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Why do TV broadcasters 'corrupt' archive video for effect?

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  • 12-07-2015 6:02pm
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    Antenna
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    As an example look at what is done to the archive footage from 1990 about 1:30 minutes to 3 minutes into last Saturday's 'Saturday Night with Miriam' on RTE1

    http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10441936/

    RTE's archive footage have had 'effects' to make it look like old degraded amateur Super-8 film

    What is the point of this and why not broadcast the archive footage in the best possible quality rather than degrading it ?


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    SPDUB
    Registered Users Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭SPDUB


    Antenna wrote: »
    As an example look at what is done to the archive footage from 1990 about 1:30 minutes to 3 minutes into last Saturday's 'Saturday Night with Miriam' on RTE1

    http://www.rte.ie/player/ie/show/10441936/

    RTE's archive footage have had 'effects' to make it look like old degraded amateur Super-8 film

    What is the point of this and why not broadcast the archive footage in the best possible quality rather than degrading it ?

    Usually to hide the fact that the archive footage mightn't look great anyway on modern ( HD for example ) systems and/or sometimes broadcast quality footage isn't available

    Sometimes it's just "I'm a pretentious dick "


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    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    SPDUB wrote: »

    "it's just "I'm a pretentious dick "

    this bit! Its like the way digital colourists are ruining tv drama and feature films.


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    Banjoxed
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    Think broadcasting 4:3 footage in cropped format to fill a 16:9 screen is just as bad. Most of RTÉ's archive is in decent quality black and white or colour 625 line video tape, so why the unhistorical mucking about?


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    Elmo
    Registered Users Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    It's just an edit. You could ask why they put a soundtrack over the footage.

    Captioning and graphics are always removed from news reports.


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