LAFCPUG various announcements

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, April 30, 2008 beginning at 6:45PM - at the Gallery Theater in East Hollywood, CA.

Scheduled to present will be Apple’s Luke Tristram who will debut the recently released Final Cut Server. Also Adobe will show how to create and burn a Blu-ray DVD using Encore. Philip Hodgetts will debut what may be the scariest "editing" tool you will ever see, The Assistant Editor. Plus, Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details and directions to the Gallery theater, visit the lafcpug web site.

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

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the LA Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, May 21, 2008 beginning at 6:45PM - till we drop at the Gallery Theatre.

It will be "Encoding Night."

Join us as we welcome Bill Harris from Telestream who will show us the new and improved "Pipeline" hardware encoder. Also Josh Mellicker of DVCreators will show us their latest software encoder, dvcCast.

Andreas Wacker, who developed the digital workflow for David Fincher's "Zodiac" returns to lafcpug to talk about how to "Encode for the Web" including choosing the right codec and container etc.

Compressor Guru Brian Gary and Ray Wallick of Omni Cinema Craft will debut the brand new Cinema Craft Encoder MP Plug-In for Compressor 3. Plus, Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle with this months prizes worth well over $4000.00.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For more information including complete details on the agenda as well as directions to the Gallery Theatre, 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, June, 18, 2008 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood, California. It will be “Happy 8th Birthday lafcpug Night.”


Join us as we celebrate the eighth anniversary of the lafcpug. It was just eight years ago that lafcpug held its first meeting in a small post production room in Burbank, CA. with Approximatly 30 people attended that watershed event. Now, with a membership of over 5000 people worldwide, lafcpug has grown into the single largest and most infulential Final Cut Pro User Group in the world. To help us celebrate will be veteran film editor and Associate Professor and Head of the Editing Track at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Norman Hollyn. Norman will speak on the “craft” of editing.

In addition to Norman Hollyn, Matt Stoneking will debut the brand new soon to be shipping Video Recorder/D.264 encoder from BlackMagic Design. Plus, the brand new Focus FS-5 Portable DTE Recorder from Focus Enhancements will wow all of you who hate tape. Not enough? FCS Guru Larry Jordan returns to lafcpug with this months FCP Tip/Trick of the Month. Plus we will have our monthly editions of Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details and directions to the Gallery Theater in Hollywood, 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, June, 18, 2008 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood, California. It will be “Happy 8th Birthday lafcpug Night.”


Join us as we celebrate the eighth anniversary of the lafcpug. It was just eight years ago that lafcpug held its first meeting in a small post production room in Burbank, CA. with Approximatly 30 people attended that watershed event. Now, with a membership of over 5000 people worldwide, lafcpug has grown into the single largest and most infulential Final Cut Pro User Group in the world. To help us celebrate will be veteran film editor and Associate Professor and Head of the Editing Track at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, Norman Hollyn. Norman will speak on the “craft” of editing.

In addition to Norman Hollyn, Matt Stoneking will debut the brand new soon to be shipping Video Recorder/D.264 encoder from BlackMagic Design. Plus, the brand new Focus FS-5 Portable DTE Recorder from Focus Enhancements will wow all of you who hate tape. Not enough? FCS Guru Larry Jordan returns to lafcpug with this months FCP Tip/Trick of the Month. Plus we will have our monthly editions of Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details and directions to the Gallery Theater in Hollywood, 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, July 23 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in E. Hollywood California.

It will be a jam packed show on this hot July night and you will not want to miss it. Something for everyone this time. Plus food!

Join us as we welcome back DVD guru Bruce Nazarian who will demonstrate a simple Mac FCP/FCS-to-Blu-ray workflow for both blu-ray media and red-laser media. Also Steve Martin of Ripple Training returns to lafcpug to show off and talk about the one Pro App in the Final Cut Studio suite that no one seems to understand, but should, Soundtrack Pro 2.

Also the students from SFETT will make their annual pilgrimage to lafcpug to show and tell all about their upcoming iCan 9 Film Festival in San Fernando, CA. Also editor Derek Mok will take us into the 'Process of Editing' by comparing before and after clips from a narrative film he cut and the "what and why" decisions that went into achieving the "final cut." Plus Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details including directions to the Gallery Theater go to the lafcpug web site.

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

[Michael Horton]

Going to IBC? Live in the Netherlands or in Europe and have nothing to do Sept 14? Read on.

The agenda has been announced for the 1st Annual IBC FCPUG SuperMeet to be held Sunday, 14 September, 2008 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands at the Culture Park Westergasfabriek, Gashouder as part of the giant trade show, IBC 2008.

This event is expected to be the largest gathering of Final Cut Pro users and digital filmmakers on the planet during IBC week.

Scheduled to appear, and this is subject to change, are:

From Apple in Cupertino CA., Paul Saccone, Director of Technical Marketing in Apple's Applications Marketing group, will provide the latest news on Final Cut Studio.

Darius Fisher, who co-edited and co-produced “Fields of Fuel,” a documentary that won the Audience award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival will show clips from the doc and show how Final Cut Studio was used to make this complex and important documentary work.

“Traitor” is a film set to be released August 27, 2008 and is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of The Day After Tomorrow) and edited by award winning Film Editor, Billy Fox (Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan.) It stars Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce. (Memento, L.A. Confidential)
Jeffrey Nachmanoff (subject to availability) and editor Billy Fox will discuss how Final Cut Studio helped bring this taut international thriller to life.

From Spain, Director of Photography, Miguel de Olaso AKA Macgregor will show clips from his work utilizing the Red Digital Cinema Camera and talk briefly on workflow with Final Cut Pro.

Adobe’s Simon Hayhurst and Jason Levine will show how Adobe Production Premium’s suite of applications can compliment the Final Cut Pro workflow.

Final Cut Pro Guru and filmmaker Rick Young, who is editor of Macvideo.tv and founder of the UK FCP User Group will share his "Top Ten FCP Tips and Tricks."

Grass Valley/Thomson’s Director of Marketing Scott Sheehan will show a short video of high quality JPEG 2000 shot on the Infinity Camcorder and edited with Final Cut Pro. The video will be followed by a short demonstration of the file-based workflow between the Infinity and FCP. This includes a full 10-bit, 4:2:2, JPEG 2000 workflow that uses the recently released I-J2K Suite from CineForm as well as MPEG-2 HD workflow using the Telestream Flip4Mac solution.

Finally, and throughout the evening, there will be presentations from Independent Filmmakers and digital video artists from throughout Europe.

In addition to the above agenda there will be twenty vendors from all around Europe showing off their wares. Many of these companies will not be on the show floor at IBC. The SuperMeet will be the only place you will see them.

There will be food and cash bars and rounding out the evening will be a raffle with prizes totaling into the tens of thousands of dollars.

Doors will open at 5PM (17:00) and the show will begin at 7PM. (19:00) Tickets are on sale online only for Euro 10.00 each and this event is expected to sell out.

Complete details, including daily updates on the agenda as well as a link to where to buy tickets can be found on the lafcpug web site.

IBC FCPUG SuperMeet

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, September 24, 2008 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood California.

Join us as welcome Mark Altekruse who will show off the the music making capabilities of Abaltat. Also, Film Editor Billy Fox will show us how he used ALL of the apps in the Final Cut Studio suite to bring the recently released film, "Traitor" to life. MediaSilo is the affordable video content management and collaboration platform that puts an end to expensive overnight deliveries and time consuming client review meetings. Dan Green will show it to us. Ron Diamond will demo a brand new super secret utility that will make its world debut at lafcpug. Logic Keyboards are among the best editing keyboards for FCP users. Stephen Moore will show us why. Plus Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells, and of course, World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details including directions to the Gallery Theater, go to the lafcpug web site.

LAFCPUG Next Meeting

[Michael Horton]

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

Scheduled to appear will be Kevin Wyatt from Baseline Studio Systems to talk about the Baseline Studio System, the entertainment industry's most powerful film and television credit resource.

Also scheduled to appear will be Josh Mellicker from DVCreators.net. Josh will show off the brand new "revolutionary, integrated application for encoding, uploading and publishing web video," DV Kitchen.

FCS Guru Andrew Balis will show the ins and outs of multi-format timelines in Final Cut Pro, and what's happening behind the scenes when you mix different formats together. Also, if time allows, show how to deal with SD anamorphic footage correctly.

Neil Smith and Aaron Peak of Hollywood DI, one of the leading Post Houses in Los Angeles, will show us and tell us all we need to know about everything we need to do before we deliver our movie to a post house for finishing.

Brad Wright, creator of DVDxDV and Veescope Live will debut his latest creation, Veescope Signals. Veescope Signals is a plug-in for Final Cut Pro that makes the job of color correcting, shot matching, and proofing your video easier than ever before. Veescope Signals displays the brightness, flesh tones, white points in the video in a series of specialized scopes that are overlaid directly on top of the image. Using these scopes a user can quickly identify the problem areas in the video and correct them.

The rest of the eveing will consist of “Stump The Gurus,” Show and Tells, and of course, World Famous Raffle. A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details including directions to the Gallery Theatre, visit the lafcpug website.

LAFCPUG Next Meeting

[Michael Horton]

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will once again stage it’s unique brand of infotainment and education Wednesday, Nov. 5 at 7PM inside the LA Convention Center as part of the 2008 DV Expo.

This event is for digital video content creators who use Apple’s Final Cut Studio or want to learn Final Cut Studio.

Scheduled to appear on the agenda will be FCS Guru Larry Jordan who will show several FCP Tips and tricks you need to know.

Philip Hodgetts will debut another “really scary” tool as part of his recently released “First Cuts for FCP.”

DP Jody Eldred will show recent footage he shot with the new Sony PDW 700 XDCAM HD, 4:2:2, 2/3" camera, speak briefly about its capabilities, future capabilities (such as 24P), and workflow. Then Jody will show Sony's new XDCAM EX3 camera, explain some of its capabilities and features, then show some recent footage shot with it in 24P. Finally, if time allows, he will do a short demonstration using his MacBook Pro as to the EX3 workflow: from shooting to transferring files, then importing them into FCP and editing on a timeline.

The boys from LA Post House, DigitalFilm Tree will show how they online the hit Showtime series, "Weeds" using FCP, including color correcting with Color and doing the titles with Livetype.

Filmmaker Michael Addis will show clips and talk about his recently released and critically acclaimed documentary, HECKLER starring Jamie Kennedy. Michael will talk about how he went from easily obtainable and inexpensive digital camera gear, cut 400 hours of footage down to 78 minutes on an affordable Mac, then delivered on HD a finished movie that played in theaters and was just recently lauded by Jimmy Kimmel on ABC.

Rounding out the evening will be lafcpug’s “World famous raffle with prizes totaling over $15,000.00

This meeting is open to the public and it is first come, best seat.

You must register for DV Expo to attend this event. To register, go to the lafcpug web site and download the FREE EXPO pass and bring the pass with you to the show. It is expected the lafcpug event will fill up fast so plan to get to the Convention Center early.

More information including a current list of raffle prizes and a FREE pass to DV Expo can be found on the lafcpug web site

lafcpug at DVExpo 2008

[Michael Horton]

Announcing the 8th Annual Macworld FCPUG SuperMeet, Jan 7, 2009.

Tickets are now on sale for the 8th Annual Macworld FCPUG "SuperMeet" to be held January, 7, 2009 from 5:000PM - 11:00PM at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA. This event promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut Pro users and Gurus in the world.

Gallery: Mission Bay Conference Center at UCSF, San Francisco, CA

Tickets are only $10.00 per person and include 2 raffle tickets.

The SuperMeet will begin at 7PM with doors opening at 5PM for our “FCP Trade Show” featuring over 20 vendors, most of whom will not be on the show floor at the Macworld Expo.

As of this writing we can't make any official announcement on the agenda. We expect to do that sometime in December. But we can tell you this: There will be very special presentations by Apple, JVC, Blackmagic Design and MUCH more.

So if you are planning to go to Macworld or live in the Bay Area, you know this event is one you do not want to miss.

SuperMeets always sell out so don’t be left out.

* Where? - Robertson Auditorium, Mission Bay Conference Center - UCSF

* When? Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 7:00PM - 10:00PM (Doors open 5:00PM)

* How Much? - $10.00 per person plus 99 cent ticket fee. $15.00 at the door. Ticket will include 2 raffle tickets.

* Any raffle prizes? - Of course. $2.00 per raffle ticket or 3 for $5.00

* First 300 people through the door will be handed a Eco Friendly “Super Bag” stuffed with over $250.00 worth of useful stuff.

* Food and Drink? - Food (free) and Cash Bar will be available.

For complete details as well as a link to where to buy tickets, go to the lafcpug web site. There will be updates posted almost daily.

Macworld 09 FCPUG SuperMeet

Purchase your tickets now. There are only 600 tickets available online and when they are gone, well - they are gone.

Special thanks to BlackMagic Design, Apple, JVC and to the dozens of generous sponsors of this event.

Hope to see you all at the SuperMeet.

[Michael Horton]

Adobe Premiere Pro and Avid at lafcpug, Nov 19

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, November 19, 2008 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in E. Hollywood, CA. It will be the “other NLEs Night.”

Every so often lafcpug brings in "other" NLE applications and systems so you can see what else is out there. It's time to do it again.

Join us as we welcome Giles Baker, Adobe Premiere Pro Product manager, to show off the just shipping Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. Also scheduled to appear will be Michael Krulik from Avid who will show off Avid Media Composer v3. Plus film editor Michael Alberts will show off Digital Heaven's brand new must have app, "Loader." All that and still time for Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door. Doors open at 6PM. lafcpug meetings are open to the public. First come, best seat.

For complete details and a directions to the Gallery Theatre, visit the lafcpug web site

LAFCPUG Next Meeting

[Michael Horton]

The agenda has now been set for the 8th Annual FCPUG "SuperMeet" to be held Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA. Doors open at 4:30pm and presentations begin at 7pm and continue until 10PM. This SuperMeet promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut Pro users and Gurus during Macworld Conference and Expo SF.

The economy might be struggling, but this year's SuperMeet will be the largest in our history with twenty four companies showing off their wares. That says something about this community.

Scheduled to appear on stage, (subject to change) will be:

- Apple:
The latest on Final Cut Studio
- JVC:
Craig Yanagi of JVC will announce the world's first acquisition product developed especially for Final Cut post production. Come and be a part of this historic event.
- BlackMagic Design presents M. Dot Strange:
Filmmaker M.Dot Strange will bring his magic to the SuperMeet.
- Bruce Nazarian:
Blu-Ray on the Cheap. How to build a compatible Blu-Ray Disk and burn it on DVD-R media without a Blu-Ray burner.
- Christine Steele:
FCP Tips and Tricks
- Eric Escobar:
"Plug-Ins Won't Save You"
A plug-in package alone won't create the "look" of your movie. A "look" is a combination of preproduction, design, performance, camera work and post wizardry. Eric will show us how to deconstruct a "look" from a TV show or movie, and reconstruct it on-the-cheap.
- Yun Suh:
Clips from the documentary film "City of Borders" (Show and Tell)

Rounding out the evening will be the always raucous "World Famous Raffle" with over $40,000.00 worth of prizes to be handed out to several lucky winners.
300 "SuperBag" Goodie Bags filled with over $200.00 worth of learning resources will be handed to the first 300 people through the door. Food (snacks) and drinks will be available throughout the evening.

Tickets are now on sale and it is expected this SuperMeet will sell out. At this writing over 50% of the tickets are gone. Historically every SuperMeet sells out.

For complete details on the SuperMeet including driving and transit directions and instructions, a current list of raffle prizes and a link to where to buy tickets, visit the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro (lafcpug) web site.

[Justin Ferar]

I'll be there with bells on.

Looking forward to it.

[Michael Horton]

The next meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, January 28, 2009 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood Ca.

Get out of the house and into lafcpug for the first meet of 2009.

Join us as we welcome the "portable, affordable complete I/O" for the Mac, the Matrox MXO2. Plus Philip Hodgetts will show off the brand new Sync-N-Link tool which automatically synchronizes dual-system sound (separate audio records from the camera recording) containing matching timecode. Plus Larry Jordan returns for the FCP Tip/Trick of the month. Plus "How did you do that" show and tells from James Salkind, Jack Gulick, Kamili Minter and Kenn Michael. Plus Stump the Gurus, and of course, World Famous Raffle. All in one night.

lafcpug is the only place you need to be, Wednesday, Jan. 28 if you want to learn, network, get inspired and then go home and create.

For complete details including directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site.

LAFCPUG Next Meeting

[Michael Horton]

The next meting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, Febuary 25, 2009 beginning at 6:45PM - till we drop at the Gallery Theatre.

Get out of the house and into lafcpug.

Join us as we welcome the Dan Montgomery of Imagine Products who will show off ProxyMill, the P2 converter and ShotPut, the automated P2 offloader. Plus editor Norman Hollyn, author of the brand new book "The Lean Forward Moment" returns to lafcpug to speak on the craft of editing. Plus the FCP Tip/Trick of the month. Also Editor Stephen Kanter has developed an interesting workflow in Final Cut Studio that emulates Avid Unity style project sharing. You GOT to see this. Plus show and tells, Stump the Gurus, and of course, World Famous Raffle. And food!! Maybe!

Meetings are open to public. Come one come all. Doors open at 6:00PM

A $5.00 donation will be requested at the door.

Complete agenda plus directions to Gallery Theatre can be found at lafcpug

LAFCPUG Next Meeting