equipment

Sony DSR-PD170

The Sony PD170 is our flagship camcorder. It was recently purchased by Chris Knight for it's superb video quality in low light, it's manual control over both picture and audio, and it's built in XLR breakout box with phantom power. This camera is the pride and joy of FMP.

Panasonic PV-GS120

Up until recently, this was our main production camera. It was our first MiniDV Camera and served us well for about a year. It is now our 1st backup camera. The nice thing abutthis bad boy was that it hs 3 CCDs packed into a tiny little package. Amazing, right?

Sony DCR-TRV330

This camera is our 2nd backup camera, and uses the Digital8 format, which allows us to convert analog 8mm Video into a digital video signal for importing into the computer.

Sony CCD-TRV118

This is our "Don't worry if we break the camera, it's junky anyway" camera. Coincidentally, it's the only camera that belongs to Jesse. It uses Analog 8mm, which is a pain, but it will be replaced soon.

Apple Powerbook G4 1.25Ghz

This is our main editing computer and resides In Chris Knight's small room. It's a nice piece of equipment and gets the job done. we have it hooked up to a nice 17in monitor with a 1600 x 1200 resolution. It's portability is also a plus, because we can now edit video on location.

Apple iMac G4 800Mhz

This is our backup editing computer, should anything happen to Chris's laptop, we can use this machine. While it's not as fast as the powerbook, this was the computer we started out on, and it is a wonderful piece of equipment. This is the computer responsible for getting us involved in filmmaking.

Apple's Final Cut Pro 5

Final Cut Pro is easily the greatest editing software on the planet. It delivers powerful and precise editing tools that work with virtually any format, from DV and native HDV to fully uncompressed HD. with a real-time multistream effects architecture, multicam editing tools, advanced color correction and intuitive integration with other Apple professional video and audio applications.

Apple's Motion 2

Motion 2 is the easiest way for us to animate text and graphics for DVD motion menus, video or film, Motion 2 lets us design in real time and take advantage of GPU acceleration for rendering.

Apple's DVD Studio Pro

DVD Studio Pro is our Profesional DVD Authoring application. It is used to creat all of our DVD menu sustems, along with the help of Motion and Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop CS

We use Adobe Photoshop for our graphic design and rotoscope work. It is also used to design GUIs for our DVD menus. Everyone loves Photoshop.