Jack Catfish
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Okay. This opens such an excellent can of worms here. I’ve been dying to hear what everyone thinks at this point. LCDs cannot be calibrated, correct? I have been going back and forth with the engineers at my facility for 2 years now. Since we have begun to finish projects in Final Cut Uncompressed, I have always fought to have some kind of CRT monitoring for color correction. Number one reason being, the blacks. This past year I’ve been looking at a Panasonic LH-2600. It’s backlit, and therefore has this issue. The blacks look blue. Because of this, I refuse to do any color correction unless I have a CRT wheeled into my room. If the HD CRT isn’t available, I’ll take an SD CRT. Either way, I would never ever use an LCD for color judgement. The technology simply isn’t there yet.
So…when the engineers are faced with my issues here are their responses:
1) CRTs are no longer being manufactured and parts are starting to disappear from production. (Really?)
2) LCDs are how most people view images nowadays, therefore you might as well get used to it (i.e. Things looking horrible.)
3) When set with a Minolta calibration tool, the LCDs can be calibrated. (I don’t believe it.)No matter what they say, I still don’t believe them. I’m perfectly happy to view my HD footage in LCD monitors when doing offline work. But I simply don’t trust them for any kind of online color correction.
Anyone else out there having these conflicts?
Jack
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I know thie thread is old. But, I’ve been wondering the same thing for years. Yes, there’s an option to sort by source. But does it work? I haven’t seen it. I have to run the edl over to EDL Manager (Avid) to get a proper export. I need this to work for Select film transfer sessions. It’s critical.
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Eek, I was afraid that was the only solution. Thanks for the responses.
Nick
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I tried opening it, moving it, closing it, reopening it, and it appears in either 1 of 2 places – If I have my viewer window on my left cinema display, ETT opens in the upper right corner. If I have my Canvas window open on Display 2 (the right monitor) it opens on the upper right of display 2. I’ve tried 10 times just now and it opens and closes fine either way. If I move the ETT window around the screen, close and reopen, it does not reopen where it was left last, only in the upper right corner of display 1 or 2.
I’ve tried to reproduce this anamoly, but I can’t at the moment. It’s completely random when it occurs. After doing a bit of editing and being ready to layoff to tape, however, it disappears from time to time.
This isn’t a big deal…I can ditch the prefs if I need to. Just wondering if anyone else had seen this before.
Nick
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Nope. When I can’t find it, I will go to Window –> Edit To Tape, to make sure it’s selected, hit cmd-w to close window, then check Window to see if Edit to Tape is there. And it’s not.
I’ve looked all over the screens, I can see how it could be easily lost (they’re 2 x 30″ Cinema Displays), but after closing the timeline, source, record, and bin windows there’s nothing. Is it possible they get lost outside of screen range?
The truly strange thing here is when I trash the preferences, it all works fine.
Nick
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Text tools seem flunky in FCP. I always use photoshop or after effects for title work and import into the sequence. I tried to reproduce what you were saying and it looks clean on my end. However, jaggy edges do appear if text is repositioned in the y-axis. The workaraound there is to set the text on a whole number, rather than one with a decimal behind it. This is assuming your sequence settings have a field dominance to them. Does that help at all?