Author Archives: Mike McCarthy

About Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy is a technology consultant, with extensive experience in the film post-production industry. He started posting technology info and analysis at HD4PC in 2007. He broadened his focus with TechWithMikeFirst ten years later.

GoPro Hero6 and Fusion Camera Launch

I had the opportunity to attend GoPro’s launch event in San Francisco on Thursday for their new Hero6 and Fusion cameras. The Hero6 is the next logical step in their… Read more »

Editing 360 Video in VR

In the previous post we have looked at the process of shooting 360 video, and getting it processed into a single stitched equirectangular file. Now we will look at what… Read more »

Samsung Gear 360 (2016 Model)

The first step in creating 360 videos, is recording with a 360 degree camera systems. These currently range in price from $100 to hundreds of thousands. Most of the basic… Read more »

Virtual Reality and 360 Video

VR headsets have been available for over a year now, and more content is constantly being developed for them. We should expect that rate to increase as new headset models… Read more »

Lenovo ThinkPad P71 Mobile Workstation

Lenovo was nice enough to send me their newest VR-Enabled mobile workstation to test out on a VR workflow project I am doing. The new Thinkpad P71 is a beast… Read more »

GTC 2017

I once again got the opportunity to attend NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference or GTC in San Jose last week. The event has become much more focused on AI supercomputing and… Read more »

NAB 2017

I did make it to NAB this year, but haven’t had a chance to post since I got back a week ago. HDR and 360 video are where the main… Read more »

Dell Precision 7910 Tower Workstation Review

While I started out my career on Dell Precision Workstations when I was in college, I have spent the last ten years with HP Workstations under my desk. They have… Read more »

Windows ProRes Encoding

ProRes is a Quicktime codec that was first released in 2007. It uses DCT based compression to store 10bit 422 HD video data in an efficient format. It was basically Apple’s… Read more »

New Pascal based Quadro GPUs

NVidia announced a number of new professional graphic cards today, filling out their entire Quadro lineup with models based on their newest Pascal architecture. At the absolute top end, there is… Read more »