Puget Systems Podcast

Our host sounds a bit off during the first half of the show. Sorry about that. We're excited to have Will Gibbons join us today for Workflow Wednesday! Will Gibbons creates stunning product renderings & animations for innovative and quality physical products. Before launching Will Gibbons Design, he was traveling the world teaching designers how to render their products.    Check out...

In this episode, we have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Don Kinghorn!    Don is the escalation point for sales and support questions concerning HPC, Scientific Computing, Machine Learning, AI, Linux System Administration, and Hardware Troubleshooting. He works on hardware systems validation for Scientific workloads and provides an internal educational resource for others here at Puget Syste...

Today we talk with Matt Bach, Senior Labs Technician. Matt works as a hardware analyst where he researches, tests, and develops hardware solutions tailored specifically for content creation software packages. This is not limited just to hardware and software performance benchmarks, but also includes working closely with the professional community to ensure that our workstations properly address th...

This week William George spends an hour with us to chat and take questions about his area of expertise, Photogrammetry & Engineering software like Solidworks and Pix4D.

This episode was plagued by a number of technical issues; Zoom crashing, audio cutting out, etc. Sorry about that. Hopefully, there's value to be gained for the audience anyway. Today we talk with Justin Lassen, a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and remixer with over 20 years of experience in the music, film, tech, and video game industries!  Justin is currently working as a spatial...

This week Kelly Shipman spends an hour with us to chat and take questions about Unreal Engine, Game Development, Virtual Production, and More!

Today we talk with Ryan Connolly writer and director of 16 incredible short films and creator/host of the popular filmmaking show Film Riot, a channel covering nearly every aspect of indie/small budget filmmaking. They've got tips and tricks for VFX, sound design, cinematography, and more! Film Riot explores the art of filmmaking in a way you've never seen.

Today we talk with Brady Betzel Online Editor at Margarita Mix Hollywood! Starting as an intern on the show "On Air with Ryan Seacrest" all the way to being the online editor on the show Life Below Zero, on top of being a reviewer for Post Perspective and Post Magazine, Brady has seen a lot as he's moved through the post-production industry! We're excited to have him on today!

While the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series cards are certainly the most powerful GPUs ever released, it is important to understand that different applications utilize the GPU in very different ways.  The entire Labs Team joins us today to discuss and take questions about the newly released Nvidia RTX 3090 GPU!

This week Kelly Shipman spends an hour with us to chat and take questions about Unreal Engine, Game Development, and Building a Better Benchmark.

Today we talk with Oliver Peters an independent video/film editor, colorist, post-production supervisor, and consultant who also moonlights as a contributing editor/writer for Videography, DV, TV Technology magazines, Creative Planet Network, and RedShark News.

This week Jon Bach spends an hour with us to chat and take questions about RTX 30xx GPUs, the PC industry, and more!

Today we talk with freelance video editor Jay Lippman!  Jay shares tips on video editing, sound design, color grading, and video editing gear in order to take your video editing skills to the next level. He uploads videos every Friday, so be sure to check out his channel! https://www.youtube.com/c/JayLippman

Matt Bach joins us this week to talk about the latest developments in the Adobe Suite and answer any questions you have about how to optimize your hardware choices to get the best performance you can.

She's a photographer, a director, a cinematographer, an Adobe Master Trainer, and an Aputure Resident Pro! We're excited to have the incredible content creator Valentina Vee join us today! ( http://www.valentinavee.com/ )

This week Jon Bach, Dr. Don Kinghorn, William George, Matt Bach, and Kelly Shipman all join the show to talk about and answer questions regarding the newly announced Nvidia graphics cards!

Today we talk with Visual Effects Artist Christopher Clements of FX It In Post! You may know Christopher from his incredible short "Star Wars SC 38 Reimagined". (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2SMng4u1k)  We're excited to have him on this week to talk about his work!

Matt Bach joins us this week to talk about the latest developments in the Adobe Suite and answer any questions you have about how to optimize your hardware choices to get the best performance you can.

Today we talk with film, animation, and XR creative director Eugene Capon! (http://www.capondesign.com/) Eugene entered the XR field in June of 2016. Previously a social media creative director, he self-produced/animated the 360 film Journey VR which was well received and was quickly included as a staff pick by VeeR, Adobe, and the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).

Today we talk with Pye Jirsa founder and partner of SLR Lounge and Lin and Jirsa Photography. Pye is the creator of every workshop and resource inside the SLR Lounge library and we're proud to have him join us this week!    SLR Lounge: https://www.slrlounge.com Lin and Jirsa Photography: https://www.linandjirsa.com/

Today we talk with long-time user of Apple and Final Cut Pro, Heath McKnight! Recently Heath reviewed one of our high-performance Genesis workstations and we're excited to hear about his experience switching over to a Windows10 machine.

Today we talk with master of the visual arts, Wren Weichman! He and the crew at Corridor Digital create some of the coolest effects on the internet today. We're excited to have Wren join us to answer some questions about the world of VFX and YouTube storytelling!

This week Kelly Shipman spends an hour with us to chat and take questions about Game Dev, ArcVis, Engineering, Film, and AI/machine learning.

This week William George spends an hour with us to chat and take questions about his area of expertise, Photogrammetry & Engineering software like Solidworks and Pix4D.

Today we talk with the one and only Action Movie Dad, visual effects artist Daniel Hashimoto about his workflow, the current state of the industry, and tips, tricks, and advice.