Del Holford
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I hope I’m clarifying and not beating a dead cow. The monitors you are refering to range from 750 to 900 lines of horizontal resolution. My point is HD has 1080 lines of resolution and it’s my view that for color correction and critical monitoring the monitor ought to have native resolution. When I go to Sam’s Club and see the plethora of products being sold, plasma and LCD, in 20 – 50″, not one has the same setup, nor do any have the same resolution, which is often noticable and nasty. If we start with correct color rendition, by the time they are played thru such monitors they might still look OK.
Finding Nemo ought to look good on anything.The monitors shown are great monitors, just not HD even though they have HD inputs. I also agree that LCDs are coming along quickly and I expect to buy an LCD monitor for my HD viewing at home thru a PCI card or a BOB. At some point soon LCDs will give critical monitoring, but not this week.
Price does become an issue and you do what you can to drag the bucks out of the budget.
Del
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I’m sorry but “reference” and “sub $4000” don’t equate. If you want a monitor to color correct HD video and a monitor to see what the final product will look like at home (discounting those who misalign their plasma, lcd and projection HDTVs) you really need something akin to the Sony DVM 20F1U or larger. A post house doing HD episodic TV or documentary work relies on glass CRT monitors to get reliable, true color.
I do use a plasma (Sony BVM-510 – $13000 when it was purchased) for HD Display in my suite but have a CRT in the suite also for critical “reference” choices. Hopefully someday soon the quality of LCDs will get to the point they can be relied on, but currently only monitors sold as reference monitors are truly reliable. Unfortunately they are very pricey.
My $.02. Those wishing to disagree may do so and keep the Cow interesting.
Del
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Perhaps an easier solution would be to use After Effects and adjust contrast. That way the video stays unconverted or at least stays as video. You might also use degrain filters in AE to reduce grain.
You could save the video clips as image sequences and then use actions to run thru all the frames when you find a solution in Photoshop. Then reimport the image sequence and edit.
HTH.
Del
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I did that for several years to a GVG 200 switcher thru a Targa 1000 Pro card. Now you have numerous choices for video out from computer to your switcher from AJA, Digidesign and others. I generally had to use my graphics as a luma key or thru the DVE to use the matte (alpha) on the second channel. Clunky, but doable. Best wishes.
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If you don’t mind paying for them ArtBeats and JumpBacks have stock footage on a buyout basis. For free footage (paid for by your tax dollars in the US) http://www.NARA.gov is a great resource for specific topics. Some do have copyright restrictions so read the info on each image or video resource. We paid for film transfers to HDCam of a couple hours of WWII footage for a documentary on local WWII participants.
Del
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I get an eyedropper but the main menu as well. Maybe it would be worth a couple bucks to call Adobe and get their support. Hopefully there will be more responses here before you have to do that.
Del
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some of your settings may have evaporated into cyberspace. your computer’s file manager usually has those associations (psd opens in PS CS, doc opens in Word, etc.) but sometimes the pc may hiccup and lose them. Try going into your file manager (Explorer in the IBM pc clone world) and re-associate those files. Then you should be able to use “open with”. I’m not that Mac fluent because I use PS CS and Illustrator CS on pc, but it has the same items, just calls them something different.
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amen to that.
I’m most comfortable in polo shirts and Savane slacks. Others are more comfortable in jeans or even shorts. Creativity comes out of your brain not out of your closet.
That being said, clients expect a certain level of business casual and don’t afford as much respect (merited or not) to those who prefer to dress sloppily. That’s my view from the Southeast. -
you might look at Cabellas or Bass Pro catalogs for a way to visualize the camo you want and then duplicate that with brushes in PS.
Del
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Hi
I do the same time of work and CS2 is what you have been waiting for.
It is very video oriented and fixed instabilities in CS, particularly filters. They are now fast and usable in CS2. It has made several improvements that their “What’s New” explanation is very clear on. You are one lucky cow now.