Gear & Gadget Reviews
Sennheiser Deals for Black Friday-Cyber Monday, Sound Great!
Sennheiser is offering unprecedented deals on audio gear for Black Friday thru Cyber Monday.
Read More about Sennheiser Deals for Black Friday-Cyber Monday, Sound Great!Don’t leave home without your OWC Travel Dock.
Tiny little gadget saves my life on the road! (Gear Review – On the road with US Times Sr. Editor Cirina Catania, July 28, 2019) OK – I admit it, I’m hooked on OWC’s Travel Dock. I have three of them! (They cost from $37 to $49 and are one of those simple solutions that…
Read More about Don’t leave home without your OWC Travel Dock.IBC 2018: Philip Hodgetts’ Journal, Day 4 – GrayMeta, Premiere Pro, Aurus Mixing Console
9SEPTEMBER 17, 2018, Special report to USTimes.biz by Technologist, Philip Hodgetts, Pt. 4) Because it was the last day of IBC, we didn’t have a lot more that we wanted to see. Fortunately, we were able to catch a demo of how GrayMeta metadata extraction works with the Premiere Pro panel. The media and AI…
Read More about IBC 2018: Philip Hodgetts’ Journal, Day 4 – GrayMeta, Premiere Pro, Aurus Mixing ConsoleIBC 2018: Philip Hodgetts’ Journal, Day 3 – Speechmatics, Future Zone, Squarebox
(Special Report to USTimes.biz from technologist, Philip Hodgetts, Pt. 3, September 16, 2018) Our Sunday started early as we had another appointment back at the Speechmatics stand that took a good portion of our morning. We sat in on some of the presentations in the Innovation Zone (Future Zone) where the future technology is being…
Read More about IBC 2018: Philip Hodgetts’ Journal, Day 3 – Speechmatics, Future Zone, SquareboxIBC 2018: Day 2, ATOMOS, Apple, Adobe, Blackmagic, Avid, Boris FX, GrayMeta and Speechmatics (whew!)
(September 15, 2018, Special Report to USTimes.biz by Philip Hodgetts) Final Cut Pro X Central this year was at the ATOMOS Theater where Apple Product Marketing and other expert presenters showed ProRes RAW workflows and the latest in FCP X. It was also the place to catch up with others in the FCP X world….
Read More about IBC 2018: Day 2, ATOMOS, Apple, Adobe, Blackmagic, Avid, Boris FX, GrayMeta and Speechmatics (whew!)IBC 2018: Pre-Show Notes with Philip Hodgetts and Gregory Clarke
Today was pre-show. Couldn’t pick up our badges until after 2, which we found out at 12! Anyway, badges and travel passes in hand we’re ready for the show. Blackmagic signage is way less prominent this year. And ATOMOS have even bigger signage. More interesting is that both Google and AWS have a prominent banner…
Read More about IBC 2018: Pre-Show Notes with Philip Hodgetts and Gregory ClarkeIBC 2018: FiLMiC Pro & Zhiyun’s Smooth 4, Marriage Made in Filmmaker Heaven?
(Special to USTimes, September 10, 2018, with commentary by USTimes Senior Editor, Cirina Catania) Note from the Editor: “OK – maybe I’m jumping the gun here, since I haven’t tried it yet…but this sure looks amazing. There, I’ve said it! Read below for the press release that just came across my desk. I just bought…
Read More about IBC 2018: FiLMiC Pro & Zhiyun’s Smooth 4, Marriage Made in Filmmaker Heaven?Gear: TASCAM Updates DR-10 Series Firmware for Portable Recorders
(Montebello, CA, 2018-06-18, Special to the US Times) TASCAM, the professional audio division of TEAC, today announced more enhanced functionality for their popular DR series of portable recorders with the availability of a Version 2.0 Firmware Update. Designed for videography and newsgathering tasks, the DR-10 series of miniature digital recorders include the DR-10X (with integrated…
Read More about Gear: TASCAM Updates DR-10 Series Firmware for Portable RecordersRichard Taylor
The Art of Tech: Richard Taylor Like You’ve Never Seen Him Before
(Baltimore, Maryland, June 13, 2018, Written by US Times Senior Editor, Cirina Catania) Radio Host, Musician, Film Editor, Audio Editor, Composer…and Swingdancer! You’ve never known all this about Richard Taylor, Host of Final Cut Pro Radio…at least not until now. Amazing what you learn about someone just by taking the time to TALK, something we…
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