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.

NAB Coming Up Next Week

In case you hadn’t noticed the huge deluge of promotional emails over the last few days from every media company on the planet, NAB is coming up next week in Las… Read more »

Options for Stereoscopic Preview

Viewing stereoscopic media in realtime requires that the combined stream be transmitted to your display in some form. Originally this was accomplished with two independent streams going to two separate output devices,… Read more »

3D Display Technology

It seems like just about every week there is a new 3D technology being announced or released. This is due to the fact that there are so many possible ways to… Read more »

Stereoscopic Video

3D Movies have been all the rage ever since Avatar came out and made a ton of money. “3D” has risen and fallen in popularity multiple times in the past, but… Read more »

Shared SAN Storage Solutions

SANs are a hardware solution that allows multiple systems to share access to the performance and security offered by large high speed disk arrays. A single array of disks can… Read more »

Post Production Media Storage and Drive Arrays

After my last article explained why USB3 is not ready to be used as the interface for primary media editing drives, this has led to the question of: what interface… Read more »

USB3 and Post-Production

USB3 has been talked about in the tech world for a couple of years now, but it has only been in the last few months that products have finally appeared… Read more »

Changes to this Site

So expect to see a lot more updates and changes here in the near future. Now that I am finishing up work on the feature film that has been consuming… Read more »

IBC Announcements and Other News

Besides my CS5 reviews, I haven’t posted much about new products or developments in a while. There were a number of interesting releases at IBC last week, and a few from… Read more »

CS5 Master Collection Applications

The Adobe CS5 Master Collection includes many other applications besides the video ones I reviewed in my last two posts. Although I don’t use any of these nearly as extensively… Read more »