OWC RADiO

This week Host, Cirina Catania talks with the ever-extraordinary electronic musician, Rhys Fulber. And she shares some great news from Tim Cook and the folks at Apple...Lumafusion has been awarded "Best Video App for 2021," on the App Store. You will love this conversation with Rhys. He is a truly international musical genius who was born in Vancouver of a German father and a mother from Great Bri...

Color! In today's episode, Host Cirina Catania talks with the VP of Sales and Marketing for Calibrite, Brenda Hipsher, and discusses their world-class color management tools for creatives in the photo, video, and film space. And, listen carefully, there's a very interesting promotional offer from the folks at Luminar. Calibrite's developers are a passionate group of people who bring their exceptio...

OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania, talks with Future Moments Co-Founder, Gary Levitt. about their apps that make our audio sound much better! Using their mobile and desktop apps for content creation, whether you’re a musician, filmmaker, podcaster, voiceover artist or creative hobbyist, will make your life easier and elevate the quality of your production. Their apps include VideoMaster 2.0, Audio Fi...

This week on OWC RADiO we are delighted to be joined by two of the top people at FX Home. Joshua Davies, the VP & Founder, and Kirstie Tostevin, Marketing Manager. Their company was recently purchased by one of our favorite royalty-free music companies, Artlist and everyone had a great time talking with our Host, Cirina Catania until a Pigeon interrupted the conversation. Joshua, being the consumm...

OWC Radio Host, Cirina Catania, talks with Stephen Lawes, Creative Director and CoFounder of Cantina Creative about the design work and special effects for dozens of major motion pictures his company has worked on, including seventeen Marvel films. Some of the company's credits include: their most recent work on Loki, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, WandaVision, Black Widow, Avengers Endgame, C...

Meet Kevin “Kwiz” Ryan, tour programmer and recording engineer for Beyonce, co-owner at Rhythm 252 Group, and owner of the Rhythm Lab Studio. It's a timely and provocative interview with OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania that includes lots of gear talk, behind-the-scenes stories, and a very frank conversation about racism. Kwiz has toured with Beyonce handling audio in huge venues for her last four t...

Everyone needs help ensuring that their skillset remains competitive. Nick Campbell, CEO/Founder of Greyscalegorilla, joins OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania, to talk about future-proofing your creative and technical skills. He shares some exciting news on how Greyscalegorilla Plus can help people learn about 3D and Cinema 4D. In a time where 4-year schools and colleges become disproportionately expe...

A personal note about Dan Kneece (RIP) from your OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania. "The world lost a wonderful person last week. Dan Kneece was loved by all of us in the entertainment industry. He worked tirelessly and with a great attitude. Ask Dan what is most important and he would say, "I work for the script and the director." Words are hard to find right now, but I wanted to share this intervie...

Cirina Catania interviews singer/musician Billy J. Kramer this week on OWC RADiO. Billy J Kramer and the Beatles Imagine...It’s Liverpool in the 60’s. The Merseybeat is in full swing. What comes to mind?  The Beatles - yes! And…"Do You Want to Know a Secret," from Billy J Kramer, a charismatic singer with a string of hits that began with that John Lennon and Paul McCartney penned song. As Billy sa...

Welcome back to OWC RADiO with your host, Cirina Catania! Today we share the story of an incredibly brave, courageous, and kind person, Wes Plate, who enjoyed major success in the tech world, overcame his personal demons - alcoholism and depression, and now runs ultramarathons! He is a winner on all counts! He not only survived, he became an elite athlete who runs ultramarathons such as the Moab 2...

OWC Founder and CEO, Larry O'Connor, talks with OWC RADiO host, Cirina Catania, about his business life and his perspectives on the world, his love for space exploration (yes, he's already purchased his ticket!), what it's like running a major international corporation, his corporate president, Jen Soule, and how on earth he still manages to find time for the myriad of charities, films and creativ...

Larry Jordan is an award-winning producer, director, editor, teacher and trainer who’s been involved in the media industry for 50 years. He’s produced, directed or edited at local broadcast TV stations, network television in the US, and created more corporate and training videos than he can count. His new book, "Techniques of Visual Persuasion," is an invaluable resource to anyone working in media...

Danielle Engen is the Studio Manager and a Content Creator at Electric Feel Entertainment, one of the world's most successful music studios.

There's a new game in Techtown, and it is becoming the industry standard for remote collaboration over the cloud. Frame.io recently launched Camera-to-Cloud and it shook our workflow foundations.  Michael Cioni, Global SVP of Innovation, joins our host, Cirina Catania to explain in a deep dive under the hood how this will enable collaborators to transmit footage from camera/audio to their remote t...

Tim Standing, who leads Mac software development at OWC, talks with host, Cirina Catania about the latest SoftRAID version 6

Bob Caniglia, Director of Sales Ops North America at Blackmagic Design interviews with OWC RADiO's Cirina Catania about remote collaboration.

OWC RADiO continues its coverage on Remote Collaboration with this interview with Michael Kammes, VP Technology at BeBop

For over forty years, Henry Diltz has befriended and photographed almost every music legend you can imagine. OWC Host Cirina Catania talks with him about it in part two of their conversation for OWC RADiO.

It’s Time to Dance!!!! When a smile can light up an entire theater.  When your friends are successful and loving life.  When hard work brings incredible success, and when positivity and joy permeate everything you do, then the Universe will surely be kind to you. And we couldn’t be happier for Tony Succar! He burst onto the stage at the Latin Grammys in 2018 and 2019, winning for Best Tropical Alb...

Woodstock, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchel, Mama Cass, Crosby Stills & Nash, Neil Young, the Eagles, Brian Williams...Name a famous musician from the last 40 years, and there is a distinct possibility that Henry Diltz has photographed them!

Michael Kammes, V.P of Marketing and Business Development for BeBop Technology, joins us this week to round off our series on remote editing. OWC RADiO host Cirina Catania chats with Michael about the tips and tricks in his book entitled "How to REALLY improve your Remote Creative Experience." Our work and personal worlds have shifted, and Michael has all the answers on how to survive the new land...

Beeple (aka Mike Winkleman) broke worldwide digital art records when his collage entitled, “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” sold to NFT Buyer Vingnesh Sundaresan aka @Metakovan for $69.9 million on March 11, 2021. The following week, in a down to the wire bidding war, Beeple sold another piece of his artwork, this time to Justin Sun, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency platform Tron, for $6 mi...

OWC RADiO host Cirina Catania talks with Paul Matthijs, CEO of Hedge. Their solutions, Hedge (for multiple, check-sum backups), and Postlab (remote editors dream solution), are chugging away every day on our end to help us manage multiple copies of our data and communicate edits with our crew. Whether you are producing media for distribution to networks such as Netflix, managing media files for in...

In the second interview for our series on remote collaboration, OWC RADiO Host, Cirina Catania , talks with Isaac Terronez (Isaac T), the US Workflow Architect for Postlab, a robust solution that allows teams to work remotely using proxy files. Postlab via its parent company, Hedge, is one of the prominent solutions to the ever-elusive search for a seamless remote collaboration platform, eliminati...

Blackbird is the world's fastest, most powerful cloud video editing and publishing platform. Host Cirina Catania speaks with CEO of Blackbird, Ian McDonough.