<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Dec 23, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Ted Langdell wrote:</div><div><br></div><div>> Fun for archivists, especially when there's material that has the fields out of order and nobody does anything about it in the ingest, transmission, editing or QC (assuming there is such) phases of handling the content.</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I say:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I deal with this problem nearly every day. I even have a method to fix the field order AFTER import, during the edit session (if I have the time to do it). The problem of importing computer-originated video material with wrong field order is partly due to the fact that you cannot see the field order on a computer monitor. Field order is only seen on a TV or broadcast monitor; one that can show TV fields. Computer monitors are all progressive displays. As a result, the operator doing the importing cannot see the error, unless of course he or she has a broadcast monitor connected as well.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Ted, it's not like as if we don't care to get field order right. There are many factors preventing us from doing so: It's hard to see without a broadcast monitor, and it's hard to fix once it's been imported.</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> NBC Today Show, New York<br><br></div></span></span>
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