Jobs: the story of Alexey Dmitriev, Best Sommelier of Ukraine 2008 and the Russian-speaking excellent videobloggera

Today our guest is one of the most interesting people of Ukrainian Internet. He - Best Sommelier of Ukraine and the Russian-speaking videopodkaster the best I ever seen.

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What do you do in your work?

In my work it contains a mysterious profession that I often have to dictate the letters :) I - a sommelier. 6 years ago, I decided to devote his entire life guilt and everything connected with it. This chic profession. Continuous development, tasting, traveling and spending time with a lot of new and interesting people. He started with the restaurant, the last 3 years dedicated to the hotel. After I became Best Sommelier of Ukraine in 2009 year, I decided it was time to start his own wine video blog and share a passion with all who love wine and want to love him.

How does your workplace?

My workplace is divided into two parts: the hotel where I work and the house where I had almost all my free time I devote blogs:

Video blog about wine.
Blog about the life of a sommelier.
Twitter Alexey Dmitriev.

A small table covered with a poncho nouta that I brought back from Chile (another trip through the vineyards).

Places frankly is not much, but just enough for video editing. The only thing that bothers me in the Mac - it's lack thereof USB connectors on both sides. Not very convenient to connect simultaneously charging for iPhone 2G, card reader Apacer and drive WD Passport 500 GB, which is somehow very quickly filled. This is the second. Approaching the third? I think about alternative data custodians. Hats are now in Full HD video and one takes an average of 10 GB, keep the original and compressed for Web'a version. All think to release the first DVD with episodes :) Nearby is a stool with Kupa books on wine and food, which I constantly re-read and use in preparation for the next survey.

How does your workplace?

I admit at once, even 9 months ago I just renounce that I would never work with the MacBook, only PC.

I had the Acer 17 "Aspire 7250. It seems to be a good model:
AMD (2 * 2.0 GHz)
1280 NVIDIA GeForce 8600
2 GB DDR2
GB dual HDD 500

At this the laptop I mounted my first 19 episodes. Camcorder Panasonic NV-MX500 helped me, as well as program Adobe Premier Pro. I have to say, I was straining limited in time, which I sorely lacking. Record a scene on a tape (MiniDV), drain it on a laptop, search, and cut pieces. It took a lot of time, plus I was still looking for different locations, and carried with him the whole Aparatura, laid out and collected. In a word - Have fun :) And how fun it was to come home and hear that voice almost inaudible, because the village of battery, the end of the shooting. I had suffered and understood that to continue you need to radically change everything and bought the camera Canon 5d Mark IIThat takes Full HD video. To her I already had a set of lenses: Canon EF 50 F / 1.8, Canon EF 100mm f / 2.8 USM Macro and the Canon EF 24-105mm f / 4.0L IS USM. This wonderful set from previous cameras (also 5d, but without the magic consoles uncle Mark Prior :) how to become a sommelier, I wanted to be a professional photographer, I now these skills and practice on hand.

Mess waiting for me when I decided to mount an episode of Full HD quality on the Acer old. Such brakes I stand just could not bear, and became a treacherous MacBook Pro purchase plan.

Everything turned out as the girls: first, they buy red boots, and then for them yet, it turns out, you need a handbag and coat the same color :)

The first acquaintance with the "apple" comes through the iPhone 2G. Now I just do not understand why I had so long eluded him. It's brilliantly easy thing. For blogerrov and anyone who spends half his life in social networks - Must Have. Handy applications Echofon for Twitter and Facebook always at hand and yet I Proper of WordPress applicationAllowing me to moderate the comments at any time. This is important because, as the hotel I spend most of the day, and access to the fixed Internet is almost there. I check email every 30 minutes, just answer the questions, and they, even after 5 months of life blog, accumulated a lot of every day.

I matured and after buying a MacBook Pro and my joy has no limits, every day I get the most out of the speed, quietness, a pleasant kind :) And here is something to see:
2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo
6 MB shared level 2 cache
4 GB DDR3
GB HDD 500
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics processor with 512 MB of GDDR3
17-inch widescreen 1920 * 1200

Even during installation, can not do without headphones. House dress large samson CH700And in field conditions like standard small white :)

It remains the case for small - to turn the room into a studio: move the sofa to another wall, put a tripod Velbon, funny and inexpensive rack lamp 300 W, microphone Rode Videomic, check the battery charge in the chamber and forward.

My chair is transformed into the operator's seat - my wife and we start recording. Do it with the help of Mark II is very user-friendly. Immediately, you can quickly erase unwanted duplicates and easily view the footage.

What software use?

Videos take off with CompactFlash Extreme III 8 GB through Apacer and translate program MPEG Streamclip in Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) format. After this procedure, the video simply flies in Final Cut Pro and well-compressed to the Internet via DivX Converter.

Recently, I accidentally jammed the desired files and very useful to me more convenient Data Rescue 3.

So far, I edit, I opened Firefox with a bunch of useful bookmarks: Twitter, Facebook, and be sure to Gmail.

Ckazhite honest, I a little sad that I, as the last loser did not have time for 3 months to feel other programs and using a MacBook purely blogging purposes (mainly installation, email and social networks). On the other simply is not enough time :( I promise this time to finalize and pass the course the young fighter from knowledgeable makovodov :)

Is there a place in your paper work?

I need paper in two cases:

a) to evaluate the color of the wine during the tasting (white sheet just perfect).

b) half the A4, I use to take notes before you start shooting, I cover myself structure of the episode, the important points.

Is there a dream configuration?

At the moment I am happy with everything. Of course, no limit to perfection, and even more powerful processor for faster processing of video never hurts. With my noutom I'm mobile and can be removed and mounted anywhere in the world.

This played an important role in the purchase. Steep-gun microphone, like in the movies, and video coverage for Soft Boxes also in the future will be long time :) still holding on and I understand that this is not a TV transmission, and the wine video blog, where I try to share their love for guilt.