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Looking Ahead at NAB 2013

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Some Random Thoughts Before NAB 2013 Opens Coming to you from 36,000 feet over these fine United States as we jet from the home of this year’s Final Four Championship to Sin City. I figured this was a good a time as any to share my thoughts for this year’s annual love fest for all …

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April 6, 2013 walter biscardi Leave a comment

Because you asked… More on our Switch to Avid MC6

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 …

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March 27, 2012 walter biscardi 13 Comments

Moving 2nd season and a new series to Avid Media Composer 6

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 …

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March 27, 2012 walter biscardi Leave a comment

It’s not a Mac – Windows Testing Part 2A

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 …

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March 14, 2012 walter biscardi 9 Comments

It’s not a Mac, Our Windows Testing – Part 2

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 …

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March 12, 2012 walter biscardi 12 Comments

“That doesn’t look like a Mac” (hint, it isn’t)

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 …

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March 10, 2012 walter biscardi 5 Comments

BCM to go with an Adobe / Avid combination for Post

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 …

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January 12, 2012 walter biscardi 4 Comments

For now, editing is a commodity and less a craft

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 …

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December 1, 2011 walter biscardi 19 Comments

Wes Plate joining Adobe a very big move

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 …

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September 28, 2011 walter biscardi Leave a comment

Did Everything Change In Post? – My latest article

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.

September 22, 2011 walter biscardi Leave a comment

Transitioning: BIG Premiere Pro Interlace “Gotcha!” on Export

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 …

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September 13, 2011 walter biscardi 3 Comments

Transitioning: FCP to Premiere Pro “Gotchas” Part 1

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 …

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September 11, 2011 walter biscardi 31 Comments

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