Patrick Inhofer
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Walter,
Broadcast quality is higher than Engineering quality…
Check.
I just wanted to be sure he understood the PVM series isn’t the high-end series of Sony monitors.
And as a user of a PVM-20L5 I can testify it’s a great and versatile finishing monitor. Too bad they’ve been discontinued.
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Patrick Inhofer
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For interlaced images, a CRT is the way to go.
BTW, the PVM series is not the high-end “engineering grade” series of Sony CRTs, those would be the BVM series.
Check out the prices for your monitor at the Broadcast Store.
Unless that PVM has an SDI card, the price is high. Unless you need the SDI option, you might be able to get more monitor for your money.
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[Tom Matthies] “I’m running the Graphire on all three FCP machines.”
Okay, you’ve forced me to pull out my Graphire 3 and give it another spin.
Except I find I have the same problem I’ve always had, when the pen gets near the edges of the active area of the display the cursor becomes very jittery, sometimes jumping to the edges of the screen.
I’ve also found that the tablet senses the pen much too soon for my tastes.
Is it just me or do others have these problems?
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Patrick Inhofer
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Hi John,
I discovered the Plextools software late last week. Seems to be what I’m looking for and I’ve started testing out media.
I also found a site that’s dedicated to this issue: http://www.cdfreaks.com
After lots of research at cd freaks I found the following software tools to help evaluate media/burner pairings:
https://www.dvdinfopro.com/ (freeware)
https://www.k-probe.com/ (lite-on drives)
https://ww2.nero.com/enu/index.html (generic solution)
https://plextools.com/info/info.asp (plextor drives)That’s just a starting point. There is more out there. Some things to keep in mind:
The absolute numbers/readings that any of these apps output are useful in relative terms – they shouldn’t be considered absolute, accurate readings because most consumer burners just aren’t built to the tolerances required for hyper accurate readings. However, when comparing 4 different brands of media, the readings between them are what we should be judging.
Also, some of these apps are meant to be used with specific brands of drives. Others are more “generic” solutions.
And no, I haven’t found any Mac-based solutions.
So, that’s what I found this past week researching this issue. Hope others find it useful.
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Patrick Inhofer
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Eric,
Thanks for the link.
Also, my concern isn’t replicating, but duplicating – which is becoming a much bigger part of our business. Most of our jobs fall between 5 – 500 copies and have too tight a turnaround to make replication cost-effective.
We’ve started building a little QC station using players we’ve found to be particularly finicky – but I was hoping for a more qualitative solution.
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Patrick Inhofer
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Ben,
Thanks for your response.
[Ben Waggoner] “The QuickTime implementation isn’t as good and isn’t widely supported in modern authoring tools, alas.”
When you say the QT implementation isn’t as good, do you mean it isn’t as reliable?
pi
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Patrick Inhofer
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[mkramden] “Is Luke or anyone from BM going to respond to my question about how this price drop was do to a “$1000 lower price part” and not in response to AJA’s announcement? So most of you that have responded don’t find this of particular importance.”
I suggest you read some books on product pricing and placement. When a new “high-end” product comes out, it’s priced at fatter margins because the early adopters generally need the product and are willing to pay a higher price. When that market is satisfied the price is dropped bringing in the more price sensitive customers, and then drops again at very thin margins to get what’s left of the market as a new product comes on the market to replace the formerly “high-end” product.
This is all Marketing 101 and if you’re in business for yourself I suggest you take some time to study the theory of product pricing. As a consumer you might not like it. As a business owner you can’t afford to not understand it, even if you choose to ignore those strategies. The classic example is printer manufacturers who design the top-of-the-line printer, and then add components to slow it down and lower its quality… making the cheaper printers more expensive to produce, while pricing the printer line to move customers into the top-of-the-line high margin product.
I suppose the first time a professional editor is faced with how quickly the technology we own obsoletes itself, the shock can be pretty powerful. Take a breath. If the purchase made sense 3 months ago, then it makes sense today. Even as new gear comes out there’s no reason your gear can’t be productive for the next 3 years. As for begrudging BM their profits, I suppose if your clients knew how much you could cut your prices before you hit break-even (or how quickly you’ll be paying off your equipment but keeping your rates steady) they’d be pretty upset at you.
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Patrick Inhofer
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