ha ha ha-- great pictures

if you're after a soundcard interface, I'd say the newest from TASCAM would be good if the laptop has a intel processor. like this one:

http://www.zzounds.com/item--TASUS1641



I know I'd buy that if I didn't have a FW from tascam already

I got a Vestax 3 channel mixer like new from Craigslist for 120.00 bucks. Look @ other cities & see if they are willing to ship, normally they don't mind. Behringer is crap!!! go with Makie as someone else mentioned. Vestax is my choice due to durability & flexibility not only that but you have aux. inputs so you can have a total of 6 things hooked up at once. I know it's a dj mixer but the shit works the same in my opinion.

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holy shit, that logs great & a great price.

i jumped the gun on something else though-- yes i burned a hole in my wallet too--

http://www.zzounds.com/item--DGDMX003R



it has 4 preamps only but i could add the 5th...

comes with protools, which works well with AVID, so im kinda hoping i chose right... if not... ha ha ha ha-- IM FUcKED!

was that a good choice or did i fuck up? time was ticking, and...

i thought you were on a tight budget?
i don't like pro tools very much, but if you're into it, you bought yourself a great piece of equipment along with some pretty powerful software you wouldn't get elsewhere.

oh, thanks man. yes i was on a tight budget but decided to splurge on the basis that protools would let me also do a better job at editing the audio in my moobys. as it is i've been looking for someone to fix some shit for months but i can't find anyone qualified & affordable, so i said fuckit, i'll learn protools and do it meself. now why protools and not another soft-war? cuz i edit with avid and it's the same company that makes protools and the two are 100% compatible.

thanks for the reassurance! the whole in my wallet does not look pretty but i was hoping it would be worth it. say no the recession!

Yeah, Pinnacle is part of Avid too. This fucking PCTV thing won't record more than one show without needing a reboot of the computer.

That thing seems about as portable as an anvil. But I'm sure it will do what you want.

ha ha ha pinnacle-- well pinnacle wasn'tavid until more or less recently-- they were bought out a couple of years ago, or maybe 3 years or so, and yeah it wasn't a great company or anything. the pinnacle editor, i forgot the name, was turned into avid liquid.

ive never used any pinnacle or ex-pinnacle products-- im sticking with xpress pro, and i'm looking forward to upgrading to media composer. i fucking love avid.

Can you tell me why? I just don't see what the big deal is.

(Multi hundred thousand for <don't recall>'s Smoke? What can make it worth that much money? And the damn thing never worked! If I paid that much money, I'd at least expect it to work)

So far my favorite editor (was) RexEdit from Canopus. (I now primarily use Edius) What I liked was that it was extremely basic and fast. Like a three deck linear system. I really liked the fact that you could have multiple copies open at a time. Work on one segment in one and your master in another.

hm... i fucking love it cuz im used to it i guess ha ha. it just does what it's supposed to. color correction is great. media management is great. i love the 2 timeline modes. their clunky bins, ive also come to like a lot. editing hdv in avid was quite painless too with DNxHD encoding. i can use it without thinking.

then also i was also able to score a bunch of great products for a small price-- i got started with xpress dv for $295, then upgraded to xpress pr for $500 (or was it $300?), then upgrades to media composer are available for $300 or so. what's not to love about that? ha ha ha. ok, they are picky witht he hardware-- i'm learning to comply.

the other two nles ive used are fcp and premiere pro. premiere was buggy as fuck (at the time, v. 1.5), crashed often. fcp yeah its cute & all but there's the mac tax & mac indenture. fuck that.

and then for avid there is this almost infinite upgrade path (from where i stand anyway), so that is a huge attraction for me. i'm looking forward to forking out 3 grand in the future so i can say im avid certified & get hired for humongous jobs. schweetness.

well with that avid background, it was the best thing to do i guess. have fun with it.

hurray for rash decisions!

thanks!