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.

AXIO 3.1 & Sony HDV

News has been a bit slow recently. The new Intel processors are not shipping in volume yet, so they have had little impact on the market. The only recent items of… Read more »

4K Is Coming/Has Arrived

Red released their image processing tools RedAlert and RedCine to the public on Wednesday. I took note, downloaded the required files, and added it to my to-do list. I was not ready to… Read more »

2K Monitoring

There are much fewer monitoring options if your workflow requires full 2K resolution monitoring. The primary reason for this is that most consumer gear and broadcast equipment all top out at 1920×1080. … Read more »

New Intel Xeon CPUs

Intel has released a major update to their Xeon family of CPUs and Chipsets. At the peak of the performance spectrum, the 5400 Harpertown series of Quad-Core Xeons will replace the previous… Read more »

HD Monitoring

There are not too many basic options when it comes to choosing an HD monitoring solution. There are the old heavy CRTs that many people swear by, newer flat panel… Read more »

Blackmagic for CS3 on OSX

I have a strong personal preference towards using Windows PCs over Macs running OSX. That said, Adobe’s release of an OSX of their CS3 suite of video products has recently brought me… Read more »

Graphics Cards-NVidia vs ATI

I have had an NVidia vs ATI article in mind for a while now, but two recent announcements have brought that topic to the top of the list. Both NVidia and ATI… Read more »

Portability-HD Acquisition

While it is clearly possible to achieve high levels of processing performance in a portable laptop solution, the major limitation will be professional level I/O. There are few simple solutions, but… Read more »

Portability-HD Editing

There has been a lot of discussion recently on the reduser.net and dvinfo.net among other places, about portable HD editing systems. Technically, almost any editing system is portable if you want to… Read more »

Premiere Pro 3.1 Update

I realize I have been remiss in not mentioning this fresh development until now. I do claim to run a technology website focused on PC post-production, primarily with Adobe products,… Read more »