Here is a few notes about what I’m using to make my films. Of course, some equipment such as lights varies between productions, and not all of this equipment is just in every film.

For shooting my films I use an HDV camcorder from Sony, called the Sony HDR-FX1, which under the right conditions can produce some pretty amazing looking images. Often when I film I set it to be just a tiny bit, oversaturated, giving me more control over colours when grading the footage in post-production.

For stabilizing the image, I use a basic Velbon tripod. I’m not really a big fan of shooting stuff on a tripod, so I havn’t really gone out of my way to get something more professional. It gets the job done, but can be a bit hard to work with when doing some difficult pans. Looking into getting a new tripod at least within a few months - when/if I buy one I’ll update this page to reflect this. For some, but not all, handheld shots I use a Glidecam 4000 Pro, which basically is a simplified Steadycam that really helps when you’re trying to give your footage a professional look.

For lighting my films I use a variety of different things. Everything from simple coloured high-wattage lightbulbs to cheap strong halogen-based working lights. I have a variety of different light effects at my disposal too, everything from flickering lightbulbs to a pretty strong stroboscope light.

I edit my films on my new Mac Pro from Apple, with 2x 3GhZ Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors and 4 GBs of RAM. In total I’ve got around 3 TB of hard drive storage (around 1,5 TB is on usb-connected external harddrives from LaCie), but as I often render in various uncompressed formats, this space can get filled quite quickly. I use a 24″ Samsung SyncMaster 245B as my main display, and a 2.0 Creative Gigaworks T20 speaker setup.

I edit my films using the invaluable Final Cut Studio 2 package from Apple. Effects are done using either Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects FXhome VisionLab Studio or Apple Shake 4.1. I edit photos in Photoshop, and retouch them and stylize them in Adobe Lightroom 2.0.