Bouke,
What exactly makes digital file-based delivery so much better?
Seriously, I'm interested in your opinion.
To me, in its current state, it represents lack of standards combined with confusion, if not chaos.
To illustrate: for a TV-job a few months ago, I received the ident of a public broadcaster, in an Apple IMX codec and in H264, both obviously straight from FCP. They couldn't tell me the color space it was in (or should be in).
The H264, which they claimed most folks used, was completely off, gamma-wise. They said I was the first to mention it. I have watched that ident on TV from time to time. Nice, crushed blacks, and H264 artifacting all over the place in 80% of the cases.
Now I know some people will always screw things up, but I do recall that a DigiBeta tape with bars and tone (and an inlay) would often at least indicate what you would be dealing with. Compared to files in "some" color space (take a guess) and "some" codec (never mind platform compatibility), no bars, no tone, no information, no metadata.
Again, this is just my narrow view and recent experience. On the Digital Cinema side, things seem a bit brighter.
Job.
On 27 okt. 2011, at 23:18, bouke wrote:
> Terry, you've been bitching about this too much lateley.
>
> The fact that it is not for your business does not make you have a valid
> point.
> The world is bigger than your shop. Learn to live with it.
>
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