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.

Editing Act of Valor

When we first started out, we had no idea how much footage we would be shooting for the movie, because the 5D lends itself to a different type of shooting style than… Read more »

Shooting Act of Valor

We shot the movie on a wide variety of locations, over about a year. Scott and Mouse originally intended to utilize the 5D’s unique capabilities to capture the intensity of… Read more »

Preparing for Act of Valor

When we first started preparing to shoot Act of Valor, over four years ago, we had to decide what cameras to use. Up to that point all of our work… Read more »

Act of Valor

So Act of Valor, the big project that I have been working on for the last four years, finally was released last month. It has been pretty exciting to see this… Read more »

Two Interesting Developments from Blackmagic-Design

First off, the long awaited PC version of DaVinci Resolve was released to public beta last week. Both the full version and the free Resolve-Lite now have PC variants available. … Read more »

Canon Cinema EOS C300

Earlier this month, Canon announced the C300 as the first product in their new Cinema EOS series, which they see as their next step in the world of digital filmmaking. They… Read more »

Avid Media Composer 6

I haven’t posted much in the last few months, because there have not been many new developments that caught my eye or piqued my curiosity. But this month we are… Read more »

Stereoscopic Finishing Process

To provide us with vision, our brain combines the two separate images from both of our eyes to create the perception of depth. Stereoscopy imitates that to create an artificial sense of… Read more »

Editorial in 3D

In theory, stereoscopic media content can be edited exactly the same as 2D content is, when an offline-online workflow is used. This allows the editor to edit one stream in 2D,… Read more »

NAB 2011

I did get a chance to check out some of the new products available at NAB. These are the things that stood out to me: Cineform’s big news was their… Read more »