Author Archives: Mike McCarthy

About Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy is a technology consultant, with extensive experience in the film post-production industry. He started posting technology info and analysis at HD4PC in 2007. He broadened his focus with TechWithMikeFirst ten years later.

Dell’s 8K LCD Monitor

Dell’s UP3218K LCD Display is the first commercially available 8K display. It runs 7680×4320 pixels at 60fps driven by two DisplayPort 1.4 cables. That is over 33 million pixels per… Read more »

GoPro Fusion 360 Camera

I finally got the opportunity to try out the Fusion camera I have had my eye on since GoPro first revealed it in April. The $700 camera uses two offset… Read more »

Adobe Adds Shared Projects to Premiere Pro

Adobe kicked off their Adobe Max conference with the release of their next major update to the video apps available in Creative Cloud. Most of the new features were publicly… Read more »

6Below Premiere Release

The movie I have been working on for the last two years, “6Below: Miracle on the Mountain” will be out in theaters this week. Fathom Events is releasing it in… Read more »

GoPro Hero6 and Fusion Camera Launch

I had the opportunity to attend GoPro’s launch event in San Francisco on Thursday for their new Hero6 and Fusion cameras. The Hero6 is the next logical step in their… Read more »

Editing 360 Video in VR

In the previous post we have looked at the process of shooting 360 video, and getting it processed into a single stitched equirectangular file. Now we will look at what… Read more »

Samsung Gear 360 (2016 Model)

The first step in creating 360 videos, is recording with a 360 degree camera systems. These currently range in price from $100 to hundreds of thousands. Most of the basic… Read more »

Virtual Reality and 360 Video

VR headsets have been available for over a year now, and more content is constantly being developed for them. We should expect that rate to increase as new headset models… Read more »

Lenovo ThinkPad P71 Mobile Workstation

Lenovo was nice enough to send me their newest VR-Enabled mobile workstation to test out on a VR workflow project I am doing. The new Thinkpad P71 is a beast… Read more »

GTC 2017

I once again got the opportunity to attend NVidia’s GPU Technology Conference or GTC in San Jose last week. The event has become much more focused on AI supercomputing and… Read more »