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, [...]
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. A CLASSIC [...]
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 announcements. [...]
When Apple switched to Intel processors and the PCIe internal architecture it only made sense that sooner or later we’ll start to see cross platform cards that can work in either a Mac or a PC. Now AJA makes that a reality.
Effective immediately, the AJA Kona lineup is now cross platform and will ship with [...]
UPDATE: Ok, ok, I was confusing Match Framing with Reveal Master Clip. As Shane Ross reminded me, Match Frame has always worked across projects. It’s Reveal Master Clip that does not work, and still doesn’t work with Final Cut Pro…..
Without even realizing it, I’ve been doing something that supposedly we could not do with Final [...]
Ok so the “official 18% grey paint” is something like $80 per quart and up. Thanks to this tip from Dan Desmet at Flanders Scientific, here’s a really REALLY close knock off of that color for a lot less.
You want Sherwin Williams SW 7071 color.
The one to get is Duration Home, [...]
Recently a thread in the Creative Cow Apple Color forum had somebody remark that if you’re delivering to the “Big Boys” such as Discovery and PBS you really should have external scopes in your shop. It’s also been suggested that external legalizer boxes really should be used as well when delivering [...]
I see posts on the Creative Cow weekly and I receive a lot of requests to help folks configure an editing system to meet their needs. Honestly, all one needs to do is find a good, reputable Value Added Reseller. There’s two primary reasons for this.
One - This is what they do, they configure systems [...]