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. [...]
NAB 2012 was a lot of fun for me as I was asked to appear in multiple videos and interviews throughout the event. Here’s the links in one handy dandy location. Enjoy! “Cutting It Close with Mitch Jacobson” presented by LiveStream. I’m approx. 15:10 into this video talking Post to Good Eats. The [...]
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 [...]
Folks always ask me what to see at the NAB shows each year. Obviously most of my “must sees” revolve around Post Production since that is the main focus of me business, but I do try to walk the entire show at last once to see what’s out there. If you want to find me [...]
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 [...]
If you’re contemplating moving to Windows and you own a pretty recent Mac Pro, one of the great advantages today is that most of the “Mac 3rd party hardware” also operates in a PC. This is awesome because so far it’s saved me over $2500 in new cards I would have had to purchase [...]
The title says it all. After seeing The Hunger Games yesterday, which was a very good movie, the thing that stood out for me the most was the Sound Design. There were so many opportunities for the designers to “just go loud and big” like a typical blockbuster action film (see any Michael Bay film) [...]
As part of our transitioning the facility over to Avid Media Composer 6 for broadcast work, we’re also transitioning our Mac Pros from Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to OS 10.7 (Lion). My original plan was to simply wait for OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) to come out this summer, but as MC6 was designed [...]
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 [...]