Joseph Mastantuono
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Gonna try this out today… This was my number 1 keyboard shortcut that I didn’t know existed.
Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
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I have a very similar setup, and I’m not having any issues with v10.
Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
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Nicely done, Blase.
That’s a really elegant way to solve that. But will that work with spanned clips?
However, unless they’re paying you extra for a conform, I’d just grade in pro res.
*If* the used a certain kind of conversion they could have clipped some highlights from the mxf… Otherwise there’s really no reason to go back.
Joseph Mastantuono
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Project and Bins are ‘EXTERNAL’ to drive that’s local to each system.
SAN is a shared drive over a 10gigE with a Mac OSX server. We’re just using it as a way to share media. It’s been working for a bit. We’re just experiencing a weird bug.
Joseph Mastantuono
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No, everyone is working on their own project.
I even experienced it myself just now.
Different projects, different systems. We’re all accessing shared media through a SAN… But that’s just the media, no AMA or anything funky.
Joseph Mastantuono
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Manufacturers are also in a completely different game. They do tons of stupid tricks on their TV’s to make them seem more appealing when they’re side by side in a best buy. Over sharpening, adding contrast, gamma shifts, and color shifts (a slight bump in skin tones often). Lets not even get started with “auto-motion”
Getting these consumer displays to back to show close to what they should is difficult but possible.
Also, for color work, it’s far more important to have a color critical 1080p/2k display than a 4k display.
As far as what Juan says about “malpractice” I tend to agree, although I’ve seen it more with producers trying to bring color work in house than with post houses / colorists underbidding.
I think that there’s a big disconnect with the manufacturers of TV’s, We’re all looking for better gamuts, 10bit displays, “truer” displays, and they just bonk the consumers over the head with gimmicks. Not that 4k is a gimmick, I’d have a hard time thinking that the guts of a 1500$ 4k panel could have the correct color science in it to work.
Every panel has 2 parts, the display, and the electronic signal processing to get the signal and translate it to what the display can show (voltages to individual crystals and led’s ETC…), the latter is where a lot of consumer devices fail.
Joseph Mastantuono
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Also, don’t ignore chair and desk height. I used to get really bad wrist and back pain until I swapped for an aeron chair, and a adjustable desk that was a bit lower.
Joseph Mastantuono
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Sure the Keyer sometimes has a hard time with dslr/xdcam/etc footage, and we all want better blur & shrink/grow tools, but this is ridiculous.
I really love using daVinci, and its great and fast at synching and timing dual system sound dailies. I find it faster turnaround than using redcinex.
Sure it’s a matter of personal presence and comfort, but resolve is my favorite colorist software out there right now. And a big part of that is the node based workflow.
Joseph Mastantuono
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The Abel cinetech blog has a pretty comprehensive video about it…
Joseph Mastantuono
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Inexplicable dropped frames when using the gt120. Problem goes away when I swap cards. I thought it was a pretty well known issue.
Joseph Mastantuono
http://www.goodpost.net
Color Grading & Post Production Consulting