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=Debate Night= | =Debate Night= | ||
==Credits== | |||
* Produced by: [[Joe Radford]] | |||
* Directed by: [[Joe Radford]] | |||
* Technical Lead: [[Andrew Waddle]] | |||
* Technical team: [[Andrew Waddle]], [[Will Stirk]], [[Rhys Milling]] | |||
* Computing: [[Rhys Milling]] | |||
* Vision Mixer: [[Thomas Schubert]] | |||
* Sound: [[Andrew Waddle]] | |||
* Graphics Op: [[Joe Radford]] | |||
* Camera ops: [[Adam Hilton]], [[Wilfred Hodder]], [[Sophie Bolwell-Davies]], [[Will Stirk]] | |||
==Event== | |||
The show was run primarily by [[Joe Radford]] with a minimal crew, working to the YUSU event plan in D bar. The show stream was almost a total success from the YSTV side, with only 1 footage issue in the recorded version. The livestream was, as so often, held together by literal [[Bodge|gaffer tape]]; with the Ethernet cable for the stream up-link held in with tape. No massive failures occurred, and the only real issue was the Derwent technical staff (running the stage sound) causing a whole load of reverb every time new people would speak. | |||
Owing to some new lighting equipment from the Electronic Engineering department, the stream looked somewhat better than years previously with the AC90 cameras working far better when aimed at a stage flooded with 2000 Watts of light. | |||
This show was only 3 days before the [[NASTA 2020]] submission deadline for new work, so many of those involved and much of the rest of YSTV was busy in editing crunch. | |||
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This had also sadly caused the stream to die, which required [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] to jog all the way to courtyard where it had been playing out but had died to the connection loss. | This had also sadly caused the stream to die, which required [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] to jog all the way to courtyard where it had been playing out but had died to the connection loss. | ||
In addition, when the OB units were switched back on we were struck with an OS not found screen on our graphics computer for OB2, this caused great distress, but it turned out that a USB had been left in the computer that was originally being used to transfer the embargoed graphics but it had also been used previously to boot an OS which we didn't realise at first. Upon discovery, a quick unplug, a power-on and we were back in action. | In addition, when the OB units were switched back on we were struck with an OS not found screen on our graphics computer for OB2, this caused great distress, but it turned out that a USB had been left in the computer that was originally being used to transfer the embargoed graphics but it had also been used previously to boot an OS which we didn't realise at first. Upon discovery, a quick unplug, a power-on and we were back in action. | ||
===Networking=== | ===Networking=== | ||
There was significant issues that occurred in regards to networking. Firstly, the laptops were connected through WiFi which displeased [[Matthew Stratford|Matthew]] and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] greatly. This was likely caused by the fact the A/V control software kept on disconnecting, a better WiFi AP would probably have resolved this slight issue. [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] attempted to resolve this by connecting them all to OB2's switch but this resulted in the laptop's unable to get IP addresses. This was not ideal. It appeared that none of the laptop's could discover the DHCP server, reasons are still unknown to this day, although it was likely a faulty config file made by [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] and a DNS server issue. So in order to resolve this issue we had to setup each laptop to use a static IP address instead which thankfully resolved the lack of connectivity and allowed us to vision mix to our hearts content. | There was significant issues that occurred in regards to networking. Firstly, the laptops were connected through WiFi which displeased [[Matthew Stratford|Matthew]] and [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] greatly. This was likely caused by the fact the A/V control software kept on disconnecting, a better WiFi AP would probably have resolved this slight issue. [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] attempted to resolve this by connecting them all to OB2's switch but this resulted in the laptop's unable to get IP addresses. This was not ideal. It appeared that none of the laptop's could discover the DHCP server, reasons are still unknown to this day, although it was likely a faulty config file made by [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] and a DNS server issue. So in order to resolve this issue we had to setup each laptop to use a static IP address instead which thankfully resolved the lack of connectivity and allowed us to vision mix to our hearts content. | ||
===The OB unit that wasn't grounded=== | ===The OB unit that wasn't grounded=== | ||
During setup of the computing infrastructure [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] had first noticed this issue when plugging in equipment into OB1 but didn't let it phase him thinking it was just a static shock. That happened early during the setup, so after all the extra equipment had been plugged in it had caused this shock to be left a little bit more. [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] was attempting to plug an SDI cable in from OB1 complaining that there was an issue with it but sadly his cries were disregarded by [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] and [[Ben Allen|Ben]] saying that they experience it all the time in the studio! After enough complaining by [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]], [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] attempted the final connection of the SDI cable, thinking it was fine at first then ZAP! He reeled in pain and then the tech team decided it wasn't a good idea to use that OB unit anymore so we had to quickly deploy [[Marty]] the third OB unit which up until now was reserved until emergencies. So it was quickly prepped for graphics playout where it was then discovered it didn't have any graphics software installed, so [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] and [[Ben Allen|Ben]] worked against the clock to get it ready to playout graphics! Luckily it was setup and did its job without fault. | During setup of the computing infrastructure [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] had first noticed this issue when plugging in equipment into OB1 but didn't let it phase him thinking it was just a static shock. That happened early during the setup, so after all the extra equipment had been plugged in it had caused this shock to be left a little bit more. [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] was attempting to plug an SDI cable in from OB1 complaining that there was an issue with it but sadly his cries were disregarded by [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] and [[Ben Allen|Ben]] saying that they experience it all the time in the studio! After enough complaining by [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]], [[Andrew Waddle|Andrew]] attempted the final connection of the SDI cable, thinking it was fine at first then ZAP! He reeled in pain and then the tech team decided it wasn't a good idea to use that OB unit anymore so we had to quickly deploy [[Marty]] the third OB unit which up until now was reserved until emergencies. So it was quickly prepped for graphics playout where it was then discovered it didn't have any graphics software installed, so [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] and [[Ben Allen|Ben]] worked against the clock to get it ready to playout graphics! Luckily it was setup and did its job without fault. | ||