[Craig Sommerer]

Yes, Walter, I’ve read through those FAQ’s many times now, but thanks anyway.

My question is why anyone would believe a corporation that “is not your friend” and I believe I read somewhere in the Cow interwebz, from Adobe reps, previous to NAB that Creative Suite 7 would exist alongside the CC and be available for purchase.

I’ll go back to the sidelines now. I’m a very infrequent poster on the Cow and it’s fun reading the same well known names who drink any flavor of KoolAid to declare it the best ever and best for everyone, only to vomit it later, renounce that flavor while they consume a different flavor and declare that flavor of KoolAid the best ever.

[Craig Sommerer]

Why would anyone want to keep paying indefinitely for old versions of software?

I’m one of the folks Adobe is trying to get rid of, those that upgrade their CS versions every other version or so. $’s are $’s, no matter where they come from and renting of these tools seems wrong, and for many of us it makes no fiscal sense.

I want to own the software license, not rent it. I highly doubt I’ll be a CC subscriber and as a Lightroom, Photoshop, AE and occasional Illustrator user, guess I’ll have to find a copy of CS6 and keep it viable as long as I can.

[Craig Sommerer]

Have you consulted the EX3 user manual at all? If I recall correctly, having last used the EX3 several years ago, the manual was very comprehensive as to various signals available in the monitor outs. If you don’t have the manual, I believe one is available on the Sony website.

[Craig Sommerer]

Peter,

If you wanted to be in 23.98 then you should have removed the pulldown before you began editing. You also need to grasp the technical aspects of what you’re doing; there have been questions on this workflow for years now and there is no dearth of information.

https://www.adamwilt.com/24p/index.html
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/24p_in_FCP_nattress.html

[Craig Sommerer]

Really?

So hardware downconversion from 709 to 601 to tubes that have hardware SDI or even component circuits, the types of monitoring that were commonly being used for film correction not long ago, aren’t accurate at all?

[Craig Sommerer]

How are you feeding your PVM at the moment?

As has been mentioned, that Dell is a computer monitor, not a NTSC/PAL/ATSC/whatever monitor.

If you’re feeding your PVM with something like a Kona LHe which does downconversion from 709 to 601 on the fly, you don’t really need an “HD” monitor at the moment. Save some money. This will probably be flamed by purists but remember that TK suites are still using BVMs that are alive.

[Craig Sommerer]

Bernard Grob penned an excellent text on the video signal and basic video systems. Charles Poynton has also written excellent texts and papers on the video signal. Very informative and effective treatments for even the most stubborn case of insomnia. However, there is no substitute for employment at a tv station/broadcast facility/post production facility for learning from the ranks for engineers. In this day, as has been repeatedly pointed out across the interweb, any idiot can buy a camera and edit rig for under $10k and have no clue how to set up the rig or how to tell a story. You can’t instill curiosity and this isn’t going to change anytime soon.

No need to learn the histogram for video when you have YRGB available.

[Craig Sommerer]

Walter,

I made this point in a thread on the Cow last spring, how my experience was greatly enhanced because of diminished attendance last year, and I was criticized. I would like to be going this year but as I stated, too much paying to work to ignore.

Cheers.

[Craig Sommerer]

Interesting. Considering the amount of words devoted to and predicting the death of the business model of the trade show here on the Cow the past few years, I’m surprised that the Creative Cow would even be at NAB,with the diminished attendance and all. At any rate, I’m with Bogie on this one, I’m too busy making money to attend this year.

[Craig Sommerer]

I don’t design these blasted trucks I sit in, I just shade cameras and have to interface with the equipment that is provided. I’ll let you tell the bean counters why it’s better to spend drastically more money on a rack chassis full of Ensemble Designs’ or Evertz or even Aja frame syncs. The FS1 is cheap and it works well so therefore they are purchased and it’s what I have to use at times.

I don’t have time to go hunting through a web interface remote when I have a big dog and pony show, hardware remotes are easy, as an example, the fortel FCP503 by Pesa.

Just my opinions about the device. Cheers.