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Walter Biscardi

Biscardi Creative seeking Freelancers in Atlanta / Gwinnett County

Biscardi Creative Media Seeks Local Freelancers in the Atlanta / Gwinnett Area Biscardi Creative Media is currently seeking multiple people to for freelance production positions at our facility. It’s possible that some may lead to a full-time position in the future. We are seeking a range of positions, however in particular we are looking for [...]

It’s not a Mac - Windows Testing Part 2A

This is just a quick update than full blown testing, hence the “Part 2A” title instead of Part 3. I left the Dell running all Monday night and it finally downloaded the Adobe Production Premium CS 5.5 package. Installation went fine, then installation of the AJA Kona LHi drivers and the AJA Adobe CS 5.5 [...]

It’s not a Mac, Our Windows Testing - Part 2

UPDATED 3/12 with pricing information. Well today, I cracked open the boxes on our new Dell Workstation. If you missed Part 1 with the backstory and disclosure, you can catch up here. As noted yesterday, the machine and monitor provided by Dell are ours to keep, however, there are no rules on what I [...]

“That doesn’t look like a Mac” (hint, it isn’t)

Two boxes showed up today and one of my employees says, “That doesn’t look like a Mac.” Nope, that’s a long way from a Mac. That’s a brand new Dell Precision workstation featuring an nVidia Quadro card. I’ll post the full details on the workstation once I get it out of the box [...]

Apple OS X “Mountain Lion” coming this summer

Apple has recently announced that a new OS is already on the horizon for the Mac, OS X Mountain Lion. If you watch the overview video on the website, it does a nice job of presenting the basic features of the OS and how it draws a lot of features from the iOS devices. [...]

BCM to go with an Adobe / Avid combination for Post

After months of testing, playing, discussing, testing, playing, and then discussing some more, we’ve decided that Biscardi Creative Media will support both Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid Media Composer workflows moving forward. What we found as we went through the testing is that there are positives and negatives to both systems so it’s really hard [...]

Thank You Dan Desmet

I remember the very first time I spoke with Dan Desmet. Id never met him, but the voice was so familiar and I just couldn’t place it. And then I remembered, the scientist from Lilo and Stitch. Dan could have easily been the voice actor for that role. Especially since he was talking a lot [...]

For now, editing is a commodity and less a craft

As has been reported recently, CNN laid off 50 staffers, primarily videographers and editors. Why? Essentially after a three year internal review, CNN has determined that professional editors are not necessary to craft news stories any longer. Instead they are expanding their iReport section allowing for more user generated content to be [...]

Fix to DNxHD Quicktime stuttering in Premiere Pro CS 5.5.2

UPDATED 11/19/2011 at the end. As reported in some forums, if you’re trying to use DNxHD Quicktimes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5.2 and you have an AJA Kona card installed, you might run into an issue where the playback stutters badly. There’s an easy fix for this. This is all on the 2.4Ghz [...]

BCM Celebrates a Wedding with Bowling!

I’m sure most people would throw a nice bridal shower, take the happy couple out to dinner, maybe do a cookout to celebrate an upcoming wedding of a good friend. That’s now how we roll at BCM. For us it’s Pizza and Bowling. The All American combination! And hey, we got these super [...]