22-02-2024, 02:06 PM
I think the origin of the COW equipment was first used for the animated BBC2 symbol some time before.? If you recall it was a coloured stripe 'effort' that animated from camera left to right. During a re-equipment at BFBS we got the BBC to design a unit with the animated BFBS logo (and clock) to replace the original analogue version*. The chap who designed it (Richard?) came over the our control centre at Stonebridge Park to look at what was required - it was delivered a short time later and was of course very successful - would have been 1983ish I think. I think this was before the BBC came to a commercial production arrangement with some company or other.
*The original version was 'made' on the vision mixer desk (Prowest). It was a simple circular coloured wipe on a black background with a horizontal split wipe applied to it. The orangey colour was simply a colour fill which, if viewed on a vectorscope, was the same vector as the colour burst so easily repeatable. I hope the link below works to illiustrate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9YCtoqyk4
*The original version was 'made' on the vision mixer desk (Prowest). It was a simple circular coloured wipe on a black background with a horizontal split wipe applied to it. The orangey colour was simply a colour fill which, if viewed on a vectorscope, was the same vector as the colour burst so easily repeatable. I hope the link below works to illiustrate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9YCtoqyk4
