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The '''socs603''' account was used by YSTV at some point. After lack of use it was permanently removed.

"A Hard Drive used as a coffee rest is not the use for which it's best"

...d by [[Rhys Milling]] on the lead-up to [[Freshers' Fair 2021]] wanting to use it for [[digital signage]]. ...setups and trying to reduce computing involment. It is also planned to be used for authentication to the University filestore.

...6]] - provided by the University of York Computing Services department for use by YSTV in the 1990s. The account was used as the primary email and [[website]] account for use by members and those wishing to contact the station. The password to the ac

...ll]] for use on [[Elections 2003]] (in the days when idents would only get used for special occasions such as this). It shows an Eeyore (off of Winnie Th

The YSTV Gold [[Idents|ident]] was created for use in [[Small Screen]]'s feature of the same name in May 2005. It consisted o ...[2000 Logo|modern YSTV logo]] appearing at the end of the sequence. It is used to introduce classic programming from the station's archive.

This was put together by [[Emma Winter]] in 1995, and parts were later used in the 1995 [[Review of the Year]]. It was cut to Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy", as later used by [[Dave Baker]] in [[I'm Too Techie]].

...e zooming a projector feed or keystoneing a warped picture. It can also be used for aspect ration conversion, for example, a 4:3 video source can now be f

...5]] - provided by the University of York Computing Services department for use by YSTV in the 1990s. The account was used for email and [[website]] associated with the [[Grapevine]] service. As wi

...hting rig, and remotely controlled using a serial interface. It used to be used at [[OB:Outside Broadcasts|Woodstock]], hung above the stage. When Woodsto The control software we use is located at [http://www.camerapad.com/cameras.asp http://www.camerapad.co

[https://slack.com Slack] is an instant messaging app for teams, used by YSTV since it was set up by [[Sam Willcocks]] in 2015 as a replacement You can customise emojis, loading messages and bots. Oh and by the way, we use it so much, Slack deletes old messages, ask any admin to Slack about that!

...to an [[Idents|ident]] in it's own right, in which role it continues to be used regularly on air.

...] on the day of the first YSTV Live using existing drone footage, and were used throughout the spring and summer terms. The idents are:

[[Image:CameraOperator.jpg|thumb|right|The KY-1900 in use for camera training in 1993]] Used from before 1992- approx 1996.

...'s programmes on demand and online (on campus) in October 2004, this ident used the "swirls" from the station logo to produce the "O" of online.

...in filming (or so they thought!) due to a technical hitch, which was later used in the title sequence. Some of the same clips appear in the [[Closure]] co

...camera, but is so useful and of good enough quality that it gets regularly used on air. The main feature is that is can be panned through 360 degrees and It was first used by YSTV at [[Roses]] Ball in May 2003, and on air for the first time in th

...s 2003]] (at the very end of the era when big occasions like this would be used to playout a number of programmes and station promotional pieces).

...nfused with the [[STV VT]] made for the [[Elections 2006]] broadcast which used puppets to explain how single transferrable voting works.

Mainly as an exercise in learning how to use the newly aquired [[The Mac|Mac]], [[Rob Sprowson]] digitally remastered th ...guest appearance, though in the 1998 remake the [[Maurice]] framestore was used to zoom in on this.

...duce the odd effect of Ed cleaning the ident off the wall. This was often used at the end of a night's programming.

* Able to withstand potentially decades of abuse (although in 2014 a certain [[Robert Walker | Technical Director]] managed * To use one of the numerous spare NEC 17" monitors donated by Computer science...

...equence featuring various different pieces of control room equipment being used. ...mmer 2006, but it is still retained by YSTV, the top piece currently being used by [[YSTV News]].

..." theme as the Big Breakfast, and a special setboard with a hole in it was used to cover the big projection TV set so that we could do transitions to and The show's logo made innovative use of the recently introduced new [[2000 Logo|YSTV logo]].

...hrough the fire escape over an old set board from [[Election 98]]! It was used on programmes such as [[Games Disaster]], [[Lolita]], [[Red Braces]], [[YS ...creen was in [[Elections 2003]], after which the new [[Panasonic Max]] was used for the purpose. These days it is usually left outside Derwent JCR for th

...working for a company who were throwing them away as too old to be of any use. There are however significantly lighter than the [[Panasonic F10|F10s]] (d ...and chase round sports pitches following the action. They have also been used occasionely for drama and music productions when students request that the

...hist:Heads of Archives|Head of Archives]] you probably won't find anything useful here, and even if you are I don't know if any of this kit exists or wher ...rom computer graphics cards, and other consumer devices. This isn't really useful for YSTV, so we have a few ways round using it:

...version of "Jingle Bells" apparently written by YSTV member [[Phil Toms]] used as a bed. The version in the archive (see below) credits it to "Chris and ...pus Today]]. Some of the clips were Christmas related, many were not. Re-used on [[Open Day]] programmes and the like as a filler for years afterwards.

...hort of ideas for [[Idents]] in the Summer of 2012, it was decided to make use of [[Matt Johnson]]'s talent for eating paper (see [[Newsrind]]).

Formerly known as Fly and used by [[Tom Lee]] for mysterious dev-things, [[Ben Allen]] found and re-purpo ==Some times Marty has been useful (from memory)==

...e scale coverage was organised. An XF30 5200 lumen projector was hired and used to project onto a screen on the left of stage, although could only really

...for shows which wanted more than one 'set' - such as [[Campus Today]] and useless on any shot involving [[Ian France]] who was taller than any of the boa == In Use ==

It was first used as a holding graphic at [[Woodstock 2002]] and became an ident when the [[

...in)|Bulletin]] and [[YSTV Week]] were avoided though - the end titles were used as opening titles (they didn't feature the programme name), and the new li ...ded with the new [[YSTV Week]] being promoted. However the name was later used again for the post-[[YSTV Week]] incarnation of the station's news output,

The '''Single Transferable Vote VT''' is used during elections to explain to the viewers how the voting system works. I ...re counted to [[Kate Gordon]] through the use of jelly babies. This was reused in for [[YUSU Elections 1996]].

...ell]] for us on [[Elections 2003]] (in the days when idents would only get used for special occasions such as this). It showed various plastic fish (from

...ell]] for us on [[Elections 2003]] (in the days when idents would only get used for special occasions such as this). It shows the [[2000 Logo|YSTV logo]]

Built in the 1970s and used by Yorkshire Television these were acquired by YSTV. ...o circuit boards make them very easy to repair, since all of the circuitry uses discrete components (except for a couple of 7400 series logic gates on the

Less intensively used than the [[Distribution Network]], the availability of the campus contribu ...e audio and video connectivity. As far as is known, YSTV has never made of use of this system, which anyway has mostly been unusable since the chemistry f

...iple overlapping effects tracks, with some copyright free music sampler CD used for audio. The music suffered from having no obvious edit point, so had to

...rly performed the same function, but had become top unreliable and hard to use. ...ered high spec when it was built by the station in {{unsure|2002}}. It was used for a short time as a video edit system before moving to it's current role

...te animal" as opposed to "You're the guy who sends the YSTV e-mails" being used. It was also frequently remarked by many that it was the only part of the ...e 2013-14 committee elections what the incoming [[Station Director]] would use instead of a 'Cute Animal'. Incoming SD [[Liz Pascoe]] took a vote at her f

A new PIC, a PIC18F2455 using a 20MHz crystal, has replaced this PIC through use of an extra 'daughter' board. This change in PIC was to allow easier coding ...up with why there are loads of unconnected [[BNC]]s on the back. - The Mux used to hold a distribution amplifier for creating 8 outputs of each main outpu

...The two of them wore [[Games Disaster]] boiler suits, the red of which was used as the chromakey backdrop, with a YSTV logo on the back, making it look as

...Thompson]], who was filmed by [[Charles Blessing]]. Notable ingenuity was used during this filming, such as John holding his hands up and swaying, then t ...cal issues, giving the "techies" precious seconds and minutes to change a fuse or re-wire a plug.

...ow program and preview banks, allowing the full suite of transitions to be used to mix between shots on both the left and right channels. ...-accurate switching of the downstream keyers. The applet would intercept a user's keystroke, and select the appropriate cameras for the left channel (on t

...hist:Heads of Archives|Head of Archives]] you probably won't find anything useful here.}} ...the DC plug is the correct polarity. However, if the mains to 12V supply used isn't powerful enough the camera will probably quickly turn itself off.

...uld be used to do cuts and fades between the two channels, which led us to use it once or twice as a self-contained OB vision path. It became largely redu

...le runs were brought back to the station where all the usual equipment was used. URY were setup in YSTV's studio space due to a room booking error with YU YSTV used their studio space this time to interview the bands ready for use in introduction VTs for the Finals.

* [[Goodricke-Physics-Hub]] The long daisy-chain used to get from [[G/046]] through to the [[P/X/002|old studio]] and thence to ...] The odd one out of the [[New Broadcast Network|1998 project]] because it used the old [[Original Broadcast Network|Rediffusion]] cabling for nearly all

The set makes use of the [[Sofa]], re-re-painted YSTV Week set boards (after they were painte The title has also been used (very briefly) for a filler news programme between [[Bulletin (again)| Bul

...as hosted from Derwent JCR and didn't really have a set as such - the show used what was available in way of furniture there. This can perhaps be forgive ...the way up the EN2K+3, which appears to have been the final time "EN" was used quite so much in the pre-production. This coincided with efforts to make

The same song had earlier been used (in the original form) as sound track to the Tribute to [[Men of YSTV 1995

...orkhorse deck for capturing tapes brought in for editing, as well as being used heavily for recording live shows.

...e also used, as in many cases the short clips of election night programmes used in these are the only elements of the programme left today. These include ...ght 2000]] by [[John Biltcliffe]]. The use of music proved quite handy to use in the background of clips from other compilations with different soundtrac

...st for configuring menus... which dont really need configuring for what we use them for. * incredibly useful for aspect conversion work, such as putting howard into the path, or con

...Star camera in the main hall, allowing for far more control over the shot used that usually allowed by the camera in the dining hall. ...ce (alledgedly!) a title sequence of effectively the same concept has been used for the BBC's coverage of local elections and by-elections since May 2006!

...radio services to householders over wired networks. The university network used much of the same technology as a small urban area commercial system, but w ...d. Audio-only channels were fed via power amplifiers so that outlets could use passive loudspeakers without further amplification, on the same basis as 10

YSTV's first giant logo banner was purchased by [[Sarah Leese]] in 2005 for use at outside broadcasts such as [[YUSU Election Nights]] and live coverage su ...g a YSTV version was brought to a station meeting. It was turned down because it was thought that our logo would normally be on a big screen of some sort

[[Image:F10inUse.jpg|thumb|250px|right|F10 in use on [[Open Day]]]] ...s had better colour and needed less light to give good picture. Their last use on-air was [[Elections 2006]], although all 5 are still stored in the stati

[[Image:VisionMixer.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Vision mixer in use]]

...]], as a pun on "This Is Your Life" and the "YOUR:" branding that had been used across campus since 2001. He took a big red book around campus and got st ..."This Is Your Life" similarities were played down, with the theme tune not used and, in 2006, the title simply being "YOUR: Manifesto". The big red book

During the latter half of 1994, the [[Panasonic MS4]] was coming under heavy use in the field, in the studio and for dumping down to the Umatic. At times th ...h [[Lolita]] and [[Vanbrugh Paradise]] made use of the new kit, partly because the version of Adobe Premiere on the Mac tended to lose lipsync with longer

...d green for the purpose (with a green cloth over the patch bay). This was used from January 2004 to July 2006, and provided a much bigger (and more impor ...lt and a decent, moveable green screen area created. This was brought into use from October 2006.

...room were both placed in the JCR, this year the terrace room next door was used for the set and the JCR for the control area. This allowed as much noise ...t of the set BBC Sport's snooker coverage was using at the time! The desk used since [[SU Elections 2001]] was placed in front of this. For the intervie

...g, monitoring a scene or single-person electronic news gathering. We often use them for big OBs such as [[OB:Roses|Roses]], [[hist:Golden Bodge|Golden Bod ...asiest way to diagnose this is if the camera forgets the date/time between uses. All settings will have to be reset every time the camera is turned on/off

...ews" running around Heslington meaning that both of YSTV's DV cameras were used (including the one recently acquired from Accenture), and there was a rare ...d the Barbican Centre where it was held. This event also marked the first use of [[DeathStar]] - where it was almost christened "Perv Cam" due to its loc

...no Dom, it sounds good. I like it", but who can say why. Naturally, this caused the gentleman to reach a basis of argument, all fighting purely to oppose ...sharing site but 'files', 'filestore' and 'cloud' are all taken! I better use 'data'"

...t now became viable to consider buying conversion units, which could be re-used with successive monitors in the future. ...following year. Whilst not as good as a proper video monitors, and so not used for critical output monitoring, the commercial converters have stable and

...the [[P/X/002]] set which was used for [[Trivial]] and [[Closure]] (and cause much confusion in later years when trying to identify the programmes!).

[[File:Banner.JPG|thumb|right|YSTV's logo in use on a banner in Derwent Nucleus.]] ...for the newly formed student television station, and they have remained in use ever since. The realisation of those letters into a visual logo has varied

To ensure that the camera is not damaged by untrained users a system of camera training was instituted in order to make sure that tho

It uses the Coffee Bar set, draped with cloth, with a red background, occasionally

...PC with capture card as part of the [[Einstein TV]] deal. The machine now used as [[Graphics PC]] was first built as an edit machine, but was barely powe ...the [[video server]] for live VT playout. This meant any machine could be used to run the software, although it stayed on the renamed VTPC for several mo

The first made use of two BBC Micros for scoring, using custom software written by [[Matt Hamm

...eing large and unwieldy, and as there was only (room for) one could not be used with multiple camera set-ups. Additionally the controller had a rather noi Still in use in 2007, after a glitch when the serial port stopped working at Christmas 2

...and its "window" setboard were used again to give a display for Michael to use. The [[Election Night 2000]] silver-topped trestle table also featured in o ...at the other end of the studio. A pile of boxes covered in black drape was used as a proxy for the letter. The whole thing was composited together on the

...nder times were all to common. In practice, because of this it was rarely used for much other than short VTs and title sequences towards the end - for ex ...in the summer term of 2003. The Mac continued to be used for play out because of the poor TV out from the graphics card and concerns over reliability. Th

...ble for the project, and what was going to be done about all the cables we used in there. ...to [[G/046]], with the audio also continued to Vanbrugh so that URY could use it as a Goodricke - Vanbrugh link for Goodricke Elections hustings.

...nced line audio earlier were already known at YSTV where it was frequently used to convey low level microphone signals down incredibly long pieces of dirt ...any remaining scraps of telephone and mains cables around the studio were used as an extention. The signal did eventually deteriorate, usually with the p

Programmes recorded before 1993 use a 45 second time clock that is very obviously coming from a BBC micro or si ...[[Interregnum]] this was discontinued, and [[SU, Lies and Videotape]] made use of an intermediate style of timeclock briefly in 1994.

...via [[Watch Online|our website]]. It mirrors the [[Contribution Network]] used to get video from around campus back to YSTV's studios for broadcasting [[ ...) and balanced audio around the campus, but the carrot of allowing them to use it during the conference season was unappealing, and nothing happened.

The circuit would be controlled by an Atmel AVR because [[Michael Cullen]] likes these. ...cquired them for around a fifth of their wholesale value). They would also use Mike's pipe-dream protocol called yvp, (YstvVisionPath) so that they could

...e audio track was Zombie by The Cranberries. Unusually YSTV output was not used, instead inserts were taken from the plethora of free tapes that descended

...tems it was logical to retain the same location so that cables could be re-used and the transition period when both systems were operating made easier. As

Produced in association with York Sport and [[Nouse]]. The York Sport Show is a round up of the Wednesday sports matches. As ma The videos are embedded on the [http://www.nouse.co.uk/ Nouse website] with their weekly sports round-up. The video are also linked to fr

...there is free space to be able to record something. The idea is that every use of the tape should be recorded, so that it should be possible to recover th The software used a devious modulus-odd-number algorithm to locate records quickly within th

...radford's Photographic Film and Television Museum (now the National Media Museum). ..., YSTV had arranged a deal with them which meant that NaSTA stations could use copyrighted music if they paid £30. Unfortunately the 1989 NaSTA hosts, G

...or some time it was thought of as the "flagship" station ident and as such used before the flagship show [[YSTV Week]].

...n mixer]]. [[Kevin Bowman]]'s bedroom, being next door to the kitchen, was used as the control room - the camera cables were fed out of the kitchen window ...and we then recorded it in the afternoon. It failed to actually record because someone had connected the vision mixer directly to the monitor and the VHS

...[NaffoCue]] (an autocue, who successor is [[Faffocue]]), the software that used to run [[clock]], and also for designing the current [[2000 Logo|YSTV logo

...vice itself. Written by [[Roger Moffatt]] in 1986, it remained in constant use until 1994. ...new pages), and supervisor mode (for purging old unused pages and other housekeeping). Pages could be scheduled to appear for certain periods of time, pe

...ly leading to a blue tint, this wasn't spotted during recording due to the use of a black and white preview monitor. Subsequent recordings took a colour p ...the mixer had to be squashed into the cramped kitchen no camera comms were used and the camera operators (usually [[Tim Pollard]] and [[Helen Rix]]) were

...morning to film it before the stuff all melted. Initially the idea was to use the patch of ground where the entrance to the Roger Kirk Centre resides tod

...nd [[Ian Martindale]] backed up extensively by [[Rob Humphrey]]. YSTV also used live wireless interviews from the balcony of Central Hall with [[Jay Forem

...cable trunking which would later form the monitor rack shelves built to house the [[Cub Conversion|Cub monitors]]. ...s, which went onto be the stock "uniform" for all the contestants and were used many times for other productions in years to come. An enormous set of the

...t was put back together sometime after Easter). It was also decided to re-use the previous year's set and theme tune. This mean more time could be spent ...[[Michael Prior-Jones]]'s [[STV VT]] from the previous years was to be re-used to explain the voting system. That year's [[NaSTA]] Best Broadcaster was

...York's Computing Services servers under the old [[socs15]] and [[socs16]] user accounts - for the general society and [[grapevine]] service websites resp ...University's york.ac.uk domain - ystv.york.ac.uk - pointing to a server housed in the Technical Room at the back of the Studio. Eventually the website it

...et it up as a studio as had been done since 2003. Instead, two rooms were used directly above on the first floor - the old Derwent Library was the contro ...Week]] title sequence, still on Edit PC four years later! The theme tune used for the 2003 and 2004 programme returned, in a slightly speeded up form.

...as possible to sign up to be members. A variety of initiatives have been used over the years to persuade people to get involved. ...een being used to screen highlights. Freshers also had the opportunity to use [[Magic DaVE]] and [[Death Star]].

YSTV has rarely used conventional short [[idents]] before live programmes - before the days of ...and stills from [[Bona Dicta]] and [[Cooking With]]. The same design was used on the [[website]] at the time (finally dropped in early 2003), in publici

* Investigating whether cables could / should still be used ...ther bits of tech around the studio and control room and explaining how to use it while he shared stories of YSTV myth and legend

...imaginary kingdoms of Angria and Gondal - upon their later works, and the museum allowed us access to wonderful artefacts, including minuscule hand-writte ...ures Great and Small', and several clips from old and new adaptations were used in the episode.

...[[Interregnum]]), though a temporary studio (a classroom in Goodricke) was used for the ''Quoter'' and ''South Bank Show'' sketches. The rest of the show ...regular get-togethers and have continued to film sketches, for their own amusement if nothing else! Some of Son of Rasputin sketches can be seen on the mu

...a BBC micro but almost nothing else. Indeed a larger 21" chassis had been used for a number of years as the studio monitor, perched high on top of a spar ...Their tendancy to get quite hot in continuous use (they have been seen in use as Pizza warmers) meant that some key components aged prematurely but were

...also made an appearance in the main video for [[Summer Ball 2019]], being used as a depiction of all the soaking wet students.

...g at [[docs:OB:Elections 2014|Elections]], [[docs:Kenobi|Kenobi]] was also used. The final took place in D-Bar, making use of Derwent's stage. This didn't go quite as smoothly as the heats, with bro

...y?) edit machine until it's demise in 1984 due to a terminal fault. This caused considerable disruption until a replacement edit system became available i ...n insert edit machine) with an external colour adaptor unit that was never used. This was probably a [http://www.brogers.addr.com/Web/EV320F.htm Sony EV-3

...the first to be broadcast from YSTV's new studio in Goodricke college. It used the same title sequence as 1994, and had a fairly samey structure to previ

The original mux remained in use until 2005 to send audio to the AV network, controlled by the [[BBC Schedul

...c PC, which was then controlled by commands sent over a serial line from a user interface on a control machine (also an Acorn). There were also a number o ...by the membership for all manner of purposes including various off-camera uses, as the main set of [[Bulletin (again)|Bulletin]] for a while, [[Off The C

...y point the teams scored they then received a piece of recycled rubbish to use in the Construction round. The Construction round was the final round of th

Spider is a priority-aware clearing house for control of anything and everything in the station that is capable of re ...be logged in to the machine to do this if you're outside James Nucleus because port 5091 is blocked at the firewall.

...compatible in terms of on-tape format, so we didn't need to know which was used to record them in order to play them back. An expedition was organised, an ...ntention to copy them onto a more durable, high-density storage medium and use them in future shows, such as [http://ystv.co.uk/watch/YSTVArchives/ YSTV A

...itated a small handful of YSTV's ancient computers that have fallen out of use and were just taking up space. He has:

It was later used as a filler on the new sustaining service put out by the video server. As

...covers the comms system conceived for [[Breaker 88]], and still in regular use in YSTV's studios in 2007. It was later replaced with [[docs:Wedge (Comms)| ...sted by [[Owain Davies]]. Normally the system would have been in full time use, however since YSTV at the time was a station without studio, it enabled th

...due to it only being available for Windows so we pivoted to obs.ninja and used Zoom for any scalywags that we couldn't get to work. ...that limit due to people unknowningly entering incorrect information and caused the server to stop all people using the companion to connect.

...works, and is complete in itself (the latest version in SVN has a few more useful features than the installer on the server has)

...ced in different rooms in the complex in order to encourage people to make use of all the space.

...was what Computer Science was running at the time. This rapidly came into use for both playing out video to the network and capturing live shows for repe ...es for slackware), and came back on-line after Easter 2006 and has been in use ever since.

...as possible to sign up to be members. A variety of initiatives have been used over the years to persuade people to get involved. ...een being used to screen highlights. Freshers also had the opportunity to use [[Magic DaVE]] and [[Death Star]].

...nable, so the mux had some rotting limbs amputated to reduce it to only 3 buses. A separate 1U mux switched network video under the control of [[BBC Sched ...er [[G/046]] station meant all of the remaining working inputs were now in use

...rds of approval, it is safe to say that OB Training was effective and very useful for members with less rigging experience. ...otL, because they felt the emphasis should be on live content. This is because LotL is a warm-up show for [[Woodstock]], [[YSTV]]'s longest Live OB.

...d alone player/recorder was available but largely unused, other than being used to rewind tapes since it was much faster at rewinding as it didn't need to A brief flirt with numbers was used when the mono VHS tape copying machines were purchased in {{unsure|1999}}.

...issing. Used for any show that needed a 'soft' set, the sofa also became a useful place to hang out and watch TV. Scandalous gossip over whether the sofa

...the bodged BNC to VGA adapters should be different, surely the same pin is used at both ends of a VGA cable for each colour. Having made the claim that t [[User:Michael.Cullen|Michael.Cullen]] 22:59, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Not wanting t

...ng and drum shot) and the project during daylight hours. The outdoor stage used 3 roaming cameras, Deathstar flown from the apex of the tent above the mai

...a group of students to put together a university TV news programme to make use of the video equipment. ...the late 1960s. One member actually owned a portable typewriter which we used extensively. This was [[Sieta Rijkelijkhuizen]] who later became station

...of the small set. Long term, should the concept take off, the idea was to use the set also as a general "presentation" area - for example doing live or p ...le in bars watching our output when conversation dried up with their new housemates. Word was then put about to freshers that presenters were wanted for

...ack was used to vision mix, with the station's newly acquired touch screen used to control the P169 routing the required 4 sources from the bank of input ...to provide roving stage front cameras, and the [[JVC Hi8]] camera usually used as a chroma key camera was pressed into service to provide a drummer shot,

Fuckary; is a general term, used mainly within the technical and computing department, to mean any form of

...ne (and associated Rycote shockmount and windshield) - the mic was seen in use in the studio at [[YSTV 50]] some 17 years later! ...various perceived safety failings. With a few revisions they are still in use today (and still on the same template!)

The name Bulletin was first used for a YSTV News show in 1989 (as far as we know). This was shortlived, bei

...), with a wide shot camera and audience atmos rifle mic in the centre (because a show like this sounds ''really weird'' if you can't hear the audience). T ...S port under the right side of the lectern at the front. The VT server was used as a gateway with IT Services student credentials to connect to the NAS -

...which the graphics operator would then need to sit underneath in order to use the [[Commodore Amiga]] during a programme (shortly afterwards the new [[G ...sting of YSTV's highlights of 2017. Past YSTV idents were also put to good use.

This section is divided into three lists: "Essential", "Useful" and "Optional". Should be fairly obvious what these mean. === Useful ===

...inst the Windows domain. This also required reformatting what was then the UserData drive to run on the new operating system. ...style, there was one last possibility to recover the data, a risky, little used command inside the filesystem repair utility fsck.

...ough the week’s papers (including the campus newspapers, York Vision and Nouse, if they have been published this week) and highlighting suitable stories t ...order will need to be produced, which tells the director what cameras are used for each story, and when unscripted chats or interviews are due to take pl

Because it was an off-campus hire the projector was (predictably) the oldest one AV ...on [[Small Screen]] later that term, complete with subtitles and the Fun House theme tune.

...oposed we grow the fsrv array during the holiday while it was not in heavy use, then passing the money to grow backup at the beginning of the Summer term.

...oduction made in the previous year, with a mixture of live sound and music used to glue the whole lot together. ...uently been used to promote the station at many other events, although the use of copyrighted music has prevented their being released on the website or b

...h the studio -> control room feed which was using SRT, this was likely because we were saturating the YSTV -> ITS network and the SRT packets were not pri ...cameras and roaming camera operators who were spread out across campus, we used a remote video tool called [https://vdo.ninja vdo.ninja]. This allowed peo

[[Image:AlansScheduler.png|left|thumb|160px|An intractable user interface]] ...work that had been done in device control. Alan offered to substitute the user interface for a serial interface thus allowing another computer to control

[[User:Michael.cullen|Michael Cullen]] did an experiment in 2009, where a DA'ed ' As clock is always on, and in some cases we need to use the unit outside of a show, the matrix is now fed as above, permanently. [[

...the bottom of his pizza box. Three takes were done, but the first one was used as all the pieces were actually in the box in the right order, whereas in

...ontacts with IT Services and could acquire a number of virtual machines to use for this (and in fact had already set up ystvstrm8 as a supposed backup to ...n't actually used (though having them there as a safety net was definitely useful). Great! Surely all our woes were gone? Wait, there's another paragraph

...he Quarantine videos as distinct from the regular ones, a green border was used on the thumbnail of the videos as opposed to the regular blue border. ...entually, Zoom became the place for more serious meetings and Discord more used socially. The format of meetings changed slightly in order to keep everyon

...red for [[Elections 2004]] but not proceded with because of a feeling we'd used up all the campus-related jokes the year before, and of course lack of tim

...t a black background. The programme suffered from a lack of VT inserts because there was rarely enough time to produce them given the five-nights-a-week s ...ol room and putting the tape in a UMatic machine. Due to the frequency of use, the master tape of this was practically unbroadcastable by 1999 and a new

...demand content and shareable short videos on social media with livestreams used to stream 'event' television and liveshows. This therefore resulted in the

...l well before the weekend. Most of the budget and planning seemed to be focused on the opening ceremony boxing night, which was very successful. .... kits, and most of the extra kit (such as a steadycam) ended up not being used at all.

...ught to originate from around 1996, and it has been suggested it was first used by [[Graham Quince]] to describe the large amount of people who graduated

...an Centre in York and approached YSTV to film the event. Four cameras were used to produce a live recording of the gig which was made into a "souvenir vid

...002 to make up for the loss of the balcony camera that had previously been used in Derwent.

This was used extensively as a filler in [[Children In Need]], [[YUSU Election Nights|El

...in front of the [[YSTV Week]] backdrop (somewhat naughtily as to avoid overuse this was usually reserved for news and current affairs programmes during th ...ined in this home for the next two years, and the new corner area was also used for shows such as [[Children In Need]] and [[Stereotypes]].

...page I've copied and pasted from the separate articles on the studio, because I thought they would make more sense in one place. Formatting errors may be ...YSTV's move to [[G/046]], and so a minor panic ensued when the room was re-used by the physics department as a computational physics laboratory in {{unsur

...d been up long enough to begin stroking the [[docs:Skycam|Skycam]], having used it for the first time) began work. ...adaches. Had there have been a 3D colour screen to watch on, we would have used colour. A note for the future: watch out, render times are 4x their 2D equ

* 'Finished Shows' - not particularly useful as this only covers the last few years. ...yout Archive (formerly Vidsrv) - these are the 'playout masters' that were used when YSTV ran a 24/7 livestream.

...t had recently been acquired. By the early 2000s the closing credits also used the title sequence, with the credits superimposed underneath the footage. ...irector]] [[Jonathan Bufton]] asked his ambitious and politically-minded housemate [[Michael Brothwell]] if he'd like to take control of the show. Thankf

...e committee to pass more money for tape. Sometimes, this works. Mostly because tech director [[Andrew Waddle]] legitimately needs more tape, and they keep

...d on Python 2.7. So over a period of a week the software was brought up to use Python 3.8. However, during the haste of development there ended up being 4 ...obs for the videos that Ben had produced through DaVinci Resolve. Likely caused by the YSTV website not being "familiar" with the files generated by Resol

...slightly problematic - the Rode shotgun mic usually used on the AC-90s was used - sometimes held and sometimes on a boom pole kindly operated by Alex Lust ...uccess - they went down excellently with the audience (both eliciting applause) and the work with YUSU needed for them improved YSTV's reputation with the

...ege who bought a morph suit for Halloween, and then realised that he could use to run round the college anonymously jumping out at people, knocking on win

.... There was a gap in the market for this at the time - [[Vision]] and [[Nouse]] were being published only ever three or four weeks, and [[URY]]'s The Sou ...addition, two arrangements of the same piece of up-beat library music were used for these programmes.

More (or less) computer based projects used in and around the station.

...ace created a frowning Rudolph-esque bear whilst Matt somewhat ingeniously used the opportunity to make a portrait of [[Chris Wall]], within his Pudsey on ...rugh Paradise, aiming to gather a few pennies and raise awareness of the cause and YSTV's appeal. Dancing to Christina Aguilera's 'Candyman', Chris Wall b

*Richard leaves a load of stuff in the doorway because he wants to sell it. ...was dominated by a pile of technical equipment that was deemed to be of no use to the station but good enough to be worth selling. None of it ever got sol

...[Will Stirk]], upon seeing this, felt it to become his personal mission to use all the peer pressure he could muster to get Connor on committee. It failed ...call of action... Archive meeting: 3am the day of AGM. 3 attendants and no useful material discussed.

...ing installed was the most important step: a digital system could always reuse any cable in the future following an initial analogue installation. # LTC - Unused

...dups from the drama barn too. The original title sequence was going to be used until [[Nik Morris]] came up with a new, cartoony sequence. It was presen ...ramme was now exclusively about films, and a variety of movie posters were used for the set. The show would also feature the top ten movies, and in Febru

The videos used were: ...and [[David Bartlett]] announcing the station's eviction from [[P/X/002]] used to introduce [[Sarah Davies]] and [[Adam Baxter]]'s talk on the period.

...skdale]] stepped in to take on production of the 60 Second Manifestos. Because of how successfully run last year's filming weekend was, the same model was ...d manifestos that [[Lloyd Wallis]] and [[Tom Cheyney]]'s desktops were not used. Instead, the Edit PCs and Peter's laptop were initially set up to edit th

...4 VT that been broadcast, where is also a lot of extra footage that is not used. ...as well as visit most location with a bucket to collect donation for the cause, including YUSU office.

...h's plan was to supply YSTV with some new DV equipment which we would then use to make programmes for Einstein about research at York. We would "pay for" ...ng a reporter to Nepal, and wanted to borrow back the camcorder for him to use. They promised that it would return at the start of the following term. Jen

...d. However due to lack of interest producer [[Jonathan Bufton]] and his housemate [[Tom Hughes]] had to step in to make up the panel. The first edition ...nturing out in the corridors of Goodricke. Handheld camera operators were used, as were the security cameras installed around the station the year previo

...ts, 1 stop bit, no parity, no flow control. You'll know if it's wrong, because on typing any character into the ports, you'll get ASCII soup coming back a ...always mix to the same point on the meters. It doesn't actually matter because the sound desk will be the reference level to align all the other sources t

Following [[Sam Hance|Sam's]] push to use idents on videos (particularly with the lack of a livestream) the first epi | Shots from the show in the same old film style along with the music as used in the show. Introduces the YSTV Education Department whoever they are.

Mainly used for DPaint (basically a souped up bitmap editor with animation extensions)

...egree work in the station than out of it. This was unfortunately of little use, as he ended up failing to progress (by way of failing several exams) to hi

...en in Need, Vanbrugh dining hall was taken over (at the time it was little used for dining). Two sets were built at one end with a control room desk built The event was unofficially open, with some bemused people drifting in from Vanbrugh bar.

Manifestos were set up the weekend before filming, making use of the slightly larger greenscreen frame borrowed from the Electronics depa ...plasma which was situated immediately behind the camera, along with being used to copy successful takes to Pending Edits and update [https://docs.google.

As with [[Elections 2009]], L/N/003 was used as the control room with the studio in L/N/002 and a camera in the corrido

...ier system (have a bauble for points scored or something?) might have been useful. Or it might have just been an unnecessary faff.

...had certainly had its problems in preceding years), just that the methods used were misguided and at odds with the casual and team-oriented style of YSTV ...end or as justification for one's actions was not a common action, and the use of the constitution in this manner was not well received. When this was br

...ay get built, but will probably just remain as a conversation topic to confuse freshers. ...about a death trap on campus, and no one seemed keen to answer when Stirky used the words “lighting rig” and “lateral forces” in the same question

...ife in the old Umatic suite and it was all down to the quality of the tape used.

Q29: Which company used the slogan 'Dont ask the price - it's a penny'? Q41: Noel Coward's play The Vortex shocked its audience because:

...ll Stirk]] then referenced toward him (Liam) as the "Arduino™ guy" for his use of an Arduino™ in the transmission light. In fact he loved the transmissi ...ad frisbees thrown at us and almost hit us, I had to go on the cameras because it was a long day, I had a lot of fun. Stream only went down once so it was

...th [[Sarah Pickles]], [[Steven Perring]], and [[Michael Miller]] (note the use of an oxford comma). YSTV ultimately went on to win [[Best Broadcaster]] th

...ng camera battery with us, luckily we also had a DSLR that we were able to use instead. In the future, it would be good to triple check equipment before l ...with the Hogyork Horntails and had a beary good time. Only one camera was used in the end, and both the warmup and the game were filmed, with Pudsey subs

...they noticed that one of the drives in Web at the time wasn't actually in use at all, either as part of the RAID array or otherwise mounted, and Web seem * User home directories and Windows profiles

...ip-chart telling them the order of the show, though [[NaffoCue]] was later used for this purpose. (Still only displaying feature outlines though, not a sc ...into PACT at Rowan's request, specially for Limited Edition. Some features used stings to break up the show and re-inforce the branding, while most VTs in

...ty of YSTV's content, through better use of lighting and in particular the use of better cameras. This led to Edwin successfully pitching the £2000+ purc

...ogether to form a review of what the station was doing. These were heavily used as [[Promotions|Promos]] subsequently, and so have a good survival rate in

...a spectacular light show at the end of the event, with Central Hall being used to host the lighting.

...an alphabetical list of both under [[:Category:Equipment]]. The equipment used outside the station for roving filming is described more on the [[OB Kit]]

YSTV London is the informal umbrella name used by a group of YSTV alumni (or [[Old Farts]]) who graduated in the mid-late

...ral Public License to the wider student TV community. Its first production use was at [[Roses 2013]], where it played out scheduled videos to fill time be

## "The Station" refers to the rooms occupied by YSTV that are used for the production of television programmes. ## "The Studio" is the room within the Station used for the set of television programmes.

...e left of the stage, on the side of the window half-way down the room, because exposure. ...meant the presenters had guidance on what to talk about if they wanted to use it, helping to focus comments. Acts' background information was also provid

...D block was no longer available the final outing of [[Cooking With]] made use of the two slabs of concrete in the lake to the side of P/L/005, with heat

...g on how much space could be invented in the studio - for Episode 3 it was used to show images and slides relevant to that segment of the show, but for th ...plasma in the middle creating a symmetric look to the set. LED lights are used to add colour to the back walls, while the presenters and guest are lit wi

...et an IP from ITS. Found the reason why the graphics PC wasn't working because the RAM had popped out during transit, involved scampering back to the stud | Used a lot of computers and had the stream dying multiple times. Played graphic

...york.ac.uk/watch/vids.php?cat=32 on the YSTV website]. The titles are also useful in showing what [[P/X/002]] looked like.

...his point, the set is almost non-existent, with a couple of monitors being used to show story titles behind the presenters. These seem to have got out of

...which itself belonged to [[Kate Rushworth]]) were purchased especially for use on the show from BBC Television Centre during the [[stoic]] visit the previ ...the sun. During the regional news VT this was rectified with the hi-tech use of sheets of A4 paper taped to the cameras!

...tured once into the role of serious news presenter. On this occassion he caused one of the (two) guests to storm out of the studio and shout so loud at th ...work. He went on to install this in Vanbrugh college, where it is still in use to this day.

...22]], he originated the style of pre-recorded Roaming Reports subsequently used for [[Roses 2022]] and [[Freshers 2022]]. He also edited the [[Roses 2022] ...s Hunted - Live|Hunted Live]], and joined [[XLR Sessions|XLR]] as its in-house editor. In an exceptionally stressful Spring Term, he co-produced [[Electio

The first show to make use of the new equipment was [[Monday Evening Live]] the evening of 11 November

...r was a vastly different affair to previous years, due to the new location used.

...e-rewrite in C++ and SDL which is much more awesome, the base of which was used at [[Elections_2010]] and [[Elections_2011]] for the ticker bar and lower

Q5: Bromine solution can be used as a test for an alkene in chemistry. Q9: Which sport did BBC1's Sue Barker use to play?

...re conducted in the hallway outside L/037 during the Semi Finals ready for use in VTs for the Final.

...sell various "bargains", with viewers encouraged to purchase them via the use of hashtags (#) on Twitter. ...s of largely unscripted hilarity, and even managed a sale, leading to applause from the crew at the end of the show.

| First on-camera credit. Makes a cameo doing sound and looking confused, unfortunately has been stuck with the same expression since. ...ndrew Waddle | Andrew]]. After Effects used for animating the YUSU assets. Used DaVinci Resolve and Nvenc for fast chroma-keying and exports with Edit 3's

...written for [[Election 97]] was dusted off for 98 which forced all sets to use one common time. A large countdown accompanied the real time. This appears

...riginal productions were desperately needed on the station, and partly because it was felt that this was the sort of programme YSTV should be doing. The ...sed by the new [[Graphics PC]] in the corner of the screen, however this caused issues whenever the programme joined BBC1, who obviously already had one i

...done in Vanbrugh. This made getting the signal broadcast very easy, but caused a great deal of trouble to Ents getting the rig into the available space. ...ojector shining sideways onto a screen on the front left of the stage, because this was the only available space. Pictures of getting it into place can be

...wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP WebP]. Marks' show and tell was the SD card reader used to play out Game Night earlier in the show, and Jamie's was the "Caution: ...guest [[Dan Wade]] and late arrival [[Jamie Parker-East]]. The episode focused on OpenAI's new text-to-video model [https://openai.com/sora Sora].

Q34: The green colouring of leaves is caused by which chemical? Q38: For what is the heaviest crude oil byproduct used?

Her first production was a Coffee House Session that got cancelled but it was where she first met the lovely Steph ...lso accidentally ended up producing an entire Halloween Livestream all because she wanted to do pumpkin carving.

...nt in by stations (a new requirement we introduced - tapes had mostly been used in the past). This enabled us to create, check and deliver the full set of

...that meant missing everything scheduled for her degree on a Wednesday because she stayed too late in the studio. ...naged a full week without receiving a single phone call surrounding how to use a camera <3

...erage actually overloaded and broke the streaming system when it was first used for [[York Come Dancing]], leading to the expansion of the live streaming

so when we arrive no one is in there because "we go though faster than we though". ...work it might be the reason why YUSU just dismiss us from the workshop because they thought that will be enough (it's not.)

...o [[sofa]]s at a right angle to each other. The TV, which wasn't initially used, was in the middle and a small table was angled parallel to it, with a tea | The show featured a discussion of current affairs with [[Nouse]]'s Anna Coughlan. She was asked to recite a constitution stating her recom

...s live coverage of the university open day for prospective students, which used to take place in mid-May. The programme was around four hours long, usual ...e in July and one at the start of October, both outside of term time. Because of this, the annual show ended, although in 2001 YSTV were showing people a

...a group of students to put together a university TV news programme to make use of the video equipment.

...run to Joe's accommodation in Vanburgh, Karinna and Jack head to Jack's house close to Hull Road and Tilly, Sophie and Marta make their way through Walmg ...es are send after Team Tilly (as they are easy to catch up to down at the Ouse), the car team (driven by Kira) originally plan to catch Olivia and Joe fir

...-types would be conducted, some five years away of a similar concept being used on The Big Breakfast.

...roadcast for a while (until the arrival of [[Monday Evening Live]]) and is used to train many new members on equipment, directing and many aspects of live

...featured Jimmy Durante's "Make Someone Happy", which Boots the Chemist had used as their Christmas theme. They attempted to sell the single in the store t

...on campus. It was also one of the first shows other than [[YSTV Week]] to use [[chroma key]] technology. The show deservedly won Best Music Programme at

...n album. The stereo mix was recorded to the [[docs:Zoom R16|Zoom R16]] for use in the on-demand edit, then cut into an EP by [[Greg Ebdon]], available fro