Tech With Mike First on Youtube
I have begun creating a series of technology videos on Youtube. While I have posted a few Youtube videos of my camera tests in these articles over the past few… Read more »
Category Archives: Tips & Tricks
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 »
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 »
Grounds of Freedom-A Creative Cloud Workflow
We recently released the first couple of episodes of Grounds of Freedom, an animated web series that has been in the works for over a year. Grounds of Freedom is… Read more »
Storage Info
I recently did some consulting work for Hurlbut Visuals, setting them up with a storage solution and a 10Gb network to share it with. They posted an article about the… Read more »
Editorial in 3D
In theory, stereoscopic media content can be edited exactly the same as 2D content is, when an offline-online workflow is used. This allows the editor to edit one stream in 2D,… Read more »
Editing DSLR Footage in Avid
Avid Media Composer works on a very different paradigm than either Premiere or Final Cut. This makes the application more stable than its competitors on larger projects with lots of… Read more »
Managing Footage in Tapeless Workflows
File organization has been an important aspect of media management ever since the advent of tapeless workflows. Prior to that point, any frame of footage could be identified by, and… Read more »
Downconverting High Definition to DVD
I get lots of inquiries about making regular DVDs from High Definition material. Hopefully from now on I can respond to those questions with a link to this post. There are two aspects… Read more »
