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Remodeling Color/Edit room
We’re in the planning stage of remodeling our color correction/editorial room. It’s been a great color room for a little over a year now, using many of the tips I learned on the Cow’s forums… 18% grey wall behind broadcast monitor, controlled 6500K lighting, etc.
We’re wanting to add a “client theater” to the room, to give clients a larger viewing screen and a better situated/more comfortable work space. Plus, it “allows” everyone, but the DP or director, the opportunity to not look over my shoulder. And, of course, a bigger wow factor is good for everyone involved.
For the screen, I’m leaning towards the 50″ Panasonic pro plasma, TH-50PF11UK. Has anyone used this monitor?
My real question is, how do you have your monitors wired in your edit suites? Are you running everything off your Kona 3? Possibly HD-SDI to my broadcast monitor and decks and analog component to the plasma? Or should a get a SDI->HDMI convertor and run SDI to the convertor/plasma via the SDI out on my broadcast monitor (this plasma has component and HDMI inputs)? Or is there a HD-SDI splitter/switcher that I should look into? Or put a Blackmagic Broadcast Convertor into the mix? (just throwing several ideas out there, the only thing I think I want to avoid is a SDI input board for the plasma because they are expensive and I hear they’re not so good.)
Any ideas or comments are welcome, especially scathing blasts from Zelin.
My current setup looks like this: Kona 3 in an 8-core, dual Dell computer monitors, Panasonic BT-LH2600W broadcast monitor.
Thanks,
Parke——-Stuck On On——–
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I own the 9UK and it works perfect for the job it does.
I feed it component. They come with component and composite input blades.
I have the HDMI blade for the blu-ray player.
I believe HD-SDI to a plasma is just a waste of money.
My clients are always impressed with the image the plasma gives
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I have some questions. How far away is the room? Do you need to send audio as well? Besides the Kona, do you have other equipment you’d like to be able to monitor (like decks)? Do you have an SDI patchbay, a component patchbay, both, or neither?
Sean
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Sean,
The plasma/client theater will be part of my current color/edit room, probably about 10-15 feet cable length away. The computer and rack will be in the adjacent room, 25 cable-feet away, and the plasma would be 35 cable feet away.Currently I do not have a patch bay, just a pretty basic setup using the Kona’s two SDI outs… one to my monitor and one to a deck. The analog out is currently free. I have two SDI cables running to my monitor, one from the Kona, and one from a deck.
Yes, I do want to have separate audio monitors for the client area. Currently I have the AES audio coming from the Kona to a Behringer AES->analog convertor, then running to a mixer at my desk that controls the audio monitors. I was thinking I could send audio from the mixer to the second set of speakers as well. (We’re soon going to be upgrading the audio side of our finishing services to surround sound, so I need to be thinking about how we can monitor 5.1 in the client area as well.)
Thanks,
Parke——-Stuck On On——–
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Whatever you choose will work. I’m personally a fan of the HD-SDI to HDMI converters. We have one in every bay. That way all audio and video comes down one BNC cable and nothing else. The HDLink Pro even allows 5.1 monitoring.
Sean
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