Terence Curren
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[Shane Ross] “But by the time the show gets compressed, sent over the airwaves, and shows up on Pa Kettle’s TV in Kentucky…or MY TV in Los Angeles…it won’t look close to what you saw in the online bay.”
That is not the point of a reference monitor. The point is to make sure that your show looks exactly the way you want it whether you work in one of my bays or a bay in NY.
The shows that grandma watches should be all be off by the same amount on her system. The shows that you watch on your TV should also be off by the same amount. your eye adjusts to your TV, so all the programs will seem right to you.
With your concept of “who cares it is going to look like crap at the end”, none of us have a fighting chance of getting any consistency in our programs.
[Shane Ross] “The BEST? No. Good…workable…accurate? Yes.”
I could easily prove to you that they aren’t accurate, but you obviously didn’t read my post. For starters, how do you adjust the backlight to 6504 Kelvin? Do you know why that is important?
I never said you have to change what you are doing, that is your world. I just said that you can’t cheaply make an LCD look and behave like a CRT. If you want to argue that point, answer the points I made in my post. Otherwise you are just obfuscating the issue.
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Actually, a boatload have been canned over the last 6 or 7 months. I expect we will still see more.
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Are they on a PC Avid? The DVCPROHD Codec won’t go cross platform.
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Yes you can. Just do an XML export of your project, then import into version 5.0. You might have to manually relink your files, but it will work.
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Okay, I tried to not jump in here, but I couldn’t hold myself back. No magic box is going to make an LCD the same as a broadcast CRT. If it was possible, Sony and eCinema wouldn’t have a market for their 30K and 45K monitors that are coming out.
First, off axis viewing goes to hell with an LCD. Trying to have the client and the operator both sit dead on is nigh impossible.
Second, most LCDs do not have an even backlight. In other words, they have flourescent bulbs in the back so the light gets brighter and darker throughout the screen. You may not be able to easily see it, but it is there.
Third, most of those lights cannot be set to 6504 kelvin which is the SMPTE spec for a reference monitor.
Fourth, by design, an LCD cannot produce blacks like a CRT or even a projected film. Makes jusdging the blacks for those venues VERY difficult.
Fifth, can you say 8 bit? Doesn’t matter if your software / hardware works in 32 bit float. The LCD panel is 8bit! In other words, when you see that banding you will never know for sure whether it is in your program or your LCD monitor.
This is why SED technology should have been here two years ago. This is why Sony and eCinema are putting individual LEDs behind each pixel atgreat expense to try to emulate a CRTs response.
I’m not saying you can’t do what you want to do on a cheap LCD, I just want to make sure people realize it DOESN’T match a CRT regardless of your magic boxes.
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Buy the Wacom. I have many and haven’t replaced one of them in over five years.
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[Al J. Marschke] “Found this on the Avid Web site. I thought the Adrenaline was just a BOB. What processing power?”
It’s a clever marketing falsehood. The only “accelerating” that the Adrenaline does is handle the transcoding of codecs freeing up the CPU from that duty. Similar to what the AJA I/O is oging to do with ProRes.
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[Phil Lowe] “Editing applications – like golf clubs – are tools. In the hands of a novice, even the best will produce crap. In the hands of a master, even the cheapest will produce excellence.
Stop thinking about which software is better and start focusing on how YOU can become better.
“Bingo!!
Remember that pen and paper have been damn near free for hundreds of years now. How many great writers are there?
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Not in Avid. FCP allows you to add to the group after it’s created.
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We’ve had this also. When you first open the project in FCP 6, it asks if you want to correct the shift fields filter from the previous version. DON’T DO IT! It adds shift fields with a -1 value to all of your shots.
Not sure what this is about.
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