use a program known as SeqDownload to download the imagery every 5 minutes, doing so for ~3 hours (or until I have 30 images) for the the emulation I want to make. The program has the option to make a sequence of images every time it downloads a new image, and you can choose to rename the files to a sequence of numbers, that way importing into After Effects frame-by-frame is easy.
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Emulator Videos / Re: WeatherStar XL Emulator Question
« on: September 06, 2014, 09:12:03 PM »
The video you posted was a composition I created in Adobe After Effects. The radar looks realistic through my effort of probably hours of studying the XL through videos and tracing elements from screenshots in Photoshop nearly 4 years ago, when I began working on my Weather STAR XL simulation project.
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Everything Else TWC / Re: Ask TWC Anything! (Well, almost)
« on: August 25, 2014, 10:46:05 PM »
You know, I don't mean to be the Negative Nancy here, but if you aren't going to enlighten others at all on how you got to visit The Weather Channel's headquarters, then I wouldn't brag about it either. Same goes with the questionnaire you created as well. 
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Everything Else TWC / Re: Ask TWC Anything! (Well, almost)
« on: August 19, 2014, 12:29:06 AM »
I submitted a question. Best of luck on your tour 