[Avid-L2] Re: 3D monitors and finishing

> Terence Curren wrote:
> PBS was strong on QC rejections back in the 80s and 90s also.

Yes and no. Their QC was always about technical parameters and their format guidelines and not image quality. In other words, blanking, drop outs, level spikes, tone at 400Hz, bars and slate for the right length, etc.

PBS did ask for some judgment of image quality, but this was purely subjective. The master was ASKED to be one generation from the source. How do your really prove that? 3/4" was OK as long as it didn't have head-switching. If you needed to blow-up the shot to make it legal, then that was OK, even though the blow-up was more destructive to the image than any head-switching.

Same was true of the FCC blanking flap in the late 70s. The FCC didn't give a crap about quality. Never has and still doesn't today. I know engineers who were told point-blank at the time that if you have to reshoot a show off the monitor with a camera to get legal blanking, then that was OK. Just so long as you didn't "cheat" the viewer out of that extra picture content on the edges of the frame.

- Oliver

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