Lacks of standards?
Over here, SONY defines standards, together with a few techs that are
retired now.
What is a 'standard' other than one simple rule you need to know to deliver
your shit?
In the rest of the world, there are zillion of 'standards'. If i want to buy
a simple rod of steel (i need one right now), i get the option of 38 kind of
different ones.
Now you can define that as bad, you can also define that as good. I prefer
the latter, since i like to have the options.
The fact that public broadcaster techs are plain stupid (and believe me,
i've got a lot more stories like yours) does not count as an argument for
'tape being better than file'. The same shit happened in tape delivery also.
The one and sole reason i've bought a DVW500 is to be able to tell other
parties to shut up, since my stuff is on Digibeta it MUST BE GOOD. And it
worked.
But that has nothing to do with Terry's bitching.
I for one can't see why one must invest in high priced hardware to deliver
up to specs. I also fail to see why digital delivery has anything to do with
'lack of specs'.
Those are different things.
And Terry's arguments in the past are something i can write something about,
but not tonite.
Bouke
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Job ter Burg (L2B)" <Job_L2@terburg.com>
To: <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Hard Drive Shortages to Drive Up Cost of Video
Editing
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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