Re: Highend tools - lower end budget

Terence,

What I trying to say is that I'm rising the level for a certain level of users, not trying to lower it for the real pros. The new world is going to bring in a lot of different levels of users. This is no longer a tool for "colorist" it is now in the hands of the masses. To tell someone that is doing a project for a year and has a budget of $11K to spend $60K on equipment is not reality. For me to say spending $2K and stick with the software scores and you can do the same level of job as the big guys is not reality either. But the way the traditional guys are coming out with blanket statements of you have to have X is like several years back the video guys that told people you cannot use DV to shoot movies, commercials and the like. Of course we can see where they are not as good but that is not my point.

My point is if someone is shooting on DV, HDV or even HVX200s at DVCProHD this tool gives them a chance to do "higher" end color correcting then what they had available 2 months ago. But I reject the idea that you cannot do a "good" job with store bought Sony TVs and internal scopes. In a side by side test with a real colorist they would pale in comparision but there should be no green or purple people. Your line of thinking in the production world would equate to you saying you should never shoot any footage with anything other than a Viper or film camera. DV will be grainy and so on.

Also there is a lot of video work out here that is not for broadcast. I'm not trying to pick a fight but I tend to believe there is going to be a lot of butting heads between old and new school on this every issue.