NewsEdit Import CNN footage

Our Grass Valley NewsEdit systems have had an issue with the footage that comes from CNN looking really bad. Turns out the import is defaulting mpeg2 files to bottom field first instead of top first.  Changing this corrects the issue.  Trouble is, this is hard-coded to be the default and will have to be changed by hand every time there is a file that needs to be imported. This was fixed when Grass Valley changed the system to Aurora.

Additional thoughts, maybe this will clean up the files that Grass Valley exports to mpeg2. When I get a moment I will have to try this out.

IVDR won't load clip

So yesterday the News Q Pro had a clip that would load up and and immediately unload. The problem turned out to be that someone in news had started changing the settings in the edit bays. The video settings for the NewsEdits are supposed to be DV25 and it was changed to mpeg2. Which the IVDR's are not set up to play.

Changing the settings back and resending the video resolved the issue.