Premiere Pro CS5 with NVidia CUDA
While all of the Adobe applications have been updated in CS5, clearly Premiere Pro is the centerpiece of this release. Adobe has been touting the Mercury Playback Engine for months,… Read more »
Author Archives: Mike McCarthy
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Video Apps
Adobe announced CS5 at NAB 2010 and has recently begun shipping the retail version. Now in its fifth iteration, Creative Suite has grown from a compilation of four stand alone applications… Read more »
Editing DSLR Footage in Avid
Avid Media Composer works on a very different paradigm than either Premiere or Final Cut. This makes the application more stable than its competitors on larger projects with lots of… Read more »
Live from NAB 2010
So after the first two days of the show, I have finally found some time to post some info here. By far, the most revolutionary new development announced at the… Read more »
Managing Footage in Tapeless Workflows
File organization has been an important aspect of media management ever since the advent of tapeless workflows. Prior to that point, any frame of footage could be identified by, and… Read more »
24p For the Canon 5D Mark II
This week, Canon has finally released to the public the long awaited 24p firmware update for the EOS 5D Mark II. It is available for download directly from their site. So that new development dramatically simplifies… Read more »
Shooting a Feature Film on the Canon 5D
The Canon 5D MarkII was the first DSLR that offered HD video capture capability worth considering as a replacement for film. Its full sized sensor, full resolution 1080p recording, and… Read more »
Recording High-Def Video on DSLRs
Recording video with DSLR cameras has been the big new trend for a few months now, and while I have been right in the thick of those developments, I have… Read more »
Elemental Accelerator on NVIDIA Quadro GPUs
The Elemental Accelerator is a plugin for Adobe Media Encoder CS4 that harnesses the computing power of high end NVIDIA Quadro GPUs to encode video files faster. It currently supports… Read more »
Site Update
I have been experiencing some security issues on my server recently, so I updated the WordPress software that I use to publish this site for the first time ever tonight…. Read more »
