DVCProHD on a Macbook Pro

[Jeremy Garchow]

It doesn’t appear to have LUT adjustments, per se, it does some sort of gamma correction and deinterlacing. I wouldn’t really say you can send a LUT to it and correct it that way, but maybe the website is just lacking information.

Do you know more, Shane?

and Joslyn, remember that resolution is not always the most important part of the image, people will notice odd color before lower quality resolution. IF the color on your monitor is crap, then you won’t be able to color correct accurately. Even though the 20L5/1 (or 14L5/1) only has 800 lines, it’s colors will look more accurate than if you hook up the same signal to a cinema display without a proper LUT. Even though the Apple cinema display has more resolution, it won’t look better as it’s colors will be less accurate than other CRT or super high end digital LCD displays. Make sense?

Jeremy

[Uli Plank]

Sorry to pour some water in the wine, but the Matrox is not going to make an Apple 23″ LCD look like a CC station. We hooked it to a JVC 17″ HD tube and that is a good CC station!
The MXO itself is a great little device. The best thing about it for a mobile editor: You can walk into the clients studio or rent a deck and play your footage straight onto DVCProHD or HDCam tapes.

Regards,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Shane Ross]

I’m with ya Uli…I don’t think that it will compare with a full CRT HD monitor, or even a $16,000 Ecinema LCD monitor, but I do believe that it will come close. And close, in many people’s book…the people who cannot afford the $35,000 Sony CRT 35″ HD monitor…is good enough. Good enough for broadcast color correcting…and in an affordable price range.

Now..I am basing this on what i saw at MacWorld looking at the ACD and a $5500 Panasonic LCD monitor. I asked for a review unit so that I could compare it with my CRT, and possibly with the $35,000 Sony if I can get time at a company I have had work done at. I don’t expect it to be spot on…but who can compare to that Sony? I doubt my PVM 14L5 could, yet it is good for color correcting.

Is it the ultimate solution? Does it compare to the ultimatte solution? No. Is it a viable solution? Yes.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Walter Biscardi]

[Uli Plank] “Sorry to pour some water in the wine, but the Matrox is not going to make an Apple 23″ LCD look like a CC station. We hooked it to a JVC 17″ HD tube and that is a good CC station!”

Personally, if you’re looking for a low cost, color correction HD monitor, then look at the Panasonic Pro Plasmas. You can pick up the 42″ for $1,500 or less and for my money, I’ll take plasma over LCD any day. We have both 50″ and 42″ now and we can almost perfectly match our Sony PVML5’s with them. So much so, that we turn off the sony’s for client reviews and only use the plasmas.

LCD’s still can’t display the blacks as well nor do they have the viewing angles of plasmas. CRT is my first choice, then plasma for color correction.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Vince Gaffney]

I had a facility engineer form one of the bigger post houses here come in with his new LCD probe. He was able to get my 23 Luma LCD set up in his words “right on.” We were both pleasantly surprised at what Sony is able to offer with these panels.

vince

[Walter Biscardi]

[gaffney film] “He was able to get my 23 Luma LCD set up in his words “right on.” We were both pleasantly surprised at what Sony is able to offer with these panels.”

The two big knocks I hear on the Luma series are the blacks do not reproduce well and the viewing angle is very narrow. You have to be pretty much sitting straight on to these monitors to see the correct colors.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Vince Gaffney]

absolutley true on the viewing angle. not too wide. but the blacks are really surprising.

vince

[Walter Biscardi]

[gaffney film] ”
absolutley true on the viewing angle. not too wide. but the blacks are really surprising.”

Can you and a client sit and both view the monitor well, or do you have to sit dead-on center?

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com
HD Editorial & Animation for Food Network’s “Good Eats”
HD Editorial for “Assignment Earth”

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Vince Gaffney]

i have a different monitor for clients. the luma is for me and is directly above my 23 computer monitor dead nuts centered to me. it looks like it would be ok for two people sitting rather close. the question is, how much do you like your clients?

i’m off to a production but could probably do an unscientific test later in the week.

vince

[Joslyn20]

walter,

which 42″ panasonic plasma do you speak of? just checked your profile but didn’t see a model#. thanks!