Looking for an HP user in the editing world

[HP Hunter]

Hello all,

I'm currently on a project looking for any video/media professionals that use HP products. Preferably using the HP Dreamcolor monitor and/or any HP Workstation computer(s). We're looking to produce a video covering a professional team or person currently using HP products in the real world work environment. Any leads would be greatly appreciated and hopefully would lead to some collaborative projects. We're based in the California Bay Area but are interested in leads regarding anyone around the world using HP products.*

Thanks so much.

Chris Loukides
Production Coordinator*
chrisloukides@gmail.com
Sausalito, CA

[budwzr]

Sausalito? Home of Alan Watts' houseboat "Vallejo". Sweet location.

[The village idiot]

Contact Avid, they sell HP computers for video editing, mostly HP Z series computers. There must be 100 in the area where you are looking.

[HP Hunter]

Yep the home of Alan Watts' ferry I believe.

Thank you for the Avid tip Village Idiot. Didn't know they would sell hardware directly.

[sanlyn]

The HP Z series are excellent and highly rated. However, any monitor (including some even more expensive stuff) should be properly calibrated for video.
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/hp_zr2440w.htm
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/eye_one_display2.htm
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/calibrating.htm

[budwzr]

The HP Z series are excellent and highly rated. However, any monitor (including some even more expensive stuff) should be properly calibrated for video.

I've been trying to achieve rec709 calibration for some time, to no avail. (Qosmio Laptop)

Any tips?

[sanlyn]

PC calibration kits work with sRGB. Actually, for rec601 or Rec709 video, sRGB shows about 75% of the NTSC/PAL video colorspace. There are monitors that can exceed that range, but you're talking about some $5000 sets! There are apps like Photoshop Pro, After Effects, etc., that can "simulate" a rec709 display using a PC's icm color profile (which you can create with calibration kits). But in practise, and to be practical, a good sRGB calibration and display gets you "close enough" to rec601 and 709 for working purposes. The final product, of course, would be encoded for the proper "Rec". There really isn't very much difference between the CIE specs for Rec601 and 709. Most of those differences deal with saturation levels. Naturally a pro shop would work on-the-money, but they're not using PC equipment for production (well, come to think of it, they sometimes do. And it seems to work out well).

[aedipuss]

or one of the monitors the o.p. is hoping to find someone using. some expensive $2500 ips panel monitor with 30bit color that can do sRGB, Adobe RGB, Rec. 709, DCI-P3 emulation (97%), and full gamut.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176106&Tpk=HP%20Dreamcolor%20monitor

i'd gladly compare it to my lg ips monitor if they want to send me one