- External FireWire800 portable drive Store your footage, project files, and archiving your final work. Recommended brands if you don't already own one: LACIE are incredibly reliable. Good reviews on Western Digital as well.
If this is not a possible purchase at this time, please speak with me. Media files you'll be working with
take a lot of storage space. While you can back up your work on the Department server, that will not guarentee it will be safe.
The image above, LaCie Rugged All-Terrain 750 GB FireWire 800, sells for $150 on amazon, $95 at MACMALL (http://www.macmall.com/p/LaCie-External-Hard-Drives/product~dpno~7383577~pdp.eddfcec)
This is $112 at Walmart. Keep in mind, you want a firewire NOT just USB drive. If its advertised as firewire/USB- that's fine but read closely!
Another option: Western Digital My Passport Studio 320 GB FireWire 800/400 USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive WDBAAE3200ASL-NESN, $115 on amazon.
- Headphones
that cup your ears for production and post-production (Office Depot or Walmart)—iPod headphones (earbuds) will NOT CUT IT! You need your ears covered. Remember, an audience will forgive a little bit of bad video, but they will never forgive bad sound.
Mini DV Tapes
You'll need tat least 2 tapes.
Tapes on the average hold 60–85 minutes each. These can be purchased at Photo/Video stores
like B&H or Best Buy, also Target or Walmart.
Audio Equipment in the Equipment Cage:
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| Audio-Technica Lavalier Mic ATR35s (2) |
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| Audio-Technica Telemike Shotgun ATR55 (1) |
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| Handheld Sennheiser Evolution E825S (2) Need to order XLR cable separately |
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| XLR female to XLR male (detail) |
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| Handheld Electro-Voice Model 635 Dynamic Omnidirectional Mic (2) Need to order XLR cable separately |
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| XLR to XLR cable; request separately |
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| Samson Multi-Pattern USB Studio Condenser Mic |
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| XLR to 1/4 mic cable |
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| XLR female to stereo mini (1/8) |
Digital Cameras in the Equipment Cage:
also see here for basic technical information about digital cameras |
| USB TO MINI 5PIN DIGITAL CAMERA CABLE |
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HD video camera (shoots 1440 x 1080)
HDV video and audio are encoded in digital form, using lossy compression. Video is encoded with the MPEG-2 codec. Two major versions of HDV are HDV 720p and HDV 1080i. The former is used by JVC and is informally known as HDV1. The latter is preferred by Sony and Canon and is sometimes referred to as HDV2.[4] The HDV 1080i defines optional progressive recording modes, and in recent publications is sometimes called HDV 1080 or 1080-line HDV as progressive 1080-line recording becomes commonplace.
Three-CCD camera (shoots 720x 480)
Compared to cameras with only one CCD, three-CCD cameras generally provide superior image quality and resolution. By taking separate readings of red, green, and blue values for each pixel, three-CCD cameras achieve much better precision than single-CCD cameras.
One-CCD camera
Uses only a single lens to process everything that you are trying to record on the digital camcorder. Because of this, you will notice a big difference in terms of video quality if you compare it to a 3 CCD camcorder.
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Video camcorders in the Equipment Cage:
- Sony camcorders (720 x 480)
- Sony camcorders (no fire) This means you can't use camera to export footage but you can shoot with it.
- Sony digital HD camcorder (1920 x 1080)
HDV video and audio are encoded in digital form, using lossy compression.
Video is encoded with the MPEG-2 codec. - 3 chip Sony camcorder (720 x 480) (see this link)
- Sony battery charger
- Sony component video cable HD 1080
Battery chargers in Equipment Cage
- Sony
- Canon
MICROPHONES
- Directional Mic
TRIPODS in Equipment Cage
- Lightweight
- Lightweight with case
CABLES in Equipment Cage
Best place to purchase your own cables is B&H:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/FireWire-Cables-IEEE-1394-95/ci/4168/N/4294542076
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| Firewire 400 |
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| Firewire 800 |
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| 1/8" male to RCA female To view on older monitor, to transfer from VHS to digital, using the camcorder as a recording deck. |
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| Firewire 9-pin to 4-pin cable Most Department computers will require this |
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FireWire 4-Pin to 6-Pin Cable |
AUDIO
AIF
WAV
WAV
Video
- Containers aka Wrappers:
A container is, like the name says, a construct to contain data - in this case video and audio date and possibly subtitles and navigational information. For instance, you would like to put a soundless video stream and the audio track together in one file. To do that you need a container format.
• AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is Windows' standard multimedia container
• MPEG-4 Part 14 (known to you as .mp4) is the standardized container for MPEG-4• FLV (Flash Video) is the format used to deliver MPEG video through Flash Player
• MOV is Apple's QuickTime container format
• OGG, OGM and OGV are open-standard containers
• MKV (Mastroska) is another open-specification container that you've seen if you've ever downloaded anime
• VOB means DVD Video Object. Guess what? It's DVD's standard container, and what you get when you rip a DVD.
• ASF is a Microsoft format designed for WMV and WMA—files can end in .wmv or .asf
- Digital tape formats
DV
HDV
MiniDV
- Recordable disc storage formats
DVD-R
Blu-ray Disc
- Digital encoding formats
H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
M-JPEG (ISO)
MPEG-1 (ISO)
MPEG-2 (ITU-T + ISO)
MPEG-4 (ISO)
- Video Formats
NTSC
PAL
future: Blu-ray
What Blu-ray formats are planned?
As with conventional CDs and DVDs, Blu-ray plans to provide a wide range of formats including ROM/R/RW. The following formats are part of the Blu-ray Disc specification:
BD-ROM - read-only format for distribution of HD movies, games, software, etc.
BD-R - recordable format for HD video recording and PC data storage.
BD-RE - rewritable format for HD video recording and PC data storage.
