Local Hero - Indie Rule

[Lucas Wilson]

Hi all,

Just wanted to post some info...

http://www.assimilateinc.com/pdfs/SCRATCH_CaseStudy_LocalHeroPost.pdf

We just completed this case study on one of our customers in LA - Local Hero. They are the prototypical indie shop. They are really just a couple of guys with talent who scraped enough together to get into the game, and are really making it work.

To me - these guys are the model for an "indie shop" starting to make it big.

Best,

Lucas
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ASSIMILATE, Inc.
LA, CA, USA

[Paul Leeming]

Thanks Lucas,

good inspiration for us here in Tokyo :)

Cheers,

Paul

[Adam Jeal]

Hi Luki,

Do you know which waveform monitor Local Hero are using? I tried zooming into the picture of their set-up but couldn't read it.

adam

[Kevin Halverson]

Do you know which waveform monitor Local Hero are using? I tried zooming into the picture of their set-up but couldn't read it.


That sure looks like a Dell 2405 or 2407 being used as a waveform monitor to me.

[Lucas Wilson]

Hi Luki,

Do you know which waveform monitor Local Hero are using? I tried zooming into the picture of their set-up but couldn't read it.

adam

You can just talk to the colorist directly yourself...

Leandro Marini

leandro at localheropost dot com

: )

Lucas

[Tai Wah Lim]

You can just talk to the colorist directly yourself...

Leandro Marini

leandro at localheropost dot com

: )

Lucas

Lucas, any chance to visit them in LA during our training. Still waiting for your schedule.

[Steen Dongo]

I'm not 100 % sure, but it does look strikingly like a solution we're investigating right now:

http://www.scopebox.com/

You basically assign something like a Powermac G5 with a Blackmagic HD card or similar and with this software you've got yourself a scope. You feed the videocard an HDSDI signal and and select the videocard as your input source in the software and display it on just about any LCD attached.

Nifty as this may seem, be aware that your graphicscard will determine how many different pallettes you'll be able to view at a reasonable framerate. It it NOT a Textronik or OmniTek killer, but getting close enough to pique my interest :)

Actually I was contemplating using the software on a Macbook Pro fed by an AJA IO box for onset confidence check. I'm testing.....

[Adam Jeal]

That sure looks like a Dell 2405 or 2407 being used as a waveform monitor to me.

I meant the software itself, not the LCD :)

adam

[Adam Jeal]

I'm not 100 % sure, but it does look strikingly like a solution we're investigating right now:

http://www.scopebox.com/

Thanks Steen!

That looks like the one to me. I'd love an Omnitek XR but they start at £7,500.00 (ouch!). Just wondering how they've got it working with Scratch (Scopebox is Mac only).

adam

[Mark L. Pederson]

Thanks Steen!

That looks like the one to me. I'd love an Omnitek XR but they start at £7,500.00 (ouch!). Just wondering how they've got it working with Scratch (Scopebox is Mac only).

adam
Omnitek XR is one of the first purchases for our new facility. It is one kick ass scope. Had it for a week long demo - it seriously hurt to give it back.

[Steen Dongo]

Know exactly how you feel, Mark :biggrin:

The Scopebox solution isn't in the same league at all. Measured not even a close contender, but priorities, priorities.... :)

[Steen Dongo]

Thanks Steen!

That looks like the one to me. I'd love an Omnitek XR but they start at £7,500.00 (ouch!). Just wondering how they've got it working with Scratch (Scopebox is Mac only).

adam

I'm pretty sure they feed the Scratch HDSDI output of the NVDIA graphics daughterboard to the Cinetal / ECinema grading monitor, and from the loop out they'll send it to the HDSDI input on the mac running the Scopebox software, depending on where in the chain they wish to measure the signal. That's one way of doing it, anyways :)

[Georg Misch]

Have a look at this, it's for PC but I think it seems to be much more powerful:

http://vidscope-vx.com/

Not sure about the price.

Georg