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Using iMacs to replace Desktop Workstations. A consideration.

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 [...]

The right way to switch your OS

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

BCM Celebrates a Wedding with Bowling!

I’m sure most people would throw a nice bridal shower, take the happy couple out to dinner, maybe do a cookout to celebrate an upcoming wedding of a good friend.   That’s now how we roll at BCM.   For us it’s Pizza and Bowling.  The All American combination! And hey, we got these super [...]

BCM Construction Day 166: Kitchen and painting

We’re really headed to the homestretch with another weekend of painting.  The kitchen / gameroom is really starting to come together! Vanna White (Rebecca) presents the kitchen / gameroom.  Cabinets are in place, ceiling is painted, lighting and fans are in, dishwasher is ready for installation and the fridge is in place. Other side of [...]

BCM Construction Update Days 143-160

Did not realize just how long we’ve gone without an update.  A lot of the interior finish work has been moving right along and we have a lot of photos to share so let’s get right to it! NOVEMBER 21 Long time Colorist and good friend Ron Anderson pitches in on the painting.   Putting in [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 142: Floors and ceilings start!

Today was a whirlwind of activity at the building.  Flooring crew, ceiling crew and doors!  Man, stay away for a few hours and the whole place changes! Stack of doors ready for installation.  French doors, solid doors, double doors, we pretty much have one of everything…. Ceiling grid installed in the Media Library.  We’ll have [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 140: Painting and parking lot

We went into the building on Saturday to do some of the detail painting and found a completed parking lot!  Finally, we can stop walking through mud and dirt to get into the building.   Landscaping came out fantastic too.  It’s a good base to get us started and we’ll definitely be modifying it as we [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 139: Parking Lot and Landscaping

Major changes outside today.   From morning to afternoon the exterior took on a major change….. 8:30am, prepping the parking lot, smoothing and grading everything properly. Looking further to the left, dump truck taking away some of the extra dirt left over in the parking lot. 8:30am working the hill in back of the building.  Prepping [...]