LAFCPUG various announcements

[Heath McKnight]

Sounds pretty great. You guys at FCPUG know how to throw a shindig!

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[Michael Horton]

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will welcome Adobe to its next meeting, Wednesday, March 28 at the Gallery Theatre in E. Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM. Sr. Product Manager for Premiere Pro, Giles Baker will show us everything we need to know about the brand new Creative Suite Production Studio which includes Premiere Pro, Encore, Audition, After Effects, Photoshop, and Illustrator all in one box.

Also on the agenda will be Kevin Louden and Barbara Dehart from Telestream, who will show off Episode Pro as well as the brand new hardware encoder, Pipeline.

Rounding out the evening will be another round of Stump the Gurus, the FCP tip/trick of the month, and “World Famous Raffle.”

Meeting is open to public and doors open at 6:00PM. A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.

For complete details as well as directions to the Gallery theatre, visit the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

[Steve Benner]

Does anyone know if this will be a Keynote Presentation like Macworld and WWDC have been as of late?

[Mike Tesh]

Yes it will be. You can view live updates here:
http://www.macrumorslive.com/

[Michael Horton]

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will bring a little bit of NAB ot its next meeting, Wednesday, April 25 at the Gallery Theatre in E. Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM.

Scheduled to appear will be Martin Baker of Digital Heaven, Christoph Vornhein of CHV Plug-ins and Dan May of Blackmagic Design. Plus “Everything you want to know about Final Cut Studio 2 with FCP Gurus, Larry Jordan, Steve Martin, Martin Baker and Philip Hodgetts. In addition we will have another round of Stump The Gurus, and World Famous Raffle, where we will be giving away 2 Decklink HD Extreme Cards, and 2 Intensity cards as well as many other valuable prizes.

Doors will open at 6:00PM and we expect a full house so get there early if you want a good seat. For more details on the agenda as well as directions to the Gallery Theatre, please visit the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, May 23 , 2007 beginning at 6:45PM - at the Gallery Theatre in E Hollywood, CA.

Join us as we welcome Ripple Training's Steve Martin and Apple’s Doug Cunningham who will take us deep inside Soundtrack Pro 2. Plus Marco Solorio of Cinesoft who will show off the brand new Media Batch, Shane Ross of Little Frog in High def, will show us how to get Organized in FCP. Plus another round of Stump the Gurus and World Famous Raffle and Show and Tells from Christine Steele and Tony Mark.

For complete details on agenda as well as directions to the Gallery Theatre, visit the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Doors will open at 6:00PM and a $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.

[Michael Horton]

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will celebrate its 7th birthday, Wednesday June 27 at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood, CA. beginning at 6:45PM It will be "FCP 6 Night."

Scheduled to present will be Ripple Training's Steve Martin who will show off "Working with Motion Templates in FCP 6." Apple's director of Pro Video Product Management, Richard Townhill will discuss Apple's new codec, ProRes 422 and also something "super secret.". Larry Jordan will demo the new filter, Smoothcam from FCP 6. And, very special guest, FCP Product Designer, Brian Meaney will make an appearance.

Not enough? Author and editor Lisa Brenneis will show off her latest documentary, "Eat at Bill's: Life in the Monterey Market." Plus there will be another round of Stump The Gurus, and World Famous Raffle.

Doors will open at 6:00PM and a $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.

For complete details as well as directions to the Gallery theatre, please visit the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

[Michael Horton]

It will be “Apple Color, Boris BCC, CHV and SFETT” at the next Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) meeting to be held Wednesday, July 25 at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood, beginning at 6:45PM.

Scheduled to appear will be LA Post House Hollywood-DI who did the world's first movie color corrected on Apple Color. Managing Director Neil Smith, senior colorist Yasu Tsuji and DI supervisor, Aaron Peak will show us all you need to know to get started with Color.

Also set will be Eric Gardner from Boris who will show off Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 FXPlug.

CHV Electronic's Christoph Vonrhein will show off his new suite of particle emitters for FCP 6 and Motion.

Also on hand will be the students from SFETT http://www.sfett.com/ who will make their annual pilgrimage to lafcpug to tell us all about this years iCan Festival de Cine.

FCP Guru Andrew Balis will show us some of the cool functionality of Apple’s Color.

Rounding out the evening will be another round of Stump The Gurus and of course, World Famous raffle. All in one night. Whew!

For complete details on the agenda plus directions to the Gallery Theatre, please visit the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door.

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, Aug 22 at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM. It will be Compression Night.

Join us as we welcome Compressor Guru and author Brian Gary and Apple's Brian Hoffman as they take us on a "How2" tour of Compressor 3. Also scheduled to demo will be John Diel and Coby Rich who will show us Sorenson Squeeze 4.5.

Brian Dalton will show us clips and talk about his hugely popular video podcast, Mr. Deity and how he does it.

Not enough? Red Giant Software will show off Magic Bullet Looks, Primatte Keyer for FCP and Trapcode for FCP and Motion.

Plus another round of Stump The Gurus and of course, World Famous raffle, where this month we are giving away thousands of dollars worth of prizes.

For complete details on the agenda including directions to the Gallery theatre, visit the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be held Wednesday, September 26 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood, CA.

It will be “Motion 3 and FX Night” where you will learn all you need to know about getting started in Motion 3, and how to create FX using Apple Color.

Scheduled to appear will be Steve Martin of Ripple Training who will pull a Motion 3 Tip/Trick out of his hat. Also, Motion Guru and author of the “Motion 3 Fast Forward” training DVD from Ripple Training, Mark Spencer, will be down to give us a tour of getting started with Motion 3.

Neil Smith, Yasu Tsuji, Aaron Peak from Hollywood DI, return, this time to show us how to create FX using Color.

Plus another round of Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle.
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For directions to the Gallery Theatre and all the details on the agenda go to the Next Meeting page at lafcpug.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.

Doors open 6:00PM. Meeting is open to the public.

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, October 24, 2007 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood Ca

It will be “Legends of the Digital Video Revolution Night.”

Join us as Final Cut Pro creator Randy Ubillos returns to lafcpug after a long absence to show off his latest creation, iMovie 08. Despite what you have read about it, let's have a look at it and then decide. It deserves attention. And who better to show it off then the creator himself. Also scheduled to appear will be Christoph Vonrhein from CHV plug-ins who will show you how to create your own plug-ins for FCP and Motion within a matter of minutes. Also Philip Hodgetts of the Digital Production Buzz will talk briefly about "Preparing for Online Distribution."

Plus a FCP Tip/trick of the Month from Josh Mellicker of DVCreators.net, another round of Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells, World Famous raffle and MORE.
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A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door. Meeting is open to public. First come, best seat.

For more information on the agenda including directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site:

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

[Michael Horton]

Join us as we devote the most of the night to the Red Digital Cinema Camera and FCP workflow. Scheduled to appear will be Curtis Harris from ProMax who will discuss the latest and greatest RED to FCP workflow techniques and file management. Also scheduled to appear will be "Red Ninjas," Evin Grant, Brook Willard and Blair Paulsen, who will show footage and talk about using the Red as well as share the latest updates on the camera.

We will take a 20 minute break from the Red Camera and allow Todd Prives to show off the just released and brand new Sapphire Plug-ins 2.0 for FCP. High End plug-ins for high end footage.

If that is not enough we still intend to have our world famous raffle and this month the prizes are huge.

Plus more "Red" guests to be announced soon.

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door. Meeting is open to public.

A link to where to register will be found on the lafcpug web site at exactly 11AM, Thursday Nov 8.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

And no we do not have a 4K projector. We will be showing ProRes on a 20ft screen and it is stunning.

The Sony XDCAM EX will be there too, courtesy of ProMax. It is doubtful though we will show footage from it.

[Greg Boston]

The Dallas FCPUG will also be showcasing RED at the monthly meeting which is TONIGHT(11-8) at AMS Productions on the North Dallas Tollway. Camera provided courtesy of local rental house MPE.

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[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, Dec 12 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood, CA.

The 1st annual lafcpug Holiday "Toys" Party
Join us for the first ever lafcpug holiday Toys party featuring all the toys you want under your tree but were afraid to ask your spouse or parents for. Show will feature all you need to know about the Sony XDCAM EX (Cameraman Doug Jensen will show footage and show you how to edit XDCAM in FCP).

Shane Ross will show us the Matrox MXO. Bogen Imaging will be showing off lots of cool toys for your camcorder. Plus Show and Tells, Stump the Gurus , Larry Jordan on What's new in 6.0.2, and of course, World Famous Raffle where we will be giving away a MXO and something super secret from Sony as well as many other prizes. The party of the year for gearheads!. Dec 12 at the Gallery Theatre.

Complete agenda and directions to the Gallery Theatre can be found on the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door. Meeting is open to public. No prior registration necessary. Just show up.

[Michael Horton]

Tickets are now on sale for the seventh annual FCPUG "SuperMeet" to be held January, 16, 2008 from 5:000PM - 10:00PM at the Mission Bay Conference Center, as part of the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, CA. This event promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut Pro users and Gurus in the world.

The Mission Bay Conference Center is the largest venue we have ever had for one of these Macworld SuperMeets. It is a brand new state of the art facility and the interior space is magnificent and spacious. We have room to seat 600 people, and for the first time ever, students under 21 will be able to attend. Plus there will be 22 vendors out front showing off their products, and many of these companies will not be on the Macworld Expo show floor. This will be a sort of a Mini Macworld devoted entirely to Digital Video filmmakers and FCS users.

The agenda includes presentations from Apple, Adobe, Blackmagic Design and Sony, as well as “show and tells” from Bay Area filmmakers, FCS tips and techniques and of course, our world famous Raffle with prizes totaling over $35,000.

Tickets are only $10.00 per person and includes 2 raffle tickets. Tickets are on sale online only and it is expected this event will sell out. Food and cash bar will be available throughout the evening and there will be plenty of time to network, party and get your problems solved. Doors open at 5:00PM and this event is open to anyone who wishes to learn more about Apple's Final Cut Studio, Digital Video or meet people who know more than you do.

For more information as well as a link to where to buy tickets, visit the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/macworld_08.html