Intention: Provide materials which can help a technical or non-technical person judge changes in picture and sound quality without the use of meters.
Non-Technical and Technical DCP Links – Notes
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Downloads – Managers Walk Through Series
Report Form – Manager’s Walk Through: Dynamic, Online and probably OK. It matches the current DCPs, but those and this are in the process of being streamlined – 3 new versions that will separate out the audio and the picture tests, and make the combo playlist more clear and linear.
Why? This version is OK for someone who is comfortable looking and hearing simultaneously, but a bit demanding for the someone on the training end of the curve. Let us know how else it might be improved.
Faces1 Test: 2K – The Faces series works with the human visual system’s innate ability to notice color problems in faces even though it can be tricked by everything else. The non-technical staff can use it to report changes in color and contrast to the Tech Staff with the coordinated Manager’s Walk Through Checklist.
The DCP also includes sounds that travel around the room, bells and pizzicato strings, that help judge sound issues.
Click on this picture to see a QuickTime sample on Vimeo:
Faces1 Test – 4K
xkcd1080 – 2K: xkcd did a wonderful piece on the human visual system in one black and white cartoon. This DCP stretches it out and adds a few other bits to educate non-technical staff while entertaining. It includes sound tests as well, all which correlate to the Managers Walk Through Checklist.
Click on the picture to go to the Vimeo QuickTime file. Have fun, and comment please.
xkcd1080 – 4K
Align1 – 2K …SMPTE Compliant Format
Align1 – 4K …SMPTE Compliant Format
Downloads – Technicians Toolset Series
Report Form – Manager’s Walk Through
You may as well know what the Managers are going to be talking about when they say that they have made notes on their Form – Please send your ideas for improving this.
Align1 – Music– Being remade into SMPTE Compliant Format…sorry for delay.
New SMPTE Pink Noise Tones; 5.1 – Being remade into SMPTE Compliant Format…sorry for delay.
New SMPTE Pink Noise Tones; 7.1 – Being remade into SMPTE Compliant Format…sorry for delay.
Downloads – 2020 TIFFs for DCPs –
These are free under Creative Commons version Attribution – ShareAlike (CC BY-SA)
Downloads – 2020 TIFFs for DCPs –
These are free under Creative Commons version Attribution – Share alike (CC BY-SA)