Seeking Interns
If you reside in the Southern California area and have a strong interest in the topics discussed on this site, I may have an opportunity for you. My primary employer,… Read more »
Author Archives: Mike McCarthy
Things are Busy, News is Slow
Nothing overhelmingly interesting has been released recently. Everyone must be saving up the good news for NAB or something. I have been keeping busy, so I haven’t had time to run… Read more »
New Workstation
After much searching and waiting, I finally got myself a new workstation to replace my Precision 670. I now have a maxed out XW8400: Dual 3.0 Ghz 5365 Clovertown Intel Xeon… Read more »
CES News
It has been awhile, but not much worth noting has taken place recently. Bits of news have been filtering out from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. … Read more »
2K Cineform 444
While Cineform’s initial products were developed for broadcast-level HD 10bit 4:2:2 YUV editing, they have added many other features to their compression format, many of which I have had the opportunity to take advantage of… Read more »
XDCam Format Updates
Sony has been moving forward with a number of significant developments in their XDCam line of products. Two of the three new variations of the XDCam line that were announced back in April at… Read more »
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 »