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.

6K Editing Hardware and Performance

In setting up the post-production “ecosystem” for 6Below, the first step was to figure out how much storage we would need, to keep all of the 6K footage online. Unlike… Read more »

6Below Editing Workflow

I have been working on a project currently titled 6Below, which is the first full length feature film to be created in the Barco Escape Format. Escape is three adjacent 2K projections, so… Read more »

Barco Escape

There are a number of proprietary theatrical formats that have been released over the last few years, to get people back into theaters, and away from their 4K BluRay players… Read more »

Welcome to the new Tech With Mike First

I am relaunching my technology site with a new brand and domain: techwithmikefirst.com. After nine years of posting my articles on HD4PC.com, it is time for a change. The identity… Read more »

IBC 2016 News

There have been a number of interesting announcements at IBC this last week. Adobe has announced a slew of improvements to the various apps available on Creative Cloud. The most… Read more »

Graphics News

Since GTC, NVidia has been rolling out a new Pascal based card every month, starting with the GTX1080, followed by the reduced 1070 and 1060, and then topped by the… Read more »

NAB 2016 Wrapup

We see ourselves in a place where UHD has become pretty ubiquitous, and can be recorded and viewed on a cell phone. So the natural question is: what next? One… Read more »

NAB 2016 Announcements

NAB opens this morning, and as usual, there are all sorts of new announcements to sort through. First off, HP announced a significant change to their Z1 All-In-One workstation. The… Read more »

GTC 2016

Last week I attended NVidia’s GTC conference in San Jose. I wrote an article about the event for Post Perspective, which can be found here: http://postperspective.com/nvidias-gtc-2016-vr-ai-and-self-driving-cars-oh-my/ Looking forward to heading to… Read more »

The Value of Freedom

I am planning to direct and produce a documentary on freedom. It will present freedom as the opportunity to experience the natural results of your own decisions, and make the… Read more »