To forum moderators – abuse/rules of the forum

[Anonymous]

DISCLAIMER:
I don’t work for any equipment manufacturer, neither I am being payed to write or say publicly in behalf of any manufacturer.

Dear moderators, and leaders of fxguide,
I would like to post a complaint about serious abuse of fxguide forums in the recent time,
by “cnoellert”, Christopher Noellert, Product / Workflow Specialist, Filmlight.

His open advertising of Filmlight products was very visible even while he was working for Nordisk film, but now it’s really crossing every line of decent behaviour.
If Filmlight as a company wants to advertise on this forum , then should either pay You for a banner on the site, or they would not be able to advertise at all.
It is not correct to use a forum for direct advertising of Your company.
More over, the attitude that Filmlight products are best, fastest, … are also not appropriate to be said from the employee of the company he represents.

His recent posts: “Monitor calibration” and ‘Resolve only does 20 layers 4k?’ are great example of the complaint.

Although USER Tallenc is not experieneced in monitor calibration, and since he was looking for a ~250US$ solution, it is not a help, telling him that he needs a trulight probe, trulight software, which is +10.000 us$ solution. And he needs a filmlight tech to come to do the installation since he is not experienced, and possibly later he would need Trulight SDI/DVI lut box, and so on …

Tallenc did not say which LCD he need to calibrate for PAL (computer, tv, broadcast).
Without knowning this fact it is very hard to give any definate answer.
Can You perform hardware or software calibration, do You need external box to load a LUT,
how much money do You have, and how much close and precise as a broadcast CRT You want it to be.

If Chris, mentions his product Truelight, than he should also mention in the same post that there are other solutions, like : Kodak display manager, RSR cinespace, ARRIcube, X-RITE, Gretag Macbeth, ….

Considering Baselight8 and Resolve thread,
How did Chris know which exact 20 layers did guys from DaVinci put on their picture.
And what exact settings values were used. And how exatcly the software counts each of these layers.
For example: in one grading system one layer means only one correction, but in other ones it is just a container for many corrections.

Many of the posts from Chris are very helpful to people on this forum, but he can’t use it to advertise himself or his company. With a big dose of arrogance.

Thank You very much

Best Regards

[Michael Dalton]

@bobfet 25731 wrote:

DISCLAIMER:
I don’t work for any equipment manufacturer, neither I am being payed to write or say publicly in behalf of any manufacturer.

Dear moderators, and leaders of fxguide,
I would like to post a complaint about serious abuse of fxguide forums in the recent time,
by “cnoellert”, Christopher Noellert, Product / Workflow Specialist, Filmlight.

Many of the posts from Chris are very helpful to people on this forum, but he can’t use it to advertise himself or his company. With a big dose of arrogance.

Thank You very much

Best Regards

I was sad to hear that you feel this way, but I’m also left wondering if you actually have read any of my posts all the way through, or seen the hearty thanks I get from people in response before you saw red?

In the future I would suggest if you see one of my posts, resist the urge to read it. You’ll notice that they are all tagged with my name so they’ll be easy to spot. I figure this way you can avoid being offended by whatever suggestion or comment that I might make that doesn’t agree with your sensibility.

But then again, you might miss something good 😉

Chris

[Sinan]

I don’t think that Chris wants to make advertising for Filmlight. He just wants to tell his opinion about Truelight. Maybe he is too excited about Resolve, and that Baselight is faster. Hey, who needs more than 20 secondaries at 4K anyway? Resolve is already doing a pretty good job! I guess that, Chris was excited about Baselight optimizations, which gives more performance then Resolve. When I saw the first flint/linux box, people might have thought that I am advertising Discreet! Hey, I never worked for them. But I am sure that I have written lots of excited posts about the Discreet linux boxes.

And one more thing… If you ask me, I will tell you that RSR Cinespace is the system to go for a lot of reasons. But these are my opinions, and it wouldn’t mean that I am advertising Cinespace. Cinespace lut formats are open, you can export them to any format. You can use most of the industry standart probes, and they don’t sell you a Cinespace probe. But I never used Truelight, and can not tell about cons/pros, or compare Cinespace to Truelight…

Ofcourse Chris is a special case, since he worked for Filmlight. But I guess that he is back to flame world for the last couple of months. And some of the newer emails are, after he came back to flame world.

About his Red post, I totally agree that Red doesn’t have a stunning image quality. It is no magic! It is close to 35mm sized sensor, and if you ask me, it shoots video like images with a bigger sensor. I would expect that Arri D21 would provide better quality, and the same sensor size as a 35mm neg. frame… But this doesn’t make Red a bad solution. It needs little storage, uses cheap recording devices. No uncompressed huge raids on set! It is a cheaper digital cinema solution. Small, light, affordable compared to many other solutions…

Did I make any advertisements for any brands here?

[Anonymous]

@bobfet 25731 wrote:

Many of the posts from Chris are very helpful to people on this forum, but he can’t use it to advertise himself or his company. With a big dose of arrogance.

Thank You very much

Best Regards

Thanks for your comments….we respect your desire to voice them. I felt that Chris’ posts were very useful from a knowledge standpoint — he’s been a longtime reader/contributor to fxguide over the years. We ask manufacturer representatives to include their affiliation in their posts via a disclaimer or signature. Just because they are with a manufacturer doesn’t mean they don’t have something to offer to the discussion — that’s a false assumption. But it is important that they let the reader know they are part of a company. Chris’ post did say that he was employed by Filmlight (maybe it could have been clearer), but I thought it was fine.

Thanks for the reminder to all of us. Full disclosure is key for having a balanced and open forum.

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