Little Frog in High Def

Looks sweet, Shane.

2 cosmetic comments:

a) Do you find the color of your workstation a bit distracting (i.e. the light color, rather than black paint)?

b) I would do some cable hiding, velcro straps or some camera tape should do the trick. Especially if clients hang around your desk ;)

Is the backup power enough? I used to have one of those for my G5 Quad, but when I tested it, it had juice for like 1 minute before shutdown. I bought a second one, one to power the PC, and one for the monitors and HDDs.

Any chance of your writing a special post about how you built the table, maybe even with drawings/measurements?

I am not distracted at all, actually. Although I wonder when it comes time to color correct if it will. I might have to get some duvateen and cover that part of the desk when the time comes.

Yes, I plan on getting cable management. I just didn’t at the time of the photo. Not that my producers mind…they aren’t looking down there, and really, the other edit bays have worse cabling issues.

The backup power is NOT enough. It was for my old system, but screams with the new system. I need to get the larger unit. Good catch.

I’m not sure about writing the post on how I built the desk. I have partners that I will be possibly going in on a post house with and we want to equip all the bays with these desks…and they’d like it to remain unique. This warrants discussion with them.

Shane not distracted, I can’t believe that!

Seriously though, nice setup. I use a light colored desk on my home system (also from IKEA) and I’m never distracted by it.

Questions: Are you a lefty? Why do you put your mixer on the right? Is that an FCP keyboard based on the new wierd Apple keyboard? Are you going to mount your k-box? Where will you put a Digi or an HDCAM or a D5 deck when it comes time for layoffs, or is there a machine room in the building? Where are you going to put scopes? Are you even going to bother with external scopes? Still no Wacom, really? What’s with the person on the monitor? What’s in the cup? Couldn’t you have color corrected that photo? It looks a little wahsed out…

I am a righty. My mixer is on the right because I control the playhead using the keyboard with my left hand, and the mixer can adjust audio as I move the sliders…so I need my right hand there for that. That IS the new Apple keyboard…sucks for typing, but fine for editing. My K-Box is mounted on the back of that wooden IDEA rack…I’ll take a pic soon to show you. When a deck comes in it will sit on the floor or on a card next to my rack….although layoffs will most likely be done somewhere else, like Alpha Dogs. Cheaper to go to them than to rent a deck for a day. I won’t be color correcting this show, so no external scopes. Color correction will be handled by a colorist using COLOR, as I will be busy editing the next show. Wacom on the way…after I get my first rental check. I REALLY want one and will definately add it to my system. The person on the monitor is an interview subject from a segment on family members who are attracted to each other sexually. She has the hots for her dad, and he for her. Long story…watch the show. The cup contains water. My photoshop skills suck, so no fixing the photo. Plus it is REALLY blown out, so there is no detail. Hey, what do you expect from an iPhone camera?

And here I am, distracted again.

I just set up a Dual Quad 2.8 MacPro.

I installed 3 Seagate SATA II 500 gig drives as RAID 0 and all I can get is a little over 100 megs a second on the Kona System Test.

Any ideas? How did you format the drives? I just used Disk Utility and then made a RAID (Striped).

Thanks,

Dan Weber

Solved my problem. Changed the test file size to 4 gig and turned off system cache.

Now I get 275 megs/sec write and 325 megs/sec read!!!!

Thanks for such a good resource.

Dan Weber

Shane, I’m always amazed at how much you get done: Blogging, posting all over the net, editing and spending time with the family. It’s great to see someone who knows how important his role as a dad is. Keep it up!

And I’ll just throw in one more vote of Wacom. I love mine! Awesome for editing… and playing WoW [smile].

~Luke

Well, I tried the Wacom for 3 days, and I can’t take it. I just can’t. Not only trying to move things with the pen, but clicking and just getting around. And I have my mouse near the keyboard because I use my right hand a lot on the keyboard to go frame by frame, type in numbers, shift clips up and down…and having that pen just doesn’t work. setting it down and picking it up again….I’m hampered. Slowed down…in a BIG way. A working habit of the keyboard that I have worked with for 6 years is gone. So I returned it. I’ll get a smaller one for when I use Motion (Wacom Bamboo, $80), but as for editing, I CANNOT use the wacom.