Student Filmmakers - June 2008 - (Page 48) Music & Sound An Itemized Audio/Video Production List Have All Your Angles Covered by Bryant Falk for their Powerpoint presentations. Turns out none of the machines had firewire connections for me to patch into. One thing I had forgotten was a USB drive to interface with systems missing the 1394 connector. After finding a work around, (using the presenter’s USB drive and transferring from my laptop), I thought, hey, time to make an itemized production list, and share it with you. (1) Laptop (for me, it’s a Macbook Pro, so I’ll work from there). (2) Software (expanded below). (3) External firewire drives (800 gigabytes to start). (4) USB drive if you have the room. (5) Firewire 400 and 800 cables. So there I was off to Vegas as a hired gun to help fix and create audio/video for a multitude of purposes. I thought I had everything! My laptop complete with all the software I could ever need. A cornucopia of software and a couple of fire wire hard drives. So there I was happily spending all night cutting video projects and recording voice-overs, when bam – hit me. The old PC versus Mac conflict. Let me explain. After downloading the finished videos I then ran down to the presentation area where they were all running PC laptops (6) USB cables, (all connectors and configurations). (7) USB flash drive (4 gigabytes is good to start). (8) DV camera for monitoring and digitizing. 8 studentfilmmakers June 2008
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