John W. McKelveyInterview
Music journalist, hip-hop historian, filmmaker.
Adapted from John W. McKelvey's interview on Uses This, published 23 April 2015. 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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I have a 1TB WD external drive hooked into the Mac, because you use up a ton of space editing high def video files, and a nice, cheap Epson V500 scanner hooked up to the PC, and an extra internal Blu-Ray drive installed.
I don't have a proper 8-track player, but in a pinch I use my old, single speaker 2-XL robot.
I have come up with a more modern way using my iPhone and connecting it to the Mac using my Canopus ADVC-100 - which I use for importing VHS or laserdisc footage - through the headphone jack.
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But my standard is the Final Cut Pro 7 suite.
Other
My Mac still has OS X 10.8.5 (Mountain Lion) on it, because new OS X versions don't work well with the FCP package.
The PC is running Windows 7.