Jason Myres
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[Shane Ross] “I know of no one in the professional LA market considering FCX for anything.”
You may not, but I do system engineering for companies all over Los Angeles, I can personally tell you with 10.0.3 the flood gates have just opened. I recently spoke over the phone with a good friend who is a senior post engineer at a very large media company, and in a few weeks they will be pulling the trigger on FCPX company-wide.
While I agree that it isn’t ready for certain segments, FCPX is absolutely perfect for many companies that have high-volume, rapid-turnaround environments with hundreds of editors in locations all over the world.
In one year FCPX will be everywhere you look.
JM
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[Laco Gaal] “But I always heard that plasmas are drifting, and need to be calibrated often, what’s the resolution for that?”
By buying what you can afford, learning it inside and out, and understanding that while you may not achieve perfection, you will be able to make/ keep your monitor more accurate than it was out of the box.
Definitely hire a professional calibrator to help you determine an initial profile, but if you take the time to learn how to calibrate it yourself, it will be an invaluable skill for you as a colorist. No time to start like the present.
JM
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The original question was, what’s the best way to calibrate a plasma for under $1000? Since a Hubble and LightSpace cost eight times that, talking about them doesn’t do Laco much good. If any of you know of anything better than an i1D3 and ChromaPure for under a $1000, I’m all ears.
JM
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Get an i1 Display 3. It’s doing to calibration, what the 5DMKII has done to cinematography. The stock software package that comes with it has some shortcomings, so you’ll want to buy it as a complete system with a package like ChromaPure or CalMan (rebranded as the C6), which will allow you to calibrate CRTs, LCDs, and Plasmas. The software you use will need to be licensed for your specific probe, so you must buy them together from the software developer.
ChromaPure has a variation called the i1 Display 3 Pro, where they hand-calibrate each individual unit using a spectroradiometer to eliminate manufacturing variances. If you don’t have the budget for something like a Hubble or a Klein K10, this is the probe to get.
https://www.chromapure.com/products-d3pro.asp
JM
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[Gabriele Turchi] “but everything around it …well OSX is way nicer and Smoother … copy data around , organizing folders , reinstalling the OS etc…
i would Miss that a Lot…”
Amen.
JM
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And if that’s not enough, you can equip your vfx department with HitFilm, which gives them all the capabilities of a Flame or Pablo for only $399.
JM
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I have a notebook of looks I keep on hand. Just added a new one:
“Pop Action Movie Skintones”
-Key skintones
-De-saturate 50% or more.
-Add orange as needed.Thanks Sascha!
JM
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According to articles like this, Apple is waiting on the Sandy Bridge chips to be available for production this fall. There is also word that the chips used in the new Mac Pro will be custom to Apple which might delay the release a little longer than usual.
https://www.mactrast.com/2011/08/mac-pro-upgrade-could-occur-in-the-4th-quarter/
I think the more important thing, however, is will you even want the new Mac Pro? There’s a lot of speculation about changes to the new enclosure that will make it much smaller, hopefully rack mountable, but at the cost of both optical drive bays, the 3.5″ hard disk form factor, FireWire 800/400, and possibly some, or all, of the PCIe slots. There is a notion that the future is ThunderBolt-only, which would be in line with the idea that Steve has been fighting the use of expansion slots in computers since the Apple II era.
I guess the point is, many of things we have grown used to at Apple are changing. To assume the new Mac Pro will be even remotely similar to what we’ve been used to for the last decade may set you up for a surprise. So much so, that you may find yourself running for one of the last remaining Westmeres when the new design finally arrives.
JM