Winds from Sandy are whipping outside, though nothing like my friends are getting this up the East Coast. For those of us here in Georgia, Sandy brought a major blast of winter in the form of low 30 degree temps. So on this first evening of a lit fireplace, here’s some updates and random [...]
About a year ago I posted one of my most popular articles, “Anatomy of an Edit Suite” where I detailed everything that’s in our edit suites and why. In the interim we’ve ditched Final Cut Pro 7 in favor of Adobe Premiere Pro, added our first Dell Windows Workstation, and have strongly been considering iMacs [...]
It’s not all that often my jaw just drops, but today was the exception. Steve Modica, Corky Seeber and Alan Butler brought Small Tree Communications’ newest toy by the shop today. The all new Titanium 4, an incredible new concept in portable shared storage awesome for both in the studio and on the go [...]
Our third entry in the continuing tales of our switch from Final Cut Pro to anything else. (Catch up on Part 1 and Part 2 if you missed them) Today we’re talking Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 and the workflow we’ve developed for a current broadcast series. Before you read this, yep, it’s a [...]
Originally intended as a blog post, Creative Cow has published my latest article “A Cautionary Tale for the Final Cut Pro Switcher.” This article details our attempts to move a current series over to Avid 6, grade the series in Resolve, and how that series ended up on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 after just three [...]
I made a comment at this past week’s Atlanta Cutters meeting that surprised many of those in attendance. It was something along the lines of “I’m anticipating our Avid’s will be a one year solution to our editing workflow and then we’ll see where we are next year.” In other words, Avid meets our [...]
A few weeks ago I mused on replacing my Mac Pros with iMacs in part because of cost and in part because so much software can run incredibly well on these machines. Well NAB 2012 definitely validated that idea. iMacs dominated the show floor in South Hall running just about every software imagineable. [...]
Some quick notes from a very VERY long day, need to get some rest so I can repeat this all again tomorrow. Some of this is third hand as I spent the day enjoying the fine folks from the Small Tree Communications booth …. Opening Bell Winner In South Hall it appears that BlackMagic [...]
UPDATED WITH CORRECTED MATH. See, this is why I’m an editor, not a mathematician! If you’ve been following along the past few months, you know we’re testing a very nice Dell Workstation as we plan the immediate future of our company and what computers might replace all the Mac Pros we currently run. Since [...]
Our short and sweet blog post yesterday about switching to Avid MC6 for our broadcast work touched off a flurry of requests for yet more information on our decision. Folks want to know “what specific features did it have that the others didn’t.” “Can you break it down feature by feature, why you [...]