{"id":2,"date":"2007-10-07T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-10-01T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T21:25:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This a little about me, Mike McCarthy, the creator of this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I have worked for a number of media production companies in Hollywood over the last ten years, and my experience\u00c2\u00a0in those environments is the basis for what I have\u00c2\u00a0posted on\u00c2\u00a0here.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I am\u00c2\u00a0very experienced in Windows based tools and applications, hence the URL name.\u00c2\u00a0 I personally do most of my work in Adobe\u00c2\u00a0products, but have designed and supervised workflows based on Avid, Resolve, and a variety of other tools.\u00c2\u00a0 A majority of my work has been for the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.banditobrothers.com\">Bandito Brothers<\/a>, where I was the post-production engineer (among many other roles) on the feature films <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Act_of_Valor\">Act of Valor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Need_for_Speed_(film)\">Need for Speed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I originally got into this business because I was fascinated by fast computers and high end display technology.\u00c2\u00a0 And I have had the opportunity to work directly with Adobe, HP and NVidia to build some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/provideocoalition.com\/ryoung\/story\/gone-girl-panel-premiere-after-effects\">fastest<\/a> Windows based workstations ever created.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of 2010 I\u00c2\u00a0moved out of\u00c2\u00a0Hollywood, and back to the Sierra foothills where I grew up.\u00c2\u00a0 I still return to LA on a regular basis to work on new projects, but continue to find new endeavors elsewhere as well.<\/p>\n<p>I try to keep up with the most recent developments in the technology industry, especially as they relate to post-production.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I am always interested in an opportunity to help work with or troubleshoot the newest bits and pieces of technology.\u00c2\u00a0 Feel free to contact me at (&#8220;mikemccarthy&#8221; at this domain)\u00c2\u00a0with questions, requests, offers, or suggestions.<\/p>\n<p>Mike McCarthy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This a little about me, Mike McCarthy, the creator of this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 I have worked for a number of media production companies in Hollywood over the last ten years, and my experience\u00c2\u00a0in those environments is the basis for what I have\u00c2\u00a0posted on\u00c2\u00a0here.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I am\u00c2\u00a0very experienced in Windows based tools and applications, hence the URL name.\u00c2\u00a0 I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hd4pc.com\/techblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}