Jodier thank you for your kind patience . G

Grazie,

My pleasure, of course!

15 hrs of every one of my days is spent alternating betwixt Vegas and Ultra. I guess I never really thought about jumping in here until I saw both of those two in the same thread. It becomes pretty irresistable. ;-) Thanks for the warm welcome!

Sometimes I find it really hard understanding the use of English in a type of shorthand when also used in conjunction with something as technical as DV - yeah?

Grazie

My apologies!

It's the "ugly American" in me. ;-) I tend to type very very fast (over a hundred words per minute) and my brain just starts to naturally shorten things down to keep up, I think.

Now THAT I understood. Wonderful thing the English language - PAL NTSC - yes?

100 words a minute eh? My brain can't think that fast ..

Grazie

Plug for Jodie - she's one of the most savvy, intelligent tech folks who's posts I've read (over at the SM customer forum) anywhere online...
She always impresses me, like Spot does.

Those 2 are my top "brains" that I rely on, to learn video tips from... So listen up when she talks, it was listening to her tips that helped me create such great keys, and Spots' that helped me use Vegas to render and edit them in.


Ken

See post from Jodier about Calibration

I'm confused with the contention that it's not useful in post.

Want to match video shot on a Sony BetacamSX with video shot on an XL1/s? Don't laugh, it's the bane of my existance. ;-)

The only way you're going to do that is with 'scopes and a calibrated monitor. I've spent years carrying a vectorscope, a waveform monitor (or two) and a field monitor to live events.

Vegas' scopes never match my calibrated Tek' and Videonics scopes. DV Rack matches within a small margin of error. I have to feed the Tek' over sVideo, so I figure the small margin I'm seeing is DV vs sVid direct.

So - we have color matching - that's definitely a post-job.

Chromakey. Lighting your key especially, then matching the background image and talent light to get an immersive key. Combustion, AE, etc. Again - you need an accurate set of tools to monitor that process.

To work-out DV Rack during the Beta, I forklifted my four waveform monitors and my Sony field and reference monitors, and replaced 'em with a ViewPanel VE170 from Viewsonic on my post bay. I haven't missed them yet.

I can see another nice feature potential: A menu setting for "cruddy television" "decent television" and "my monitor calibrated" ;-) That would be nice in DVD production since I need to account for splitting the difference between "Walmart TV", "Circuit City TV" and "Reference Monitor". :-)

One addition to his post would be to note what that really means in a "that's kinda cool" way -

If you forget to hit record on the camera, or forget to hit record on DV Rack, or miss a shot and hit record a few seconds to late to catch that shot - it's ok. You have it on disk. DV Rack records all the time into a scratch buffer. So you can actually scrub further back in a clip than its beginning.

looking forward to the review

Hi All!

Time to stop speculating! >:-)

Looks like Serious Magic quietly went and released a public Beta!

I got it here: click "Trial Version"

It's a 14 day trial, so get it while it's hot!

I'm sure Serious Magic will answer any questions, but if I can help out with it, feel free to drop me a note: jodier _at_ adflix.com - I'm not the be-all-end-all, but I've spent a ton of time with it.

>>"but if I can help out with it, feel free to drop me a note: jodier _at_ adflix.com - ..."<<

Please keep the "notes" here so we can all read them : )
Randy