FIELD AND REMOTE

The things seen from outside 

• Canon Vixia G21 Camcorder
• Magnus VT-300 w/ Fluid Head
• Nicey Rig Hand grip
• Luxli CNS-20D Block Light (Cold Shoe device)
• Shure/RadioShack XLR Microphone (Similar to E/V ENG Microphone)
• Samson PXD1 Wireless USB/Line In Lav Mic
• Varizoom VT75 (Bought in late 2021, separate to the one below)

STUDIO/STREAMING/EDIT BAY

The things I use to add value to productions

• Varizoom VT75A (bought on eBay)
• Canon Vixia R800 (Christmas gift from 2017,  from Best Buy)
• PreSonus Firebox FireWire 800 Audio Interface
• JK Audio THAT-2 Telephony Audio Capture Device
• RadioShack 2 Line telephone
• Home Made Intercom with a generic POTS telephone (for “sketchy-calls”
• Ikan Mic Arm (2)
• Shuttle Xpress Jog Shuttle (for editing bought originally on eBay)
• Berringer Xenyx 1000B (bought off Mercari in 2021)
• AudioTechnica AT2020 (Bought in 2022 from a local pawn)
• Elgato HDMI/USB3 input device
• Elgato StreamDeck controller
• Vidbox Video Converter for PC (used for streaming)

AIRCHECK CAPTURE

The tools to capture the montages, airchecks, historical content

• Mitsubishi HS\U580 VHS VCR
• Vidbox Video Converter for Mac

RELEVANT COMPUTERS

The various hardware and equipment to power @MinifigNewsguy

• Mac mini 2012 (quad i5/16GB/1TB)
• Mac mini 2010 Server (dual core/2GB/10 TB – combined) – Media storage server
• ThinkPad W520 (quad i7/16GB/256 GB SSD), Windows 7, with NVIDIA graphics processor
• Lacie 4big RAID drive (2x 2TB = clustered as Just a Bunch of Disks acting as an 8TB hard disk drive) Firewire 800 connectivity
• HPE ProLiant DL360G5 (Quad Xeon 5000/32GB/1.5TB), for Windows, Linux and other applications for database, firewall, login authentication, telephony servers, etc.)

APPLICATIONS

The tools are not the Latest and Greatest™

• Avid Media Composer | First 2018.12
• Final Cut Pro 7
• Adobe Photoshop Elements CS 4 (Mac)
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 (PC)
• Caspar CG (PC), client (Mac and PC)
• Audacity (audio editing and voice over creations)
• File Maker Pro 11/10 (rundowns, media management)
• SoundByte (for sounders for newsradio)
• QuickTime Player (to capture screens, etc.)

WISHLIST

• “I Need Me Some Xkeys!” 
• Marantz 2 XLR Audio device for DV camcorders 
• Other World Scumputing Firewire hard drive
• Davis & Sanford ProVista tripod (with an pneumatic lift – the closest to a pedestal on a budget!)
• Any Two-Wire RTS Intercom hardware
• Panasonic DVCPro 50 w/ P2 support
• Integrated video switcher (HDMI or SDI)
• Character Generator (Chyron/Deko or even Compix)