Filmmaking Gear | Bare Bones Killer Production Kit

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Feb 14, 2013
great starter-kit for filmmakers 
by: Desktop Documentaries 

Thanks Peter for sharing with us your equipment list. Looks like you're off to a great start. We're especially intrigued by your "Hackintosh" tower. How does that work exactly? Would you recommend it to other filmmakers?

Feb 14, 2013
RE: great starter-kit for filmmakers 
by: Peter B 

Thanks, the kit has taken a couple years to build, kind of have to go slow when your a college student. A hackintosh is a PC that is built with parts compatible with Mac OSX, basically you trick your PC into thinking that it is a Mac using a special boot loader. 

There are lots of things that can go wrong and it is easy to get frustrated if you don't know any linux commands. It took me a couple days to figure out my kernel panic problem in the very beginning. 

To me it was worth the hassle because I prefer OSX to windows and it allowed me to build a "Mac" that is twice as fast as the baseline Mac Pro for a fraction of the price. I call mine the "Hac Pro." 

I would recommend the hackintosh for the truly adventurous, because if your not a little bit of a geek you can get really frustrated. But then again, if you just buy the parts from the guide (I used the guide on nofilmschool.com) you don't have to make it a hackintosh, you can make yourself a really fast windows machine if you wanted.