The present and future of post production business and technology

It’s always preferable to prove the accuracy of your video levels using external scopes as long as they’re downstream of your output hardware.

One common problem, as discussed in the BuZZ show of Jan 25, is the levels coming from Adobe After Effects. Video levels could be full range 0-255 in each channel (or 16 bit equivalent) instead of the 601/video range of 16 -235.
May be some useful information at
http://www.dv.com/features/features_item.php?articleId=196601411 (might have to set up a free log-in)
and for super technical background
http://www.poynton.com/notes/colour_and_gamma/ColorFAQ.html

I just heard that Dave McCandless, a UK media pundit, has featured my weekly broadcast/podcast Creative Planet’s Digital Production BuZZ. The Radio Times has a circulation of just over 1 million. The brief article is available online if you’re interested.

The latest bit of insanity in legislation (part 654 in an ongoing series) has Rep. Michael G. Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) brining up a Bill to “ban Myspace.com from schools” in order to “protect the children”. Leaving aside the facts that parents are where the responsibility lies, and that, given the 80 million members, MySpace is safer than the school itself because more teachers have been convicted of molesting children than has ever come via MySpace or equivalent, this piece of extreme stupidity once again proves that Legislators don’t seem to have any idea of anything regarding the Internet.

Fortunately this piece of lunacy is unlikely to go beyond grandstanding by Rep. Fitzpatrick, but if it did the “Deleting Online Predators Act” would be devestating for the Internet because it’s badly drafted and way too broad. If Wikipedia were commercial it would not be available in schools or libraries. And, just btw, MySpace and equivalent social networking sites now cover half the Internet’s users.

I say every legislator in every assembly should show a working knowledge or the subject before they’re allowed to vote on, let alone draft, legislation.