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.

Changes to this Site

So expect to see a lot more updates and changes here in the near future. Now that I am finishing up work on the feature film that has been consuming… Read more »

IBC Announcements and Other News

Besides my CS5 reviews, I haven’t posted much about new products or developments in a while. There were a number of interesting releases at IBC last week, and a few from… Read more »

CS5 Master Collection Applications

The Adobe CS5 Master Collection includes many other applications besides the video ones I reviewed in my last two posts. Although I don’t use any of these nearly as extensively… Read more »

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 »

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 »