I always have to budget for things, personally for the things I need and the things that the team will need. But there is nothing like putting together the list of things that are just awesome, here is my list (I’ll probably edit it over the next week):
The Cameras
Red One 4k 4:4:4 HD Camera Package
O’Connor 1030S HD Fuild Head and O’Connor 25L Carbon Fibre Tripod
Panasonic AG-HVX200A with 2 x 16GB Cards
O’Connor 1030S HD Fuild Head and O’Connor 25L Carbon Fibre Tripod
The Machine
300GB startup SAS Drive
3 x 1TB SATA2 7200rpm 32MB cache
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Graphic Card
[Added] Wacom Intuos3 6×8 Pen Tablet
[Added] Bella Final Cut Pro Keyboard
The Screens
2 x 23″ Apple Cinema Displays
Panasonic BT-LH2600W 26-inch LCD HD Production Monitor
Capture
Caldigit HDPro 6TB with 2GB controller cache
Colour Control
Audio
Mackie Tapco S5 Active Studio Monitors
Mackie Universal Master Control Surfacer
Mackie 1202 12 channel Mixer
The Software
Final Cut Studio 2
FxFactory 2.0.3 with CoreMelt plugins
Shake 4.1
The Foundry: Furnace and Tinder for Shake
Genarts: Sapphire Plugins for Shake and FCS
Logic Studio
Photoshop CS3 Extended
Illustrator CS3
ummmmmmmmmmmmmm
what about a tablet? any need for one? for illustrator, photoshop,… any tool that allows drawing. update your list.
don’t leave sound out. u have a mixer + monitors, but recording the actual sound is an art/science on it’s own. for clean, professional sounding recordings you’ll need some kind of studio. [for voice recording - narrating etc] it’s no good having a great video with poor sound.
A tablet, definitely for Motion, Photoshop and Illustrator. I used a Genius A5 once in Motion and it was fantastic – just plug it in and it worked. Think that a larger Wacom Intuos3 6×8 Pen Tablet.
As for a studio for audio for voice recording and narration etc. That would be great – even some of the Green Screen shoots can be done in there as well. A room that is about 10ft high, 12 ft wide and 20ft long. hmm that’s quite big, yet from experience that would be ideal.
mmm, throw in a pop filter as well, for a good capacitor mic, with a shock mount.