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 [...]
After lots of testing and comparing, we’ve made the decision to move two original series to Avid Media Composer 6. PBS series “This American Land” is starting up Season Two next week and in about a month or so we’ll be kicking off a new original reality series. Over the past for months or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By now you’ve heard that Wes Plate has joined the Adobe Product Marketing Team. For those who might not know exactly who this guy is, he’s been “the guy” in the industry for years who has made various production tools talk to each other. And not just a simple, “move parts of my projects into [...]
CreativeCow.net has published my latest article about where the Post Production industry stands today. It’s been a few months since the Final Cut Pro 10 roll-out and we now have 1 update from Apple. So where are we today? Did Everything Change In Post? - a new article from CreativeCow.
Well, I got burned by a very large “gotcha” when exporting a project for color grading in Apple Color. The project was a 10 minute story for a broadcast series, all shot P2, 1080i / 29.97. I edited in an AJA 1080i / 29.97 timeline with all the native material. At the end of the [...]