Had a great visit from Bram and Johan yesterday to calibrate my FSI monitors and during lunch Bram explained to me a calibration policy I didn’t know about. All owners of FSI monitors can have their monitors calibrated free of charge by just shipping them back to Flanders. The owner pays shipping both ways, the …
We’re pleased to announced that the series “Science Nation” produced by Kate Tobin Productions has signed on with BCM to post another 40 episodes. The series, produced for the National Science Foundation, has been with BCM since the creation and at the end of this new contract will have produced almost 100 episodes. We’re proud …
UPDATE DOWN BELOW. THE MACHINE ARRIVED! Yes, it has finally happened. We have made our very first official purchase for the new facility. A new monitor you ask? No. A RED camera? Would be nice, but no. Well surely a new control surface for Apple Color or DaVinci? Not exactly. Yeah, it’s a popcorn machine. …
One of my favorite things about a convention like NAB is the neat stuff you find when wandering around. We all hear about the big news from the likes of Avid, Adobe, Panasonic and Canon but some of the best stuff can be found in the smaller booths.
Maybe it’s part of the “Sin” part of being Sin City but it seems like every time I return to Las Vegas for the National Association of Broadcasters, the city just gets dirtier. Particularly in the mornings when I usually like to take a walk. Broken glass, empty bottles and cans and of course thousands …
At NAB 2010 the biggest Post Production buzz, by far, was the new DaVinci Resolve software package for $995. Not only that, the software is being opened up to work with third party hardware such as AJA video boards and Tangent Wave control panels. For many facilities, such as mine, designed around Final Cut Pro …
Most of you know that we’re running an ethernet based SAN here at BCM. It’s the Maxx Digital Final Share SAN which runs a combination of their drive arrays with Small Tree ethernet wizardry and some stout Atto Host Bus Adapters. We generally get around 100 - 120MB/s to the 7 workstations that are connected …
In 2006, the National Association of Broadcasters Convention had over 108,000 attendees in Las Vegas. That dropped to 82,600 by 2009 amid cries that the big trade show is rendered useless in today’s internet connected world. All you ever need to know about your business and “what to buy” and “how to do” can be …
The 2010 National Association of Broadcasters convention had the Post Production world buzzing about the Three A’s of the industry. Apple, Adobe and Avid. Well, really more Adobe and Avid since they were actually at the show and had something to demonstrate. Adobe brought their CS5 creative suite to the show with some incredible …
Well another NAB has come and gone and it was so great to meet so many of you at the show! Always love putting a face with the names I see up on the forums and around the Twitterverse. I’ll be preparing a series of reports over the next few days on what I saw …
Moving along in our new building process, the surveyor has done his work out on the site. Makes no sense to me whatsoever, just a bunch of orange ribbons attached to stakes and trees out there. Still waiting to see his drawing, but he’s satisfied with the land and our idea for the location of …
We’re pleased to announce our first original Pilot goes into production this week. The new travel series starring Bobby Rivers and Widdi Turner will be in Atlanta and areas south of the city this week highlighting some great areas to explore. Bobby is a pop culture icon who is best known from VH-1 and “Top …