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What kind of monitors in the sub-$1000 range are decent for color correction? Right now I'm using a 6-year-old dell 2405fpw, and it does a terrible job reproducing darker colors. When I bring up one of my videos on a computer that's hooked up to a newer LED-backlit display, I can see a lot of detail that I couldn't on my home setup. Does anyone have advice on what to look for or avoid?
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Gunjin posted:Are you correcting for broadcast? If so unless you find a good deal on something used, nothing sub 1K is going to give you the results you want, unless you can find someone offloading an old CRT broadcast monitor. you're also going to need something like a Kona or Blackmagic card to output a proper broadcast signal, the signal a regular video card puts out doesn't have the proper color space or gamma and if you're working interlaced it won't do that right either. Flanders Scientific comes well recommended everywhere I've looked, but their least expensive broadcast monitor comes in at 2500. The material I'm going to be working with over the next year will probably be aimed toward public television distribution - I don't have the money for a broadcast-compliant setup, but the producer I'm going to be working with might be willing to spring for one (depending on what kind of facilities can be rented in our rural-ish area). The Panasonic is more along the lines of what I'm looking for right now - I've started working with 4:2:2 footage in recent months, and I'd like to be able to color correct with greater accuracy than I can with my current monitor. Edit: There wouldn't happen to be anything a bit smaller with similar capabilities, would there? It would be nice to be able to use it side-by-side with a desktop PC instead of devoting a good chunk of a room to a monitor. Moon Potato fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jun 5, 2011 |
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Jun 5, 2011 05:10
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Given that I can't afford something with true color accuracy at the moment, would you recommend just chucking a couple hundred dollars at an LED-backlit display that will give me a better idea of how much I should crush my blacks for now, or would something along the lines of that $1000 panasonic display leave me with footage that will require considerably less work to do once I'm able to book time in a proper color correction suite?
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Jun 6, 2011 06:26
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Thanks - that solution's probably the best fit for me right now, since my major client over the next year will be able to pay for proper facilities/equipment for his projects, and most of my other personal/freelance projects won't require that level of perfection.
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Jun 6, 2011 20:06
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Gunjin posted:There have been some screenshots and information leaked, Color and Motion are both surviving, though they may be rolled into FCP X. I think they specifically stated in their NAB presentation that Color was going to be integrated into FCPX. This seems like a wise move, since Color has some limitations on what it can display from your FCP timeline (transitions and most filters aren't visible).
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Jun 21, 2011 02:29
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If you're looking for something that can do pan&scan in real time, controlled by the user, nothing is jumping to mind. Macs have system level magnification that can be turned on to give you a similar effect during full-screen video playback, although you'll be sacrificing a bit of image quality (unless OSX 10.7 has made screen magnification resolution independent).
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Aug 26, 2011 19:08
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Adobe's offering the Production Pro CS5.5 suite for half off until the end of the month, and you can still find boxed versions of Avid's $1000 Media Composer crossgrade at certain resellers. Even if you're happy with FCP7 for the time being, now's a great time to broaden your software toolbox if you're not strapped for cash. If you're a freelancer or if you frequently collaborate with other editors, it's probably a worthwhile investment.
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Sep 6, 2011 22:39
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There's a "Post Your Short Films" thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3371195 But if you want to discuss your editing/post-production this would also be an appropriate place.
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Sep 11, 2011 04:18
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The rolling shutter and codec on the D90 are really awful. The D7000 and D5100 are a big improvement in terms of video function.
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Sep 23, 2011 22:27
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I've had some weird issues with putting progressive media into an interlaced timeline in FCP that produced similar aliasing. The best solution I could come up with was to change the timeline to a progressive codec and deinterlace the interlaced clips in it.
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Dec 10, 2011 20:25
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BonoMan posted:Is there some sort of channel other than eBay to sell production equipment? It's probably worth posting your inventory on DVXUser and seeing if anyone's interested. http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/forumdisplay.php?17-For-Sale-or-Want-to-Buy
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Apr 13, 2012 23:36
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mayodreams posted:It doesn't. The only way to update software is through the Mac App Store. So I launched FCP7, and then noticed that FCP X was installed too. I didn't install it, but I launched it, it updated itself, and then broke FCP7. Very interesting indeed. I reinstalled FCP7 after upgrading to a computer with Lion, and it still updated through software update. The updates are usually titled something like "Pro Apps Update" instead of mentioning the program by name, though.
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May 8, 2012 06:52
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mayodreams posted:Right. Mountain Lion gets rid of the old Software Update app and only will let you update through the Mac App store. I manually downloaded the Pro Apps updates and they still work fine. I traced FCP crashing to the AJA Kona drivers I installed, so I really can't throw Apple under the bus there. My bad - I thought people were using ML as an abbreviation for MacOSX Lion. Disregard the earlier post.
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May 8, 2012 19:16
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Teenage Fansub posted:What's everyone's opinions on showreels for editing? Who are your clients? Layfolk who need a video made will have a much higher cheese threshold than directors/producers who are looking for an editor.
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May 4, 2013 05:05
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Teenage Fansub posted:It's for a "Trainee Creative Producer" position at a TV station's ad department. I think the commercials are mostly internal promotion for the station, which is why I want to include an example of my TV promos. Then as long as you demonstrate solid fundamentals, you should be good. Promotional media is all about being impactful and concise, so a compilation to music should suffice if you put some thought and effort into it.
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May 4, 2013 09:05
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Yes, After Effects will save you a ton of pain doing work like that. Even if the tracker doesn't work for that particular clip, manipulating and animating masks goes much more quickly in AE than in any NLE.
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May 16, 2013 01:30
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Most of the editing work I do is for a client who wants everything in Premiere because that's what he knows, and I find myself constantly frustrated by the lack of keyboard shortcuts for selecting, nudging and trimming clips in the timeline, even after not using FCP7 for over a year. Now that XML, native RED support, multicam and the ability to look at two clips side by side are enabled in FCPX, I'm looking into switching back for some upcoming major projects. I believe both FCPX and Adobe Creative Suite have free 30 day trial periods available, so it can't hurt to try both and see which one floats your boat.
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May 25, 2013 00:27
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Is the hotkey functionality as extensive in FCPX as it is in FCP7? I'm considering switching back from Adobe, and Apple has addressed most of the issues that kept me away from FCPX before now.
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Sep 1, 2013 01:23
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Just a heads up - the latest update to Premiere CS6 can do this to your existing projects: Removing and reapplying effects and transitions fixed it, but it's probably wise to do what I didn't and finish your current work before upgrading.
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Sep 4, 2013 19:11
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Yip Yips posted:But I'm perpetually in the middle of at least one project That's pretty much the boat I'm in, too. I'm pretty judicious about waiting to install major updates, but I've never had an issue like this with a minor service update from a major software supplier before.
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Sep 4, 2013 20:42
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I haven't had any issues with warp stabilizer analysis being thrown out on AE CS5.5 or CS6 with OSX 10.7.X. Insufficient RAM shouldn't cause problems like that under OSX, but I guess you never know with Adobe. A corrupted install/preferences or a bug are much more likely to be the culprit.
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Sep 7, 2013 00:06
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the_lion posted:So uh, is dynamic link between AE and Premiere on cs6 always terrible? It just seems to render black for the majority of my comps. Sometimes minor service updates to Adobe CS programs will delete whatever third party plugins you've installed and make things that worked before render out black. Try reinstalling whatever RAW plugins you're using in both Premiere and AE, and see if that solves the problem.
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Nov 21, 2013 22:38
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the_lion posted:The footage is just photoshop files I animated in AE at 1920x1080, really basic stuff. The footage is stored locally on a 1TB fusion drive. Most of the clips are 1-5 seconds long. That's odd. When you right click on the composition in your Premiere timeline and choose "edit original" does your fully-intact animation open up in After Effects?
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Nov 22, 2013 05:19
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the_lion posted:Yeah, this is the part that confuses me. I can see them in the premiere bin, and edit original works 100% fine. That's probably the best approach. Hunting down the cause of CS glitches can be very time-consuming.
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Nov 22, 2013 06:23
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1st AD posted:I think you'd pretty much have to use Flash to make this kind of interactivity work. Flash works really well for interactive mp4 video projects. There's a bit of a learning curve if you aren't already experienced with it, but you can manipulate multiple layers of video with transparency and have a good deal of control over playback. Adobe AIR will let you port it to multiple platforms, too.
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Doctor Malaver posted:I thought the file format can be either Flash or mp4 or something else. Not sure how to interpret your first sentence? Flash can import MP4 video and manipulate it in several ways, then publish as an SWF, or through Adobe AIR as a desktop application or a mobile app.
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