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.

Adobe MAX 2023 Announcements

Adobe held their annual MAX conference at the LA Convention Center this week. It was my first time back since Covid, but they did host an in-person event last year… Read more »

IBC 2023 News

The International Broadcasting Convention is this week in Amsterdam, so we have a number of new product announcements which are relevant to editors and other post professionals. First off, AJA… Read more »

NAB 2023

NAB was happening in Las Vegas this week. I did not make it to last year’s event, which was the first NAB I have missed in over a decade. And… Read more »

Introduction to High Bandwidth Fiber Networking

As networking bandwidth needs increase for users processing high resolution media files, especially past 10GbE, it is pushing more and more users from copper twisted pair (Cat6, etc.) toward fiber… Read more »

GTC 2023 – New GPUs and AI Acceleration

This week was NVidia’s GTC conference, and they had a number of interesting announcements. Most relevant in the M&E space, are the new Ada Lovelace based GPUs. To accompany the… Read more »

Intel’s Sapphire Rapids is coming to Workstations

After many years without a significant update to most major workstation offerings, we are finally seeing new technology about to hit the workstation market. Intel’s recently released Sapphire Rapids server… Read more »

The GeForce 4090 is a Monster of a GPU

As the first product coming to market featuring NVidia’s new Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce 4090 graphics card has a host of new features to test out. With DLSS3 for… Read more »

NVidia’s Ada Lovelace Architecture Announced

NVidia announced their next generation of GPU architecture, named after Ada Lovelace, who is an interesting figure in early computer programming. NVidia’s newest Ada Lovelace chips have up to 18,432… Read more »

Pushing the Envelope with Premiere Pro

I have been working on a series of advanced tutorial videos I call “Pushing the Envelope with Premiere Pro.” Originally conceived as an Adobe MAX session topic, I have instead… Read more »

Professional Ampere GPUs from NVidia

NVidia has quite a long selection of professional GPUs available based on the Ampere generation chips. While this offers users finer gradations in pricing and performance, it can be more… Read more »