Hanley Films: "Studio"
Although Hanley Films is still very much in the "no-budget indie" realm of funding, I have aquired some halfway decent gear over the years that puts together a rather nice, economical setup. This may be of some interest to potential clients who want to know what my capabilities are (there's always the old cliche, "if you like what I do on a shoestring, imagine what I could do with a budget!"), but this information will probably also interest other entry-level videographer/filmmakers like myself, who try to do a lot with little.
The photo above depicts my typical "home" post-production setup, though this is always changing depending on my needs for a particular project.
Of course I'm always adding new gear to the mix. For example, the Rode mic was new for 2007, and improved the audio substantially for that year's LWV GGA gig. As such, you could say this page is in a constant state of "under construction."
Computer Hardware
- Apple MacBook Pro - 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 128 MB VRAM, 250 GB hard drive, SuperDrive
- Custom-Built Windows XP PC - Athlon XP 3200+, 1 GB RAM, GeForce 6800 w/ 128 MB VRAM, 160 GB hard drive
- 19" Widescreen Samsung LCD display (for the PC, or the Mac while editing (pictured above)
- Over three and a half Terabytes of combined external storage (some for video editing / scratch disk, some for backup)
Computer Software
Note that this is only a small subset of applications I find invaluable - by no means all-inclusive.- Mac OS X 10.5 - "Leopard"
- Apple Final Cut Studio 2 (Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, etc)
- Apple "iLife '08" suite (particularly iDVD, Garageband)
- Quicktime 7 Pro
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Adobe After Effects CS3
- Newtek Lightwave 3D Version 9
- JES Deinterlacer
- FFmpegX
- Celtx screenwriting software
- Windows Media Encoder (gotta deal with the devil sometimes, y'know?)
A/V Gear
- Canon Optura 30 MiniDV Camera (with attached lens hood)
- Røde VideoMic directional camcorder microphone
- Panasonic NTSC studio monitor
- Cheap (but effective) video tripod
- Lighting = 2 small "reflectors" from Home Depot (for the filmmaking geeks - these are the same kind Robert Rodriguez used on "El Mariachi." Whatever works...)
- M-Audio USB midi keyboard
Miscellaneous
- 16mm Film Projector
- Lots and lots of Diet Coke or Pepsi, or other sources of caffeine :)
- 30 GB Video iPod
I may do reviews of some of this stuff once I get the Resources section of the site running, but for now my priority is just to get my past work online!