Re: Video keeps failing harding test - working with stock - HELP NEEDED!!!

Better brains than me have ventures to suggest that the Harding test is an absolute con... and I'd be suspicious if your failing twice in different places. Check that you're not having any transfer issues when you're laying off to DigiBeta. If you're confident that the tapes are identical in the area that failed on the second pass have a word with the testers.

Other than that, failures are often just about luminance extremes, and some can simply be cured by clamping the luminance - so if you've a flickering fire scene then taking that down so the flames are maybe 60% may well cure it.

The kit for the test is about £12k... I heard recently that there are plans for a software version. It's going to be... around 12k. It's a license to print money, and I'm not sure of the efficacy of the test at all in terms of stopping seizures. If someone came up with a plug-in that would mimic this test accurately then they'd make a mint - OK, you wouldn't be able to use it for 'official' clearance but you would at least be able to check before taking it for the 'proper' test...

Jason

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