Danny Robashkin

Wanted to add there are a few solutions to 360 from ceiling, but not with the up/down a good jib provides or the weigh capacity. (mounting red, fluid head/ etc'. Probably 25-35 lbs

You described it exactly. As mentioned, the only thing we were able to do was mount the jib right side up in the middle, which gave us a 300 degree shot, not 360. If we could hang it upside down we could do 360.

Hey David, I've done something like that before (was indeed a set up), but if I understand what you're describing it's just a way to have the jib hang from the ceiling. I'm looking to have the jib actually be upside down, but my understanding is most (all?) jibs have to sit on their base and not hang from it.

I know it's pretty trivial to have the camera underslung on a jib but is there any way to rig a jib upside down to be able to get up/down movement hung from the ceiling without a stand?

What about an 8 Bit LCD? Do you have a link to some info on SDI and a name to drop as far as one of these "cheap" SDI HD displays?

So I'm thinking of offering color correction service on a G5 mac system using FinalTouch HD. Our work would be solely for output to broadcast or DVD medium. Since those formats are 8 bit, I was wondering if using a calibrated 8bit CRT/LCD monitor using an ecinema 10 bit to 8 bit converter would be decent enough for those purposes. The theory being that since the color grade needs to be "8 bit proof" displaying the result at 10 bit is not realistic anyway (and in our case a waste of money). Our product would NEVER be output back to film. I'd appreciate a discussion of these points. Thanks!