Director, Technical Director, Video Playback
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- Опубликовано: 21 май 2011
- Lots of people ask me what my job is. After I tell them what I do they still don't have a clue what I do. Maybe this will help. I picked a random day and set up 3 cameras in the control room and rolled for the first block of Good Morning Winchester. Anchor - Elyse Coulter, Meteorologist - Cassie Behofist, Audio - Kelley Mitchell, Studio Cameras - Scott Massey, Graphics - Hilary Legge. Everyone was unusually quiet for this, I think they were shy. I especially regret not recording our philosophical discussion about which fruit would you be and why from later in the show.
I didn't direct until I started working at this station. It is a very small market so it was more of a learning station than a profitable one; they hired anyone with an interest to work horrible hours for basically free. I studied mostly videography and post in school. I made this video after directing for a little less than a year. It took about a month before I directed my first technically perfect show...after that first one I very rarely had a mispunch (one a month maybe). Fun/challenging
Your anchor in this video, Elyse, I worked with at ABC22/FOX45 in Dayton Ohio when I worked there a couple years ago. She’s still there.
There is no one way into this field. Sometimes it's luck, or knowing the right people, or getting a break, or applying for the right job, or working your ass off. I went to school for two bachelor's degrees, worked at a production company in DC, was laid off, moved in with my parents, applied to the local tv station, then was quickly promoted to director once they found out I was competent. The only advice worth taking in life is do what makes you happy, everything else will take care of itself.
So true. When I was in Sacramento we hired a guy in news as a studio camera operator just because he knew someone at the station, no experience no collage courses. I agree work hard and be component and things will work out. Do what ever they ask as the new person doesn't hurt. I did everything as an intern and then got hired in a top 20 market. Also love your style I had many directors screaming the whole time.
you're doing not just 3 job , it is actually 6
1-Director 2-Technical Director 3-Video Playback 4-CG 5-sound engineer 6-Director assistance ..
I like you're hard work ..
Soo that's why the outta most respects goes out to any av media and medical servicess
Love the video. Shared this with my video production class as an example of how to direct a cut in. Thank you for posting this video. It is a very useful tool for people who are trying to teach students that directing doesn't have to be "amped up' screaming. We saw this at one station we visited that wasn't even having a insane news day. I was so happy to find an example of the type of directing I had when I worked in television more than a few years ago. Cheers and thank you.
I'm not in the industry but this is fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
Im so impressed by this, I'm currently applying for jobs and this has definitely helped me get a better understanding of what will be expected in a more "typica" environment than i'm used to working in. I'm more experienced in 'location' directing/ technical management rather than in room studio. Thanks, this is so impressive. Perfect.
Lots of respect for live TV directing and directors, regardless of whether they work in community cable TV, a small-market station or a big network. I learned to direct/switch mostly through observing one of our director/TDs at the community cable station I volunteer for. Like you, he can juggle a lot of stuff at one time while directing, and knows the studio like the back of his hand. I've gained so much more appreciation of live TV, too, because of that.
My hat is off to your production skills- coming from a broadcast camera man
My bro this is amazing. This is what I have been looking for. This is real behind the sense of what goes on in live production. Amazing work!
Wow, nice work! You're performing the tasks of the Director, AD and TD all at once. I've work in the Los Angeles market for almost 16 years now and it seems that this will be the new norm. Multitasking... Good job man!
Very nice! I'm learning on a Black Magic ATEM 4k switcher right now. We use 3 to 4 cameras and feeds from other sources. I will be learning to use the shaders next. Fun stuff. I really enjoyed watching someone that really knows what they are doing. Great job! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this, now I can show people what I do for a living. And I can do it without even filming anything... You make it look easy man!
This guy knows what he is doing, Jesus my old boss would just yell at us when in the flow room.
Thank you for this video. I am glad you post this clip for those that we need to refresh our Production skills before getting again into the industry.
The way this guy works is absoluteley amazing - this concentration is unbelievable - GREAT, good luck :-) And thank you fro sharing this with us! :-) Martin / Hamburg / Germany.
You, my friend, are an octopus. I was Director and Technical Director in a college Tv course during my bach, but I had my own CG guy and Video Playback. I can't imagine running all roles flawlessly like you did. "1 sec heavy" I'll take that anyday! I work as an editor at a local tv station now. I wouldn't stand the pressure of making a mistake in your position.
Really thankful to have a class at NKU that taught exactly this. We had separate positions for graphics/switcher, audio, SoftMetal, teleprompter, cameramen (my preferred position), anchors, and lighting/camera/mic specialists. It was a ton of fun and I'd love to be in one of those positions someday.
Amazing video! I have such respect for your job! The closest I ever got to live production was being a camera operator for the live screens at a concert... with no training whatsoever! But it was great fun! Again... much respect for live production!
You sir are a hero, I'd love to be able to keep my eye on so many things at once, i get all tied up juggling a game and webcam feed on a livestream! -T
Love this video. Thank you
Thanks for sharing this bro. It is very helpful especially to people like me who wants to learn about doing this stuff. I'm aiming to be a TD sooner. I'm new to broadcast industry and want to learn as much as I can. Although it is an old video It is really great. I hope to watch other videos from you buddy. x
I love this, I'm studying Film and TV, and my dream is to become a Steadicam Operator, but I do have classes for Producing, Camera and Lighting, post production and production project, so this is still very interesting to me. I've have a passion for Cameras Eversince I was young (I'm now 20 years old) and this side of Television is so awesome.
This took me back to my early days at WBTV in Charlotte. Great show!!!
Thanks for the video! I'm a broadcast communication student at San Francisco State and I really hope one day I would be doing what you do! Thanks again!
Thank you for letting us go behind the scenes, I must say that I am extremely impressed with your way of working, very slick and smooth. I will share this video to my voluntary based film school.. we are based on a mobile OB coach with tri-caster, MX50 and 5 XM2's.. we are currently learning the art of vision mixing live bands at present, I know that VT is the next exploration.. how did you find out that video was for you?
we were the smaller of two stations in the same area, the other station controlled our on air window and gave us control of rolling our breaks. depending on where you lived, people got our show or theirs. i believe our creative department created our graphics design template based on corporate guidelines. hour long show. everything in the US has a fast pace to it. if you compare US shows now with 40 years ago it's unbelievable how different the pacing...6 cuts per minute vs. 30+ cuts per minute
Nice Job Mr. Director, I used to work for a TV in Michigan, I miss that Job. I was floor director, Video Shadier, Soundman, Tape editor, Video Switcher, and most of the time when not doing the news, Broad Operator. I had a lot of fun doing that job. Miss it a lot, I'm in Radio now, doing my thing on the Internet. Working towards Radio TV on the Net. Keep up the good job your doing as a Director you are truly a Professional. Dj Robbie Out....
Reminds of my days at KLEW, where I had to call, switch, (On a secondhand GVG 300) advance the still store, and cue mic audio, all at same time.
I've been a technical director just under a year now. It took me about a month of training to finally to do my first broadcast. I recon (as the old saying says) it takes 10,000 hours (minimal) to be a master of it.
Jamie Rowland 10,000 hours?! I think I may have done 40 hours max, no wonder I need practice !
@@cliffharris2819 You still do it?
i freelanced for a media company in DC for a few months and then applied to a small station in my hometown...i was hired because i have a degree in media arts and design, but we had plenty of people working at the station just because they agreed to do weird hours for little pay...we started new people on cameras, then graphics, then audio, then commercial cut-ins, then directing
this is directing and technical directing at the same time...i am calling our person in charge of master control at 2:30 to make sure the switch is flipped, which takes control to roll commercials away from the computer and gives it to me...a director at our station only rolled commercial breaks for about 2.5 hours a day, everything else was computer automated or done by a master control op
@AppleStuffHelper I enjoy it most days. Very fast paced and you can't take any mistakes back, so you have to be right on at all times. I like the pressure and there's lots of variety to it all.
very impressed. I never realized there was so manny button to be pressed & reels to keep up with. I figured it was just all in a row & when one finished the other one automatically loaded & was ready to go. Now put the cams on nite vision & run it back. lol
Wonderful video ... thanks!
A great video! This seems like alot of knowing what you're doing.
Great video sir, thanks for it...
Amazing video men!! To FAVs NOW!! Thanks!!
I know this is over a decade old, but I've learnt so much from this video! If you still monitor comments could I ask a question? What are the XKeys configured to do? I'm helping to set up a new studio, building and configuring everything from scratch and am trying to automate as much as possible. I'd love to DM if you have time? Thanks, Clive
Thankyou for this video! I need to learn technical directing like this for my church documentation...
Great video, really enjoyed the inside look.
Thanks for the upload. I enjoyed this because Im starting studio classes in the fall. How long did it take you from school to a director?
this is fun to watch!
Phwew! Fun stuff! I run small scale video at my church but it's good practice when you're alone running switcher, direct cameras, queue up/play videos, camera engineer, and babysit the audio panel all at once! You learn real quick how to be a multi-tasker. It's nice having a second hand to do half the stuff while you just focus on switching.
+Eric Jamieson You have to be a multi-tasker and the main thing is to Stay Calm!
I would run one of the cameras in our church for a few months. I would watch the director/tech director who was also the shader do his work. I did direct a couple of services. You have to think about two steps ahead of what is going on, telling different cameras to get the shots you want. I remember one Easter Sunday we were into the service about 10 minutes when the director pulled his headset off and told me he was sick and for me to take over. I was too surprised to be scared. I told all the camera operators to hold their shots and I was taking over. The service went smooth, no glitches. The graphics man told me after the service was over "good work". We had about 3,500 people at church that day.
I did fill-in directing for a year or so until we got all new HD equipment and state of the art equipment. I leave all the directing to the young people who have degrees in audio/video broadcasting. I am just one of the 'old' camera guys that gets call to help.
+D. Hansel Yeah you gotta multitask but it becomes much easier as you do it. You must know all the equipment like the back of your hand. I read the manuals and am always exploring. I am very picky on how the program is recorded so I direct most weeks. Every director is different. Some tell the cameras what to do all the time, but I give them creative freedom and that seems to work very well with the more experienced camera ops. If I have newer ones, I tell them what to do more.
Your right about different directors. I have had some that keep the camera people on edge. They don't know what to get next. Other directors are laid back and things just flow.
I love to do concerts. You can be real creative with pushes, pulls, rack focusing and pushes to roll focus-out. Many people don't understand what it takes to put a program on.
we had those days too...where i'd be doing graphics on top of this job and my graphics op was playing videos from the core...fun times
For the last few months I have been working at setting up a and now running a live stream set up with my church at 3 other rural churches. I am really enjoying this sort of thing and I am wondering how one gets into the field professionally. I am currently in high school.
Extremely helpful
This video is Great!
Thanks for this brilliant video, I volunteer as a director in two church venues with live screenings and a live web feed in one venue.Both have remote camera operators.Thank you for showing me how directing should be done !
thanks about evreything this is so hellp full for me thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks a looooot
This is much harder than it looks...it takes alot of multitasking skills!
im in college for this right now. Love it so much
What major?
+Winston R (Hakeem) Radio and Television major
+Winston R (Hakeem) which also relates to video production and video editing
+BullCraftMaxx ok thanks
+BullCraftMaxx can film production include that
My observations, in no particular order:
1) is having the window accessible worth bending your neck to see the multiviewers?
2) buy a PH-88; they're *much* more comfortable
3) you don't push the headset cable out of the way of the panel?
4) LOVE the dimmer wall
5) what's on the little Marshall twin? Air-return?
6) Your IFB is just another intercom channel with a box?
7) Who did you call on the phone, and why weren't they on com?
8) I assume you're using DSK Tie a lot in the opening segment
9) Do your on-set talent have countdown timers? Or is it just floor dir/IFB counting back?
10) Is all that weather key-fill preproduced? I didn't see CG playing any of it -- or you.
That was awesome
Thanks for the video! I'm just starting my Junior year in college and need to choose a major. The problem is I just don't know the career path for Technical Director! haha. I know some type of television/media degree would probably be fine but what is the career path? How do I get my first job as a TD? At a really small station or what?
AMAZING
Did your producer nod off?
Very cool. I was audio on newscasts at WLKY back in the '90s. It's changed a lot since then! Thanks for posting.
pretty cool, thanks for the video
Thank you for making this video!!! I am apart of my local high schools Broadcasting club and we have a video switcher such as yours... but on a much much smaller scale. I want to become a Technical Director when I get out of school and watching videos like these makes me more and more excited everytime. Do you have any tips on what I can do to make my Broadcasting Club (who does morning news everyday) more efficient or better? Thanks!!
Hey, Sam! Don't know if you'll read this since this comment is 8 years old, but I'm one of the TDs at Spectrum in Ohio and just saw your comment and recognized you from your emails 😂
@@calebmcurby8580 oh my god… yeah things have definitely changed a bit! Now I fix Dalet for a living 😂😂 *you never saw me here haha*
@@samuellund3584 Never! 😂😂😂 well please continue fixing it. We all ask each other on a daily basis why we use it 😂
@@calebmcurby8580 I ask myself that a couple million a day!
@@calebmcurby8580 But wait, how do you saw his reply? Like you're on a different account lol
Awesome inside look.
Hi, nice job!
3:45 .. do u adjust cameras aperture on ccu or the gain on the key?
That was cool. Thank you.
When I was a master control operator at WKEF Elyse Coulter was hired as a weekend anchor. I think she is still there.
She is. She’s doing the morning shows now. I last worked there a couple years ago.
very good, Amazing
Great video!!!
What switcher do you use? I use a Ross Synergy 2 and I only know the basics in regards to just going to cameras and transitions. Other things such as graphics and MEs I do not fully understand. Got any recommendations for literature on the subject?
GREAT VIDEO! I just started learning how to direct at my local news station, have any advice for someone just starting?
To me, the right screen seems to be what we see, while the other is for the dude and rest of the crew that's a part of this production 😊
good to know! thanks!
Hi, starting with 1 and 2 inch VTRs and first Gen. ADOs i am now working NLE only. Very impressing !! What is that Switcher ?
*Very cool!*
My dad looked up this video to get an understanding of what the TD at our station does. You've got a little more work off the top of the show because I edit the open (with music, transitions, etc.) together. Your video is nice but I really like seeing directors overcome a problem on the fly. For the most part, our problems come from equipment such as the video server locking up and having to be rebooted which takes about 5-7 minutes.
If I had a playout server in a control room that locked up often enough to get mentioned, I would have the station engineer in on a Saturday (and a Sunday if necessary) until it got fixed, and I'd be sitting over his shoulder.
I've been working in TV for three years now; two as a PA/backup director and this past year directing/td/graphics op at a small station in Iowa. I must say I hate trying to tell people what I do. Also, I miss the Ross switcher that I used at my first job, the switcher I'm currently using is a Philips DD-35 and is very close to death.
The part I have always like the most when they do the weather portion of the newscast is that the person who does the weather almost always has control of the maps or whatever that is projected behind them via the green screen, with the remote control that they have in one of their hands, to me if I was the weather person, I would feel more in control instead of maybe have the director say in my earpiece if I was wearing one, which map or display would be appearing next.....
dream job
Yep Im doing that in college now
...no questions..lets do this...
My TV productions teacher showed us this. This job looks difficult, I even tried it at our schools studio and I couldn't keep up Cuz it was so difficult. In the studio we make our own new cast and outside studio we make our own packages. Combine em and then we got out class's news package
nice command bro...very interesting.. i'm video producer from Kuching Sarawak Malaysia... nice video n production works...really njoy of it!
Good video, interesting to see how you guys do things slightly differently to how we produce news here in Australia. Nath
Are there any behind the scenes videos of technical directing in AU?
@@Salmagundiii there was a video of the TCN (Channel 9 Sydney) 1800 News. Not sure where it is now.
@@fivequackingzephyrs You should be sure lol
@@islamiconasheed it’s not my video - I wasn’t the uploader :-)
@@fivequackingzephyrsThat was fast nick, I was joking btw lol
well done nice demo
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Awesome !!! Questions , when you re talking who is listening to you ? Elyse , Cassie or everyone there ???
Can a director not being involved on the tech stuff , but instead direct someone else ?
we called our "line up" the "run down"...the software had a couple of different windows, one showed a collapsed view, like a spreadsheet, showing block name and number, the slug of the contents of that element, run time, and the camera/gfx/video corresponding...the other window had all of this info as well as the script typed out and written instructions for anything requested by the producer...you can find screengrabs of AVID's iNews fairly easily on google images if you want to see it
'Rundown's a pretty common thing to call that -- it's what I call it.
Awesome! :)
How do you make split screen. I mean that 2 input stand by each other? Is it a pre maked graphic or do you make with the buttons?
could you make another one?
I started off as a production assistant in Jackson Tennessee. I made 6.90 an hour in 2007. When I started directing I made 8.75 an hour. Slave labor basically.
Nice video! I do this type of thing as well, and your video couldn't show what a director does any better.
what is a playback device i should use to load videos in and be able to playback youtube videos remotely?
Is this the same as a master control position? Thanks!
i was adjusting the aperture remotely
Hey, it's Elyse! from Fox45!!
GOOD OPERATOR.
wow, know i know what i want to do for a career! good job, any advice?:)
That can be fast moving.....
I remember sitting next to the director at one of the big mega-churches during the Easter service.
We were into the service about 10 minutes when the director/shader/technical director yanked his headset off gave it to me saying... take over I'm sick!
All I could do is tell all the cameramen to hold their shots the director left sick and I am taking over. By the grace of God I made it through the service OK, no problems.
We had about 4,000 people in the auditorium.
Is there a list of the technical terms you were using while on air?
VOSot - voiceover of the anchor over pictures, then Sound On Tape (the grab)
SotVO - same as above but in reverse.
Bump - Bumper is a fullscreen graphic transition between pieces of vision.
@@TrekzoneMedia And if you're in the UK, OOV for presenter voice over pics, SOT is the same thing and I guess a bump would be a wipe.
Even though this was first asked 4 years ago, thanks for still posting up guys - even if this dude doesn't see it, I did and it saved me from asking the same question!
Can anyone tell me what the green buttoned ABC controller is - is it an interface to rundown creator and what is running VT and CG (eg Caspar / Xpression…). I’m building a studio and that bit of kit is baffling me! Cheers, Stuart
Hi,
Also curious about what swither and playout you use...
i work for a tv station in switzerland. How many people are working on this show ? (journalists, editors, etc...) Are the journalists making their reports by themselves ? (without cameramens ?). Do you use sometimes satellite trucks for live reports ?
Crazy!
Hi, i wonder what is the buttons you are pressing on top of the video switcher? thank you.
I'm a student at Columbia College Chicago and I was going to whoop my teachers ass for giving me attitude because I struggled as a director, I learned that I will never be able to direct news but I learned that my teacher is now scared of me
Dang! Which teacher? Also a Columbia alum
I am curious what switcher are you using and what brand/model of video playback device.
Also, I assume you are not doing audio too. Correct?
your a class act.