Toby Tomkins
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There’s a lot more factors involved. What monitor are you using with the Mac Pro? What is feeding the monitor it’s signal? (Graphics card or video I/O card?).
It’s very likely that a MacPro with a monitor will look different to a MacBook pro. It’s inherent in the screens being different and there’s loads of factors to consider beyond that.
Check the image via proper I/O interface, be it a Blackmagic Decklink (PCIe card or thunderbolt or even USB3 I believe) or AJA solution (with supported software.
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Ha! That’s what is wrong with film post! It’s all about appearances at the high end! (-;
Also, if I’m spending £3,500 on essentially a client monitor Sascha what do you expect me to have as a ref!? (lol, imagine a grading suite with a BVM OLED for ref and a PVM OLED for clients, that would surely end the ‘I like the way it looks on this one for this shot, can we make it look like that on the other one’ client cliche.
I believe there are diminishing returns in these monitors. Can a human really see the difference between a calibrated PVM/grade 2 monitor and a Dolby PRM-4200 from a real world distance? I’m not so sure. Hell loads of places for broadcast and some lower end post houses are using grade 2 Plasmas as reference monitors! Where do draw the line at to what is accebtable?
My hunt for a confidence monitor (ideally a cheaper PVM/Grade 2 with proper CMS calibration) within a decent budget has driven me to so many different opinions and marketing BS that I’m now totally lost in this dizzying world of choice.
I’m leaning toward the setup that Juan Salvo has mentioned he uses, a client plasma and an OLED. As this is a major investment for me as a freelancer I don’t want to buy something that will drift to a point of useless in a couple years. I want atleast 3 years of use from it! Can the OLED do that?
So many considerations!
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What’s stopping you from tracking an area and then just moving the window? For multiple windows just copy the original track node/window and adjust for the new use/node as necessary.
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Copy and paste the one eye node?
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+1 on this
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3GB GTX 580
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If you want 4k output my understanding is that you need the full version. You will also need a gfx card with 2.5GB of ram or more. In fact all cards used for processing (not necessarily GUI card also)
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The best format would be ProRes4444 if you can record it! The quality benefits of 444 and less compression without the size of DPX. Or DNxHD 444…
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It’s really not ‘worth’ recording DPX and here’s why;
The datarate is massive, around 250MB per second, or in Mb terms, 2000Mbps! This likely means huge storage amounts will be needed for the shoot and backup, copying/transferring the files will take AGES and (unless you have a beefy RAID on set/location) you won’t be able to watch the files back in real time. It will also take a long time to transcode the files to a useable edit format (unless you have very fast storage to read from and decent hardware)
The amount of time and money potentially spent over shooting 10b 422 would be better spent on a decent colourist and more grading time. Hands down.
The only real limitation would be for green screen/ keying work or extreme secondary colour correction (ie turning a dark pink scarf red while the person is also wearing a red jacket).
If you have the facilities/equipment and time, shoot your own tests and compare. If not I’d vote for 422 10b over DPX in my opinion.
Either way good luck with the shoot (-;
Toby Tomkins
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[Joseph Owens] “Move the monitor?”
amazing.