Keith EhrlichInterview
Filmmaker (Made by Hand)
Adapted from Keith Ehrlich's interview on Uses This, published 30 March 2012. 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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Later this week I will be switching over to a 13" MacBook Air.
When I have to talk on a phone, I use my iPhone 4.
I listen to music and take editorial notes with a set of white Panasonic RP-HTX7 stereo monitor headphones.
When taking pictures, I usually prefer to use my 35mm point and shoot Yashica T4 with a fixed 35mm f 3.5 Carl Zeiss lens.
All of the footage that I shoot and edit lives on a G-Raid drive.
(I seriously hope I don't eat those words now that I just said that.) If I do, everything is backed up on Lacie Rugged drives.
I'm about to embark on my first project using the Arri Alexa Camera.
Communication
I use Skype quite a bit in place of phone calls with my regular collaborators.
Productivity
I'm not a big fan of fitting letters and numbers into tiny cells, but Excel is quite useful for working with budgets.
Important events and schedules are maintained in iCal.
I've recently adopted TeuxDeux to keep track of stuff that needs to be done.
Browser
Web browsing mostly takes place in Safari.
Coding & Development
Design
Adobe After Effects is used for any compositing or 2d animation needs.
Media
Audio mixing is mostly done in Pro Tools.
Storage
All of my laptop work is backed up with Crashplan.