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Best way to hookup a CRT?
What’s the best way to hookup a CRT (HD or SD) for monitoring things like color correction? Should I even worry about it and just stick with the computer monitors?
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You need to list your computer equipment set up for us to answer that.
You need a video monitor, lcd or crt for sure but your system and budget will determine the best set up.
Try searching “color correction” or “best monitor” etc for more info, this is a common topic and there is a wealth of info in previous posts.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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For DV, just routing the signal thru your camera or deck will work. For uncompressed SD, and all flavors of HD, you need a capture card. For HD, you need an HD monitor specifically. You cannot rely on your computer monitors.
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[Shane Ross] “For DV, just routing the signal thru your camera or deck will work.”
Yes, BUT –
Unless you have a higher end deck, you won’t be seeing proper black level. Your footage will look darker than it really is because the black level of the deck’s analog output is set to 0 IRE instead of 7.5 IRE, which is the proper NTSC (USA) black level.
Details here:
https://www.signvideo.com/dv-black-level-dvd-7.5-ire-0-ntsc-part-2.htm
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DV IRE is 0, not 7.5. So if you are working with DV don’t you want it to be 0? Digibeta and betaSP have IRE of 7.5…but DV ain’t digibeta.
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[Shane Ross] “DV IRE is 0, not 7.5. So if you are working with DV don’t you want it to be 0? Digibeta and betaSP have IRE of 7.5…but DV ain’t digibeta.”
DV is only 0 IRE in the digital realm, not in analog NTSC-land. Adam Wilt explains it very well on his site:
https://adamwilt.com/DV-FAQ-tech.html#Setup
In short, the 7.5 IRE refers only to monitoring the DV signal via an analog monitor – not changing the DV signal itself. There is no need to alter anything within the digital realm, only when converting to analog.
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anything that originates as Digital is 0 IRE including Digibeta.
You rely on the components of properly calibrated analogue equipment to add or derive 7.5 when necessary.
But I’d like to point out there are many editors/post places out there completely ignorant of such things. I have seen so many TV spots with improper black or audio levels I lost track.
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[Chris Borjis] “But I’d like to point out there are many editors/post places out there completely ignorant of such things. I have seen so many TV spots with improper black or audio levels I lost track.”
That just makes it easier for those of us who know what we’re doing to stand out from the competition in a positive way.
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That’s what bars are for. To set the color and black level on your monitor. Plus, if you’ve been doing this long enough, you should be able to spot crushed blacks in a second.
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[Alan Okey] “That just makes it easier for those of us who know what we’re doing to stand out from the competition in a positive way.”
Alan thats the “I told you so” when on a rare occasion a lower budget client goes to a much cheaper place and ends up coming back to me. 🙂
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[Bret Williams] “That’s what bars are for. To set the color and black level on your monitor. Plus, if you’ve been doing this long enough, you should be able to spot crushed blacks in a second.”
I can’t count (again) the number of times people send video thats out of whack and not at all proper…in which case the bars mean nothing.
Then there’s the artful films that have crushed blacks on purpose.
Things are not quite as cut and dry as they used to be.
At least the quality is usually better 🙂
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