David A Price chronicles how writer/director Michael Crichton’s 1973 Westworld pathed the way for modern special effects by using “Pixelation” and developed by none-other-than John Whitney Jr. the son of John Whitney who introduced computers into the design of Vertigo. Nearly every studio film at the multiplexes this summer will have been created, at least partly, by a Read MoreRead More
It’s the common complaint when you pop in that memory card or hard drive only to discover it has slightly less memory than you thought. But unlike that ridiculous 9/10ths of a cent on the price of gasoline, this has more to do with math than deceptive marketing (though it kinda is deceptive). Have you Read MoreRead More
Want to take that Build it Yourself mentality of PCs to the world of Apple? Ryan Koo of No Film School shows you how to build your own Hackintosh for a fraction of the cost of a Mac pro. Apple OS X Mountain Lion came out this summer and it supports the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors Read MoreRead More
Here’s the process I went through to update my editing computer’s system drive (where Windows is installed) from the old style platter to the much faster SSD Drive.
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John Hess covers the week that past and talks about rebuilding the editing beast, writing second drafts and making drawings in the Southern California Sun.Read More
As filmmakers we rely on hard drives from screenwriting to post-production, but do you know how they work? In this video Bill “The Engineer Guy” opens up a computer hard drive to show you how it is engineered. Read More
Researchers are about to demonstrate the first-of-its kind “Phase Change Memory Solid State Storage drive” – a memory device built with chalcogenide glass which records information by changing the state of the glass from crystalline to amorphous. These drives could be potentially thousands of times faster than conventional hard drives of today.Read More
Hard drives keep getting bigger and better, and now Seagate has broken the barrier and squeezed 1000 (and change) gigabytes onto a single platter and sandwiching 3 of those bad boys into a single 3.5″ drive. Press Release to follow:Read More
