Re: Color 1.5.1 first impression

Hi Bob,

Appreciate your contributions always but.....

I mentioned I use a 24" Dell for the main UI (scopes go on my laptop monitor)

It's fine for people to maintain this prejudice that you should never do this - but I actually have experience grading broadcast material with my laptop, using the setup described and I know for a fact the experience of grading on my laptop setup is only slightly inferior to my primary grading suite using a tower and that the final rendered results are indistinguishable (rendering out using floating point on my laptop).

Additionally, a few years ago before Color came out I graded a couple of shows on Final Touch using a G5 and I would say that my laptop system is more stable and faster in most if not all respects than the G5 / Final Touch setup that everyone was using 3 or 4 years ago for broadcast material.

The moderators and many contributors here have more experience and knowledge than me on many, many aspect of color grading, Color itself, video technology etc. However I feel I have more knowledge about operating Color with a laptop than anyone who hasn't actually done it with the right setup.

A properly configured Mac Pro suite is better, but a properly configured MacBook Pro (with Expresscard Slot) can work very well for the right formats and types of production. Tommorrow I will be grading and rendering out a History Channel show with my laptop suite.



PW

Do not use Color unless you have a compatible video I/O device and broadcast monitor.