[Tig] Colour Correction, telecine or DI.

[Craig Leffel]

Digital Praxis wrote:
> Wow, Craig, Mr Crusty indeed!
>
> I seem to remember spending a lot of time with you 're-inventing' workflow
> over a bottle of white wine or two - you didn't complain then ;o)
>
>   
Hi there sweetums.

Seriously, you know me well enough to know that I was just poking a 
little fun ;>)

You've been doing this awhile and looking for a discussion... so I 
jumped in. Your work is great, and your information is always top notch, 
so it wasn't anything personal, I just like to play "devil's advocate" 
in these situations.... However, if I was making any point at all, it's 
that I don't believe there's any one solution to the DI workflow. There 
are always going to be many ways to skin the "cat" and all of us figure 
out what works for our clients and our workflows. I run a Spirit. If I 
calibrate it, use the cpd capture lut everyone tells me to use, I've got 
no way to monitor a "live" data path and try and calibrate live... I 
often end up using a "graphics level" lut because it captures 0 > 1024 
and in a Linear WYSIWYG environment like mine, where all I do is video, 
it works great. CPD is still a problem. In my case, I currently use a 
32" Sony SD/HD monitor, you know the one you can't buy tubes for anymore 
- I can never remember the real name of it.... anyway, in the scenario 
you propose ( usually ) I need to load up a display lut. Oooh, then, if 
I'm working for print, I need an intention lut. Here comes the Kodak box 
now.... Guess what? I don't do any of that, and it works for me and my 
particular workflow! There are going to be many of us ( are already and 
have been ) that will have multiple deliverables, and possibly print 
too... no one set of LUTS is going to apply to that.

You've already discussed in the past how lab chemistry changes week to 
week and makes it hard to establish consistency there. Add to that 
multiple viewing environments and multiple displays, and the perfect LUT 
combination ( making its way all the way through the process ) becomes 
the holy grail. Not going to happen, ... not now at least. Too many 
boxes, too many manufacturers, too many artists, too many variables to 
hope for a "Standardised" workflow.

Maybe that's not been your point, but in terms of what you've been 
sprayin lately, that's what I've been smellin'....

You smellin' what I'm sprayin'?

I'm still not complaining Steve, and I'm gonna steal whatever info you 
post on your site as public. Thank you for that.

Good luck - and keep up the fight. Maybe idealism will win after all.

Best -

Craig