You know what really blows?!

Staino

Staino

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COLOR CORRECTING,

Not that it is difficult, I actually enjoy it and have fun with it, BUT, when you have your film perfect on your little computer monitor and then burn a DVD and have it look like total trash on a TV, over saturated, yellow, grainy, CRAP. Now before any of you say, get an external monitor dummy, I KNOW, but I cant afford that right now.

Does anyone have any tips on how to fake it before I turn my film black and white?
 
use your dvx as your monitor. I have the same problem you do, I need to get a NTSC approved monitor, but dont have the greens. So instead I hook my DVX up to my G5 as I am doing things such as color correcting and have my DVX hooked up analog to my TV(which is set the best I could set it to NTSC monitor standards) and bam, you got your self a ghetto broadcast monitor while you are editing.

I dont suggest you leave your DVX hooked during your editing though, atleast for me, it slows down my comp, so I only use it for colour correction, and compositing.

-Matt-
 
Wow, seriously I have been bugging about this for days, I just hooked it up and it works perfect, added a 50% black and white and it fixed the problem.
 
The only workable solution, short of getting a preview monitor, is to get your PC monitor to match your TV.

Tape some footage from the TV onto a MiniDV tape, then capture onto your PC.
Run the tape on your TV and the clip on your PC, and "try" to get close with the colors on your PC.

There might be a better way, but not that I know, (other than a preview monitor).
 
hey, dont thank me, thank 3 cups of coffee leaving me awake at work at 1:15am in the morning plus complete boredum!

-Matt-
 
Staino said:
Wow, seriously I have been bugging about this for days, I just hooked it up and it works perfect, added a 50% black and white and it fixed the problem.
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In that case, ignore what I said.:thumbsup:
 
hey pookie, have you ever gotten a good calibration by doing that? I tried doing that several times, but really had no luck, im assuming its either, I have a horrible eye, or the characteristics of a computer monitor are just two different from video monitors
 
You need a bit of luck, lots of coffee, be awake at work at 1:15am in the morning plus complete boredum!

Seriously, it does work, more or less.
Better than nothing if you can't afford a monitor.
 
You have any pointers on calibration, are there other calibrations tricks to use besides your eye, cause I would much rather do it the way you suggested then the way im doing it now in order to get it looking as true to video monitoring as possible
 
Adjust for the reds first, since they're the most trouble and screw up worst on a tv.
After that the rest tend to be easier to set.

It will take some fiddling, but you'll get a good result....but do red first.
 
Dyrseve989 said:
use your dvx as your monitor. I have the same problem you do, I need to get a NTSC approved monitor, but dont have the greens. So instead I hook my DVX up to my G5 as I am doing things such as color correcting and have my DVX hooked up analog to my TV(which is set the best I could set it to NTSC monitor standards) and bam, you got your self a ghetto broadcast monitor while you are editing.

I dont suggest you leave your DVX hooked during your editing though, atleast for me, it slows down my comp, so I only use it for colour correction, and compositing.

-Matt-
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I wasn't very sure about color correction. On the movie Se7en bonus disk, they do a CC demo and it looked great. I don't know what to do. Also, you said you hook up your cam for CC. How does that work?
 
since I dont have any sorta brodcast NTSC specialized monitor, nor do I have the money for one, I just use a regular consumer TV. When you are editing in an NLE and you have your camera hooked up via firewire,(camera has to be in VCR mode) the image on your preview monitor in your NLE should pop up in your camera.

The camera LCD isnt the best thing to use for CC since I would have to be squinting all the time, so I just hook up RCA wires from the DVX to my TV input, and the image from my cam comes up on my TV.

Since it is now on my TV every adjustment I make on my NLE shows up on my TV screen, and my TV screen shows me a truer image of what people are going to see then whats on my computer screen.
 
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