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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 Album for “Mas de Mi,” and Producer of the Year! Tony is the youngest person ever to be awarded in both categories!

Host Cirina Catania talks with the vibrant and fun Tony Succar, whose talents stem from a passion for music gifted to him early in life and a lot of non-stop hard work.

He was born in Lima, Peru and immigrated with his family at the age of three to Miami, Florida. His mom and dad were musicians and remain a big influence in his life. Tony began his formal musical education on piano and then moved to percussion and producing where he has become a beacon to others in the world of salsa, jazz, pop and afro-latino inspired music.

For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time.

For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com.

If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

In This Episode

01:00 - Cirina introduces Tony Succar, who won the best tropical album for Mas De Mi. He won producer of the year in 2018 and 2019. Tony is the youngest person ever to be awarded in both categories.03:55 - Tony reminisces his formative years in Lima, Peru, where he was raised around music at an early age.09:45 - Tony talks about different kinds of music and which genre he favors.12:09 - Cirina asks Tony what his life was like growing up with his immigrant family.17:35 - Tony shares why he decided to pursue college and a master's degree.23:14 - Cirina asks Tony for his advice to young musicians on whether to pursue their music or their education.25:57 - Tony talks about the Michael Jackson album he produced called Unity.30:58 - Tony talks about the OWC equipment he uses for his studio.36:42 - Tony shares the instruments that he uses when he plays percussion.38:31 - Tony shares his three tips to musicians so that they can reach their goals and dreams.44:43 - Cirina and Tony encourage listeners to check out his website and follow him on his social media pages (Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, LinkedIn) to get updates about his latest projects.

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I am here with Tony Succar and we are going to have a great conversation. I can just tell, look at that smile. That smile.

Your smile.

Your mother must love that smile.

Well, I get it from her and actually my grandfather, her dad, has an amazing smile. It just lights up the room. I have to thank them for that, for sure.

You inherited it. I can tell you really did. You were born in Lima, Peru, right?

Yes. I was born in Lima, but at a very young age, I came to Miami, Florida. I was about almost three years old. I grew up here ever since.

Do you still have relatives there, though? Do you go back?

For sure. I have a lot of families still there. I'll go back for a lot of business work now because, since I’m a Peruvian, the majority of my fan base is actually in Peru. I did a lot of shows—when we could do shows—and I’m going to go back. I've been back in a while since February, then the pandemic hit. It was one of my last shows, actually, before the pandemic.

That's tough, isn't it? I was in Lima. It's a beautiful city in some ways and really dangerous in others. It has changed over the years,

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 landscape.

For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time.

For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com.

If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and you'll make us very happy. And please tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have thoughts about future segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

In This Episode

00:00 - Cirina introduces Michael Kammes, BeBop's VP of Marketing and Business Development. Michael has a new free ebook, How to Really Improve Your Remote Creative Experience.02:18 - Michael talks about why he wrote his new book, How to Really Improve Your Remote Creative Experience, and why you need it at this time.08:40 - Michael explains the difference between TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) and why you need to know about them.15:59 - Michael shares some tips to increase your internet speed.20:21 - Cirina and Michael encourage listeners to download Michael's new free ebook, How to Really Improve Your Remote Creative Experience, and check out BeBop Technology's website.

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I have a dear friend Michael Kammes on the line. We've known each other for longer than some of you listening have been alive. Michael is somebody that I respect quite a bit in the technology side of things, workflow, and integrations. 

Michael, it was about not quite two years ago when we were at NAB just opening up OWC RADiO, and you started talking about BeBop. Here we are. It has really evolved. You are now the VP of Marketing and Business Development for BeBop. Welcome to the show. We've got a lot to talk about today.

Cirina, it's great to hear your voice again. Thank you so much for having me back. I appreciate it.

It's always fun talking with you. You've got great energy. No matter how tired I am or how little sleep I've got, talking to you is always energizing. 

I want to talk about two things. First of all, this particular interview—part one I'm going to call it—is about your book. Your book is an ebook, and it's called How to Really Improve Your Remote Creative Experience. We'll get into detail on that in a moment. 

I want to let everyone know there's going to be a part two of this where we are going to get into the behind the scenes of this year's Super Bowl and what BeBop technology had to do with bringing it to you in a way that was pleasurable, interesting, and incredibly well-created. 

First of all, Michael, let's talk about your book. Why did you write this book? Why do we need it at this point in time?

As you know, Cirina, I've always been a massive advocate of technical education. Not just technical education, but education that cuts away from the marketing shine that you see in a lot of things. 

Here in the U.S., the laws are very lax on what you can say and what something will actually do. It's been a weight that I felt I needed to carry on my back to demystify a lot of technology that's out there and cut through some of the marketing shine. 

During the pandemic, folks are working from home. They're encountering technical hurdles that they never expected. They may not have an IT department to assist. Their home networks are being asked to do the heavy lifting that they've never had to d...

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 million. (By the way, 100% of the profits are being donated to help offset NFT's carbon footprint.)

Our host, Cirina Catania, has been a Beeple fan for years and was very pleased when he agreed, at NAB 2019, to take a break from his presentations in the Cinema 4D booth to speak with her. They had an interesting and very candid conversation about his life as a creator, family man, and … well… a bit of a rebel behind his prolific Cinema4D art.

For those of you not familiar with the “Everydays,” here’s the scoop. Every single day without fail for the last 14 years, Mike has created new work and uploaded it for the world to see. He’s now behind some of the world’s most admired digital works. 

Many of you have been asking to hear the interview again.  We are re-posting it here for you. 

For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time.

For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com.

If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

In This Episode

00:01 - Cirina introduces Beeple (aka Mike Winkleman). Mike broke worldwide digital art records when his collage entitled, “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” sold 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 for $6 million.02:38 - Mike talks about his first NAB experience and his Everyday Live, where he created art pieces for 3 days.04:30 - Mike shares the workflow process for his art.10:25 - Mike talks about his film, Stuxnet, and the production of that film. He also talks about his upcoming film about money.15:54 - Mike visually explains the images that he was creating in NAB 2019.21:53 - Cirina asks Mike how people can get started in digital arts.

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Cirina Catania at NAB 2019. We’re here with the OWC Radio Creative Club and with this amazing artist by the name of Mike Winkelmann, who you probably know as Beeple. I happened on Beeple’s art several years ago on a site called Beeple Crap.

That is correct.

And I thought, “Oh my gosh, this guy’s calling his art crap. And it is some of the best stuff I’ve ever seen.

I appreciate that.

Tell me, what are you doing here at NAB?

I am doing my Everyday live at the Maxon booth for three days. This is the third day. This is the first NAB I’ve been to. It’s been an exhausting couple of days here.

It’s never-ending, right? 

It’s a lot to take in. 

Absolutely never-ending. Tell people what the Everydays are.

Everydays is just a picture that I do from start to finish, every single day. I’ve been doing it for almost 12 years. They use Cinema 4D as the primary tool that I use to make the pictures each day. That’s the biggest piece of it. It’s a 3D environment that you can light things and animate things, and change the materials. So I set up pictures and try to make a picture every day.

You’ve not been getting much sleep. But you’ve done this now for 12 years non-stop every day, thick or thin, healthy or sick, with your family, traveling, NAB. It’s pretty amazing. I encourage everybody that’s listening in to go to your site, Beeple-Crap.com.

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 independent projects, or even just keeping your hard drives protected with organized backups, you'll want to know more about this. (For more about Postlab, see our previous interview with Isaac Terronez).

For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time.

For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com.

If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

In This Episode

00:00 - Cirina introduces Paul Matthijs, the CEO of Hedge. 02:41 - Paul talks about Hedge, both as a company and an app.09:20 - Paul explains about the ideas of checksums and duplicate detection in Hedge.16:55 - Cirina asks Paul how he got involved with Hedge.18:49 - Paul shares the best solution for storing and archiving files.21:51 - Paul talks about how Hedge and Postlab merge, and the new features of the two apps.26:55 - Paul shares how he got started in the tech world.28:36 - Cirina and Paul encourage listeners to check out Hedge.video to know more about Hedge and Postlab. If listeners have more questions, they can email Hedge at [email protected].

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One guy works out of his corporate headquarters in Amsterdam and is speaking with us today about media management. That might sound like something that's not important, but those little teeny tiny files that travel across the globe, to the other person working with your project are very important. There is an application out there called Hedge that I've been using for many years. I wanted to update you guys because a short while ago, they announced some additional features of the app that I think you're going to find pretty amazing. We're going to talk with Paul Matthijs in just a moment. Thank you for listening. Standby. This is going to be fun!

Paul, welcome to OWC RADiO. It's so nice to have you here today. We have a lot to talk about.

Thanks.

Where are you?

I'm in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands.

I was looking at some images of Amsterdam the other day, the canals are all frozen up and people are ice skating on the canals. It brings back memories of when I was a kid. It sounds just wonderful.

Well, it was a relief that everybody really needed. It was the first time in 20 years that we could actually do outdoor ice skating. Then the whole country goes mad. There's so much water over here and it'll freeze up. Yeah, it's amazing. Just what we needed. The lockdown is the second, third or fourth, I stopped counting. In general, it is in Europe and in the U.S. too, it's not a good situation at all, but we're coping. The mental strain will prove to be an issue over the coming years. Try to relax when we can, while at the same time having a normal life.

Hedge feels just at home on your Mac as it does on Windows. 100% native code, without cross-platform ballast, ensures stability and speed.

One thing I'm curious about, now that you mentioned being at home, because I'm now working from a studio that I put into my house. Even though I have a 1GB service, the internet is not as reliable as it used to be because there are so many people on it. Do you have those problems in Holland as well?

We do.

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, eliminating the need for XML transfers and allaying our fears concerning versions.

Isaac has worked in and around post-production environments for over 20 years and was a principal Contributor to Frame.io's Workflow Guide, and a Featured Speaker at the 2020 FCPX Global Virtual Summit.

For more information about our amazing sponsor, Other World Computing, go to MacSales.com or OWCDigital.com, where you’ll find hardware and software solutions and tutorial videos that will get you up and running in no time.

For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com.

If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas!

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00:09 - Cirina introduces Isaac Terronez (Isaac T), the US Workflow Architect for Postlab by Hedge, a robust solution that allows teams to work remotely using proxy files. 01:37 - Isaac shares how he got started in his field.06:00 - Isaac talks about how the idea of Postlab came about. He also explains how Postlab works and how to integrate it to Hedge.13:46 - Cirina asks Isaac who should use Postlab and how secure Postlab is for collaboration.18:08 - Isaac talks about the current Postlab plans and pricing people can buy.25:14 - Isaac shares where people can watch some Postlab case studies and how-to videos.31:33 - Isaac encourages listeners to check out Hedge.video/Postlab to know more about Postlab. Or to book an appointment with him through his Calendly.

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In our continuing coverage of the need for remote collaboration, I'm speaking today with Isaac T., the US Workflow Architect for Postlab by Hedge. Hedge is a widely used platform that allows Final Cut Pro editors to work together remotely from anywhere in the world. And Isaac is a post-production veteran with over 20 years of experience. In the recent past, he was the principal contributor to Frame.io's workflow guide and the featured speaker at the 2020 FCPX Global Virtual Summit. Thanks to our sponsors, Other World Computing, we have the opportunity to speak with Isaac here on OWC Radio. Stay tuned. You have the questions, and we have the answers. 

Hi, Isaac, how are you today?

Hey, I'm doing all right. How are you doing, Cirina?

I'm good too. Hanging in there with little sleep and in the lockdown and drinking a lot of coffee. But I'm really excited to talk to you. 

No, thanks for having me.

I was kind of circling around you during the creative summit. And I wanted to really pay attention and listen in and watch your presentations. Because I'm really excited about what Postlab does, but before we get started with all of that, let's tell people just a little bit about you. Where do you come from, and how did you get started with all of this?

Okay, well, Hey, my name is Isaac T. I'm currently the US Workflow Architect for Postlab by Hedge. And before that, I was IT Director, Multimedia Developer, just ended up kind of stumbling into post-production with an agency in the Midwest. And then, after about 15 plus years, I went out on my own and under IsaacT.co, same website, and doing the same thing, content marketing, and workflow architecture. So all of that caught the eye of good people at Hedge. And we work together a bit starting in March of 2020. And we all know how that's gone and how much of a fit that's been with Postlab with the post-production commu...

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