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.

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 »

Storage-Interfaces

Well now that we have established the idea that SATA drives are usually the ideal choice, we have to deal with the next logical question: How should we go about connecting… Read more »

Storage-Hard Drives

There are many different issues that need to be taken into consideration when evaluating data storage options for post-production. Cost is a primary factor to consider, since without that issue,… Read more »

Offline/Online Paradigm

There are those out there, primarily DV and HDV shooter/editors that don’t understand the fundamental concepts of the offline/online process for high resolution post-production. This used to be required for… Read more »

Silicon Imaging SI-2K Camera

The Silicon Imaging SI-2K is a single sensor CMOS camera that mimics 16mm film camera optics. It uses a bayer pattern to derive RGB images from a single native 2048×1152… Read more »