Steve Martin

Steve Martin is the president and founder of Ripple Training. Steve has over 16 years of experience as an editor, producer and trainer. He has taught workshops at NAB, Macworld, DV Expo, and the American Film Institute. He is also a post-production consultant for Disney, Fox Sports and Canon to name a few, and is a lead instructor for Apple's Certified Training (ACT) program.

Brian Gary

An award winning writer, producer and director, Brian Gary is founder and CEO of Flying Chaucer Films LLC of Los Angeles and Flying Chaucer Productions LLC in New Orleans. Under those shingles, Brian Gary has created a wide array of content for television, theatrical release and the Web. Accomplished editor rounds out his filmmaker's skill-set and he lectures nationwide as a certified Final Cut Pro instructor.

Mark Spencer

Mark Spencer is a bay area-based producer, editor, teacher and writer. He runs a website dedicated to Motion users (www.applemotion.net). Mark is also an Apple-certified instructor teaching regularly at BAVC, Stanford University and MacWorld. Mark is the author of the Apple Pro Training Series book Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Studio, contributing author of the APTS Motion book, and author of the Motion Visual Quickstart Guide, all from Peachpit Press.

Andrew Balis

Anrew Balis is a cinematographer, editor, post production consultant and Apple certified instructor teaching classes in Final Cut Pro to industry professionals at Moviola Education. He is the author of Ripple Training's Color Correction in Final Cut Pro and Color Grading in Color DVD-ROM.
Friday, June 13, 2008

Could This Be The Card We’ve Been Waiting For?

Mark Spencer | 06/13- 05:54 PM

AMD Announces the HD 3870

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Yesterday AMD announced a new graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 3870, which they say they expect to ship by the end of June.

For anyone who has bought a new Mac Pro recently and has been trying to optimize its performance, this comes as potentially very good news. The current upgrade that Apple sells, the GeForce 8800 GT, has not lived up to its performance potential, causing not a small bit of frustration for Motion users. As many of you know, Motion depends heavily on the GPU, rather then the CPU, for its real-time playback capability.

Whether this new ATI card lives up to the press release time will tell, but the stats are impressive: 512MB of 256-bit GDDR4 frame buffer memory and 320 stream processors. It has two dual-link DVI interfaces, so you could drive 2 30” monitors (although that does split your VRAM and impacts Motion’s performance).

It supports PCI Express 2.0 AND is backwards compatible with the PCI Express architecture that you may have if bought your Mac Pro before this year.

Oh, and the best news? It’s slated to cost $219 - well under the $279 cost of the 8800.

Check out more information on this card at barefeats.com - we’ll all be keeping a close eye on this one!

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Could This Be The Card We’ve Been Waiting For?

Mark Spencer | 06/13- 11:57 AM

AMD Announces the HD 3870

Yesterday AMD announced a new graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 3870, which they say they expect to ship by the end of June.

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