Zeb Chadfield at The Finish Line provides an easy-to-follow guide outlining what to consider when finishing in High Dynamic Range.

For remote client monitoring we recommend using NDI Tools with Zoom for sharing as if it were a traditional client monitor. This is built into Media Composer and has the best user experience and will adapt well to any bandwidth constraints that may arise. The installation and setup instructions are below.

All drives that are shipped around with production data on them should be encrypted. Especially when shipping rushes. Below is the most simple approach to dealing with drive encryption via software when hardware encryption isn’t available.

Once you have unlocked the padlocks and pulled everything out of the case you can follow this diagram for setting up our review systems.

There has always been plenty of whinging about the lack of Apple’s commitment to professionals but throughout my career I’ve been able to look at what Apple is doing and see where they are taking us. It has always excited me but for the first time I’m a little concerned, so it’s a good time to throw a few solutions into the ether and hope that one or two find their way to the Apple development teams. Here we go…

The demo video below is of us using BTSync with Shared Storage and Avid Media Composer working across multiple locations including a laptop, FLiP (cloud based media composer) and our HQ.

I wanted to give a shout out to our pals at Indiestor. If you want shared media storage for your post house or production company they are the only company you need need to know.

We have a creative review in the February 28th 2014 issue of Broadcast Magazine about out work on ‘Fonteyn ’59: Sleeping Beauty’ for the BBC.

I have had a bit of back and forward with the DPP crew this week. I’m about to invest in some new kit and I just wanted some clarification on the Harding FPA/PSE section of the latest spec.