Toolkit
These are the things which I own which I see as somehow relevant to editing, as of the date the page was last updated.
This is my desktop publishing/ internet machine. It runs on Vista, and would probably flat-out refuse to edit anything more intensive than an image in Photoshop elements. But it’s a very useful thing to have and run various low-resource software on when keeping one machine solely for editing and associated tasks.
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Contour Shuttle Pro v.2 (previous post)
I’m still loving this little gadget, to the point where if I’m doing any task repeatedly in Avid or FCP I’ll be sure to map the keystrokes to a useful button. It’s a case of using it when it feels right - mostly when scrolling more than keypressing.
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Western Digital MyBook 1TB drive (FW400, USB2.0, eSATA)
All of the projects I do get consolidated to this baby for at least a while afterwards. Unfortunately the Avid won’t recognise it as a drive to create media on, but there are generally ways around that. It’s also been an essential part of carrying around and backing up a 15 minute TARGA sequence which was part of the graduation animation film at the NFTS.
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Not so much a part of the edit suite, but really handy to pick up programmes and films from television that I miss because I’m still editing at night. I’d hate to be one of those people who couldn’t watch television or film any more because they work in it. I’m here because of the love I have for both.
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I went through phases of wanting to go the Blackberry or Nokia communicator route for my next phone, but then the 3G came out and just made the other choices look antiquated. The interface plus the appstore for specialised functionality…. there was no contest. It’s fantastic for keeping up with emails, twitter, checking out prices of things online when wandering around shopping and seeing gadgetry that you want…. And there are some pretty useful apps out there - iTalk for recording guide voiceover and Byline for keeping up to date with job RSS feeds (via Google Reader) stand out in my mind. Plus all of the games whilst rendering, of course….
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