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Author Topic: What causes the screen to go pink? Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-09-2014 03:03 PM                     Martin, when the problem happened, was the selected macro the correct one? It's not that I don't believe you, just that I've never heard it before. Actually, I have, but it was wrong macro on the projector, "fixed" by rebooting server and projector and restarting the show manually (and obviously selecting the proper format manually actually fixed the problem!). That said, anything happens!  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-10-2014 09:18 AM                        Marco: Yes. Everything was just as it had been the previous nights, and the nights, and the night after. It was on autoplay and the schedule was loaded for the week. As I posted earlier, that it happened 40 mins into the movie indicates computer error rather than operator error. As far as we can tell, the green chip just got bored and quit. As this string has been about going pink, does it ever happen with the other chips?  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 05-10-2014 06:38 PM                     Martin, I thought you were talking about wrong colour space, not missing green! The wrong colour space gives you a pinky picture but it's completely messed up, it's not just the green missing. Removing green from a picture gives you... a picture without green. That makes more sense to me. Well, I would try running test patterns next time (if you have a chance of doing it): from the ICP first and from the formatters then.  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-14-2014 09:16 PM                        Turns out it was a bad light engine. It has been replaced. Let's see if the problem goes away.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 06-14-2014 09:54 PM                        I don't know if this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but you'll get a similar effect if your 2D playlist has a 3D clip. Although you'll have the 2D macro selected, the projector will load the 3D color space if it sees a 3D clip in the playlist. At least this is the case with the NEC projectors. In this case, switching to the 3D format for the aspect ratio will resolve the issue during the current show. I know this isn't the issue Martin was having, but it's something to watch for.  |  IP: Logged

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