Award-winning filmmaker, documentarian and producer Lesley Chilcott moves quickly and easily between shooting/directing product commercials to hard-hitting, visual storytelling documentaries. To support her documentary projects, Chilcott has gained a strong reputation as an advertising short project producer. In a recent...
iOS 10.3 Update with APFS Now Available to public Without a file system, your Mac, iPhone, iPad or even your Apple Watch would not work. A file system is used by an operating system like macOS and iOS to read from...
At last year’s Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple brought big changes to iOS with iOS 9 and OS X with the latest iteration “El Capitan”. So what exactly is being announced at this year’s WWDC keynote address at the Moscone West convention...
Last month, the OWC-sponsored L.A. Post Fest took over the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre in Santa Monica to unveil its inaugural event. Nearly 300 filmmakers, editors, post production professionals, directors, and producers packed the house to see what this new...
Feeling the need for speed? Back in 2012, Apple introduced the Fusion Drive to Macs in the Mac mini and iMac, merging the speed of a Solid State Drive (SSD) with the low cost of high capacity hard disk drives...
During April, the Rocket Yard focuses on the importance of backups to an overall data security plan. Previously, we discussed how to use the Time Machine app built into OS X to easily and quickly begin backing up data on your Mac, as...
Hang around a Mac gaming forum or YouTube channel for five minutes and you’re bound to see someone ask “why would anyone choose a Mac for gaming?” It’s an honest question, but unfortunately, it’s backward. People don’t buy Macs just...
March 31 may have been World Backup Day, but here at The Rocket Yard we put a lot of emphasis on the importance of backups throughout the month of April. Today we're going to take a look at online backup...
During the month of April, we’re going to forego the usual Friday Five and replace it with a series of articles that deal with audio and video content production, editing and distribution. That’s the focus of the annual NAB (National...
