Re: Highend tools - lower end budget

I think that while it would be nice to have the $60k to outfit a proper post finishing suite, the reality of that for most users is non-existent and I think that we'll see one of two things happen.

1) The price of all that gear will come down to remain competitive.
2) New gear will hit the market for much less money to fill the demand.

either way, Color is a HUGE step up from the 3-way color corrector and plenty of people were using that without broadcast gear.

Remember what Final Cut Pro did when it first the market. Back then there were people saying "You have to have RAID, and you have to have this and that and Avid and so forth", but it spawned an entire generation of indie filmmaking because the tools were affordable. A large amount of work is being broadcast over the web, which IS a computer color space. Additionally, I think we (being the technical people we are) tend to over think the color of a scene. After using just the basic rooms in Color for a few weeks (after months of coloring with Scratch - an abysmal program IMO) I've achieved excellent results (color-wise... file management and EDL and all that headaches are another issue) that will be perfectly fine. While feature films are an artform (and ones with budgets), there is an artform for the non-correction, for the DV, for the raw footage out there. I mean, look at all this reality TV!

And to answer your point above, YES! I could make a movie with a cheap crappy DV cam and no lights. And as long as it had a good story, people will tune in to watch.

But for all you naysayers out there and this whole debate about color, let us not forget the age old Acronym: Never The Same Color (NTSC) ;)

Just thought i'd give my 2