Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Monitor Shootout (was) Flipping the fields, that old chestnut

Steve,
Thanks,

One last question, was there a a TV logic in the line up?

Bouke

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Hullfish" <steve4lists@veralith.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Monitor Shootout (was) Flipping the fields, that
old chestnut

>I spent way too much time socializing to have analyzed all of the
> monitors properly. Also, they weren't all in the same room, so it took
> a good deal of visual memory to compare, and mine may have been
> impaired by too much Guinness.
>
> I liked the Cinetal, but others didn't. I thought it had the richest
> blacks. Some felt that despite their claim of 10bit, it was really
> 8bit. The colors between all of the monitors except the Flanders
> matched pretty well, which was a testament to the engineers who came
> in to set up the monitors.
>
> It was also interesting to see how much better ALL of the monitors
> looked when playing the demo-reel that Sony brought instead of the
> much more challenging reel of footage that Terry created and fed to
> all of the monitors for most of the night.
>
> I have to say that Editors' Lounge definitely does these events right.
> Terry had proper D65 lighting and even put up massive amounts of grey
> paper on the walls behind the monitors. What a lot of work. Great job
> Terry.
>
> (Disclaimer: Cinetal sponsored my latest training DVD on Apple Color,
> but I tried to be impartial.)
>
> On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Terence Curren wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, there is no replacement for a CRT yet...
>>
>> JVC had their newest monitor which does 4:4:4 which was good as we
>> had a 4:4:4 feed going to all the other monitors. Color wise, they
>> were all pretty much in the same ballpark.
>>
>> The Sony BVM (very expensive) held up the best going off axis.
>>
>> Different folks picked different monitors as their favorite, I hope
>> some of them will sound off here like Greg Huson and Steve Hullfish.
>>
>> One of the things we had in the loop was a ramp which really showed
>> the 10 bit / 8 bit issue. Sitting side by side, you could see some
>> banding in the JVC that was not there in the Sony PVM and BVM
>> monitors.
>>
>> We also had the JVC 3D monitor playing back some 3D footage and our
>> logo in 3D. That was pretty cool, but I'm not about to sit around my
>> house wearing glasses. We had trailers from two different movies, on
>> was done correctly (Journey to the Center of the Earth) the other
>> not (My Bloody Valentine 3D). It really pointed out how hard it is
>> to do 3D correctly.
>>
>> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Bouke" <bouke@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Terry,
>> > While you're around, care to share the outcome of the monitor
>> shootout?
>> > (i really need a new monitor...)
>> >
>> > Bouke
>> >
>> > VideoToolShed
>> > van Oldenbarneveltstraat 33
>> > 6512 AS NIJMEGEN
>> > The Netherlands
>> > +31 24 3553311
>> > www.videotoolshed.com
>> > For large files:
>> > http://dropbox.yousendit.com/BoukeVahl998172
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Terence Curren" <tcurren@...>
>> > To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
>> > Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 3:56 PM
>> > Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: Flipping the fields, that old chestnut
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "shieldsy72" <PaulShieldsAvidL@>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > <<If I drag a Scratch Removal effect onto the clip (not click the
>> button
>> > which adds two edits but put the effect on the whole clip), then
>> draw a
>> > shape covering the whole image and set it to "relative", offset to
>> 1 and not
>> > work in frame mode, surely that should offset all the fields by 1
>> and
>> > reverse the dominance. It didn't seem to work when we tried it. Any
>> > thoughts?>>
>> >
>> >
>> > That's a clever approach. Don't know why it wouldn't work.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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