[Maurice Jansen]

Hi there

your on the edge of HD-SDI cable length’s for copper.
if your going to use copper also be aware that every connector in your circuit have a bad influence on return loss. don’t use patchbay’s if you don’t need them. DON’T try to recycle old MUSAfields they are very bad for HD.
other thing try to avoid TieWraps (or at least don’t pull them to hard on the cable ) use velcro instead.

use good cable like Belden 1694A or Canare (forgot the number 😉
bob knows

and if you really like plumbing you could use Belden 7731A
with a remarkable loss of 11,7dB on 100mtr’s but it’s a pain to install

and remember reclocking a signal near the critical cable length can introduce severe jitter.

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

hi jan

as it is a plain monitor made for the graphic’s world it does not support blue only. as far as i know the software support various probe’s to coloranalyze the display. it has a factory LUT for the 709 colorspace.
if your budget is so limited i guess a coloranalyzer is a bit out of range though ;-0 and maybe also a bit overdon

keep your budget and your market in mind.

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

Hi Jan

we recently installed a few Eizo-CG223W. price under 1000Euro.
very nice monitor for it’s money. and absoluty good for your job.

https://www.eizo.com/global/products/coloredge/cg223w/index.html

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

now that’s a cute little mixer
will it grow if you feed it 😉

nice spec’s though

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

Hi there

maybe a stupid idea but what about a DSLR.
and timelaps software to control it.

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

😉

i know what it is.
these question’s are more to trigger people
to think about it.

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

hi there

let’s throw a little bomb in this thread.

how do you discribe a grade1 monitor
what is it???
where do you use it for???
how do you use it???
and most important why do you use it???

and next to that how do you discribe a picture???
a picture can look GOOD
a picture can look FAITHFULL.

looking GOOD is a OPINION which can not be measured !!
but is the thing you want to communicate.
looking faithfull is a FACT which can be measured !!
but often is not the thing you want to communicate.

in my opinion a grade1 monitor is the following.
a grade 1 monitor is a measurement device!!!
it is not designed to look good.
it is designed to show the truth.
as all measurement device’s it references to a standard.
an important thing about measuring is that you know your reference.
or in other words if you don’t know your reference you are not measuring at all.(youur very expensive monitor is useless)
the standard we are referencing to is a standard that has a
correlation whith the standard we use in our camera’s.
if the camera conform to the standard and the display conforms to the standard it will reproduces faithfull picture’s

the consumer display manufacters must make there display’s
to follow these standard’s (off coarse with some greater deviation’s to the original standards to make it easier/cheaper to make).
to reproduce picture’s faithfull.

or when we forget faithfull.
The feeling/emotion/message which a colorist put’s in a production.
must be communicated by the display

but this is where it all goes wrong

take for instance colorbalance.

we all produce whit our great grade 1 monitors that white is 6500K
but in the average home display white is not 6500K anymore.

all display’s are tweaked so the look great in the store.
there is some birdcage effect here. (the blueest will win)
once the TVset arrive’s home the display setting mostly will not be changed. mostly because people will think it is good out of the box.

the same can be said for lightoutput and contrast.
all display’s are made to survive in the store.
not to look good in the home!

this makes that your program how well it looked on the grade1 monitor.
still will not be reproduced faithfull at your audience.
or will communicate your message biased by the greed of the displaymanufacter’s!!! <== wow did i wrote this down 😉 don't get me wrong i think we ALL must use our standard's. to get thing's right, but standard's lose there power when they are ignored somewhere in the process. i have a strong feel that we are all trying to measure UTOPIA
and not trying to measure the real truth
which is

“THE AVERAGE PERFORMANCE OF A CONSUMER DISPLAY SET”

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

well

as a senior videotech and photo enthusiast i bought a 5D as a replacement of my older DSLR just for my photo hobby. i never wanted to buy a consumer/prosumer video camera because i was afraid that i would be disappointed by the result’s and the lack of control. i experienced the WOW factor also when i tried the video feature. because i am a tech i off coarse took my camera to the office and shoot some nasty testchart’s and difficult scene’s and i had the WOWfactor again. off coarse it got some real disadvantages in ergonomic’s and also in technical things but never forget it’s price!!!!!
in a professional way i don’t look at it as a replacement of a camerasystem but much more as a extra tool next to your mainstream gear.

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maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

hi johan

please look at the site of
De Dutch Guild of Multi-Media Engineers
https://www.dutchguild.nl

and look at there SPOT document.
this is the standard for digital delivery for most dutchstation’s
for TV commercial’s but also used for normal program’s
i have the strong feel they want this.
which station is it ???

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!

[Maurice Jansen]

hi todd

i fully understand your MX50 issue’s this mixer belong’s to the past.
and actually in the trash.

i don’t know if your cam’s can output SDI otherwise i recommend the panasonic HS400(does not support composite) the thing is it’s future proof due to it’s SD/HD design and has a frame synchroniser per input.
which you can switch off when your source’s are genlocked. giving a lipsync output. next to that you have the possibility to switch a iso reel on the aux. and you have a multiviewer.

if you do have composite source’s you could go to the MX70. but this has it’s latency problem’s.

other option is a Echolab overture. but this has some impact on budget.

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Maurice

People saying they don’t make mistake’s often make nothing at all!