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ProTools 10 for sure. Upgrade the internal drive to an SSD, or just get a small portable FW800 for your PT Sessions.. More RAm for sure.. I've got 16gigs in my 2 year old MBpro 15.. PTools screams on it Then again.. So does Logic..but doing Post in Logic is like death.

Just got back from NAMM...the brain is spinning about having an Apogee D/A available for an iPad... The Duet is a nice little box nonetheless... http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/duet.php

newbie guilt Rode NTG3, Rode NTG4 Stereo AKG Blue Line with 3 Capsules AT 1821 soooooo need a CS3e...sigh

just to be clear..these 3.5mm inputs labled Mic 1 and Mic 2 are still MONO inputs (just have a choice of balance or unbalanced). Correct? A client wants to potentially just put a new Rode Stereo Video Mic Pro on this camera.. Would love to give him proper advice.. Thanks

it looks really amazing..but I need to replace my 5 year old Mac Book Pro first..and the new Quad Core i7 Chips in the new laptops are INSANE.

you crack me up And I just ordered a x2XLR-5Pin cable. just cuz.

fwiw..Kenneth at TrewAudio has been great to me..advice, pricing, etc.

Adam..as someone who also recently just put together a basic 'starter' package, don't forgot to think about all the 'extras'. Cables, adapters, gear bags/harness, cases, even a small cart of some kind (Like a Rok N Roller with shelf). Try and imagine as many 'what if' scenarios as you can (which NO DOUBT you'll forget something and get bit in the ass a few times). Talk to the people doing your post production (that's my main world). Try to get as much fore-knowledge on the POST side of it as possible and try and anticipate their needs as well. Anticipate how you may need to do a backup of your recordings (like a small mp3 recorder in the bag). I ended up with a 302 mixer, 702T recorder, 416 shotgun, a 2ch. Audio Technica Lav system, and an AKG BlueLine mic with a few different capsules (it ain't a Schoeps, but it sounds pretty amazing). My budget was less than half of yours, sadly. So I didn't get the Schoeps systems or Lav's that I wanted..but am surely saving my pennies. I ended up buying a Deneke Slate/sync box.. In retrospect, for the few times I've needed them, I should have just rented them and bought the better mics first. Lesson learned. And, frankly, for what I'm doing, my gear sounds fine, and I can rent/borrow a Schoeps or other mics if I need it. But frankly and honeslty, any gigs that come to me that need better/more gear, or exceed my skills at this stage, I'm glad to be able to refer those clients to the A-list guys in town and hopefully pick up an A2 gig along the way.

me and my greyhound girls and a bunch of video.

can't go wrong with the Portabrace bags: http://www.portabrace.com/productC-PB-CSBAST and these Aerostitch Motorcycle bags are really nice and soft for protecting gear..not as padded, but nice: http://www.aerostich.com/packing-it-in/more-packing-options/small-storage-accessories/aerostich-fleece-bags.html

Well..I've got a 100 gig Boot Camp Partition running on my MacBook Pro for Quicken and the like, and it's working fine with Windows 7. BWF Widget Pro works just fine on that rig (just a few workflow things you need to know) , and the transcriptionist I used was happy. Might be worth looking into until someone jumps on and makes a Mac program (helllooooo Sound Devices.....). Pretty sure most everyone here would cough up the $100 for a killer program. At least I would

absolutely, without at doubt. BRILLIANT sound-design and mix. The Incredibles is a close 2nd, for sure. I wish more BluRay/DVD's would let you listen to just the sound tracks. Last one I saw that did it was Monsters Inc. You could kill the dialog and music and just listen to the sfx stems. Simply brilliant work.

Zack..I scoured all over to try and find a Mac based program that's comparable to the BWF-Convert..nothing exists..Even the Sound Devices Wave Agent won't. I wonder if it's a Lame MP3 Licensing issue... That cable from Turner Audio looks pretty cool tho!

thanks for the heads up

ahh..thanks for the heads up. I should have clarified that I was specifically referring to ProTools not playing nice with the h264 files during audio post, and, at least on the Mac side that I've seen, the 422 ProRes Proxy files I usually get from Final Cut seem to work great.