Craig Alan
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Sorry. I’m a Mac head and am so used to posting here I made a brain dead post. Figured it out anyway.
FYI: after updating to new IE needed to delete shortcut icons.
Seems like there is a bug in which the old shortcut will disable add ons even though they are enabled in the control panel. Not a fan of windows.
If this could be moved to windows forum it might help someone since it turns out a lot of folk face it.
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Thanks. I get it.
Couple of points:
TC-P42G25 42″ 1080p Plasma TV
45.2 lb (20.5 kg) Without Pedestal
1 year warrantyTH-42PH20U 42″ HD Plasma TV
55.2 lbs (25 kg)
20 lb stand optional
Service & Support: Limited warranty parts and labor 2 years on-site
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The TH-42PH20U boasts the HDMI, Component, DVI, PC and RS-232 but also allows addition of additional mounting boards via the Slot 2.0 Function, developed to defeat obsolescence and promote expandability.
Please correct my impressions. But Pana has a pro line of monitors that do not have tuners and a consumer line of TVs that do. The pro line is built more rugged, heavier, less tip prone. I also think there are more controls for calibration. I’ve owned the consumer line and the picture and black levels are great but limited controls for calibration.
I think the monitor I asked about is in the pro line though BH does call it a “TV” so I’m confused.
If no one knows I’ll call panasonic.
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Thanks David,
Did you use the built in calibration tools or a third party option?
IOW how did you calibrate it?
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i think you should be good with class 6. look for deals. prices coming down. go with major brands. read reviews. some have more failure rates than others. sandisks are good.
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unless you linked to just show item, bh has it cheaper.
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Thanks David,
I really need to get a proper MAC Pro. But for now,
this brings me back to trying to follow your how to adjust the plunge bar setting –After calibrating using Apple’s expert mode, I opened FCP and generated a Bars and Tone (HD 1080i 60) in the viewer and inserted it into the timeline. I opened it in the canvas and made the canvas fill most of the lcd screen (I tried it both small and large). I opened universal access so as to see the contrast gauge. But no matter how much I decrease or increase the contrast the “gray bar” is black. At the lowest level of contrast (Apple calls it normal), I see the faintest of outlines. And it remains black regardless of brightness setting.
I really want to get this right because I can live with sub-par color correction on a lot of the DVDs we burn except for the basic exposure levels. Under or overexposed is almost as distracting as poor sound.
Should I just leave all at the current setting and burn a DVD of the bars and see if the results are the same on an HD TV. I have a Panasonic Plasma. I assume I need to calibrate it as well.
On another note, I really need the brightness level of my macbook pro all the way up to see what I’m doing. I can, however, set it lower if need be while adjusting color in FC.
Thanks again.
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I’m hoping you’ll still read this. If not I’ll re-post.
Hi. I calibrated my macbook pro screen using Apple’s built in calibration tool under system preferences. I used expert settings which still left what was being adjusted un-defined.
With contrast cranked all the way up using control-option-command “.” (repeatedly), all the black bars including the plunge bar appear black regardless of brightness level. Actually the plunge bar becomes black after only one or two clicks of contrast adjustment. When the contrast is put back to the calibrated level the plunge bar is slightly grey.
I don’t notice any difference at any setting by adjusting the brightness once the contrast is increased.
Using these same settings with a color bar giff (https://www.mivs.com/products/videoproducts/tsg/images/colorbars-s420t.gif) showing both -4 and +4, the +4 is slightly grey at the calibrated levels.
Do I need to try this using color bars generated by FCP or from an external source like a camcorder that can generate color bars?
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Absolutely, David. As Edward Albee said, “Sometimes you have to go a long way out of your way to come back a short way correctly.”
I do not advocate a return to linear editing or treating a nonlinear editing system as a linear one (a good exercise, yes, a good practice, no). Yet, the vessel is a linear sequence. And because it is, it needs to be designed from the ground up with this in mind. Just because we are able to create the story in post does not make it a good practice (a good exercise yes, a good practice, no).
At the same time, I don’t believe in the mantra that the story is everything. There are not too many unique stories. As a collective, we have been exposed to a tremendous amount of media. For the most part, we are retelling variations on similar stories again and again (deliberately redundant). The craft/art, therefore, is in the beats, the moments, and in the angle, how the story is told. In this sense, the producer, writer, director, talent, and editor have a common responsibility. Each beat, each scene, each subplot, each character, each plot point complements, mirrors, or builds the foundation – the basic story being told.
In the linear days, I remember:
Video couldn’t hold a candle to film.
Each generation lost some of the previous generation’s luster.
A three second, or so, preroll on both source and record VTR.
State of the art time base correctors costing ½ million.
The digital revolution has revolutionized writing in much the same way. Writers used to spend more time retyping than writing. Okay, there were a few writers who could type faster than they could think, but who cares. No spell check wasn’t fun either. The first spell checkers were more amusing than helpful. And now we can write in a non-linear fashion: insert, ripple delete, copy and paste, replace, undo-undo-undo … redo, redo, redo, add notes, collaborate, duplicate, template. ETC.
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so try a different firewire device like a ext. HD and see.
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; Camcorders: Sony Z7U, Canon HV30/40, Sony vx2000/PD170; FCP certified; write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.