Hey all,
I'm trying to do some video editing/graphics work on a Sager 4750. All in all, the machine seems great, but there are some issues perhaps those more experienced with these machines might be able to help with.
I do computer animation, and everything from the ground-up. From building models, surfacing, lighting, animating, compositing, corrections and editing. The whole nine yards. The 4750, on paper, seems to be able to handle everything I need it to. In fact, it runs all my apps flawlessly.
However, I'm running into problems trying to match the appearance of the LCD display to a properly-calibrated NTSC monitor that's attached to the 4750's s-video out. Those of you who do this sort of work, know why this is very important. If your work's final destination is the NTSC realm, it pays off to keep an eye on how it looks during every stage of the process.
Now, I know that it's nearly impossible to get a perfect match between an LCD (or even SVGA) display and an NTSC monitor. But I can't even get close with the 4750's LCD, and the controls provided by the ATI drivers. What I see on my 4750's screen bears almost no color resemblance to what it shows on the NTSC monitor. The difference is so drastic, I'd be a fool to rely on the 4750's screen to create anything that would ever be viewed on NTSC monitors.
I've matched SVGA to NTSC in the past simply by adjusting the desktop colors with whatever controls were provided by the drivers so that what I looked at on the computer monitor was close to what was on the external monitor. This worked well. But the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 doesn't seem to allow independent adjustment of the (LCD) desktop brightness/color/gamma and the external NTSC monitor. Change the desktop, and the NTSC monitor display changes too.
That won't work, and I'll quickly be getting rid of this otherwise excellent notebook if I can't get it to.
Has anyone been able to get the 4750 LCD to approximate an NTSC monitor? If anyone knows any tricks or tips, I'd sure like to hear about them.
Thanks.
I'm trying to do some video editing/graphics work on a Sager 4750. All in all, the machine seems great, but there are some issues perhaps those more experienced with these machines might be able to help with.
I do computer animation, and everything from the ground-up. From building models, surfacing, lighting, animating, compositing, corrections and editing. The whole nine yards. The 4750, on paper, seems to be able to handle everything I need it to. In fact, it runs all my apps flawlessly.
However, I'm running into problems trying to match the appearance of the LCD display to a properly-calibrated NTSC monitor that's attached to the 4750's s-video out. Those of you who do this sort of work, know why this is very important. If your work's final destination is the NTSC realm, it pays off to keep an eye on how it looks during every stage of the process.
Now, I know that it's nearly impossible to get a perfect match between an LCD (or even SVGA) display and an NTSC monitor. But I can't even get close with the 4750's LCD, and the controls provided by the ATI drivers. What I see on my 4750's screen bears almost no color resemblance to what it shows on the NTSC monitor. The difference is so drastic, I'd be a fool to rely on the 4750's screen to create anything that would ever be viewed on NTSC monitors.
I've matched SVGA to NTSC in the past simply by adjusting the desktop colors with whatever controls were provided by the drivers so that what I looked at on the computer monitor was close to what was on the external monitor. This worked well. But the ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 doesn't seem to allow independent adjustment of the (LCD) desktop brightness/color/gamma and the external NTSC monitor. Change the desktop, and the NTSC monitor display changes too.
That won't work, and I'll quickly be getting rid of this otherwise excellent notebook if I can't get it to.
Has anyone been able to get the 4750 LCD to approximate an NTSC monitor? If anyone knows any tricks or tips, I'd sure like to hear about them.
Thanks.
