Originally intended as a blog post, Creative Cow has published my latest article “A Cautionary Tale for the Final Cut Pro Switcher.” This article details our attempts to move a current series over to Avid 6, grade the series in Resolve, and how that series ended up on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 after just three …
I made a comment at this past week’s Atlanta Cutters meeting that surprised many of those in attendance. It was something along the lines of “I’m anticipating our Avid’s will be a one year solution to our editing workflow and then we’ll see where we are next year.” In other words, Avid meets our …
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 …
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 …
UPDATED 11/19/2011 at the end. As reported in some forums, if you’re trying to use DNxHD Quicktimes in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5.2 and you have an AJA Kona card installed, you might run into an issue where the playback stutters badly. There’s an easy fix for this. This is all on the 2.4Ghz …
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.
I’ve run into this issue so many times, practically on a weekly basis, so once and for all, 1080i / 60i is NOT 60fps. That is 60 frames per second. Never was, never will be, it’s just not going to happen. Let’s take a look shall we? First off, the “i” in the number. …
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 …
The blog that appears on these pages is intended to offer the points of view of BCM Principal Walter Biscardi, Jr., and some colleagues on what we see in the world of multimedia production and whatever else we feel like writing about. From the response we’ve gotten from many folks, it seems you enjoy what …