[John Frey]

All of these devices would be a huge help for DSLR shooters. Bring ’em on!

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

I recently purchased one of the Vitascene packages from ProDad as I needed something different for a promo piece. The available transitions are pretty interesting – not cheesy. Worked out well and the clients are happy. Here is a link:

https://www.prodad.com/home,l-us.xhtml

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

I have included a component list, from a recent consulting job for an independent video producer who is finally upgrading his primary edit system. I gave him 2 different cost/performance levels. The listed costs are from a popular, reliable online supplier. The prices have surely changed somewhat by now, but should still be very close. He had already purchased internal drives. The 2 final cost totals do not include the assembly. He plans to have an experienced builder put it together for him. Obviously, an internal (and external)raid setup should be implemented.

The Lists

Computer Case with Cooling Fans – COOLER MASTER HAF 932 Advanced RC-932-KKN5-GP Black Steel ATX Full Tower Compucase Case with USB 3.0 and Black – $129.99 AFTER MAIL-IN REBATE.

Power Supply – COOLER MASTER Silent Pro RS850-AMBAJ3-US 850W ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92 SLI Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply – $138.22

Motherboard – ASUS P8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard – $224.99

Processor – Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition Gulftown 3.46GHz 6 x 256KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80613I7990X – $999.99
Alternate – Intel Core i7-980 Nehalem 3.33GHz 6 x 256KB L2 Cache 12MB L3 Cache LGA 1366 130W Six-Core Desktop Processor BX80613I7980 – $599.99

Memory (Ram) – G.SKILL Ripjaws X + Fan Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2200 (PC3 17600) Desktop Memory Model F3-17600CL9Q-16GBXLD – $629.99
Alternate – G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Desktop Memory Model F3-8500CL7Q-16GBRL – $119.99

Video Display Card – PNY VCQFX3800-PCIE-PB Quadro FX 3800 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI Supported Workstation Video Card – $839.99
Alternate – PNY SuperClocked VCGGTX580XPB-OC GeForce GTX 580 (Fermi) 1536MB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card – $509.99

System Hard Drives – Western Digital VelociRaptor WDBACN6000ANC-NRSN 600GB 10000 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive x 2 – 2 x $219.99 = $439.98
The first drive has Windows 7 Professional operating system installed and all of your programs; the second drive is a clone of the first drive but is left
disconnected in the case as a backup

Internal Sata 6 Media Raid 0 Drives – What did you already buy?

External Sata 6 or USB 3.0 Storage Drives – What did you already buy?

CD/DVD/BluRay Burner Drive – Pioneer Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 8X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA Blu-ray Burner BDR-206DBKS x 2 – 2 x $109.99 = $219.98

Computer LCD Monitors – Need 2 – Should be able to display 1920 x 1080 full HD res. – What did you buy?

Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit – $140.00

System 1 with fastest processor, ram and video display card – $3,764.00

System 2 with fast processor, ram and video display card – $2,524.00

Mouse and Keyboard

External audio speakers

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

And then there is this.

https://cheesycam.com/sony-hx9v-spun-on-painters-pole-palo-alto/

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

Panasonic GH2 – most bang for the buck!

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

Great tutorial, Phil.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

Here is a thread from another Cow Forum relating to this. Be sure and read the info on a possible workaround in Nero Vision.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/914257#914257

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

Thanks Steve, will give it a try tomorrow.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

Steve, like you, I have Nero’s Vision 10 but use PPro 5 for post. I loaded the VOB files that had been extracted from one of our old DVDs that we no longer had the original footage for and am outputting to Mpeg 2. I did not tweak the settings under ‘Configure’, and am currently rendering it as a test. When you say “When Nero Vision loads a title from a DVD, it actually creates a single MPEG for the entire title, stitching the VOB’s together, and from the looks of it, it isn’t actually re-encoding the files, but using the original VOB’s, stitching them together seamlessly, and then rewrapping as an MPEG-2”, do you mean that you are importing the VOBs into Vision as individual files? When they are on the timeline prior to rendering to an Mpeg 2, they area a series of clips, end-to-end, just like any other NLE timeline. Can you clarify? Vision is scary fast when rendering. Last year we used the older version of Vision to render out, with tweaks in Configure, some HD files, and it was the same speed demon – but the files looked and worked great. Go figure!

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

[John Frey]

My Panasonic GH2’s have 1920 x 1080 out of the HDMI for monitoring with no GFX. There is presently a pull-down issue if you record 1920 x 1080p uncompressed from this port, but there is a software workaround. There is also a hack in progress that is being updated almost weekly. One of the next implementations of the next hack release is hopefully the pulldown issue resolve. Google for many postings re. this excellent camera.

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore