What's your picture played through?

Steven1145 · 1st March 2007, 08:32 PM

I was thinking that we posties are nothing without a picture to edit or mix or roaring sounds to. So in a pure gear slut manner let me show you mine:

In our film mixing studio we decided not to invest 45k$ in a second hand wobbly film projector, but instead we went for what seems to be the best price to perfomance large format digital projector out there: the Sanyo 3LCD 2k resolution PLV-HD2000. I must say, HD or 2k picture on that is to die for! The lower contrast numbers are not an issue as most of the time we're working with some sort of ambient light that would chew up the 5000:1 of DLP projectors. And the 7000 lumen output is perfect for great onscreen presence on our 5m-base screen.

As a perforated screen was blatantly an issue with a fixed pixel format projector (there was lots of moiré happening at the widest zoom position, that would disappear with a tighter zoom, but I want a BIG picture) we opted for a ScreenResearch THX-approved hole-less projection screen. The difference with our standard microperf screen is night and day!

And to feed our pixel hungry projector, we have a unique Merging Technologies VCUBE HD-2k. It's the only one that has a dual-link SDI output to get 2048x1080 pixels in 4-4-4 to the projector.There is only one other unit like it at the VCube software developpers'. It has an internal array of 6 300Gb drives in RAID 0 for uncompressed 2k and HD record and playback.

So what are you looking at while mixing?

georgia · 2nd March 2007, 03:14 AM

we're just using a 3000 lums HD/SD projector and a microperf screen....
it's about 12 feet wide....4X3 and we have it set up to close to 16x9

I'm happy.

cheers
geo

Guarnanene · 2nd March 2007, 05:40 AM

I haven't found the need for something like that....but I don't do cinema stuff... mines all corporate and TV stuff, so we have high resolution reference monitors....and if we need something HD, we have a 46" plasma.

DSD_Mastering · 2nd March 2007, 05:54 AM

Sony Ruby with Stewart 110" screen

Regards,
Bruce

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1st March 2007, 08:32 PM	#1
Steven1145 Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Paris, France Posts: 112	What's your picture played through? I was thinking that we posties are nothing without a picture to edit or mix or roaring sounds to. So in a pure gear slut manner let me show you mine: In our film mixing studio we decided not to invest 45k$ in a second hand wobbly film projector, but instead we went for what seems to be the best price to perfomance large format digital projector out there: the Sanyo 3LCD 2k resolution PLV-HD2000. I must say, HD or 2k picture on that is to die for! The lower contrast numbers are not an issue as most of the time we're working with some sort of ambient light that would chew up the 5000:1 of DLP projectors. And the 7000 lumen output is perfect for great onscreen presence on our 5m-base screen. As a perforated screen was blatantly an issue with a fixed pixel format projector (there was lots of moiré happening at the widest zoom position, that would disappear with a tighter zoom, but I want a BIG picture) we opted for a ScreenResearch THX-approved hole-less projection screen. The difference with our standard microperf screen is night and day! And to feed our pixel hungry projector, we have a unique Merging Technologies VCUBE HD-2k. It's the only one that has a dual-link SDI output to get 2048x1080 pixels in 4-4-4 to the projector.There is only one other unit like it at the VCube software developpers'. It has an internal array of 6 300Gb drives in RAID 0 for uncompressed 2k and HD record and playback. So what are you looking at while mixing? __________________ Steven Ghouti Paris, France Heavy Nuendo users

2nd March 2007, 03:14 AM	#2
georgia Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: NY NY Posts: 544	we're just using a 3000 lums HD/SD projector and a microperf screen.... it's about 12 feet wide....4X3 and we have it set up to close to 16x9 I'm happy. cheers geo __________________ ms georgia hilton mpse cas Creative Director World Wide Audio Inc NY NY www.leviathan.us.com www.globalaudio.net www.imdb.com/name/nm0385255/resume When I am laid in earth, may my wrongs create no trouble in thy breast. Remember me, but ah, forget my fate. - Dido and Aeneas,* ARIA*

2nd March 2007, 05:54 AM	#4
DSD_Mastering Lives for gear Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,405	Sony Ruby with Stewart 110" screen Regards, Bruce __________________ Bruce A. Brown Puget Sound Studios *Seattle, Washington*

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2nd March 2007, 05:40 AM	#3
Guarnanene Gear Head Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 57	I haven't found the need for something like that....but I don't do cinema stuff... mines all corporate and TV stuff, so we have high resolution reference monitors....and if we need something HD, we have a 46" plasma.