post production gear
UPDATED:
FIRST OF ALL A LINK TO AN AWESOME BLOG POST:
Anatomy of an Edit Suite by Walter Biscardi
So thats my Edit-Suite for Video & Sound Post Production
Main-Workstation:
MacPro1,1 – 2x Dual-Core Intel Xeon 2,66 GHz
14 GB Ram, ATI Radeon HD 5770 - 1024 MB VRAM
1x 1TB GB System drive (two partitions 1x SnowLeo – 1x Lion)
2x 1TB local/internal Video/Audio Drive (7200 rpm Samsung)
1x 750 GB local/internal Render drive (7200 rpm Samsung)
1x LaCie 4big Quadra 4 TB RAID for Video / Audio Data via eSata
(LaCie eSATA/USB 2-in-1 Card)
1x 500 GB WD external HDD with a Systemdrive mirror (“updated” vie Carbon Copy Cloner every month … just in case my system drive fails i always have a MAC OS X system to work with even on a other machines like a iMac)
1x Dual eSata HDD docking-station for Video-Project HDD’s (Sharkoon SATA QuickPort DUO)
1x drobo-FS 5TB for central Network storage (Backup data, Photo Archive, Project-Data-Exchange-Folder for Crew-Members, …) all on a Gigabit LAN
( Some other external Lacie drives form 250GB to 1,5 TB with all kinds of Data ( Motion & DVD Studio library … SoundFX Archive … iTunes Library … stuff like that)
1x PIONEER BD-RW BDR-202 Blu-ray burner in external 5,25 case via USB 2.0
2x 24” BENQ LCD TFT ( with SypderPro3 Color-Calibration) … ( but nowadays i would go DELL 24” Ultrasharp or something)
Audio:
Audio Interface RME Fireface800
3x KRK RP6 Rokit G2 (L,C,R)
2x KRK RP5 Rokit G2 (Ls, Rs)
1x LFE 250W Teufel
PowerMacG4 1GHz, 2 GB RAM with ProToolsLE8 with Digi 002 – 8 Fader-Mix-surface
Video-monitoring:
BlackMagic Design Decklink HD Extreme 2
Sony LCD Monitor
Canopus ADVC110 AV I/O for analog S-Video capturing (VHS Deck)
Controller:
Apple Keyboard with FCP keys
Apple Magic Mouse
Contour Shuttle Xpress – Jog Weel
Euphonix Artist System
1x MC Control, 1x MC Mix (in total 12 faders, 1 Touchscreen)
Software:
MacOS 10.6.8
FinalCutStudio 3 ( FCP 7.0.3)
AVID MC 5.5
LogicStudio 2 (Music Production)
ProTools 9 Nativ (sound editing & mixing)
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Master Collection (Premiere Pro and AfterEffects CS5.5 )
Color Correction / Color Grading:
Magic Bullet Looks, Colorista 2, Red Giant Software Denoiser, Blackmagic Design Resolve Mac
Mobil Edit Machine , Render Machine (for Transcoding, HD-to-SD / DVD Encoding, Log&Transfer…) :
17-inch MacBookPro i7 2.8GHz, 8GB RAM, 500 GB 7200rpm HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M GPU 512 MB,
Sonnet Tempo SATA E34P ExpressCard 34 2x eSATA using it with a Sharkoon SATA QuickPort DUO Docking Station
