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.

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.

Using my HP ZBook X2

The HP Z-Book X2 is not your average mobile workstation. With its detachable keyboard, integrated kickstand, and EMR pen support, it is designed to be the ideal artistic tool for… Read more »

The Razer Blade with GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

I am always looking for the most powerful tools in the smallest packages, so the Razer Blade 15″ laptop with a GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q was worth checking out. The… Read more »

NAB 2019

I have been to NAB for the last twelve straight years, and it looked like I would break my streak this year, being booked on a travel job through the… Read more »

Loupedeck+ Initial Impressions

I am testing out and reviewing the Loupedeck+ edit controller in the Adobe Creative Cloud apps. This article is Part 1 of 2, where I talk about my initial reactions… Read more »

HP ZBook Studio x360 Mobile Workstation

I have had the opportunity to test out HP’s newest mobile workstation over the last few weeks, the ZBook Studio x360. HP’s ZBook mobile workstation division has really been thinking… Read more »

New Codec and Workflow Options Announced

There were two announcements this week that will impact post-production workflows. The first was Wednesday night’s celebration of the launch of Red’s new SDK, which leverages NVidia’s GPU accelerated CUDA… Read more »

AMDs New RadeonPro WX8200 GPU

AMD has recently released a new high end professional GPU as part of their RadeonPro line. The RadeonPro WX8200 is based on the Vega architecture, with 3584 compute cores accessing 8GB… Read more »

eGPUs-Sonnet Breakaway Box

Graphics Performance Versus Portability As a laptop user, and a fan of graphics performance, I have always had to weigh the balance between performance and portability when selecting a system,… Read more »