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.

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 »

NAB Wrap Up

AJA had a number of new products on display, and it seems that the new revisions fix most of the issues that I have had in the past. The Xena… Read more »

NAB Day 3

So after a busy day, spent mostly in the Cineform booth on Tuesday, I finally got a chance to continue exploring today. There are a few more products that jumped… Read more »

NAB Day 1

So after a long run of dry months, with few releases of new hardware and software, NAB has brought all sorts of new toys to the table. While I am… Read more »

GPU Acceleration in Photoshop CS4

Adobe Photoshop is one of the most ubiquitous image editing programs on the planet, used not only by photo editors, but illustrators, graphic designers, web designers, VFX artists, and many others. With… Read more »

The NVIDIA Quadro CX with Adobe’s CS4 Suite

So over the last few weeks I have had the opportunity to test the NVIDIA Quadro ® CX, a new high-end workstation class graphics card. This is basically the next generation successor… Read more »

Downconverting High Definition to DVD

I get lots of inquiries about making regular DVDs from High Definition material. Hopefully from now on I can respond to those questions with a link to this post. There are two aspects… Read more »

Adobe CS4 and NVidia Quadro CX

Adobe has just started shipping their CS4 line of products, which coincides with an announcement from NVidia, that their new Quadro CX Graphics card is optimized to accelerate CS4 via the CUDA… Read more »