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.

Large Format Camera Workflows

In the last few months, we have seen the release of the Red Monstro, Sony Venice, Arri Alexa LF, and Canon C700 FF, all of which have larger, or full… Read more »

PNY PrevailPro Mobile Workstation

I have been given the opportunity to test out the new PNY PrevailPro Mobile Workstation. PNY is a company most recognized in the business workspace as the manufacturer of NVidia’s… Read more »

HP Dreamcolor Z31x Studio Display Review

HP sent me their newest high-end monitor to review. The Dreamcolor Z31x Studio Display is a 31″ true 4K color critical reference monitor. It has many new features that set… Read more »

NAB 2018 Conclusions

My second day on the show floor allowed me to follow up a bit more on a few technologies that I found intriguing the day before. The move to IP… Read more »

NAB 2018 Exhibits

These are my notes from the first day I spent browsing the NAB Show floor this year in Las Vegas. Further information from the Exhibition will be posted once my… Read more »

Pre-NAB Releases From Intel & Adobe

There have been a number of significant new product releases the week before NAB. On the software front, Adobe has new updates for the video apps on Creative Cloud. Intel had… Read more »

GTC 2018

I had the opportunity to attend GTC 2018, NVidia’s 9th annual technology conference in San Jose this week. GTC stands for GPU Technology Conference, and GPU stands for Graphics Processing… Read more »

8K Video in 2018

As we enter 2018, we find a variety of products arriving to market that support 8K imagery. The 2020 Olympics are slated to be broadcast in 8K, and clearly we… Read more »

Efficient DCP Creation Options

We made a lot of DCPs for my most recent film project 6Below. These included the final ones that were delivered to Deluxe and the theaters at release. Creating DCPs… Read more »

Lenovo Explorer Windows Mixed Reality Headset

Microsoft released their Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) platform as part of the Fall Creator’s Update to Windows 10. There are a variety of WMR headsets available from many familiar names… Read more »