[Richard Cardonna]

Actually I plan to have a Mac with both OS and XP I will have fcb plus premiere or avid.

I plan to offer it to independent producers who will bring there editor of choice, or editors without equipment or serve other overbooked post houses and Ad agencies or in-house setups.. My service business will not compete with any post.

I will be offering them a full 40 hours of the system with everything included plus a comfortable room. (payment in advance of course) any time over 8 hours per day would have an extra charge.

Of course I want to offer something more that what they have available within there budgets plus give them greater control of hours.

I could include the whole adobe or fcp package with a top G5 plus a couple of 30 inch screens an IO/HD or a adobe matrox. But what else can i offer

I just want your opinion as to what type of equipment setup I could have that would attract the type of clients I have mentioned . Clients that want control over everything including time , who would normally aggravate me if I where sitting in the edit chair.

Clients can be film makers,commercial, broadcast…

I want a set up that can also pay for itself. I have been working as an editor and producer for my projects and clients hardly ever taken any outside jobs, my personal equipment have been dell precision stations with raids sony decks and z1 and canon xl2. which works for me.
But I know that I have to offer something different even though my setup can do the work

As I said I do not want to edit anything for anyone (I don’t want to murder any client) I just want to start working on my project before I get to old. So I will probably have an office close to the edit bay and what ever system I can use be it fcp/vegas…

Thanks for your comments

RC

[Richard Cardonna]

I use scenalyzer to batch capture trim and delete all all the clips then i re name them and edit them in my application

I save tons of hours by using scenalyzer to and log and pre edit. scenalyzer is a destructive process style where you trim,cut and delete and the original is reflects those changes. it also saves a lot of space on your hd

check it out its dirt cheap but very powerful

Richard Cardonna