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Workflow Update: iMac, Adobe, and the “X” Factor

Apple iMacs As I noted in my previous blog, the iMacs are fast becoming my machine of choice and the newest models are even more impressive than the two we have running. At this time, barring any major announcement from Apple that changes my mind, my plan is to replace the remaining 3 Mac [...]

Small Tree amps up portable shared storage

It’s not all that often my jaw just drops, but today was the exception. Steve Modica, Corky Seeber and Alan Butler brought Small Tree Communications’ newest toy by the shop today. The all new Titanium 4, an incredible new concept in portable shared storage awesome for both in the studio and on the go [...]

Continuing Tales of an FCP Switcher

UPDATED: 6/25: VTR success and Workstations at the bottom. A continuation on my “Cautionary Tales of an FCP Switcher.” Getting Caught Up on our Series As mentioned at the end of the original article, we moved our PBS series over the Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 with the reasoning that if we had to flatten a [...]

Forget the Future, Plan for Now.

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 [...]

iMacs to replace desktops, moving closer.

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. [...]