The ABC News Early Edition opener today was using yesterday’s images. They didn’t bother to update it.
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The graphics on TV are ugly, but on bda creatives website, they look, well, um sexy! They look really nice, simple and modern. They also look a bit bigger, so maybe the resolution and ratios are all wrong making them look ugly?
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Website versions look much better. I feel like they have been setup incorrectly. Thy are blurry and as you said sizes are all over the place,
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Now that I like. Not the first time a broadcaster mangled the original vision.
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I was going to record the WA bulletin tonight but it’s just…shit. The opener music was really soft, headline footage had bad cuts and the first story ran with a clapper board at the beginning. I think I’ll wait until they iron out the issues.
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Graphics can (and hopefully will) be tweaked, but the persistent issue as I see it is the disconnect between the sets and graphics.
All the shiny 3D backdrops and sedate, distant camera angles feel at-odds with the fast-paced graphics and bass-boosted theme.
Also surprised by how little anything has changed, all the ‘brand unification’ stuff has amounted to essentially nothing. It’s just a graphics refresh, not sure why they’ve been hyping it for the better part of a year.
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Don’t think it’s been hyped for a year officially, just everyone on MS has been talking/speculating about it fora year. I personally think it’s great and any set upgrades to tie in with the new look will happen eventually but they don’t want to be seen to be spending a heap of money at once otherwise Newscorp will have a field day.
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I thought the ABC did actually tweak the sets to get rid of the “sliding panels” look.
In any case, the current news sets still look a bit better than the 2005-era sets did after three or four years of use IMO!
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To be fair most of the current sets are less than a couple of years old. The only set that is due for a major upgrade would be the News 24 (ABC News Channel) set. This is now nearly 7 years old and still the original set from the launch. The monitors on the set are showing age as the images displayed on them are grainy. Since being put in the panels have been updated twice.
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TBH it’s probably a good thing that they’ve kept the old sets for now given the atrocities they’ve rolled out in the Parliament House and 7.30/Lateline studios over the last 12-18 months.
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It hasn’t been “hyped for a year”. It’s just you who was harassing other people here for wanting to comment on other ABC News related issues even a month before this happened. You believed your own hype, lol. They’re new graphics, that’s it.
Not only that, but it seemed to contain images from yesterday’s news in the opener? Really poor.
I’m impressed by the concept design, but honestly it is not suitable for standard definition. For example, there’s a huge emphasis on text outlines (like the dates on the sliding graphics in the opener), which look AWFUL in standard definition because they’re so thin that they become lost in the background. The same thing with that bloody ticker - it’s far too small to read on a standard definition screen, and looks blocky as hell.
This is a clear cut case of the ABC not having enough funds to pull it off properly.
The new graphics are significant in that many of the picture elements are dynamically generated (like in the opening titles), whereas the whole sliding panels look appears to have been based on prerendered graphics.
The first media article canvassing the changes was in August 2016. 8 months is the better part of a year?
Now can we please return to topic and discussing the big issues like why the ABC includes photos of brown children in montages.
Well, you were gearing up for a montage change for 8 months then. 
What else would we discuss rather than the amended graphics and montages?
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These do look better than the broadcasted versions! If there’s one criticism I have about the original BDA graphics, I find the breaking news red to be a little bit too bold and distracting. If it could be toned down just a little bit I think it would look better 
And it doesn’t need to be altered all that much either, example:
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