Five Best Living Room Speaker Sets (Life Hacker) Life Hacker asked their readers for the best living room speakers. They admit that they couldn’t have asked a more wide ranging question, but the 5 selected are an interesting bunch. As a post guy, I’ve gotten really used to having studio monitors as my main sound […]
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In my current quest to get all of my DVDs and Blu-Rays transcoded to H.264 for viewing on Apple TV and iPad, I’ve run into a major glitch: subtitles and HD audio on Blu-Ray discs. The current shipping version of Handbrake (version 0.9.8) doesn’t recognize subtitles on Blu-Rays (Version 0.9.9 now available, see end of […]
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The new version of Glue Tools PhantomCine Toolkit, in this case, 3.1.2693, has Open CL GPU acceleration. Since converting Phantom Cine files to ProRes is a daily occurrence at Brain Farm, I thought I would do some speed tests. I got some interesting results. Source Clip: Phantom Flex, 2560×1440, 49 seconds Test System: Mac Pro 4.1, 8×2.23GHz, […]
Read More adobe, cine, compressor, cs6, cuda, glue tools, gpu, gtx570, media encoder, nvidia, open cl, Phantom, PremiereApple Quality but Not the Premium? $400 Gets You the Same 27-Inch Panel Used in Their Displays (No Film School) There’s actually fewer LCD panel manufacturers than there are brands. LG makes all of Apple’s displays, along with Dell, NEC, etc. My preferred panels are Dell Ultrasharps as they use high-end LG panels and have […]
Read More apple, Blackmagic, BMCC, couch, dell, lcd, load balancing, nec, surfingAdobe Premiere Pro CS6 includes a new technology called Mercury Playback Engine. The engine can use GPU processing on nVidia cards using CUDA architecture to accelerate renders. When perusing the list for compatible cards for Mac Pros, there’s only 3 cards listed. These cards are now a few years old, overpriced and are nowhere near as powerful as nVidia’s […]
Read More cuda, Davinci, ebay, GeForce, gpu, GTX285, macvidcards, nvidia, Premiere, quadro, quadro 4000, resolvePeople have been asking me if Final Cut Pro 7 works on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) and/or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) and the answer is YES. YES. Ignore what the employees at the Apple Store are saying. Either they don’t know, or they’re trying to sell you newer computers and software. The more […]
Read More 10.7, 10.8, FCP, Final Cut, Final Cut Pro, lion, mountain lion, os xResolve 9.1 released: What’s new in DaVinci Resolve 9.1 • Mac OS X Retina support for MacBook Pro • Support for FCPX Audition in XML • Improved mixed frame rate XML support • Includes CinemaDNG Input Device Transform (IDT) for grading Raw images in ACES • Playback and render support for DNxHD 100 • Playback […]
Read More apple, appletv, Davinci, facebook, imac, matrox, oled, resolve, skype, voipI’ve installed or recommended nVidia GPU cards for clients and friends for quite awhile now. Personally, I’m rocking a GTX570 in my Mac Pro for Premiere Pro and Resolve. I also have a GT120 installed as the second card for when I use Resolve. Most of the time my monitors are connected to the GTX570. […]
Read More adobe, apple, cuda, Davinci, gpu, gtx, gtx570, kernel, mac, nvidia, panic, resolveI’ve noticed this now on enough systems to call this a bug, and since it involves 2 out of date pieces of software and one out of date graphics card, it’s unlikely that Apple will address it. Problem: Skipping playback in the Canvas and/or Viewer windows in Final Cut Pro 7 on Mac Pros with […]
Read More 5770, apple, ati 5770, bug, cuda, FCP, Final Cut Pro, flicker, graphics card, gt120, gtx570, macvidcards, nvidia, skipping, skippy, viewerSignal Snowboards’ Every Third Thursday gets caught up in the excitement of the new Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 game release by building a bona-fide bulletproof Snowboard! The build starts with an inspiration trip to Treyarch Studio to get an early Black Ops 2 game play in. The challenging board build is executed using […]
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