Robbie Carman
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Give Gregg Lowen a call from Lion AV (lionav.com) he a lead THX calibrator. While mainly doing consumer calibrations he’s been doing our displays for years and is totally comfortable with post and high end calibrations, he’s one of the best out there.
As far as the equipment a good calibrator would come ideally with a good spectroradiometer like a Photo Research 650/655 or similar. However some might also come with a high end colorimeter like a Klein K-10, Minolta CA 210/310 or similar. These are much chapter that a high end spectroradiometer however sometimes to need to be calibrated themselves with a high end spectroradiometer and offsets programed into the probe.
There are other probes of course, but thing to avoid is the cheap “puck” style probes used to calibrate computer monitors – these can’t read very well in low light and can cause some problems.
The other component is the software that is used to read information from the probe (if the monitor doesn’t auto calibrate with probe – For Example FSI’s will auto calibrate with a K-10 or CA 210) and allow you profile the display. Calman, Light Illusions and others are popular.
As far as matching displays the only way to get this spot on is with a probe even then though there is a phenomenon known as metamerism failure that comes into play (do a search here on the COW BRAM from FSI wrote about metamerism failure a few weeks ago).
As far as multiple displays in our rooms we have 55-65″ Panny Plasmas for clients (which are calibrated) and we use FSI’s as our reference monitor of choice.
Hope this helps
Robbie Carman
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I have a similar set up with 470s (actually just ordered some 480s for a new system/room) and Red Rocket in Desktop 4 and I’m having no problems what so ever. I’m not hip to the ins and outs of who communication is happening on the PCIe bus but it would seem to me sharing that one x16 slot with the graphics cards, rocket and the deckling is a lot to ask especially since the deckling is always in “go mode” outputting from resolve.
I would try to pull the decklink and see what kind of performance you get.
Robbie Carman
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also are you putting in 59.94 for timeline frame rate or 30. 59.94 1080i is field rate. Having Resolve do frame rate interpolation sloooooooows things down
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Hi Trevor –
Doesn’t need to be frame accurate insert edits. I just want to be able to lay off through the DL 860 to a file but I want to have it be frame accurate i.e. bars and tone at 58:30 show start 1 hour etc.
We’ve been doing this with great success with the AJA Ki Pro but I would like to have uncompressed capabilities through the HyperDeck Studio.
Obviously the question is why not just export a file – of course you can do that the reason is that no software legalizer comes close the DL860 and as 99% of our work is for broadcast and those outlets are increasing going tapeless for delivery we need a 100% perfect way of outputting legal tapeless deliverables with having to go to SR thru the DL860 first and reingest
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[Guillem Ventura] “Could you post the same results with a not-modded GPU?
I mean any option aproved by Apple”Can’t do that the 470/80s are not approved cards from Apple all of them are hacked to work on Mac
Robbie Carman
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I’m working with multiple GTX470s in my cubix desktop 4 for supervised work (supervised pretty much everyday) it just rocks. We have another system with multiple 285s
ProRes I’m rendering at least double real time, S3D I’m getting a ton of nodes all in realtime. We have 2009 2.93 8-Cores and couldn’t be happier. We’ll upgrade the boxes when/if Apple updates them.
RE Lion I haven’t had any issues
Robbie Carman
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I’ve been getting this occasionally as well. All my cards et are set up properly, a quick restart seems to fix the issue. I seem to get it if I’ve been switching between other apps that do video output like FCP and the back to Resolve. But as I said a restart fixes it
Robbie Carman
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[Ola Haldor Voll] ” I’ve been told the only difference is firmware and some electronics. The panels are identical.
“Be careful there Ola. From what I know and have been told by some monitor industry insiders is that Sony with BVM only gets about 5% yield. Of course that means they have 95% of their panels “left over” sure some of those are probably garbage but I would be willing to bet that a percentage that weren’t good enough for the BVM make it into the PVM
I do agree that OLED is the wave of the future and black levels are great, but from what I have seen they drift considerably (mainly because of blue channel aging) and are harder to calibrate. What I think will be interesting is some of the WHITE OLED monitors being developed with TFT filters.
Robbie Carman
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+1 for the FSI 2461 (or any of their monitors for that matter). While bang for the buck its a awesome monitor the other thing is they absolulty have THE BEST customer service of any monitor company and rival any company anywhere in that regard.
Another thing I love is that they have an auto calibration routine that you can do if you rent their probe package (minolta CA-210s) or you can send the monitor back to them for re-alignment at anytime if you cover shipping.
Robbie Carman
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just create a new version on the clips that you don’t want linked.
Robbie Carman
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