Originally posted by: packmule
Originally posted by: Trygve
Here's
mine --obviously it's a lot more cluttered and messy.
That's a negatory on the flyby ghost rider the pattern is full... What the heck are you running in there? Actually people that is what your desk has to look like if you run Linux.
Like NL5 pointed out, nothing I'm using is particularly exotic, I just need to support a lot of formats. The most expensive parts are the beta decks, and those are just the UVW-series, which is the least expensive type (You could pick up a used pair on Ebay for well under $10K these days.) but that's still the format that almost all TV stations want and a lot of the smaller territories and distributors use for video masters. Even a lot of what gets shot on film gets the dailies telecined to betaSP and edited from there, without a cut, conformed negative ever being created. The other stuff are things like DLT decks (standard for DVD masters), PAL gear, sync generators and time-base correctors, and various audio formats. (Speaking of which, NL5, on your equipment list, you didn't mention a DAT deck; if you ever need to support that format, I went on a binge a while back of modifying computer backup drives to read and write audio DATs, so I have a stack of extras.) Location audio most often comes in on DAT; surround mixes often go out on DA-88.
But, despite that, those two machines aren't running Linux, they're running Windows 2K and XP. Magazine ads, catalog and book layouts, and posters usually need to go out in PSD, PDF, or Indesign formats, so the path of least resistance leads to the Mac or the Windows worlds. But I do have a couple dozen linux boxes in the basement, plus three machines running Solaris 8 and two that are (still!) running SunOS 4.1.4.
And in keeping with Mobobuff's observation that a lot of us have Shuttle or other SFF systems,
here's mine. (It's used mostly as a portable media server, plus it has a DVD burner and ISOs of all the screeners.)