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.

Using the LoupeDeck+ Effectively

It has been a year since Loupedeck first announced support for Premiere Pro and After Effects with their Loupedeck+ hardware interface panel, originally designed for Lightroom users. I had seen… Read more »

System Review: Boxx Apexx A3

The new BOXX APEXX A3 workstation is based on AMD’s newest Ryzen CPUs, and the X570 chipset. BOXX has taken these, added liquid CPU cooling, professional GPUs, and a compact… Read more »

New Options for Making DCPs

I wrote an in late 2017 about DCP creation options, in an Adobe environment. One of the options I examined has released a new update that changes the equation rather… Read more »

Massive Editing Storage on a Low Budget

This year, I oversaw the editing process for a large international film production. This involved setting up a collaborative editing facility at the director’s home, and there was a lot… Read more »

Computex 2019 Announcements

A number of new technologies and products were just announced at this year’s Computex event in Taiwan. This focuses on the ones that seem relevant to media creation professionals.

Using my HP ZBook X2

The HP Z-Book X2 is not your average mobile workstation. With its detachable keyboard, integrated kickstand, and EMR pen support, it is designed to be the ideal artistic tool for… Read more »

The Razer Blade with GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q

I am always looking for the most powerful tools in the smallest packages, so the Razer Blade 15″ laptop with a GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q was worth checking out. The… Read more »

NAB 2019

I have been to NAB for the last twelve straight years, and it looked like I would break my streak this year, being booked on a travel job through the… Read more »

Loupedeck+ Initial Impressions

I am testing out and reviewing the Loupedeck+ edit controller in the Adobe Creative Cloud apps. This article is Part 1 of 2, where I talk about my initial reactions… Read more »

HP ZBook Studio x360 Mobile Workstation

I have had the opportunity to test out HP’s newest mobile workstation over the last few weeks, the ZBook Studio x360. HP’s ZBook mobile workstation division has really been thinking… Read more »