HD Indies, intresting,..

[Simon Blackledge]

From site..

Some hints:

1.) If you've been thinking about buying a Mac edit system, maybe holding off a few days could be a good idea.

2.) If you don't have a Google and PayPal account set up yet (for shame!), now might be a good time. And if they are both under the same email address, all the better.

3.) YES, I said announcements, plural.

Intrigued?

Good - then my work here is done.

Stay tuned over the next several days, by sometime next week some Good Things shall be revealed....

-mike

[Poi Boy]

Yeah, I read that a while ago... what is Mike up to ? something that enhances fcs workflow or something for pc perhaps ?
-A

[Poi Boy]

Hey flameop, nice car shots..that silver Lotus is beautiful. two things on my to do list for quite a while, ski the french alps and see a couple of f1 races in Europe.
Aloha
-A

[Bachman]

gezz, too late dude, we just bought one. It's doing my head in to read that

I cant find anything on the net about Apple announcements

[Simon Blackledge]

Cheers Poi ;)

hate playing the waiting game :(

Mike!????

[Bachman]

Come on Mike. Give us a glue?

Hardware or Software?

[Simon Blackledge]

why hold off buying hardware? :-/ hmmm..

[Jason Murphy]

I cant find anything on the net about Apple announcements

Trying to find anything about Apple hardware release patterns/announcements beyond general timelines or rumors is pretty darn difficult. Unless it's the much hyped launch of a major consumer product (iPhone, Leopard, etc.). But a machine to do editing on? Best you can do is figure a rough generational timeline for release cycles and work off that. Most people don't know, and the ones who do are NDA'd like you wouldn't believe.

[Bachman]

Well Mike knows something

[Michael Schrengohst]

That is one way to get people to keep visiting your website!

[Bachman]

That is one way to get people to keep visiting your website!

Yeah I can just imagine him sitting there smiling watchin his web stats go up

[Mark L. Pederson]

I'm pretty sure I know what it is. But I won't spoil the fun.

If I am correct, this is an HDforIndies annoucement ... NOT a new Apple hardware annoucement.

Think about what makes up an editing "system" ....

[Bachman]

I'm pretty sure I know what it is. But I won't spoil the fun.

If I am correct, this is an HDforIndies annoucement ... NOT a new Apple hardware annoucement.

Think about what makes up an editing "system" ....

Not the Mac, but made by Apple....so something 3rd party...Monitors?

[Ryan Manes]

Sounds to me like its a product or service from Mike Curtis not Apple. It may just include Apple Hardware and Software

[Jarred Land]

ha ha Mike's learning well...

[Kevin Lang]

What are we are a episode of Lost or something? All this secret BS is drivin me stupid!

[John Allardice]

ha ha Mike's learning well...
Speaking of which Jarred, is the update for the shipping dates going up on the RED site today, or is that gonna be next week as well?

[Sanjin Jukic]

Mike wrote: "If you've been thinking about buying a Mac edit system..."
Mike did not said A NEW MAC edit system.
So nothing connected to any known rumor about upcoming new Apple hardware.
We've got 8 core Mac Pros 2-3 weeks ago.
Have a look at Macrumors Buyers Guide

Product Mac Pro
Recommendation: Buy Now! - Product just updated *

Product MacBook Pro
Recommendation: Don't Buy - Updates soon

http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

Then Mike probably is selling ONLINE his own collection of G5s, monitors, BM and AJA stuff.
That is about a Google and PayPal account set up and it is about a list of hardware/software
and prices "announcements, plural".

[Simon Blackledge]

Floggin old gear thats certain to work as a edit station. lol..

why google and paypal in same name confused me somewhat though.. ;)

I'm not in on this honest!


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[Robert Sanders]

Probably turnkey Apple edit systems completely RAID storage (ala Promax).

[Scott Webster]

My interpretation of Mikes last post was that he is looking to go 'pay for view' with hdforindies and his first offering would be (assumption) his recommendations for an Apple based Red edit station.

[Brook Willard]

It's a PowerBook G5.

That's right.

A PowerBook G5.

[Bachman]

My interpretation of Mikes last post was that he is looking to go 'pay for view' with hdforindies and his first offering would be (assumption) his recommendations for an Apple based Red edit station.

Hell if thats all then thats a big yawn Mike. Dont scare us like that

Heres my 2 cents...

Buy a Quad or 8 core Mac, throw 8 to 16gb of ram at it. Put an extra Seagate 700gb SATA drive in it (use it for your Project Data and AE/PS scratch and leave the Primary CLEAN) Get FCS2. Get CS3 Premium. Get a Xserve Raid with Fibre Channel(expensive but worth it if your serious). Buy an AJA IO or wait and see what Blackmagic do. Only buy the monitors and card you need right now(like a couple of Dell 24's) because there will be better ones released when you REALLY need them. Im not sure on the output monitor though, probably depends on what you editing for. If its for broadcast your still need something conventional that is interlaced. Decks? Hmm nothing for input (yippee I can sell that Digi), but what and how are we outputing 4k....lots of ways probably. Mike?

[Jeff Kilgroe]

It's a PowerBook G5.

That's right.

A PowerBook G5.

Cool... I know what I'm doing next tuesday. :turned:

[Sanjin Jukic]

"Mike has got a full time gig at Red and is selling all his Macs before moving to Red HQ.
# posted by extra : Fri May 04, 06:16:00 PM CST"

Quote from HDforIndies.com at
http://www.hdforindies.com/2007/05/why-so-few-posts-of-late-new-hd-for.html

[Lucerna Studios]

Coming up in a few....

3.2Ghz at 8Core - Final Cut Pro 6.1 - Color 4k
Leopard will be the new standar platform
and by that time iphone will be known every where
and someting else is coming from apple,
something in particular but they're upgrading some parts because of the "Green Apple" Requirements.

[Lucerna Studios]

and yes! a MAC BOOK Pro Handling 4k footage very smooth.

for more info www....

[Bachman]

I wouldnt be going out and installing Leopard the day it's released unless you want trouble with all your 3rd party equipment

[Lucerna Studios]

G5 means Generation 5 and that Generation past already.

[Sanjin Jukic]

Mike on DV Magazine Cover Story, April 2007.

http://web.mac.com/mikedcurtis/iWeb/HD4NDs_Image_Galleries/DVMagazineCoverStory_files/IMG_2087.jpg

http://web.mac.com/mikedcurtis/iWeb/HD4NDs_Image_Galleries/DVMagazineCoverStory_files/IMG_2088.jpg

More at
http://web.mac.com/mikedcurtis/iWeb/HD4NDs_Image_Galleries/DVMagazineCoverStory.html

[Sanjin Jukic]

More "news" about our Mike:

http://www.adamwilt.com/HD/4cams-part2-framegrabs/TX-44-50-HD100.jpg

Mike has got a full time gig at Red and running to Red HQ. See above.

Congratulations.

[wshultz]

My bet is he's coming up with some kind of external SATA RAID. Maybe he'll use that new Magma express box (www.magma.com) so you can plug it into your laptop on set. Purely guessing here.

[Sanjin Jukic]

Mike was always running pretty fast.
We've gonna see what is going on Tuesday-Wednesday!!??

[MikeCurtis]

...and according to that picture, apparently has no chin to speak of. Or with.

[Ralph Oshiro]

I met you at NAB, you have a handsome chin.

[dalemccready]

Good to see you still running though Mike!

[wshultz]

What?! No more hints, Mike?

[WesG]

come on Mike give it up give it up

I'm now refreshing your page as much as reduser.net

!!!!!

[Jochen Schmidt-Hambrock]

...and according to that picture, apparently has no chin to speak of. Or with.

Got a case of Jay Leno envy?

[Simon Blackledge]

"Stay tuned over the next several days"

That was 4 days ago...!... c'mon! tease! ;p

[Jeremy Hughes]

I had a dream, RED had made a really big announcement of something, I forgot what it was, something mother board, I don't know. Anyway, it happened to be the same day that Mike made his announcements and nobody cared. The End.

That's my real dream by the way.

EDIT: I just remembered, Jarred said that Mike had to sell all eight of his PowerMac G5s.

[Bachman]

More "news" about our Mike:

http://www.adamwilt.com/HD/4cams-part2-framegrabs/TX-44-50-HD100.jpg

Mike has got a full time gig at Red and running to Red HQ. See above.

Congratulations.

Hell, for s s second there I though it was Ned F F Flanders

[Zack Birlew]

...and according to that picture, apparently has no chin to speak of. Or with.

Oh man, I am just rolling on the floor with this one! Hilarious!

I'm also waiting to hear what the announcements are. An 8-core Mac with Final Cut Studio 2 was sounding pretty good right now, especially now that I'll need something beefier than my little G4 Mac Mini for HDV footage from my new HV20.

BTW, Mike, I have that issue of DV but I haven't got around to reading it yet, finals are this week and all ya know.:ph34r:

[Jeremy Hughes]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=2311

Hey, Mike has an Amazon Affiliate Store.

http://astore.amazon.com/hdforindies_site-20/104-7391715-9550312

More to come.