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.

Canon Cinema EOS C300

Earlier this month, Canon announced the C300 as the first product in their new Cinema EOS series, which they see as their next step in the world of digital filmmaking. They… Read more »

Avid Media Composer 6

I haven’t posted much in the last few months, because there have not been many new developments that caught my eye or piqued my curiosity. But this month we are… Read more »

Stereoscopic Finishing Process

To provide us with vision, our brain combines the two separate images from both of our eyes to create the perception of depth. Stereoscopy imitates that to create an artificial sense of… Read more »

Editorial in 3D

In theory, stereoscopic media content can be edited exactly the same as 2D content is, when an offline-online workflow is used. This allows the editor to edit one stream in 2D,… Read more »

NAB 2011

I did get a chance to check out some of the new products available at NAB. These are the things that stood out to me: Cineform’s big news was their… Read more »

NAB Coming Up Next Week

In case you hadn’t noticed the huge deluge of promotional emails over the last few days from every media company on the planet, NAB is coming up next week in Las… Read more »

Options for Stereoscopic Preview

Viewing stereoscopic media in realtime requires that the combined stream be transmitted to your display in some form. Originally this was accomplished with two independent streams going to two separate output devices,… Read more »

3D Display Technology

It seems like just about every week there is a new 3D technology being announced or released. This is due to the fact that there are so many possible ways to… Read more »

Stereoscopic Video

3D Movies have been all the rage ever since Avatar came out and made a ton of money. “3D” has risen and fallen in popularity multiple times in the past, but… Read more »

Shared SAN Storage Solutions

SANs are a hardware solution that allows multiple systems to share access to the performance and security offered by large high speed disk arrays. A single array of disks can… Read more »