Virginia Commonwealth University

Field Production:

-Red One Digital Camera Package
-2 x Panasonic 2700 Varicams
-Panasonic HPX-170 (AKA "Tiny")
-3 x Sony PDW-F350 XDCam HD Cinealta Cameras
-1 x Sony V1U Crash Cam (also known affectionately as "Crappy Cam")
-Cartoni, Vinten and Sachtler tripods
-Panasonic & Marshal HD field Monitors
-2 x Arri 1K Tungsten Light Kits (3 x 1Ks)
-2 x Arri Mixed tungsten Light Kits (1K, 650, 300 and 150)
-4 x Arri 1200watt HMI Pars with Flicker-Free Ballasts and lens sets
-Sennheiser and Sony Shotgun Mics with Booms and Zep, Sony wired and wireless lav pkgs
-wireless headsets
-Sony Headphones
-Doorway Dolly with buttloads of curved and straight track (seated ped accs included)
-Sand bags, apple boxes, c-stands, flags, foam core, gaff tape, shims...yada,yada,yada...

Post Production:

-6 in-studio edit stations: March 2009 MacPro 8 core (12-32 gig of RAM each- never enough)
-Final Cut Studio 2 (3 as soon as Apple gets their act together), Adobe CS 4 Master Suite
-AJA Kona 3, Blackmagic HD Extreme
-CalDigit uber-fast Raid setups
-XServe RAID not-fast Raid Setup
-Render Farm
-Gig-E between all stations
-Panasonic eSata Readers, Sony PDW-F70 and PDW-F30 XDCam HD decks
-Apple 30" and 23" Cinema Displays
-OWC Firewire 800 Backup Drives
-OWC firewire 800 Portable Drives x 3
-MacBook Pro 17" x 4
-JBL Studio Monitors
-Panasonic 25.5" CC Monitor
-Sony 32" Luma Flat Screen
-Pioneer Pro 50" Kuro Plasma, Bluray Player and HDMI Amp
-Bluray Burner
-M-Audio Reference Speakers
-Video Helper Music Library
-Hollywood Edge SFX Library
-Spiderman Statue and Stuffed Ram

Come play with us.

-Red One or latest, greatest equivalent (currently #3203 on the list)
-Sony EX-1 or Scarlet
-More RAM
-More Storage
-More Work Stations
-More Stuffed Rams
-More More

Stay tuned for more detail...

This is under the techno-nerd category for a reason, but....

We love the web and we love You Tube and we love Vimeo and all kinds of other sites where we can veg out in front of the Cinema Display. We do however get a bit peaved when we see sites like Vimeo advertising their "HD QUALITY" free material. Do us a favor and download any of the dozens of full length programs at 720P resolution (barely HD but the same format Vimeo advertises) and see how poor the quality is at Vimeo right now (9/4/08) compared to our material. For those of you who say "but your file sizes are so big in comparison and they take a lot longer to download". You're only partially right there- consider the megabytes per minute on our stuff versus theirs and the difference isn't as great as you think. The bottom line is Vimeo shouldn't be riding the HD promotional sled right now. Not until they improve their end user quality.

I look forward to deleting this post in the future when their stuff looks less like 5th generation VHS.

Rant complete.

Dan Brazda
Executive Producer/Manager and Techno-Nerd 3rd Class
VCU-TV/HD