Tech With Mike First on Youtube
I have begun creating a series of technology videos on Youtube. While I have posted a few Youtube videos of my camera tests in these articles over the past few… Read more »
Category Archives: Workflow Ideas
NVidia GTC Fall 2020
I usually attend GTC in San Jose during the spring, and that was interrupted this year by Covid-19. Instead, I watched a couple of sessions online, in what was most… Read more »
Seeing HDR through the AJA Kona 5
AJA’s KONA 5 I/O card has been available for two years, and is the most recent in a long line of PCI expansion cards offering professional video interfaces for a… Read more »
Premiere Pro editor’s guide to HDR workflows
The newest release of Premiere Pro 14.4 includes support for HDR editing. Technically, HDR has been supported in Premiere Pro since 2015, but only if you were using OpenEXR frame… Read more »
Adobe Premiere Productions
Adobe announced a new set of features coming to their NLE Premiere Pro today. They now support “Productions” within Premiere, which allow easier management of sets of projects being shared… Read more »
New Options for Making DCPs
I wrote an in late 2017 about DCP creation options, in an Adobe environment. One of the options I examined has released a new update that changes the equation rather… Read more »
Data Storage for Video Projects
This topic has come up a lot recently, so it is time for a post dedicated to the basics of data storage for video projects. Storage is the concept of… Read more »
Grounds of Freedom-A Creative Cloud Workflow
We recently released the first couple of episodes of Grounds of Freedom, an animated web series that has been in the works for over a year. Grounds of Freedom is… Read more »
Everything You Need to Know About LTFS
LTO stands for Linear Tape Open, and was initially developed nearly twenty years ago. It records any digital files onto half inch magnetic tapes, stored in square single reel cartridges. … Read more »
Efficient DCP Creation Options
We made a lot of DCPs for my most recent film project 6Below. These included the final ones that were delivered to Deluxe and the theaters at release. Creating DCPs… Read more »
