[i_dont_chat]

Is anyone familiar with the phrase:

Transition begins after 6 frames of black

Is it frames? or games?

From the "white" version, the word black is not so obvious.

[i_dont_chat]

Maybe the last word is "play", not black.

[KarlInOhio]

Transition begins after 6 frames of black

It looks like how they mark when a local commercial is supposed to start. I was watching a TV show on DVD (I forget which one), and the producer said he wanted the screen to go to all black, but the network chewed him out because that would automatically start commercials at local affiliates. So he ended up showing almost black between the scenes where he wanted black.

They might have the big X on a second satellite feed to alert crews down the line what they should be looking for.

Victory Gal originally posted this picture which extracted the text in question.:

[rabidralph]

That phrase was probably the pre-programmed command for the X to disappear. I haven't been in a modern control room but back in the day, computers weren't widespread in TV news. You could type the text into the CHYRON generator, make it any size you wanted and have it ready for when the director called for it. You would push the lever up and the text would appear onscreen for whatever purpose. I'm sure that with things being more controlled by computers, some doofus created the X and rather than tabbing down to type in his command, accidentally typed it on the screen portion and then re-typed it in the command space, not realizing that he previously typed into the screen. Sort of like when using Yahoo mail, the cursor jumps back into the address field, after you thought you tabbed into the text field. Just my theory.

[Eagle of Liberty]

It looks like frames to me. Maybe they mean the transition from black to white?