DTA Transmission Operations Training Video BBC

[@james4flix925]

I think they would be using Windows NT 3.51 (1995) or maybe Windows NT 4.0 (1996)

[@northernplacecorporation]

These folks found out about the closed captions for a "Meet the Ancestors" episode (the episode was entitled "The Tomb That Time..." on January 3, 2000. Here, those were missing, but they're all found just several minutes later.

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

Thanks so much for uploading this to KZbin this is absolutely fascinating!

[@northernplacecorporation]

I just found out that DB does not only stand for Digital Betacam. It does also stand for Digital Broadcast. The clip of a "Tots' Time" episode entitled "Making Up", originally aired January 3, 2000 on BBC Knowledge is what's seen on here. Same said for the videotape clock slate for an episode of "DynaMo", also aired on BBC Knowledge on the same day.

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

@@northernplacecorporation I was wondering was this the same with other programmes as well so one was on the DB1 monitor and the next one was on the DB2 monitor?

[@northernplacecorporation]

@@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq Well, the "Making Up" episode is on the DB1 (Digital Broadcast #1) monitor. The slate from "DynaMo" is on the DB2 (Digital Broadcast #2) monitor. The former is what's on air back on January 3, 2000. The latter wasn't.

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

@@northernplacecorporation Oh okay so I wonder where about at BBC Television Centre BBC Knowledge was?

[@northernplacecorporation]

@@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq The BBC Television Center the BBC Knowledge TV channel is transmitted from is one in London, at Sheperds Bush.

[@northernplacecorporation]

They're using Digital Betacam at the time, hence the Sony DVW-A500P Digital Betacam recorder shown here.

[@joenest2122]

They're using light bulbs in their offices at the time, hence the light coming out of the bulbs here.

[@northernplacecorporation]

@@joenest2122 Oh. I see.

[@northernplacecorporation]

However, the Digital Betacam cassette seen here is for episode 16 of "The Kit", originally aired on August 3, 1999, on the network that aired it, BBC Knowledge. It was re-aired on January 3, 2000, on the same network. The master tape of it (that being a Sony 32 minute Digital Betacam videocassette) is seen for several seconds. Same said for the Sony DVW-A510P player and its' accompanying DVW-A500P recorder.

[@paulloveless4122]

What is Digital Betacam?

[@northernplacecorporation]

@@paulloveless4122 Digital Betacam? Well, Colin of Video99 did a video on the topic, with a Sony DVW-A500P VTR in it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6anoo18hbuYa80

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

Thank you so much for uploading this to KZbin Tots Time looks like a fantastic programme for pre-school kids which was shown on BBC Knowledge by the way according to my research I can confirm that the episode Making Up was shown on Monday 3rd January 2000 Making Up 3 January 2000 However that Tweenies episode was originally broadcast on Tuesday 16th November 1999 at 10:30 on BBC Two.

[@northernplacecorporation]

What?! Really? That episode of the "Tweenies" was originally aired November 16, 1999 on BBC One and Two? Holy crap!

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

@@northernplacecorporation Yep that was the original transmission date on BBC One and BBC Two but this is BBC Knowledge

[@northernplacecorporation]

@@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq Originally aired on BBC One and Two, but the TV network seen here is BBC Knowledge, and the Digital Betacam master tape seen here is the 16th episode of the BBC Knowledge series "The Kit".

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

@@northernplacecorporation Yeah but if you look very carefully at the start you will see Tweenies

[@northernplacecorporation]

@@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq Wait... Really?

[@alijanlondon]

Yes, we remember and we're still here

[@Benmottram1]

Wo there! How young! It must be about 10 years ago. Anybody out there remember this?

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

No afraid not I was wondering do you know which Tweenies episode was being shown at the start of this recording?

[@icydragon68]

Seems a fun job to me. Where can I apply?

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

Does anybody know what episode of Tweenies was being shown at 00:32 00:33 as I don't recognise it myself

[@TweeniesMad]

Yes! The episode is "Making Up".

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

@@TweeniesMad Thank you that took some working out

[@TweeniesMad]

@@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq not really! When you’ve watched the episodes over and over, you just know! 😉

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

@@TweeniesMad Yeah that episode is brilliant isn't it

[@TweeniesMad]

@@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq it is!

[@Joyousmicor]

Just 5 months before major power cut...

[@Joyousmicor]

What the system is called? EDIT: It was OmniBus playout system.

[@StuartClary]

The automation was Compass, the server was called Mapp

[@utterlee]

I miss PICS.

[@gordonm2821]

Greetings from the future. PICS was the channel playout software that spent years getting designed but never written fully. Pro-bel were brought in at the last minute to implement their Compass control software. Ironically PICS would have had loads of middle management delivering nothing but Compass core was mainly done by one person called Spencer. There was also a mainframe / terminal based application called CBIS which handled booking of resources like video circuits between regional sites and studios which did make it into service. PICS - Presentation Information Control System. CBIS - Central Bookings Information System However also known informally as Presentation Information and no Control System and Crap But In Service

[@utterlee]

@@gordonm2821 ahh well, PICS soldiered on admirably until 2010 I think. There have been two different pres planning systems since then.

[@gordonm2821]

@@utterlee - Did PICS become reality and replace Compass?. I thought the developer pulled out of the contract (Unisys or similar type company).

[@utterlee]

@ it never became the final Playout system, but it was the program that the transmission schedule was planned in before being transferred to the automation. The Schedulers made their schedules in Gizmo which were manually copied into PRDB for accounting purposes and that was transferred into PICs. Those three systems have all been replaced with a single system now which massively reduces the workload.

[@gordonm2821]

@@utterlee - I also worked for a short while at pro-bel post BBC and guys were telling me the time they got the BBC NTA project and a massive Panasonic MARC tape playout robot suddenly appearing in their Reading office to write and test the control of it. Compass already existed and just needed lots of usual tweaks for BBC workflows. Pretty sure that status screen for compass was a teletext type page.

[@MarkPentler]

We're these guys responsible for playout of stuff from the servers at all or just copying programmes to it?

[@Joyousmicor]

Lol, computers using Windows 3.11

[@starwarshoarder]

Im afraid not, this is all I have.

[@mrhammadmossop1988ul-haq]

00:32 00:33 I can see The Tweenies

[@tortysoft]

S+V satis for TX ?- in my day a cassette was NEVER satis for TX !

[@dunebasher1971]

Well, that's improvements in technology for you.