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.

Testing Dell’s Newest HDR1000 Monitor

Dell sent me their newest top-end HDR monitor to test out. The UP3221Q is an HDR1000 certified 31.5 inch UHD display, with 1000 nits of Brightness, displaying images from HDMI,… Read more »

KB Covers Overlays for the Loupedeck+ Console

It has been a year since I posted my in-depth review of the Loupedeck+ Console. One of my main issues with the unit, was that it was too difficult to… Read more »

Canon HDR Reference Displays

I was recently given the opportunity to review Canon’s DP-V3120 4K HDR display. This model is a significant step up from the HP Z31x Dreamcolor and Dell UP3218K monitors I… Read more »

Adobe MAX 2020

Adobe MAX was held online this year, just like most other annual conferences have been in 2020. It was also offered for free, a vast departure from previous years, but… Read more »

NVidia GTC Fall 2020

I usually attend GTC in San Jose during the spring, and that was interrupted this year by Covid-19. Instead, I watched a couple of sessions online, in what was most… Read more »

Professional GPUs Announced at GTC

NVidia is hosting another online GTC conference this week, to coincide with the launch of their new professional Ampere generation GPUs. These are professional variants of the chips that are… Read more »

NVidia Ampere for Creatives – GeForce 3090

NVidia is releasing an updated generation of GeForce video cards based on their new Ampere architecture. NVidia also shared a number of new software developments they have been working on…. Read more »

Seeing HDR through the AJA Kona 5

AJA’s KONA 5 I/O card has been available for two years, and is the most recent in a long line of PCI expansion cards offering professional video interfaces for a… Read more »

Premiere Pro editor’s guide to HDR workflows

The newest release of Premiere Pro 14.4 includes support for HDR editing. Technically, HDR has been supported in Premiere Pro since 2015, but only if you were using OpenEXR frame… Read more »

NAB Time Announcements

With NAB’s big convention in Las Vegas canceled this year due to Corona virus, a number of technology companies still have products to release that they would have presented to… Read more »