Re: Highend tools - lower end budget

The funny part is what we consider "high budget" these days. It wasn't that long ago that a color correction bay cost upwards of half a million dollars. Now we talk about 15K worth of scopes and monitors as a high budget world. Scary.

As I said before, you can use software scopes, but don't try to make a regualr LCD be a reference monitor. If you can pick up a used PVM, do it. If not, try to scrape together the dough for a JVC or even the Panasonic broadcast LCDs. If that's way out of the budget, please consider renting a reference grade monitor for the time you are color correcting. It will be worth it in knowing what your projects are going to look like elsewhere.

PS: I sweat every pnny I spend also. It's a constant challenge to justify quality vs. cost ratios with the ever decreasing budgets. At the end of the day, if it ain't done right, it ain't done.

Terence Curren
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