Rick Young's Blog

Rick Young has worked in television and video production since the late 1980’s and is a committed Mac fanatic, using Apple technology for all his professional post-production work. Rick's introduction to Apple was with a Lisa before the Mac even existed, and since then has worked on Macs exclusively. He considers himself lucky to be able to get paid for what he loves to do - shoot and edit.


July 21, 2009

1920 x 1080 Display


Then came along the 30 inch.

All of a sudden the 23 inch display, while still quite beautiful, seems diminutive in size.

On release the 30 inch display sold for around £1700 and the 23 inch sold for 8 or 900 pounds.

Both fully capable of displaying 1920 x 1080 native HD - for video producers stepping into the world of HD either of these was the...

Rick Young


July 20, 2009

Line-up by eye

It was back in my television days, early to mid 1990's. A young 19 year old fresh out of college female struts in wielding a fearsome looking suction cup device, and tells me she's here to calibrate my monitor.

Rick Young


July 13, 2009

That ol’ G5

Working through a project which has been a work in progress for some two and a half years - I've been called in to finish it.