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Hi Daz,
Pablo is a great system. Since you are in the UK it is Quantel territory. How ever if you are looking for primarily color correction you might take a look at Scratch. Since I saw that you are a cyborg user Scratch is the re birth of that platform. It is much cheaper and according to the developers at some point it will do everything cyborg did and more. At this point it is still the only system that will do grading in 2k for under US$ 100.000. Since I am here in Brasil and Quantel has no support it,s tough to invest so much money but a few places here have pablo and as usual quantel delivers it’s a great platform and as you said it is a mullty task platform and very relable as most things coming from the UK so shop around and have fun.
AndreThanks Adolff for your response. My problem is that smoke is not recognizing anything exported from maya or max it simply wont open anything that is why im thing that there must be someting coming out wrong from the 3d dept.
Any ideas?
Once again thanks for the infoAndre
welcom onboard. This is a great place to learn. Have fun.
It really was a shame that 5D (now speed six) went down!!! The way I herd it was that there was an auction in England to pay off the debt and that Discreet bought parts of the software, and that one of them was colossus. To bad it would have been a great fight.
As to what I wrote: we bought the scratch software for US 60.000. We ordered from Global storage a system with 12 terabytes all of the disks being hot swaps even the “c” drive for another US 50.000. Monitor wise I was using a Panasonic projector (pretty bad one) but the Sony 4k was not yet available for sale at the time. Now it is on it’s way down. And I must say that it is amazing wish I could have one at home. As for Luster the sales rep would come to the facility every week trying to sell it to us, but the best price he could get to was
US 585.000 and that is the USA price so we still have to put at least 20% on top of that just to get it in to the country!!!!!! So we went with scratch and most clients still prefer it over luster. At the end of the day it all comes down to the money, and owners always (if possible) prefer the cheaper solution.
Have a great weekend and Beers for all
Andre Pinto
[email protected]Scratch to all !!!!
I used Cyborg for many years, and was always blown away by it’s solidness and versatility.
I was doing DI work on it 6 years ago when DI did not even a have name!!!! I worked at a facility (estudios mega) where until I left I did over 40 features on Cyborg being them HD or 2k. When Cyborg whent down my heart sunk for a moment, but thats life.
The point of this is to say that I know the boys at Assimilate pretty well and the guy who writes scratch Gerk (dutch men) told me that Scratch will do everything Cyborg did and more. The problem is that only he writes it so that means it is a very slow process.
But one thing is for sure between Luster and Scratch I’d go scratch any day of the week one costs US 600.000 and the other 60.000 and Cluster still can’t play real time 2k some thing that cyborg/scratch has been doing since the year 2000!!!!!!!!
Have a great life
Andre Pinto
Sao Paulo, Brasil
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