[William Edwards]

Thanks for the responses.

Have you tried this out on a constant speed change in which 2 clips were cut from the same source video? Based on what you said, this doesn’t seem like it would be an issue, but I like to be certain of any variables!

[William Edwards]

I checked out that PDF. It says the Apple XDCAM can be decoded ‘with final cut installed’, so as long as I have final cut that should be fine.

I’m wondering more about the speed changes, and I think there might be an issue with a key framed speed ramp in FCP as opposed to a speed change when relinking the files.

[William Edwards]

sdi > displayport > hdmi ?

[William Edwards]

I was under the impression though that Plasma didn’t come standard with the SDI hookups. That is a separate piece that you need to purchase, at $1,000. How are you intending to hook it up to your system?

[William Edwards]

I find that it fixes itself if I double-click on another still, and back to the one I want. Looks like a bug to me!

These sequences are from FCP 7 XMLs.

[William Edwards]

Is it not possible to go from a Thunderbolt connection out to something like an Ultrastudio 3D Blackmagic to SDI connection into a calibrated monitor?

Or does that calibrated monitor have to have a thunderbolt connection directly from the computer?

[William Edwards]

Thanks Margus,

I agree, but also when I calibrated the GUI monitor to gamma 1.8, it was a lot closer than gamma 2.2.

[William Edwards]

I think I figured it out, and this might all be elementary to you guys.

ProRes, H264, or other apple images playback in gamma 2.2. So Resolve and FCP, for example, would also play back the image in a 2.2 space. If I have the monitor calibrated at gamma 2.2 and not 1.8, resolve images would be saturated and weird because it’s a 2.2 gamma on a 2.2 image. Colorsync works with quicktime files to make it look the “proper” gamma, but it doesn’t work with Resolve to make this (again in quotes) “correction”.

[William Edwards]

Thanks for responding Juan. Yes, I do have a probe. I recalibrated it, as there was a chain on this problem with i1Profiler and the new version they put out, and it seems be be working a lot nicer now. Question with this though, what gamma is broadcast set at? 2.2 right?

So I can eventually move away from this problem: I was looking at the Eizo monitor. I don’t know if there are others you can recommend. My favorite was the Panasonic Plasma, as it sees blacks very well.

[William Edwards]

Fair enough, for a broadcast environment. But when video is going to stay on the web, wouldn’t it be better to stay in the environment of a computer/web? If you have a color calibrated computer monitor, shouldn’t the viewer in Resolve produce the same outputs as you end up with your quicktimes? Or was it just not built for that?