This IS the Avid L2: [Avid-L2] Re: Stuff I wish they'd fix

I bring dubateen tarps of black to at least avoid the whacky colored walls in the closets they put us in these days. The tarps aren't 40% neutral grey but a bring a 5.5K light to splash the wall with. I'm not foolish enough to say it's a perfect environment but I think it helps and the backlight helps with eye fatigue. I try but my wife did paint my work den a puke green against my protests but thanks to a recent flood I'm getting it repainted. Now how many black drops was it in the white paint Terry? ;-)

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "Mikeparsons.tv" <mikeparsons.tv@...> wrote:
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> I love my ultrascopes. I has omnitechs before I and much prefer the Bmd.
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> But if we're going down the route of saying how bad eyes are how many of you have smpte rooms with correct cinepaint illuminated by correct bias lights etc? I do. But then I always liked grey.
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> Mike
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> On 23 Jul, 2013, at 6:12 AM, Steve Hullfish <steve4lists@...> wrote:
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> > Your eyes adjust to their environment. Your monitors can be suspect. Your eyes fatigue. Your eyes have bad "memory." There are about a dozen reasons why your eyes are a horrible tool in a grading environment.
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> > The analogy I've also been giving lately is that you wouldn't do a sound mix without VU meters right? They give you a relative level so you can determine if any loudness or distortion is coming from your monitoring or your mix. They let you know whether the audio at the front of the program is the same level as the audio at the end of your program.
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> > Yes, YOU can grade without scopes. Let me know who your clients are and they'll soon be mine, or they aren't worth having as clients in the first place.
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> > Steve
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> > On Jul 22, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@...> wrote:
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> >> On Jul 22, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Terence Curren wrote:
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> >>> I beg to differ. What is your reference as your eyes are constantly adjusting?
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> >> I agree.
> >> Must. Have. Scopes.
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> >> I recently learned a great deal about CC from Bryan Castle at Avid.
> >> For those that think they can trust their eyes, give the pictures in the links below a look.
> >> They are example of what's referred to as the "Simultaneous Contrast Effect:"
> >> (before visiting the link below, first turn down your sound to avoid the obnoxiously loud music)
> >> http://web.mit.edu/persci/gaz/gaz-teaching/flash/contrast-movie.swf
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> >> The Simultaneous Contrast Effect just _one_ of _several_ things
> >> you're up against as a colorist and why you can't trust your eyes.
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> >> 1-
> >> http://langabi.name/blog/2005/09/26/optical-illusions-and-visual-phenomena
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> >> 2-
> >> http://www.urdjuret.com/Optical/www.urdjuret.com_optical.illusion_classic2.png
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> >> 3-
> >> Several on this page:
> >> http://inventorspot.com/articles/robots_see_optical_illusions_jus_7251
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> >> Cheers,
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> >> Benjamin
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