This Avid Media Composer 8000 (serial #9374) was bought from AVID Sweden at the beginning of 1994 (last 'Upgrade' was made in 1996). This MC contains :
- Apple Macintosh Quadra 950/33MHz/RAM64Mb/HDD1Gb + PPC-upgrade (PDS-66 with IBM PPC601FD-A66-1PQ)
- Standard Apple Keyboard and
- Standard Apple Mouse
- Two Mitsubishi HC3925ETKL Professional Multysystem Monitors
- ABVB (AVID Broadcast Video Board) - a NuBus-version of the Truevision TARGA 2000 Video Capture board with 'AVID MADRIL' SMPTE-realtime effects daughter-board
- AVID Advanced JPEG Board - a hardware's AVR-codec board
- Atto Silicon Express IV - a SCSI-2 Controller-Accelerator board with RAID-0 stripe capability
- Digidesign SA4 - an Audio Interface enhancement board
- Digidesign PRO Tools SA4 - a 4-channels' Audio Interface in the 19"-rack's unit
- Digidesign PRO Tools VSD - a Video Slave Driver
- Videomedia VLan-VLX - an Enhanced V-Lan Module
- AVID Single Deck Video Switch
- Grass Valley Group M911 and M912 in the MAX-900 chassis - a Colour Difference to RGB and backward Translators
- Sigma Electronics Inc. BSG-2141 + VDA-2106A - a Black Burst Generator + Amplifier-Distributer
- Two AVID Hard Disk Drives 3 GB
- Four AVID Hard Disk Drives 9 GB
Besides that, 'The Nonlinear Editing/Compositing Suite' is equiped with the following :
- SONY PVW-2800P - a BetacanSP Video Cassette Recorder
- SONY PVM-1454QM - a Professional Video Monitor
- Panasonic NV-HD650 - a VHS Video Cassette Recorder with a SVHS-reader
- Yamaha CDX-590 - a CD Audio Player
- ELECTRONICS 4CH-PROF - a 4-channels Reel-to-Reel (38.1; 19.05 and 9.53 sm/sec) Audio Deck
- Alesis Quadraverb 2.0 - a Dual-channel Octal Processing Master Audio Effects
- DOD 1642 - an Audio Mixer
- AB International AB-200 - an Audio Power-Amplifier
- Boston HD5v - a pair of Loudspeakers
- SONY MDR-CD370 - Dynamic Stereo Headphones
- Hewlett Packard Sure Store 6020 - a CD-R Disk Recorder
- Iomega ZIP-100 - a ZIP-disk Drive
- Mustek MFS-12000CX - a Flatbed Scanner with Transparency Adapter
There are some specialized devices in 'The Nonlinear Editing/Compositing Suite' which were made by Igor Lipski :
- RS 422 switchboard of signals with special configuration for BetacamSP Video Recorders/Players control.
- Audio signals switchboard with special configuration for the routine change of Audio signals scheme of Apparatus Room of Nonlinear Editing ('The Nonlinear Editing/Compositing Suite').
- Additional Chassis to the computer Apple Macintosh Quadra 950 what gives the possibility to use removable storages and effectively share Media-data between the Avid MC system and computers of Video-graphics and Design Apparatus Room.
- System of loudspeaking communication "Editing Apparatus Room" - "Shooting Pavilion" with additional units of automatic announcement ('Tally Light') like "Silence, please! Shooting is on!". It is made by Igor Lipski.
This Page was created in April 1999 by Igor Lipski, for more details welcome to his private site!
