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- On Wed, 3 Jan 1996 Chris Purdie <topher@fox.nstn.ca> wrote:
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- > > Ok, I have a question here and forgive me if it sounds like a silly one. I am
- > > putting some stuff together for my demo reel and everything looks ok on my
- > > machine, however I noticed on other peoples machine it came out lookin like
- > > crap! ..Ok, brightness problem here (hehehe;)) I realized I was workin with the
- > > brightness turned real low on my monitor so this lead to really bad pictures
- > > on others. Which brings me to my question, how can I guard myself against
- > > this when I'm putting my stuff to tape. Should I adjust the Gamma correction
- > > or something?
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- > In "real world" video production, everything is handled through the colour
- > bars. When you go out an shoot something, you first put bas and black on
- > the tape. Then when you go back to the studio, you check the bars on the
- > tape before you edit, and lay down more bars on the new tape that you are
- > editing onto.
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- > When working with LW, I myself use the toaster's bars to check my
- > monitors. Technically, you are supposed to use a vectorscope / waveform
- > monitor to check the levels, but at this time I do not own one. My biggest
- > concern is syncing all my monitors, so that no matter what I do, at leaset
- > I know they are all the same level. I can generally set them via eyeball
- > to an acceptable level (brightness, chroma etc).
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- > > How can I set my monitor (Brightness and Contrast wise) so that what I see
- > > is what everyone else sees?
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- > Well, everybodys will be a little different, and unless you put bars on
- > the tape and level up everybody elses TV as well. Typically this doesn't
- > happen (how many people sit at home and adjust their TV at 3:00am to the
- > bars and tone?). By using bars. however, when you submit work to a
- > TV/Cable station they can properly adjust it for broadcast.
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- > Options: buy a waveform/vectorscope monitor and test signal generator
- > ($$$!), or see if you can snag one to set up the monitors.
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- -David Warner
- dwarner@albany.net
- http://www.albany.net/~dwarner
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