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Color Correction Question
Anyone that can help me it is much appreciated.
I am pretty ignorrant to broadcast color Correction and I have a project going to broadcast.
I have the producers package so I am comfortable submitted the project within their requirments, so here is my question.
I am trying to decide whether to purchase a JVC TM-150 or get a 26 inch LCD screen with dvi, s-video inputs for reference. I know the JVC is going to have true colour, but does it really matter if I am only using it for reference??? Anyone that could shed some light on this is my new best friend.
Thanks ahead of time.
johnny
Johnny Megalos
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2 Replies
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Greetings,
I might lean towards the JVC versus something you might get at Best Buy. While there’s never any way to be sure, it should come from the factory set very close to “true” colors, what ever that may mean. If you’ve acquired your footage already, I hope you began by capturing some color bars at the beginning. Setting your system to the camera color bars is essential to insuring accurate color reproduction. Most NLE systems have a combo waveform montor/vectorscope built-in to assist. In addition to color, you certainly want to insure you keep peek video levels below 100 IRE for the majority of SD broadcasters out there.
In short, I think you’re always better to defer to the “professional” products over a consumer model. Keep in mind, what’s red to you, may be pink to someone else, which is why it’s best to defer to the “objective” vectorscope.
My thoughts,
Tim Scarpino
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Tim,
Sorry for the late thank you. I was away on my honeymoon. Thanks for getting back to me. I ended up picking up the JVC. The refresh rates an resolution just wasn’t there on the others.
All the best and thanks for the insight.
Johnny Megalos
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