Adam LisagorInterview
Video director
Adapted from Adam Lisagor's interview on Uses This, published 6 January 2011. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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For the past four years, I did everything-editing and compositing HD video-entirely on my 17" MacBook Pro.
When work started to pick up and the technical demands outgrew my trusty little crotchwarmer, I spent almost all the profit from a big job on the beefiest Mac Pro I could afford, which was 12 cores of 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon deliciousness.
When I worked in post-production in my past life, I got accustomed to the two-monitor setup, so I spoiled myself with two of the new 27" Cinema Displays, which is a just plain glorious way to live.
I use an Intuos4 Wacom tablet for everything-don't even have a mouse connected.
I do love my Magic Mouse for when I'm on the road, but I think the tablet model is actually closer to the Touch interface model than the mouse is, so I'm more at ease there.
I also have a Jambox, which is incredible as advertised subtle plug.
My headphones of choice are the industry standard Sony MDR-7506, which have none of that silly noise cancelling, but they feel and sound damn good.
My normal production camera is a Canon 7D DSLR with the 18-135mm kit lens and a Tamron 17-40mm 2.8 lens.
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