Re: secondary color correction

[Dermot Shane <dshane(at)telus.net>]

On Nov 2, 2005, at 7:06 AM, Boros, Igor wrote:
>  the only advantage is when going straight from film since you are using the celluloid as source and not the crappy dynamic range of tape source (HD or SD).
>
>  I.

Just back home, now have IT access ;-) 

if you Xfer Dmin/Dmax (see the Kodak TCS) to HDSR then you have the dynamic range of film preserved on tape

I am working on two features currently using this process

At this point i would argue that there is little advantage to CC'n straight from the film as you do not have the shots in context and no-one wants to Xfer cut neg for fear of a splice breaking and the cut neg forever destroyed before Xfered

Test it... try it.... love it......

as to the accuracy of Davinci's keyer ( and that is what it is) -VS- keylight... i can do anything they can do, not as fast (untill one neeeds to do more than one key, at that point DS is lightyears faster as Davinci is limited to one "power window" (code word for a wipe) in 2K

DS can do as many as one wants, in a Davinci you have to layoff the shot to a tape or DDR, lose generations if using compression ( not as much a factor with HDSR) and roll it back into the suite... now imagine the pain of reaisling that the first wipe interfers with the second ( or worse yet third)

back to square one in the Davinci suite

meanwhile in the DS suite we see all layers, CC's, effects, filters in context and tweak in context

hummm... filters & plug-in's.. another plus to DS

we of the DS suite are now at the sushi bar, the folks in the Davinci are still rolling images from one tape to another and eating cold pizza

Davinci's day is done, it's race is run... TCS kicked it into the ground.. unless youa re doing lowest common denomanator TV series... quality is offset by speed in that areana... (ask me why i don't work on TV much anymore)

and do not overlook Nucoda, Baselight, Assimilate and Speedgrade as options for finishing...

It ain't just Soft, Quantel & Discreet that make firstclass finshing tools now

glad to be back.........

Ta,

d.