Dan Riley
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Anybody have experience with Ultra 2 from Serious Magic?
It’s a Windows app, but the company says Macbook Pro users have been
booting into Windows and using it with no issues.
https://www.seriousmagic.com/products/ultra/?CFID=2184767&CFTOKEN=72393008It supposedly eliminates the problem of lousy lighting on the screen.
The demo looks pretty good anyway.Dan
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Didn’t mean to jump on you.
But I think you’re correct…a few pixels one way or the other
is all we are talking about. The key is, did you or your client
see a title that was too far past what everyone was comfortable with.
I happen to think CNN’s crawl it a bit too low on my Sony CRT.
Of course, if you are looking at it on a nice new Plasma, it’s fine.
So there you go.Happy Seafair Weekend,
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Oh, yeah.
I used it last year for some chroma key compositing. Forgot the latest model name.
But you are using Quantel, one manufacturer, certainly not the only one
networks and broadcasters use, to determine your standard?
Why is that?
Why not just look at as many monitors and TV sets you can,
(go to Best Buy etc.) and come to some kind of standard on your own.
Safe Title really is a moving target anyway, with shows going on the web that
show the entire raster and LCD, Plasma and projectors all doing it
differently than CRTs of old. Seems odd to put all your faith in
one equipment manufacturer. I certainly don’t trust FCP any more
than I trust AVID when it comes to stuff like this. You have to do the
research yourself, in my opinion.Dan
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What is “EQ” you are talking about?
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ah, different problem. you’re not talking subjective.
never mind.dr
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covered yesterday. scroll down a bit and read away.
dr
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That’s totally your call and your client’s call.
There is no “title safe police” out there.
In my experience you can go way below the title safe box
and be fine. Just experiment with various TVs and monitors
to see what’s safe to you.If you watch CNN, that crawl at the bottom of the screen
is WAY out of title safe and yet most TVs are fine with it,
but some, like an older 13 inch Sony set I’ve got,
it can barely see that crawl. Of course, the new LCD TVs,
they see the entire raster. And remember that web video
you make as quicktimes, that box shows the entire raster as well.Dan
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You do that in the browser if the clips are already captured.
You’ll see the “angle” column. Just enter either numbers or
letters for each camera. Cam one could be angle 1 or a., etc.
Is this what you need?Dan
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Wayne,
Thanks for the answers. Very helpful.
The thing is, what I’m looking for in the move to HD is
speeding up edit preparation after a multicam (4 cam simultaneous timecode)
shoot. The goal is to eliminate the capturing at realtime and only have data files.
But I don’t have the luxury of waiting a year until we can use the HD 35 setting.
I may be able to use the proxies for the multicam offline though.
I’ll be looking to see what those proxies look like and if they are good enough
for client offlines. Right now I offline at DV then uprez to 10 bit uncompressed
from DigiBeta. Or maybe I could you the HD25 data files in the offline,
then uprez in realtime to HD35. Thoughts?Dan
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Wayne,
I’ll be attending the Apple/Sony road show here in Seattle on Aug 17.
A few things I was wondering about first: does the camera have timecode in?
how long does it take to transfer files from the disk to FCP vs realtime?
And does the Sony software allow file transfer for the HD 35 or only the
lower quality 25 ?Thanks,
Dan