Sunday, January 27, 2008

A Slow Week at Work & Thank God for Avid

Wednesday

Missouri State Outlasts Salukis
Police Find Pipe Bomb at Springfield Home

Thursday
Three Pipe Bombs Found At Springfield Home
Lamberth Leads Bears To Victory
Central Methodist Beats Evangel
Drury, MSU Split Swim Meet

Friday
Springfield Wants Your Input On New City Manager (Shot "Man On the Street" interviews)
Kids Un-school Art Exhibit
MSU Ice Bears Freeze Mizzou
Waynesville Grounds Falcons

I also shot with Joy on a super secret story. Have no idea when it will eventually air.

Saturday
Steelman Announces Run For Governor
Trooper Shoots Man In Self Defense

So today I had a new wrench thrown into my life.

Right now KOLR/KSFX is between weekend sports anchors.

Dan Lucy is the TV color commentator for the MSU Bears basketball games.

Since MSU was on the road this weekend, that left us with no anchor. No problem ... we'll just throw some highlites together, and have the news anchor read them.

I got the job of logging the game and editing the high lites and post game that Dan was to send after the game.

One problem. Mediacom was sending a digital feed, and we always seem to have trouble tuning digital feeds on the weekend. Consequently, I didn't get to log the game because I was trying to help Master Control figure out the problem.

Eventually we got one signal with an excellent picture ... but no sound.

We got another signal with excellent sound, but a completely unusable picture.

So, I recorded both feeds and managed to sync the picture to the sound(for post game). Our Avid system made this part relatively easy ... I just wish I could've been able to enjoy the experience. Mostly ... I just felt like crap afterwards.

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