This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: MC7 looks great!

Friday, May 3, 2013

[Avid-L2] Re: MC7 looks great!

I asked this question at NAB and did not get a definitive answer.

One thing that was said to me is that rotation would not be available.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "ksirul" <kenavid2@...> wrote:
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> Will MC 7 link to large stills without P&Z or Moving Picture?
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> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "mariannamontague" <marianna_montague@> wrote:
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> > Spot on!
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> > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Rupert Watson" <rupert@> wrote:
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> > > In a word ? Training.
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> > > Rupert Watson
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> > > From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> > > Of johnrobmoore
> > > Sent: 03 May 2013 06:53
> > > To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> > > Subject: [Avid-L2] Re: MC7 looks great!
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> > >
> > > For the first two decades of my professional career I delivered all
> > > kinds of network and cable shows where I had 4 TBC controls and a zaxcom
> > > some of the time to memorize settings. I've often wondered why with
> > > advances in technology on the camera side we seem to have to work so
> > > much harder than before to make the picture look okay. Yes those were
> > > the days of composite analogue video but the content I dealt with was
> > > much more consistent than I get today. I know today anybody that can
> > > hold a camera is considered an operator on many reality shows etc... and
> > > shrinking budgets don't help. Can someone tell me why, when they are
> > > building what I assume are better cameras shouldn't they be making
> > > better looking pictures so we don't have to rely so much on color
> > > correction?
> > >
> > > When I didn't have the tools I probably didn't notice a lot of things
> > > that I'm sensitive to now but it sure seems a lot harder to get a
> > > consistent looking product these days. People use to not be able to
> > > afford multicamera shoots so that plays into it too but there will
> > > always be a part of me that realizes I use to do this stuff with 4 knobs
> > > and a few playback machines and nobody said it looked bad. I think
> > > Steve's comments about the Symphony color correction tools fall very
> > > much in line with my old school thinking. I don't need the world but
> > > some better secondaries and power windows would be nice. Oh and if the
> > > Artist Color worked that would be nice too. ;-)
> > >
> > > --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com <mailto:Avid-L2%40yahoogroups.com> ,
> > > Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@> wrote:
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> > > > The reason to use the built in CC tools - such as they are -
> > > especially with Symphony is to get access to the incredible speed and
> > > efficiency of relational color correction. Baselight is clearly more
> > > powerful than the standard Avid cc tools, but lots of color correction
> > > doesn't need that much power. My guess is that Terry does if for the
> > > speed. And we're all here to get paid - get in, get the job done and go
> > > home. Obviously we all want to do a good job, but there's a lot of color
> > > correction that can be done well without moving to a more powerful
> > > solution. I'm not trying to cheerlead for the Avid CC tools. Nobody has
> > > complained more about them than me. But there ARE reasons that Avid's
> > > tools are actually better in ways than others, including Baselight
> > > (which I love.)
> > > >
> > > > Steve Hullfish
> > > > contributor: www.provideocoalition.com
> > > > author: "The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction"
> > > >
> > > > On May 2, 2013, at 8:29 PM, David C. Ballard <dave@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > dynamic keys, trackers, shapes, i've used it and love it. forget
> > > symphony
> > > > > and just do MC + Baselight
> > > > >
> > > > > but this your already know... :)
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