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

>
> When we asked the QC house what they use to QC files they told us they use
> QT.


I would've told them that this is both DUMB and representative of
incompetence. Unfortunately, possessing those qualities is likely to land
one in positions one is less qualified for anyway, so it's a losing battle…


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:27 PM, John Moore <bigfish@pacbell.net> wrote:

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>
>
> 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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