Making time at NBC.(Virtual-insertion technology creates 'Dateline' animation )(Brief Article)

Broadcasting & Cable, June, 2000 by Dickson, Glen

Virtual-insertion technology creates 'Dateline' animation For this Wednesday's scheduled edition of Dateline NBC, NBC turned to virtual-insertion firm Princeton Video Image (PVI) to liven up a report on biochronology. PVI's "miniset" software enabled Dateline to create a graphical background that makes it appear as if correspondent John Hockenberry is sitting inside a pocket watch.

The gears and body of the pocketwatch aren't real, but are animations inserted virtually with blue-screen technology and recorded on videotape. "It will start out with a pocket watch with a clock face," says John LiBretto, senior director of NBC News and director of Dateline. "Then the glass and clock face will open like a door, and you'll see parts of the clock and...

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