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.

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 »

Adobe Premiere Productions

Adobe announced a new set of features coming to their NLE Premiere Pro today. They now support “Productions” within Premiere, which allow easier management of sets of projects being shared… Read more »

Apple Making Real Computers Again: The Mac Pro

It has been 7 years since Apple released a computer with PCIe slots, and therefore the ability to customize or upgrade core components, like the GPU, which is half of… Read more »

Adobe MAX 2019

I had the opportunity to attend Adobe’s MAX conference at the LA Convention Center this week. Adobe showed me and 15K of my closest friends the newest updates to pretty… Read more »

Using the LoupeDeck+ Effectively

It has been a year since Loupedeck first announced support for Premiere Pro and After Effects with their Loupedeck+ hardware interface panel, originally designed for Lightroom users. I had seen… Read more »

System Review: Boxx Apexx A3

The new BOXX APEXX A3 workstation is based on AMD’s newest Ryzen CPUs, and the X570 chipset. BOXX has taken these, added liquid CPU cooling, professional GPUs, and a compact… Read more »

New Options for Making DCPs

I wrote an in late 2017 about DCP creation options, in an Adobe environment. One of the options I examined has released a new update that changes the equation rather… Read more »

Massive Editing Storage on a Low Budget

This year, I oversaw the editing process for a large international film production. This involved setting up a collaborative editing facility at the director’s home, and there was a lot… Read more »

Computex 2019 Announcements

A number of new technologies and products were just announced at this year’s Computex event in Taiwan. This focuses on the ones that seem relevant to media creation professionals.