IBC 2023 News
The International Broadcasting Convention is this week in Amsterdam, so we have a number of new product announcements which are relevant to editors and other post professionals. First off, AJA… Read more »
Author Archives: Mike McCarthy
NAB 2023
NAB was happening in Las Vegas this week. I did not make it to last year’s event, which was the first NAB I have missed in over a decade. And… Read more »
Introduction to High Bandwidth Fiber Networking
As networking bandwidth needs increase for users processing high resolution media files, especially past 10GbE, it is pushing more and more users from copper twisted pair (Cat6, etc.) toward fiber… Read more »
GTC 2023 – New GPUs and AI Acceleration
This week was NVidia’s GTC conference, and they had a number of interesting announcements. Most relevant in the M&E space, are the new Ada Lovelace based GPUs. To accompany the… Read more »
Intel’s Sapphire Rapids is coming to Workstations
After many years without a significant update to most major workstation offerings, we are finally seeing new technology about to hit the workstation market. Intel’s recently released Sapphire Rapids server… Read more »
The GeForce 4090 is a Monster of a GPU
As the first product coming to market featuring NVidia’s new Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce 4090 graphics card has a host of new features to test out. With DLSS3 for… Read more »
NVidia’s Ada Lovelace Architecture Announced
NVidia announced their next generation of GPU architecture, named after Ada Lovelace, who is an interesting figure in early computer programming. NVidia’s newest Ada Lovelace chips have up to 18,432… Read more »
Pushing the Envelope with Premiere Pro
I have been working on a series of advanced tutorial videos I call “Pushing the Envelope with Premiere Pro.” Originally conceived as an Adobe MAX session topic, I have instead… Read more »
Professional Ampere GPUs from NVidia
NVidia has quite a long selection of professional GPUs available based on the Ampere generation chips. While this offers users finer gradations in pricing and performance, it can be more… Read more »
Boxx’s Apexx S3 – Intel’s Alder Lake Maxxed Out
I have spent the last few weeks using Boxx’s newest iteration of their Apexx S3 Workstation, and it is quite impressive. Based on Intel’s “Alder Lake” CPUs, with DDR5, it… Read more »
