[Bryan Fowler]

Sorry, I realized the title of my post was super vague.

hopefully this new “sub-title” will help generate heaps and heaps of interest in helping.

=)

[Bryan Fowler]

=)

Actually, i’m on my way over to your house right now! It’s hard to type on my iphone while I’m driving 85mph down I-4.

For storage, I’m just buying 10 or 12 firewire drives, and a couple of firewire hubs and I should be right as rain. And I found an AWESOME wicked HD tv from DYNEX. It even has HDMI.

more later as the gear comes in!

(The HD link Pro is what I’m getting… Looking at eCinema for the display, although that depends on budget for the first indie talkie thing. I’m hoping my Genelec’s will be ok for audio, or the crappier Tannoy.)

[Bryan Fowler]

Thanks Bob for the advice.

I have found a couple of people that are selling what I’m looking for (used gear). And I’ll be buying the rest of what I need from local VARs, and direct from dealers.

[Bryan Fowler]

Thanks everyone for the input.

I should rephrase my initial statement to: What’s the lowest I can get into 2k, and what will I have to sacrifice. =)

Everyone’s input has been helpful. I’m narrowing in on what I need to get, and trying to find the best deals on everything can be time consuming.

I’ve opted to go with the HDLink for monitoring a full image, and a Reference Monitor for grading that will take a downscaled image. That will have to do for now.

I’m estimating that 15-20% of my work will be indie level 2k, and the rest will max out at 1080i. Renting gear is always an option.

Now to find the deals.
Anyone upgrading, and selling their gear?

Thanks again.
Bryan

[Bryan Fowler]

Luke,

Yes, that helps heaps!

After I made the initial post, I remembered the HDlink, and looked into it more. You confirmed what I thought, that it’s the way to go.

The other aspect I’m interested in is color correction. I know that LCDs are not the way to go for color correction, but it’s something I’m wanting to keep in mind.

Do you have any recommendations for a setup with color correction in mind, using the HD extreme 2, and HD Link? I was looking at the JVC monitors, but I know they are not 2K compatible. … Any thoughts on that?

Thanks again!

Bryan

[Bryan Fowler]

Hi Luke, thanks for the reply.

That’s what I was thinking, but I can’t seem to find an Uncompressed codec of any sort in the [CapturePreset] drop down. In our other suite it works fine. And in this suite it was working as expected until we reinstalled FCP.

Sequence Preset = yes, i see an Uncompressed 10bit option
Capture Preset = nope, just blackmagic 10bit

[Bryan Fowler]

Thanks Barend, and Filip

Yes, that does make sence. It might not be as much work as the first time, but you never know.
dang… all these years, and I still don’t know everything! =)

I guess this will apply to everytime i do something with a moving mask huh.

Thanks again for the quick answers.

Bryan

[Bryan Fowler]

This is our setup:

xServe RAID with 7x 250GB drives. One just recently failed…as in.. the past 24-36 hours. (although Im’ sure it was on it’s way out for the past few weeks)

We are connected to the RAID with one Fibre Channel cable, Up to date FCP, BlackMagic, and RAID firmware.
Computer has only 1GB of ram (yeah.. i know…we are getting more asap) and it’s a Dual 2ghz G5

We have a SECOND suite using the other side of the RAID (filled with 500GB modules), and it’s working fine. It’s a Dual 2.7Ghz, with 4GB of RAM.

Any help will be… heh.. helpful. If I can give more info, let me know

Thanks