By Mike McCarthy
After many years without a significant update to most major workstation offerings, we are finally seeing new technology about to hit the market. Intel’s recently released Sapphire Rapids server CPU technology, built on the “Intel 7” process, forms the basis for its new Sapphire Rapids workstation platform. These processors come in two tiers,
By Cory Choy
I’m a big Nugen fan. In fact, Halo UpMix is one of my favorite plugins and one that I use on almost every 5.1 project I work on. It is a simple, elegant plugin that allows me to move much of my stereo design to a surround environment quickly and flawlessly.
By Brady Betzel
A few weeks ago, Nvidia announced a behemoth of a GPU in the RTX 4090 Founders Edition. It retails for $1,599, which might be beyond some people’s budgets. But do not fear. This week Nvidia introduced the RTX 4070 Ti, with a retail price of $799.
By Cory Choy
If you’re not familiar with Dear Reality — which makes binaural, ambisonics and multi-channel software tools — here is a little background from a casual user/sound engineer who has mixed a lot of VR stuff. First, I’m going to provide a quick explainer about sound for VR, and then a little info about Dear Reality and its product dearVR’s origins.
By Brady Betzel
If you are an enterprise-level multimedia user and are looking to purchase a workstation that is not only powerful but easily upgradeable in the future, then the Lenovo P620 Gen 2 workstation might be what you are looking for. From the 64-core, 128-thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro CPU to the Nvidia A6000 GPU,
By Brady Betzel
Editors and post pros are notoriously hard to shop for. Some don’t have the patience to wait, so they buy everything they want themselves. Others are so introverted that it’s hard to get ideas out of them. I fit firmly into the latter group, but thanks to the reviews I do for postPerspective,
By Brady Betzel
In the HBO limited series Sharp Objects, character Alan Crellin escapes daily life by retreating to his HiFi audio cave. Alan’s escapism is a fundamental theme that runs throughout the series. While I watched each episode, I noticed I held my breath when Alan placed his headphones over his ears and was transported to another dimension.
By Cory Choy
Full disclosure: I am a big iZotope RX fan. Why? Because out of all the tools that have been made accessible to the post world over the years, only a few have been complete game changers. iZotope RX is one of those tools.
The elegance and ease with which one can view and edit the spectral representation of a waveform is pretty much unmatched by any other software,
By Brady Betzel
Nvidia has released its much-anticipated RTX 4090 GPU. It’s big and power-hungry, and I’ll provide more details on that later in this piece. When the product was released, I initially held off filing this review to see if Nvidia or Blackmagic (who showed a prerelease version of Resolve with AV1 encoding technology that only works with the new 4090 series) would release any Easter eggs,
By Mike McCarthy
As the first product coming to market featuring Nvidia’s new Ada Lovelace architecture, the GeForce 4090 graphics card has a host of new features to test. With DLSS3 for gaming, AV1 encoding for video editors and streamers, and raytracing and AI rendering for 3D animators, there are new options available for a variety of different potential users.
By Brady Betzel
Wacom has released the latest update to its impressive line of digital pen displays: the Wacom Cintiq Pro 27. It’s a 27-inch version of the Cintiq line of pen-based drawing tablets used by animators, editors, colorists and more. The newest 27-inch Cintiq is the most utilitarian version of the pen-based tablet that I have seen.
By Brady Betzel
If the leaves on the trees are starting to turn, that usually signals a GoPro Hero update. And while that is true, this year is a bit different. In addition to GoPro upgrading the Hero 10 Black to the Hero 11 Black, it is also adding a mini GoPro: the GoPro Hero 11 Black Mini.
By Brady Betzel
I think it’s safe to say that the pen display/digital tablet gold rush is here. In recent months, I’ve been asked to review a variety of styles of digital pen products — from tablets with wireless keypads to USB-C-connected pen displays (like the one I’m writing about in this review).
By Luke Harper
Way back when, I did a good number of product reviews. Then I joined the teaching world for a bit, helping to shape the minds of young people wanting to get into production and post. More recently, I found my way back to making films and other production work, which reignited my interest in trying out new tools.
By Brady Betzel
From Wacom to Xencelabs to Huion… the number of tablets I’ve been asked to review recently is kind of crazy compared to years past, and this is good news. The more competition, the cheaper and more evolved these pen displays become.
My most recent pen tablet review was the very useful Huion Inspiroy Keydial KD200,
By Mike McCarthy
I have spent the past few weeks using Boxx’s newest iteration of its Apexx S3 workstation, and it is quite impressive. Based on Intel’s “Alder Lake” CPUs with DDR5, it is technically a workstation built from gaming-class hardware, but this just makes it more power-efficient and budget-friendly. And with a 5Ghz Core i9 CPU and 64GB of RAM,