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.

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 »

GTC 2020

NVidia has put on a series of conferences every year that focus on the new developments in GPU based computing. Originally these were about graphics and visualization, which were the… Read more »

Professional Workstations

Computer manufacturers charge a premium for their highest end “workstation” systems, but many people don’t fully understand what really defines a “workstation” class system from any other computer. Admittedly there… Read more »