E Q U I P M E N T
A V I D A D R E N A L I N E:
| Our latest investment is the all new Avid Media Composer Adrenaline. A revolutionary new architecture combining the power of next generation Media Composer software with state-of-the-art Avid Adrenaline Digital Nonlinear Accelerator (DNA) hardware - purpose built for 10-bit video, 24-bit 96 kHz audio. Up to five real-time uncompressed video streams with room to grow. Backward compatible with AVR and Meridien projects and media. Support for even more media formats including DV and DVCAM - mixable right in the timeline. New high-quality, real-time 3D DVE. AutoCorrect technology that color corrects entire sequences automatically.Currently with 144Gb of SCSI storage on-board the system can use inexpensive Firewire drives to increase the storage capacity into the Terrabytes! This is a fantastic system which is currently producing two on hour shows a week for UK Style. This machine ROCKS!! |
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A V I D X P R E S S M E R I D I E N:
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Early in 2000 we invested in the Avid Xpress Meridien editing system. This is capable of off-line amd on-line editing in the Meridian based resolutions (up to 1:1 uncompressed, but more usually 2:1 compressed). Currently running with 144Gb of storage which equates to 6 x 30 min broadcast programmes at 2:1 on-line resolution or 35 hours of off-line storage at 20:1 full frame resolution. The Avid has been used extensively for off-lining and on-lining many Broadcast programmes and works in conjuction with Adobe Photoshop and After FX to create a very flexible and fast environment for developing graphics and titles. It is also very suited to creating Multimedia files for CD, DVD and the Internet. |
T H E M O B I L E O P T I O N:
| The Avid Xpress system is quite compact and portable and has been taken to Paris, Dubai and Rome but the latest investment has been to augment this with a truly portable system based around the stunning Apple Mac G4 Titanium Powerbook Laptop, 120Gb's of Firewire storage and the Avid Xpress Pro editing software. Designed mainly for offline work or for DV based programming importing DV/DVCAM straight from the camera, the unit can also be set up to digitize from a Beta SP or Digi Beta source converting it to DV media which is stored on the Firewire drive. It can then be edited exactly as on any Avid system. The interface is identical to the MediaComposer with some elements such as colour correction finding there way over from the Symphony! Projects can be seemlessly moved from one system to another for on-lining. The entire sytem fits in a backpack and follows me around wherever I go! |  |
AVID XPRESS DV:
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We have also put together an Avid Xpress DV system based around a Dell 360 Workstation which is ideal for digitizing material on to Firewire drives to be used in Avid Xpress Pro or Media Composer Adrenaline or as a standalone editor in ot's own right. Digitizing at DV/DVCAM resolution this setup is perfectly capable of producing broadcast quality programmes. |
H I S T O R Y:
Nick trained on 3 machine Hi-Band U-matic edit suites moving on quickly to the "new" Beta SP format. He began using the Ampex ACE25 edit controller and quickly mastered the Sony 910 and 2000 controllers. He was among the first to explore the possibilities of pre-read editing on early D2 machines, creating complex graphic sequences on a fairly basic system at a time when Harry was all the rage (and very expensive!)
The move to non-linear editing came when Nick bought his own D-Vision non-linear editor. A simple, but effective off-line system based on an ordinary PC and many times cheaper than the then emerging Avid machines. The D-Vision was very well suited to long-form documentaries and was still doing stirling service until a few years ago.
In the meantime as a freelance editor Nick got to know both Avid Media-Composer and Media100 as well as Sony DigiBeta linear suites.
His work now consists mostly of doing both off-line and on-line on Avid and Media100 with graphics, special effects and Title sequences completed on Boris FX and AfterFX
E Q U I P M E N T :
Non-linear: Avid all systems up to Symphony, Media 100 inc. AfterFX. BorisFX & Photoshop, D/Vision off-line.
B R O A D C A S T C O R P O R A T E S E Q U I P M E N T
A recent showreel is available on request.
Tel: 07711 078353 or 01962 868375 e-mail: nick@paddywack.co.uk http://www.paddywack.co.uk/ 186 Stockbridge Road, Winchester, Hants. SO22 6RW