You know those little pictures, or sometimes video, that appear either next to or over the shouldesr of news anchors? The technical term for those graphics is OTS, which stands for, well, Over-The-Shoulder.
In the following segment from NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, there are four video clips in Brian's OTS as he intros the story: First, a Saturn SUV; second, a flood guage at the 2-foot level; third, water flowing through a drainage culvert next to a road; and last, a shot of cars on a snow-covered highway. The first and last clips came from other NBC affiliates, but I shot the videos of the flood guage and the drainage culvert...both at N. 18th and Treadaway. Pretty cool, huh?
This story was from Thursday, Jan. 28, when Abilene received over 2.6 inches of rain.
Thanks to the magic of high-speed internet, it's now daily practice for affiliates and network hubs across the nation, and world, to share video almost instantly. I shot the video around noon, had it back at the station by 12:30, it was edited by 12:45, and then the broadcast-quality video file was on it's way to NBC News via the internet. A random editor in New York was likely searching through video files from the day, liked what I shot, and inserted it in Brian's OTS.
Not too many years ago, the fastest way for either KTAB or KRBC to get video to the networks was to drive (or sometimes fly via American Eagle) the actual videotape to the big stations in Dallas-Ft. Worth, where it was uplinked to a satellite to New York. That was a very expensive, and time-consuming process....
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