As we have just posted our 100th podcast on fxguide.com, and this is our production blog, I figured I would give you guys some facts and figures Jimmy and I worked out before recording this week’s podcast.
This week alone we had 1 major and 6 minor shoots, - covering 35mm lens Adaptors, DOPs, dogs in parks, RED, Cocktail hour etc. We also took some time to count up just how many classes and podcasts we have done between the two sites.
Leaving aside the hundreds of stories and tips we have posted over the years we have posted (as of yesterday)
• 100 fxpodcasts
• 80 fxphDODs
• 544 unique classes* in fxphd (plus 10 bonus classes) NB: * all video, most HD.
• The first fxguide podcast was 7.1M (published Jun 27, 2005 ) with Scott Dougherty and David Lingenfelser about the company’s work on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
• Our latest fxguideTv episode is 4.5 Gig compressed to 100+ Megabyte for download.
• Since podcast 5 : The fxpodcast theme music is “Perfect Yet”, an original composition by Darrin Hanley. Hanley is an both a musician and an experienced designer, flame and AE artist. You can hear more of Daz’s music at www.manyarehere.com
• Every podcast except on (1st April 2006) had an intro by one of the founders.
• Paul Franklin has been on the most episodes (3)
• To produce these we have:
- 24 procs in the Sydney office alone
- with 18 terrabytes of storage,
- 4 video camera, 5 stills cameras and a RED One camera,
- 4 mixers,
- 7 tripods,
and some 30 microphones (8 wireless).
Thanks for all your support - we love doing this but we could not do it without you guys so to you our supporters-
Thank you!
Mike
December 2nd, 2007 at 7:11 am
It’s interesting to see how much effort and also equipment you guys put into the contents of the two sites. And you’re doing a great job on them, I hope to see many more episodes of the podcast and fxguidetv, they’re really quite informative.
Congrats on podcast 100, I’m downloading it as I type
December 20th, 2007 at 6:28 am
Yes, it would be great to see a ‘behind the scenes’ - maybe a fxguidetv episode?
December 30th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Yeah, these stats are both not suprising yet very shocking. I am not suprised given the amount of time I spend just downloading, organizing, watching and working on the classes and projects. I took five classes this term and it takes all my free time and then some to keep up. And I have the easy job. Producing all this is incredible, the lesson plan, shoot/re-shoot, edit, correction, compress and post has to be an enormous amount of work. What’s shocking is that somehow, with all that it takes to produce all these lessons, podcasts, blog posts, shoots, etc, you manage to maintain some of the highest level of quality found anywhere.
I just want to thank all of you for the extreme dedication to high quality that the entire staff of fxphd has shown this year. There have been a few slip-ups but so minor compared the value I received last year and this. Thanks and its on to 2008.