All of a sudden we’re creating a whole lotta BluRay discs these days. NTSC and PAL for screenings all over the world. Sounds like many film festivals are now accepting BluRay discs as a playback format and of course, it’s a lot cheaper to do one of these than an HDCAM tape. So we’re in [...]
So last week I had the opportunity to go visit the guys at Flanders Scientific. A few weeks ago I noted that there is a hardware update for folks like me who own the LM-2450W monitor. This monitor was discontinued last year, but FSI has done something I’ve never heard of before from any company. [...]
We’re setting up CatDV as our new media database and part of that, I wanted to utilize an older MaxxDigital 2 drive array that only has eSATA connections. We’re hooking up to a 21″ iMac which has no eSATA connectivity so we started looking around for some sort of adapters. We found a spiffy hub [...]
We’re based in the U.S. so naturally the majority of our work is produced and finished in the NTSC standard. But sometimes we get requests to finish and even produce projects in the PAL standard for European distribution. There are several ways to do this, with software or hardware.
So I got an email from Apple yesterday telling me that my iPhone 4 would arrive June 23, one day earlier than expected. Checking my FedEx tracking it still said June 24 so I really didn’t believe it. But lo and behold, the FedEx truck left a nice package with my wife today that I [...]
Note: part of this entry appeared previously as a blog on the creativecow.net website. Let’s just say my opinions have been changed….. Why did I purchase this? I took delivery of the 16GB Wi-Fi Apple iPad in April. No, I did not wait in line, I took the leisurely deliver it to my front door method. I [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]