I was fortunate enough to be invited to do a podcast with the great Richard Harrington for our thoughts on the new Final Cut Pro X and how it might come into play in our facilities. Richard is the owner of a post production facility in Washington DC so we came at this software from …
You’re looking at a photograph of Edit Suite 1 at our new facility, and it’s the one I use daily. The one question I get more than anything else is “What’s in your edit suite?” followed by “Why do you have that?” So I figured, let’s break it all down here step by step. …
Ok, I got a bunch of emails today asking to explain exactly how an Ethernet SAN works. I’ve done a full article on this in the past, but here’s a quick primer on how it works. 1 – The SAN controller computer. In our case, a Mac Pro 12 Core machine with 32GB RAM. 2 …
Today we completed the installation of the new Small Tree Ethernet SAN featuring the 48TB ST RAID II storage system. The thing that continues to blow me away about these guys is their knowledge all ALL things Mac. In particular the inner workings of the OS. One thing they did with our SAN computer was …
It was a very hot and sticky Sunday here in Atlanta today, but it was nice and cool inside the shop. A great day to install a brand new SAN. Steve Modica, Chris Duffy and I all met up bright and early at 8am to get a nice early jump on things. Turned out to …
This week we’re finally going to be upgrading our ethernet based SAN, which as most of you know is a Maxx Digital Final Share system. And of course most of you also know is that Small Tree Communications came up with “secret sauce” to make editing HD video via Ethernet a stable reality. So Final …
I’m seeing this all over the various forums, blogs and twitter feeds in one variant or another in regards to the big Final Cut Pro X reveal at the FCPUG SuperMeet in Las Vegas last Tuesday. “Hey, don’t knock down this product when it was just a SNEAK PEEK people! Sure there’s some questions out …
Yesterday was a whirlwind day. Started off early at a breakfast meeting with the top level executives of Avid and ended with the always entertaining Supermeet. Ok, maybe this year’s Supermeet was a little more entertaining than most. Let’s start with this morning. For the first time I can truly say that “Avid is listening.” …
Briefly from the Maxx Digital booth today They’re showing off a new 10 gig ethernet SAN that removes many of the issues that have slowed down this method and Apple’s Ethernet controller changes. Also we can now have one SAN that serves both super high speed needs such as 4k and the Ethernet based ProRes …
It took a very simple demo to remind me of what I’ve been missing for years. Efficiency. You all know I’ve been a staunch Final Cut Pro user going on 10 years now. I originally bought the app because quite honestly it was cheap and it was more efficient than the Media 100 system I …
On Saturday the news broke that Filmlight is releasing a full featured Baselight color correction plug in for Final Cut Pro. On their website they clearly show the plug in running on Final Cut Pro 7 but the release date is not until Fall 2011. Baselight to FCP Of course we all know now that …
So by now it’s a known fact that the FCPUG Supermeet on April 12 in Las Vegas has been abruptly taken over by Apple. Yes, it says “special presenter” on the Supermeet Website but it’s a known fact now that it will be Apple showing off the new Final Cut Pro and most likely the …