If you’ve been trying to modernize your editing rig to handle an 8K post-production future, you may be stuck. Maybe you have discovered that prices for parts are too damn high, or that they’re simply unavailable. You can thank a worldwide computer chip shortage for the problem, and it’s not going away any time soon. What’s causing this problem is the perfect storm of supply meeting demand, a pandemic, and a well-timed factory fire that has supplies short and prices high. At the heart of this worldwide processor shortage is a phenomenon called the “bullwhip effect.” It was named by Stanford professor Hau Lee, who was studying why there was a wild swing in the availability of disposable diapers (of all things) even though the demand was fairly consistent. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 29 June, 2021