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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:35:20 AM »

TWC please stop calling it a 7 day forecast when you don't have enough time to show 7 Days.
Just now they only went from Today to Saturday. Go back to the Weekly Planner and make it 5 days.
Once again the music under the forecasts has to go.

Huh?

Ever since TWC switched from the Weekly Planner 5 day forecast to the 7 Day Forecast they never have enough time to go through 7 Days of forecasts.
I'm saying go back to 5 days because they seem to have enough time to go through 5 days.

Wow that WCL theme is annoying and it plays under every forecast segment.

Oh I see what you're saying. Yea that's a good point. They probably should avoid any mention of the number of days just to be safe

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:32:03 AM »

Does this mean that the whole TV screen is going to be squished down inside of a box around the whole TV size ?? Sorry im not very good at explaining, but i seriously hope that dont happen here. I have a regular CRT TV, not no fancy HD led, whatever.

It would make me so mad if this channel puts the whole entire station inside of a box like that. (black space around all 4 corners). Some of the local phoenix channels here do that and i HATE it soooo much.

I seriously hope it dont happen to TWC, i perfer full screen

Letterbox is here to stay. Sorry but thats just the future for every cable and broadcast network. Every OTA station in my market has gone to letterbox format. I'm surprised it took them this long

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:23:11 AM »

TWC please stop calling it a 7 day forecast when you don't have enough time to show 7 Days.
Just now they only went from Today to Saturday. Go back to the Weekly Planner and make it 5 days.
Once again the music under the forecasts has to go.

Huh?

What a letdown. HD feed is letterboxed on SD, and being that we don't have the IntelliStar 2, we see the national feed. Many viewers will be unhappy if they don't have the IS2.

The IS will be updated but that is a longer rollout.

So you're saying like sometime today, or within the next few months?

All I heard is that there were delays but nothing specific. I would expect within the day but you never know. Rolling out a major update to hundreds of ten year old computers can take time

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:13:16 AM »

Don't like snow being blue on the maps. It should be white.

Too much confusion when they show cloud cover. WSI has transitioned to blue and so have many stations who use their products.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:09:31 AM »

Very impressed by the local

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:06:03 AM »

local weather my butt, can't believe that. I had my local weather 5 minutes ago!

Patience

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:05:53 AM »

What a letdown. HD feed is letterboxed on SD, and being that we don't have the IntelliStar 2, we see the national feed. Many viewers will be unhappy if they don't have the IS2.

The IS will be updated but that is a longer rollout.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 04:03:29 AM »

Not the smoothest launch

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: November 12, 2013, 03:22:30 AM »

That blue thing to the left of the Weather Center Live logo looks like a target.

http://us.cdn3.123rf.com/168nwm/speedfighter/speedfighter1004/speedfighter100400176/6854573-sniper-target-scope-or-sight-isolated-on-white-background.jpg

Meant to resemble a radar. it will likely have a sweeping animation

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 07, 2013, 11:46:49 PM »

So basically TWC HD will have the closest Metropolitan Area for a Headend?

I'm curious about this too based on that video. Martin do you know anything about this?

Don't know specifics on that but my guess is the top 10/20 headends get the personalized looks with a generic for others. I'm not really aware of a headend with many region specific IS2s so its not going to be too big of a deal

If anyone was wondering, the name of the song playing in that video Martin posted is "I'm Alive" by Michael Franti.

And the song sucks because youtube removed part of it due to copyrights lol

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 05, 2013, 11:20:13 AM »

The main on air graphics will still be using WSI Max systems so while they may look different I would expect them to keep the same feel to them unless they get some major TWC exclusive features from the WSI team. Remember this is just a sample image not made with actual production equipment. Some of you may remember the original HD Star concept video several years ago. The end results were quite different.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: October 05, 2013, 10:36:14 AM »

The Weather Channel: Weather All The Time

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: October 03, 2013, 09:16:17 PM »

Hey everyone! I haven't really posted much and thought I would check in. Life is busy for me now that I'm working and still in school but getting to do what I love makes it all worth while. Glad to see everyone is doing pretty well

Does anyone have any title bars or individual graphics that match current or past on air graphics? If so I would love to chat with you and see if I could use them in a personal project. I've seen a lot of the work in the fan forum and there is a lot of great content.

I'm working at one of my local tv stations as a production assistant and weather producer. I make a lot of graphics using the MAX system which is the same program TWC now uses primarily. There is actually a special mode WSI activates that unlocks TWC exclusive features in the software...sadly that's not activated for us haha! Still I'd like to try and re-create some of the on air graphics using my system but sadly I don't have anything made. I don't have the time or talent to make them either I'd be happy to make some wx videos for anyone able to send me some. Shoot me a PM or facebook message if you want to help

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: October 03, 2013, 09:08:46 PM »

Whoa!   I have never seen something like this on NWS forecasts before; is this new?

Nope they have done it in the past. Not sure if every WFO implemented it so it may be new for your area. I recall seeing them at least for the past year or so here. Pretty nifty idea!

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TWC Fan Art / Re: My Artwork

« on: September 18, 2013, 02:43:39 AM »

I do recognize MAX file exports when I see them