re doing my edit setup, any suggestions?

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Hopefully I will soon be moving into a larger room of the house to set up my edit station. I haven't found any desks that I like at any of the office stores in town, so I plan to build my own. The thing I am stuck on is the dimensions, and any special considerations I havent thought of. Basically, it's going to be 5.5-6 feet wide, and 2.5-3 feet deep. The top riser is going to be 20'' deep at the center, and with a gentle curve will widen to 24-27'' deep on the ends, depending on the depth of the main desk. The riser will probably be 5-7'' high. On the right underside of the desk is going to be a space for my CPU and any external hard drives, on the left side will be drawers to hold tapes and paperwork. I need to top shelf big enough to accomodate 2 19'' CRT's, a color production monitor, end eventuall a pair of KRK rokit RP5 monitors. Is this desk overkill?

I am also wondering what special considerations I should take in modifying the lighting of the room. Currently all the light is coming from one wall mounted fixture. Should I put track lighting in? And also, is it better to have the color of the walls be darker, like a dark blue or grey?

Any help would be great. I just need to decide what's going to happen, and since this is the first time I have actually done this, I am hoping someone on here has had the same experience and could give me some advice on what to do.
 
first question is if there is an idea near you? i've seen some nice desks at friends houses who got them at ikea.

i am just finishing the design of my new desk, i have a friend who makes industrial training stuff and as a result he makes these beautiful square steel framed desks with a wood/formica covered surface with this neat rubber bumper all around the desktop.

i've going with 6.5 feet wide, 3 feet deep.

i already have a monitor shelf he built me that is 6 feet wide, 1 foot tall and it is 24 inches deep at the sides and eighteen inches deep in the center.

i have 3 lcd monitors and a 14" sony pro monitor on the right of the three lcd's

lately i've actually been just using 2 lcd's as the panning between the 3 lcds + the sony monitor was kind of bad ergonomically.

depth is more important than most anything else except strength. if its too deep you just don't have to push your stuff that far back, if its too shallow your stuck.

matthew
 
I can't see myself using anything more than two 19'' CRT's and one color production monitor. I want to build it big enough for CRT's just so I have the option of using them. So 3 feet deep works pretty good? I hate desks with keyboard trays, so I am building this one without.
 
re: lighting & wall color. My only suggestion is to make them as neutral as possible. If you are using multiple fixtures, make sure they are all the same color/intensity. Post studios I've seen have drab gray walls.
 
I have track lighting almost right overhead of the monitors - keeps the glare off the monitors, out of my eyes and the shadows aren't covering up things I'm writing on. I have one brick wall and the rest are a creme color. The one thing I wish I had is room behind the desk to mess with connections. I do dubbing for people and I'm always moving cables. Either that or a great router.
 
is color really that important??

i had this great color scheme, i was going to paint the room hunter green and put that bead board stuff that goes like 3 feet up the wall from the floor, the 1 inch boards that are tongue and groove and have a little chair rail along the top.

the theme was sort of an english library.

would that green throw off the color perception??

matthew
 
matthewd5 said:
is color really that important??

i had this great color scheme, i was going to paint the room hunter green and put that bead board stuff that goes like 3 feet up the wall from the floor, the 1 inch boards that are tongue and groove and have a little chair rail along the top.

the theme was sort of an english library.

would that green throw off the color perception??
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Sounds nice! I guess it's your choice of tradeoff and how accurate you need your work to be vs. aesthetics. Professional houses use dull colors, but then again, they are single use areas. I have to admit staring at a grey wall for hours on end isn't too engaging :)
 
matthewd5 said:
that bead board stuff that goes like 3 feet up the wall from the floor, the 1 inch boards that are tongue and groove and have a little chair rail along the top.
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wainescoting?
 
yeah thats it.

i have seen a few rooms in old movies and in one mansion i visited that had a library room with the hunter green paint and the wainscotting around the room and liked the look.

i'm trying to hide all of the big computer stuff by moving my half rack to the basement and i was able to get this great antec case to hold my dual xeon. the case/power supply makes so little noise you barely know its running.

trying to make the room less high tech. only visible tech will be the lcd monitors and the sony preview monitor.

matthew
 
Can anyone recommend a good production monitor for editing? Or should I say, a cheap production monitor which isn't too bad?!

I need to know when I'm colour correcting that I am getting an accurate impression of what my final product will look like. At the moment I'm using an old 10" Orion which used to be a film set monitor. So I'm pretty sure they never would have used it to gauge colours!
 
Colour Correction with Wonky Monitors

Colour Correction with Wonky Monitors

A big help for colour correction when you don't trust your monitor is to tape a kodak grey scale and colour bar card to the bottom of your slate and then correct to the charts. Use your onscreen densitometer to take readings of some frames in photoshop so you have some numbers to punch into the curves. Do a grey balance correction by the numbers initally to get rid of any unwanted colour casts along with calibrating and setting up your dynamic range from highlight to shadow and then bringing your midtones back in line.
 
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