Hmmm...Sounds like Professor Harding is unlikely to provide an objective opinion!
Who appointed him the definer of strobing standards?
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Pitbladdo <avid@digitalbuddy.co.uk>
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, Feb 24, 2011 2:18 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Strobing Makes The News!
Yes Pat, but if Professor Harding and his little machine are to be
believed, then an epileptic seizure can be triggered by a quick pan or
zoom, and almost anything involving fast motion. I'd be happy to upload
some examples when I've got the time, just to show how the simplest of
shots can fail.
In a recent job where much of our program was shot in the London Mayor's
building, in a press room with lots of light-coloured vertical bars on
the wall, with a dark background, almost every shot seemed to fail
because of a strobing issue, when there was very little movement on
screen... We were flummoxed.
Personally, I find it a bit worrying that Professor Harding, the man who
defined these epliepsy thresholds for broadcasters happens to be the man
who's behind the Harding Flash Pattern Analyser, the only box that's
used and recognised by the U.K. broadcasters.
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On 24/02/2011 09:38, Pat Horridge wrote:
>
> It's not madness. We now know, and have done for some years, that PSE
> if triggered in somebody of a particular age range can cause them to
> suffer epilepsy the rest of their life. If they are able to avoid
> exposure to it for that short window of their life they can avoid
> suffering it completely.
> We know this, we can measure what's likely to cause it and we can fix
> it or warn about it. My only surprise is that currently broadcasters
> have a legal responsibility to ensure their content is safe but this
> doesn't stretch other distribution methods like the web and DVDs etc.
> Its also high time a more standard measurement for PSE was agreed so
> that other venders can provide solutions rather than just professor
> Harding!
> Talk about a license to print money!
>
> Sent from Pat's iPhone
>
>
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