Re: Highend tools - lower end budget

In your line of argument, I could say I have a cheap camera and I want to shoot a movie. I don't really need lights do I? I can't afford them

Could I shoot it? Yes. But I would be limited to daylight, mismatched unbalanced existing light and scenes that are too dark to use.

For each step of the production process, there is a minimum level of gear that is required to achieve a decent end product. Skimping on the monitoring for color correction, is like skimping on the lights, or using a cheap handheld Radio Shack mic for sound. Much harder to fix it later than do it right the first time.

Yes, you can use the internal scopes and suffer the slowdown in workflow.

Yes, you can use firewire out looped through your camera to a cheap TV. But you'll have no idea what your finished product will look like anywhere else.

Yes you can avoid buying the ATI 1900. Trust me, Color doesn't work right without it.

Everyone gets to choose where to skimp, my point is that monitoring for color correction is not a wise place to do that. Neither is a cheap mic for that matter.

Terence Curren
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Burbank,Ca