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Calibrating Your MPB Screen For Editing
Unfortunately…. i havent got an external monitor and i have to do all of my editing on my 17″ macbook pro.
Everything looks lovely on the screen. Well it would hey? its a mac! (and a new one too).
Anyway, ive tried a basic FCP bars set up, but they are only colour bars, as opposed to the more complex ones where ermm… there are lots little bars of black in the bottom left and the bars where its blue and black.
Anyway… ill stop showing off with my smooth mastery of the correct engineering terminology right here and ask…….
What would be the best way to set up my mac laptop screen for editing video.
– is there a downloadable series of pictures?
– calibration settings in final cut?Many many thanks in advance folks,
James – UK
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7 Replies
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You can’t really. Setting you portable’s screen to emulate NTSC or PAL is dangerously unpredictable. If you cannot hook up a proper editing monitor, just work as best you can till you can move to a more professional rig.
You CANNOT edit video in a video colour space on a MacBook. You must have a video monitor.
You can download or create your colour bars in many ways. I’d start with the installation DVD for your FCP. There is a large folder of countdowns and bars. Then google would be next.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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By the way the little black bars are called PLUGE bars. I love that word, its great for picking up chicks. I think it is an acronym but for what I don’t know.
Scott Davis
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[Scott Davis] “I love that word, its great for picking up chicks.”
Just curious, but how would you use that in a sentence, or rather, a pick up line?
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time to admit i’m a saddo – it stands for Picture Line Up GEnerator.
adam
Editor/Mixer
Character Options Ltd
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[lightning ad] “time to admit i’m a saddo – it stands for Picture Line Up GEnerator.”
But those little whacky bars are the output of the generator.
Could be Picture Line Up Generator for Equipment.
Picture Line Up Generation Equipment
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci796789,00.htmlDownload an image:
https://www.cinedrome.ch/hometheater/testpatterns/pluge.htmlIs it SADO or SADDO?
While the masochistic camera shader was otherwise occupied on her pedestal, the sadistic engineer calmly introduced her to his pluge.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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Phenomenal
Zak
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Nice one….and as a pickup line?
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