Thursday, November 29, 2012

[Avid-L2] QC Simians or Sapiens? You be the judge

 

On today's episode of QC Corner we find John called in for an emergency fix to a file delivery that failed QC.  This is after the HDCamSR tape passed.  We like to call the episode "WTF?"

This is a mixed frame rate timeline that I mixed down the 23.98 sections so I could remove them for export of a QT Ref.  The 23.98 sketches are flagged with studdery motion and even a 29.97/59.94I sketch is flagged for blurred motion on transition wipes.  I ama link to the file and everything looks fine even stepping through field by field.  When I open the file in QTPro I do see the blurred motion and split frames caused by QT playing back the whole frames split field and all.  So of course if you park on a fast wipe transition there will be a merging of two distinct wipe border positions.  When we asked the QC house what they use to QC files they told us they use QT.  I was amazed and shocked.  How can you QC 1080I/59.94 ProResHQ with QT.  Perhaps they are driving a card or something like a Digital Rapids box to check levels on a scope but if they can't see fields it seems like an inadequate form of QC.  This is a big facility and nice people
but this just seems wrong to me.  Oh well after a phone call they are going to look again to see if they still feel it's an issue.  More will be revealed.

John Moore

Barking Trout Productions

Studio City, CA

bigfish@pacbell.net

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