August Users Group Meeting
Thursday, August 28, 2008
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
*** QUICK RSVP ***
Agenda:
• Wes Carr, Panasonic - NEW SEASON
Panasonic's
new camera lineup.
AVC-Intra - What is it and why do you want
it?
•
Orlando Luna, Apple - FIELD CAPTURE
DDR Capture from Panasonic
Cameras via AJA IO HD to 10bit ProRes onto Apple Portable solutions
and Sonnet F2 Fusion storage.
HIGH PERFORMANCE HD EDITING - Apple
MacPro editing with Direct Attached Promise Fiber storage.
Come see the latest and greatest workflow solutions
from Apple and Pansonic. Introducing Videosope USA, an Apple Pro
Video VAR and Pansonic Professional Broadcast dealer offering
a unique approach of stocking the most popular products used in
production. No more ordering or waiting.
*** QUICK RSVP ***
Location:
Videoscope USA
7711 NW 46th Street
Doral, FL 33166
305-438-3742
Map & Directions:
http://www.videoscopeusa.com/NewImages/7711%20Map%20with%20Details-07.pdf
Conveniently located across from the Miami International
Airport on the west side of the Palmetto Expressway.
Raffle:
MacProVideo -
1 free downloadable tutorial (value $50)
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD (value $49.95)
Peachpit -
1 book (value $54.99)
... and more to come
Snacks and beverages provided courtesy of Videoscope.
August Special Event
Thursday, August 14, 2008
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Guest Speaker:
Bruce Nazarian, MPSE, "The Digital Guy"
President of the DVD Association International www.dvda.org
Bruce Nazarian will give a presentation on how video creators/producers
using Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Studio can take advantage of
Blu-ray authoring in a knowledgeable way. Bruce Nazarian will address
a number of "gotchas" that currently exist in BD authoring,
duplication and replication that make the current path to BD publishing
not as straightforward as it is for DVD. The DVDA's mission will
be to eliminate this confusion by providing information on what
options are available for successfully producing and publishing
using Blu-ray Disc.
Seating is limited, and you are strongly encouraged to RSVP!
Location:
Hollywood Video & Duplication Services
4208 North 31st Ave., Suite 2
Hollywood, FL 33021
(954) 963-9551
www.hollywood-multimedia.com
Directions:
I-95 exit
west on Stirling, make a U turn @ Park Road, head east 3 blocks
to 31st Ave., make a right. Hollywood Video is in the strip mall
on the south side of the road, in Suite #2.
Meeting hosted by user group member Stephen Sarsfield.
Refreshments will be served.
May Users Group Meeting
Thursday, May 22, 2008
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:
Midtown Video
4824 SW 74th Court
Miami, FL 33155
305-669-1117
Directions: http://www.midtownvideo.com/
Agenda:
Matrox will present the new MXO2, a truly portable
and affordable I/O device that gives you broadcast-quality input/output,
monitoring, and up/down/cross conversion used with Final Cut Studio
2.
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/mxo2/
Midtown Video will present the Sony
PMW-EX1 XDCAM EX camcorder.
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/micro-xdcamexsite/
Apple's Orlando Luna will walk you through a workflow that
includes footage from the Sony EX1, to FC Server (via FCP Log and
Transfer), to FCP Edit (monitoring using MXO), to final edit (output
via MXO).
Raffle:
MacProVideo -
1 free downloadable tutorial (value $50)
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD (value $49.95)
Peachpit -
1 book (value $54.99)
Ben's
Tutorials - 1 training DVD (value $74.95)
...and other goodies!
Refreshments sponsored by Midtown Video.
April Users Group Meeting
Thursday, April 24, 2008
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:
CineVideoTech
7330 NE 4th Court
Miami FL 33138
Phone: 305-754-2611
Directions: www.cinevideotech.com
Agenda:
Egon Stephan and Dawson Peden of CineVideoTech
will give a workshop on the new RED ONE camera!
The meeting will be conducted as a two-part workshop. The first
part
will give an overview of the RED ONE camera
systems with their support
gear. The second part will cover the FCP 6 workflow, and will be given by an
editor to be named later... details to follow...
Raffle:
MacProVideo -
1 free downloadable tutorial (value $50)
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD (value $49.95)
Peachpit -
1 book (value $54.99)
Ben's
Tutorials - 1 training DVD (value $74.95)
... and goodies from
NAB 2008!
Refreshments sponsored by CineVideoTech.
March Users Group Meeting
Thursday, March 27, 2008
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:
Hollywood Production Center
2040 Sherman Street
Hollywood, FL 33020
(954) 924-4949
http://www.telairint.com/
Agenda:
Stan Blair, of Blair
Music, will present a tutorial on multicam editing, and will
conduct the meeting and the raffle.
Jessica Kizorek, of Two Parrot Productions,
will discuss her new book, Show
Me: Marketing With Video on the Internet, and her travels to
Asia and Africa shooting video for NGOs.
Alex Ferrari, of The
Enigma Factory Inc., will give a presentation on color correction,
and visual effects workflow with Final Cut Pro.
He is the director/editor of the critically acclaimed
short Broken,
and Red
Princess Blues, a short which will screen at Cannes 2008.
Raffle:
MacProVideo -
1 free downloadable tutorial (value $50)
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD (value $49.95)
Larry
Jordan - 1 training DVD (value $99.00)
Peachpit -
1 book (value $49.49)
Ben's
Tutorials - 1 training DVD (value $74.95)
February Users Group
Meeting
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location:
Hollywood
Video & Duplication Services
4208 North 31st Ave. Suite 2
Hollywood, FL 33021
(954) 963-9551
Agenda:
Mike Bielenberg of RoyatyFreeMusic.com,
one of our new
sponsors, will speak about copyright and music licensing.
Also, back by popular demand, Orlando Luna,
Senior Systems Engineer for
Apple, will give a presentation on Motion.
Stan Blair, of Blair
Music, will conduct the meeting and the raffle.
Thanks to Stan for helping with the meeting, Stephen
Sarsfield for providing the meeting room, and René Barroto of Multivision for
bringing the projector.
Raffle:
MacProVideo -
1 free downloadable tutorial
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD
Larry
Jordan - 1 training DVD
Peachpit -
1 book
Ben's Tutorials - 1 training DVD
January Users Group
Meeting
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
*** Please note that the meeting is on a WEDNESDAY night!
***
Agenda:
• Announcements, Q&A
• Noise Industries' FxFactory plug-ins demo
• Ross Shain, Imagineer Systems
• Raffle
Ross Shain of Imagineer
Systems, will present an
overview of their products Mocha, Motor, Mokey, Monet and Mofex.
They are used with Final Cut, Shake and After Effects for motion
tracking, rotoscoping, stablization, wire removal and compositing.
This meeting is the first official collaboration
with the Fort
Lauderdale ACM SIGGRAPH professional chapter. Thanks to Vice
Chairman Fran McAfee, we will be meeting at the CEC animation/effects
studio at FAU in downtown Fort Lauderdale.
Raffle Prizes:
Imagineer Systems
1 seat of mocha ($2995 list price)
1 seat of motor
($1595 list)
1 seat of mocha-AE ($299 list)
Imagineer will also offer a 70% discount coupon code
on any product to group members.
Call
Box - 1 training DVD
Noise
Industries - 1 FxFactory Editing Pack
Boris
FX - 1 license for Boris FX or Boris Graffiti
MacProVideo -
1 free downloadable tutorial
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD
Larry Jordan -
1 training DVD
Peachpit - 1 book
Location:
Fort Lauderdale SIGGRAPH
c/o Florida Center for Electronic Communication
Reubin O'D Askew
Tower
220 S.E. 2nd Avenue
Suite 911
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
954-762-5618
Directions
2007
Special Workshop on Apple Color
December 6, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Apple Color Correction Workshop with Creative COW's
Stuart Ferreyra
Stuart Ferreyra is the colorist and finisher featured
in the Call
Box Live tutorial DVD, Digital Color Correction: The
Final Cut Studio Workflow with Apple's Color.
Visit Stuart at the Apple Color Forum for the Creative
COW.
http://forums.creativecow.net/viewforum/223
Location:
TV Production, Room C52
Miami Lakes Educational Center
5780 NW 158 St.
Miami Lakes, FL 33014
(305) 557-1100
http://mlec.dadeschools.net/
The workshop will be held in the TV
Production classroom in Building C on the North side of campus.
Directions:
Take 836 to NW 57 Ave south to 158 Street.
Turn right. Enter at the third gate on your left, and park on
the right side of the lot. Building C is ahead and to the left.
Enter at the NE corner. The TV Production classroom, Room C52,
is the first door on the right.
Instructor
Louis DePriest is providing the meeting room and equipment.
Refreshments by Culinary Arts students.
December Users Group Holiday Meeting
December 11, 2007
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Agenda:
• Q&A, announcements
• Sony XDCAM EX demo, by Sony and Midtown Video
• Pilotware demo
• Show Your Stuff members video screening
Bring a clip 3-5 minutes long on DVD. This can be
your reel, a short, a scene, a work in progress, commercials etc.
There's time to show 10-12 clips.
Raffle Prizes:
Call
Box - 1 training DVD
Noise
Industries - 1 FxFactory Editing Pack
Boris
FX - 1 license for Boris FX or Boris Graffiti
MacProVideo -
1 free downloadable tutorial
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD
Larry Jordan -
1 training DVD
Location:
Midtown
Video demo room
4824 SW 74 Court
Miami, FL 33155
305-669-1117
Directions:
-Take 826 South.
-Go to Bird Road/SW 40th Street Exit, go east (left).
-Go to SW 72nd Avenue, turn right.
-Go to SW 48th Street and turn right. (at the traffic light)
-48th street curves left and becomes SW 74th court.
-Parking lot on the right after curve.
Refreshments provided by Midtown Video.
November Users Group
Meeting
November 29, 2007
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Agenda:
• Announcements and Q&A
• Nicole Martinez, Apple Certified Trainer,
on Soundtrack Pro. Bring your questions,
challenges and problems using Soundtrack, and Nicole will help
you find a solution.
• Ed McDermid on PilotWare,
the media asset management software used by TV shows and film productions
to log footage and manage tape inventory.
Raffle Prizes:
Blackmagic Intensity
Pro card - must bring proof of Mac Pro tower ownership to
be eligible to win (valid serial number, receipt of purchase)
Call
Box - 1 training DVD
Telestream -
1 License for Episode Pro
Noise
Industries - 1 FxFactory Editing Pack
Boris FX -
1 license for Boris FX or Boris Graffiti
MacProVideo - 1 free downloadable tutorial
Creative
Cow - 1 training DVD
Location:
McFatter
Technical Center
Building 1, Room 147 Multimedia classroom
6500 Nova Drive
Davie, Florida 33317
Phone: 754-321-5700
Plenty of free parking in the front parking lot on
the East side on Davie Road, and from the west parking lot on Nova
Drive.
Map & directions
October Special Event
October 25, 2007
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Larry Jordan, PowerUP Seminars
Agenda:
• General Q&A and announcements
• Larry Jordan's presentation on "Tricks
You Never Knew about LiveType" followed by Q&A with Larry
Raffle Prizes:
Larry
Jordan - 2 training DVDs, 1 ticket to PowerUP
seminar of your choice
Blackmagic Intensity Pro card - must
bring proof of Mac Pro tower ownership to be eligible to
win
Call
Box - 1 training DVD
Automatic
Duck - 1 License to plug-in of your choice
Telestream -
1 License for WMV Studio Pro HD
Noise Industries -
1 FxFactory Editing Pack
Peachpit Press - 1 book on Final Cut Pro
Boris FX - 1 license for Boris FX
Location:
Multivision
Video & Film
7000 S.W. 59th Place
South Miami FL 33143
305-662-6011
Plenty of free parking on the street and in the parking
garage across the street.
Map
and directions
Refreshments sponsored by
Rene Borroto and
Bob Berkowitz, Multivision.
September Users
Group Meeting
September 27, 2007
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Kevin Loudon, Telestream
Agenda:
• Q&A, and announcements
• Show Your Stuff – members share their
reels and works in progress
• Kevin Loudon from Telestream will demo Episode Pro, Flip4Mac
and Pipeline
• Nicole Martínez will discuss new features of Soundtrack
Pro
Raffle Prizes:
MacProVideo -
2 downloads of tutorials
Call
Box - 1 training DVD
Automatic
Duck - 1 License to plug-in of your choice
Telestream -
1 License for Episode Pro
Blackmagic Design -
1 Intensity Pro card (need to show serial of Mac Pro tower to claim)
Noise Industries - 1 FxFactory Editing Pack
RoyaltyFreeMusic.com - 1 royalty-free music CD
... and lots of other goodies!
Location:
McFatter
Technical Center
Building 1, in the Multimedia classroom
6500 Nova Drive
Davie, Florida 33317
Phone: 754-321-5700
Plenty of free parking in the front parking lot on
the East side.
Map & directions
August Users Group Meeting
August 30, 2007
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tutorial Night
sponsored by New Media Expo
Agenda:
• Q&A and announcement of agenda
• Rafael Andreu will give a tutorial on LiveType,
the program that Allan calls "the hundred-thousand dollar
Chyron that Apple gives us for free" (with Final Cut Studio
or even with Final Cut Express).
• Allan Tépper will discuss changes in iLife
'08, with specific information about changes in .Mac, iMovie, and
iWeb, especially the information that isn't clear on the Apple
website.
• Rubén Abruña on audio fundamentals
in FCP and Soundtrack Pro, part 2
• Allan Tépper on HD formats and features,
part 2
Comparison chart of Sub-US$5k progressive
cameras, as created
and published by Allan Tépper http://allantépper.biz/sub5k/
Raffle Prizes:
MacProVideo -
2 downloads of tutorials
Call
Box - 1 training DVD of your choice
Automatic
Duck - 1 License to plug-in of your choice
Telestream -
1 License for Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD
Blackmagic Design - 1 Intensity Pro card
Boris FX - Choice of FX or Graffiti
... and lots of other goodies!
Refreshments sponsored by New
Media Expo
Location:
Future
Media Concepts
6303 Blue Lagoon Drive, Suite 105
Miami, FL 33126
Tel: 305-263-6644
Plenty of free parking!
Map & directions
July Users Group Meeting
July 26 , 2007
6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Tutorial Night
Agenda:
• Q&A and announcement of agenda
• Alex Udell, PEI Tech – Matrox MXO and
Quantum DLT solutions
• Allan Tépper – Creating and preserving
proper black levels in digital and
analog, both SD & HD.
Avoid having your project or footage rejected by
TV stations due to
incorrect black levels.
Learn when black levels are supposed to be zero IRE, when they
should
be 7.5 IRE, when they should be level 16.
Learn how to avoid crushed blacks, and how to avoid getting incorrect
black levels, like 15 IRE and level 32.
Learn about "super black".
Learn which models of cameras and decks have proper 0/7.5 IRE,
which
don't, and how to compensate design errors in some models.
Includes a 5-minute animated Flash presentation, inspired by his
2002
article, "Los negros todavía no tienen igualdad."
• Rubén Abruña – Audio fundamentals
in FCP and Soundtrack
BREAK
• Allan Tépper – Shooting in 25p
beats "24p"
25p workflow from camera to edit. The simplicity
of 25p versus the
complexity of "24p" production.
Methods to export to different output formats and framerates.
• Allan Tépper – Learn the differences
between "true" and "full" HD
formats (720p, 1080i, and 1080p)
Learn differences between full 720p, full 1080i,
and full 1080p, versus fake 720p, fake 1080i and fake 1080p.
Learn when full 720p has more resolution than full 1080i or even
in
some cases more than full 1080p.
Learn which tape and disk formats record full HD, and which record
fake HD.
Raffle Prizes:
MacProVideo -
2 downloads of tutorials
Call
Box - 1 training DVD
Automatic
Duck - 1 License to plug-in of your choice
Telestream - 1 License for Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD
Peachpit Press -
1 book - Aperture by Orlando Luna and Ben Long
...and other goodies!
Location:
Miami-Dade College, North Campus campus
map
School of Entertainment and Design Technologies
11380 NW 27th Avenue
Building 2, Room 2140
Miami, FL 33167
Parking is available in Parking
Lots 3 and 4, closest to Building 2 and Room 2140, the southernmost
lots on campus, or in the Visitor lot just in front of Building
2 on the west side.
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