UPDATED 7/20/2012: Two more Mac Pros added. We are transitioning our hardware in the shop so we’ll have multiple computers and some other assorted hardware for sale over the coming weeks. We’ll update this blog post as equipment becomes available. All of our machines have been used in a Post Production environment and have …
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 …
There a great new article on Post Magazine’s website which you should read in its entirety. There’s some interesting statements in there about Apple’s thinking as they released and are now updating the software. Here are some of my takeaways from the article: Apple, for its part, wants it known that they are interested in …
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.
At the urging of a friend, I got back to work on these Transitioning videos as he is now jumping into the Adobe Premiere Pro application. As I’ve noted in my blogs, for the Final Cut Pro editor migrating over to Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5, the transition really could not be much easier. I …
By now most of you have heard that Apple has re-introduced Final Cut Studio 3 for sale after a lukewarm reception to Final Cut Pro X. Well, they sort of have re-introduced it. As stated in this MacRumors article, you must call the order directly in to Apple. It is not available through any standard …
Ok, so Digital Asset Management is the topic. Some of you might be thinking “well that’s not nearly as sexy as having the ‘four A’s’ on stage at the same time like you did last month.” No, quite honestly it’s not but if anything, this month is even MORE important to the stability and longevity …
NOTE: Updated to correct the cards brought for the install. As I reported a few weeks ago, Small Tree replaced our original ethernet SAN we’ve been running since December 2008 with a new system including an all new 48TB Granite Stor RAID II. I also reported that we discovered some things about the Macs that …