Apple iMacs As I noted in my previous blog, the iMacs are fast becoming my machine of choice and the newest models are even more impressive than the two we have running. At this time, barring any major announcement from Apple that changes my mind, my plan is to replace the remaining 3 Mac [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
August 2, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (BUFORD, GA) BISCARDI CREATIVE MEDIA signs blanket music licensing deal with Warner-Chappell. Biscardi Creative Media (BCM) announces today the addition of the Warner-Chappell music library to our toolbox. The most significant element of the deal is a blanket license that allows BCM to charge one flat rate fee [...]
UPDATED: 6/25: VTR success and Workstations at the bottom. A continuation on my “Cautionary Tales of an FCP Switcher.” Getting Caught Up on our Series As mentioned at the end of the original article, we moved our PBS series over the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with the reasoning that if we had to flatten a [...]
Creative Cow has published my latest product review of the ProMAX ONE Hero custom desktop workstation. For those of you in the market for a new Windows based workstation, this machine definitely warrants a look. Read the Review here.
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 [...]