Appendix: Murch’s Editorial Equipment List

From Walter Murch’s June 20, 2002 email to director Anthony Minghella and producers William Horberg and Ian Smith. “I have arranged the items by ‘puzzle piece’ and followed each item, where I could, with the approximate total retail purchase price in US dollars for all units itemized, and an explanation of the function of the item.”

Piece #1—FCP stations:
4-Apple G4 2x1GHz $11980—computers
2-Radeon 7000 graphics $258—graphics card to second computer monitor
4-Final Cut Pro $3996—editing software
4-Apple Cinema Tools $3996—software to keep track of 24fps in computer
4-Aurora Igniter Studio $31996—hardware/software to digitize image converting from 30fps (beta tape) to 24fps (3/2 pulldown) and playback
4-Stealth Serial port $228—9 pin machine control to control beta deck
8-Memory 512MB $1200—1 meg extra memory for RAM in each station
4-FCP key caps $480—Final Cut Pro custom keyboards
4-RS422 cables $140—cables for machine control
6-Mitsubishi 22" CRT $5094—computer monitors. Two stations (mine and Sean’s) will have two screens, and the other two stations will have one screen each.
1-Gigabit switch $1000 –to allow accelerated communication between FCP stations without going thru storage (hard drives). Important for backups.

Piece #2—Hard Drive for Media storage:
4-FibreChannel cards $6780—hardware for linking computers to data bank
1-Rorke FC 1.2TB $24000—data bank
1-Rorke FC warranty $1025—warranty
4-StudioNET VMS $3580—software for FibreChannel sharing
1-StudioNET Workgroup $1095—software for FibreChannel sharing
1-Vixel FC switch $12570—main switcher (hardware) to control media flow between four machines
6-FC SFP’s $1,110—connectors for cables
2-5 meter FC cable $260—FibreChannel cable
4-50 meter FC cable $1200—FibreChannel cable

Piece #3—Outrigger equipment:
2-32" NTSC Monitors, one for me and one for Sean
2-20" NTSC Monitor—one for each of two other stations
4-16 channel audio mixers
2-Genelec reference speaker pairs 1029A $2000
2-pairs other good but not pro speakers
1-A/V cables $2,000
4 blackburst generators
4-UPS for edit stations $800 = battery backup universal power supply to maintain power in case of blackout
1-UPS Rorke stuff $649 = battery backup for the terabyte of hard drives.
2-Beta SP decks
3-VHS decks
3-8x8 Video switchers
2-Timecode/Code number burners (from to output of Beta deck to monitor-like Avid’s but better)
2-Video Titlers
2-Video Maskers
2-DA88s—eight track digital recorders
3-Audio patch panels
Audio patch cables
3-CD players
Racks for Video and Sound Equipment
2-road cases for dubbers

Piece #4—35mm and Office supply equipment:
2-Laserjet Printers
1-Fax machine
1-”Avid table” (like Sean’s on K-19)
1-Rolling cart for digitizing station
4-desks, chairs, and lamps

Office supplies:
2-folding tables
4-full height bookcases

Film:
3-English-style benches
Racks, splits, leader, synchronizers, bins, & other standard supplies
Power rewind
Coding machine
Film Boxes—500
(WSM is shipping over splicers, Rivas and Guillotine)

Other:
Insurance for all equipment (personal items too)
Biphase Encoder for Steenbeck (for magless dailies)
Biphase Encoder for Location Projector (for magless dailies)

Items to Purchase:
Software-Media Cleaner, After Effects, Toast
4-70GB FireWire drives for transporting media files

Blank Media:
300 Beta tapes
300 VHS tapes
100 DVDs or 600 CD-R for Media backup
500 sheets of paper for color printer
500 sheets of crack&peel labels for Daily Roll boxes
1000 labels for Beta & VHS tapes