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He adds: “To have the freedom to do this without having to quit other apps has greatly improved our productivity. It’s my ideal way of working — a perfect combination of pattern sequencing, linear sequencing and live instrumentation.“Working with a system that gives you virtually zero latency on recordings has been a godsend. With previous incarnations of these digital recording systems, I often found myself monitoring just the input, or splitting signals, or having no monitoring at all. I’m also loving the speed of FireWire 2 — it’s lightning fast”. These techniques and technologies were used to great effect recently on the launch of FCUK FM in April 2004. The company’s third director, Ian Taylor, explains: “Ollie came up with the idea and went along to see French Connection. They just ran with it”. Delicious was responsible for the concept, creation and project management of FCUK FM. It set out to create what it termed an “anti-jingle” package for the station, plus all the audio for the FCUK FM Web site, including sound effects and music.  Delicious added a video element to their portfolio in 2003, when Carl Fospero, former bureau chief of GMTV in New York, joined the company. As Ollie Raphael explains: “Carl’s input represents another natural extension for Delicious. It seemed logical to be able to provide pictures to go with the sound”.In the video suite, Fospero uses a dual 1GHz Power Mac G4 with a 17-inch Apple Studio Display and a 17-inch PowerBook G4 for remote edits and music. The bulk of the video editing takes place in Final Cut Pro 4, while DVD authoring is handled by DVD Studio Pro 3; Fospero uses Pro Tools if music editing is required. Fospero says of Final Cut Pro: “The software offers many options for transitions, filters and colour correction, and the open architecture of Mac OS X allows for an endless stream of third-party plug-ins. I’m a great fan of FCP’s active/reactive timeline as well”.
Fospero has also found DVD Studio Pro an extremely useful tool in the editing suite. He says: “We can assemble a DVD however we like, and drag-and-drop options have cut the learning curve considerably. When we’re ready to burn, DVD Studio Pro also handles the MPEG-2 encoding. Really friendly stuff”. Raphael concludes: “Using those programs in conjunction with reliable, powerful machines is the way to be able to provide a high-quality service to your clients. Rather than our computer systems just being something we use for our business, they’re an integral part of it. For us, the Mac is part of the development of our business”. |
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