11th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet, (Jan. 27, 2012) Tickets on sale now

[Michael Horton]

Tickets for the 11th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet to be held once again at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on Friday January 27, 2012 are now on sale.

Early Bird tickets are only $10.00 each and expire on Dec. 29, 2011. So save money and get your tickets now. Go here for all the info as well as a link to where to buy tickets.

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This will be the largest single day gathering of creative and collaborative editors, HDSLR filmmakers, digital content creators and Gurus in San Francisco in 2012 so act fast, buy your tickets and don't miss out. because SuperMeets always sell out.

[Michael Horton]

Registration is now open for the San Francisco SuperMeet Workshops.

Cost per workshop is only $5.00 each plus ticket fee. Each workshop room holds 40 seats. Once 20 seats are gone, ticket price goes up to $10.00 each workshop. It will be $15.00 per workshop at the door assuming any seats are available. So...act fast!

You may choose a maximum of 3 workshops only. It is very important you choose carefully and make sure workshop times do not overlap. The following workshops are available:

- Adobe "HDSLR" Workshop: Editing Video with Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium - In this workshop you'll learn post-production techniques to ensure a smooth edit with your video footage. (one workshop only)

- "Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve" - Have you ever tried to incorporate color correction but not got the results you were looking for? (Three identical Workshops during day)

- "Canon" Workshop - Description coming soon (Three identical Workshops during day)

- "The State of D-Cinema - "As the momentum toward digital cinema grows, Light Iron CEO Michael Cioni discusses the full implications of digital cinema and yields predictions as to the true course of data centricity. (Three identical Workshops during day)

_ Adobe "CS5.5 Production Premium" Delivering the Flow in Workflow - See how Adobe Story integrated with Adobe Premiere Pro speeds your video editing. (one workshop only)

- Adobe Introduction to Premiere Pro CS5.5 - Join Al Mooney and Kevin Monahan and get your questions answered. (one workshop only)

- For a complete list of workshop times as well as FULL descriptions go here and study carefully before deciding which one to sign up for:

SF2012 SuperMeet Workshops: Register for a maximum of 3... - Eventbrite

[Michael Horton]

The agenda has now been set for the Eleventh Annual San Francisco SuperMeet, to take place on Friday, January 27, 2012 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA. Affordable educational SuperMeet Workshops will take place during the day beginning at 10:00AM. Doors to the SuperMeet open at 3:30PM and presentations begin at 7:00PM and continue until 11:00PM. Tickets for the SuperMeet are on sale online for $15.00 each plus ticket fee and $10.00 for students and teachers.They will be $20.00 at the door. It is expected this SuperMeet will sell out as historically every SuperMeet sells out.

Scheduled to appear on stage (subject to change):

* Canon USA will feature ALEX BUONO, one of Canon's Explorers of Light and 12-year veteran Director of Photography for NBC's Saturday Night Live Film Unit. Alex will take the stage for an engaging show and tell utilizing Canon’s 5D Mark II and 7D cameras as well as the new Canon EOS C300. Alex will also screen his work, including the network debut of the Canon EOS C300 - an SNL parody commercial, Chantix.

* Director of Photography and Editor Curt Pair will share the pitfalls he avoided during the production of "Taken," for the A&E network, by using the “one tool he could not live without,” the Matrox MXO2 LE.

* Knowing which tool is right for the job at hand is crucial. Adobe’s Al Mooney will give a brief presentation on how to “accelerate your workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5.

* DigitalFilm Tree’s CEO Ramy Katrib will present the World Premiere of a powerful mobile application that provides visual storytellers a platform to view, comment, and creatively collaborate on an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.

Filmmaker Jesse Rosten will screen his new video “Fotoshop,” which recently and after only one week, accumulated over three million plays on Vimeo.com

Technologist, editor and industry pundit Philip Hodgetts will take a look into the future of post production and production and tell us what we need to do to prepare for these changes.

Rounding out the evening will be the always wild and crazy "World Famous Raffle" with close to $35,000 worth of filmmaker-related prizes to be handed out to dozens of lucky winners including an AJA Io XT Thunderbolt, 3 copies of Blackmagic Design Resolve, NLE software, an MXO LE MAX from Matrox, hard drives, plug-ins and much, much more.

Doors will open at 3:30PM with the SuperMeet Digital Showcase featuring over 25 software and hardware developers including Canon, Matrox, Blackmagic Design, Adobe, DigitalFilm Tree, Light Iron, AJA, Avid, Atomos, Keycode Media, Noise Industries, Artbeats, Drobo, Cutting Edge, FFV, Flolight, Focal Press, G-Tech, Genarts, HHH, Irudis, Marshall, Maxon, Peachpit, Pixelflow, Promise, Red Rock Micro, TiffenDfx and more. Here, attendees can enjoy a few cocktails, network and party with industry peers, talk one on one with leading manufacturers and learn about the latest trends in collaborative editing workflows for post production and broadcast markets.

A highlight of the Digital Showcase is "Open Screen Theater," hosted by the SFCutters. Filmmakers and digital content creators wanting to "Get Seen" will have a 10 minute chance to do so in an informal, collaborative setting. The producers want those who are shooting with HDSLRS, camcorders, iPhones and anything that makes video to screen their content and interact. Just show up and sign up, get up and show off. Sign-ups begin when the doors open and are open only to SuperMeet ticket holders.

In addition, affordable educational SuperMeet Workshops will be offered during the day, beginning at 10:00AM. Each of the twelve 90 minute workshops, sponsored by Canon, Adobe, Blackmagic Design and Light Iron will repeat in three sessions during the day to cover all one needs to know about the respective companies' hardware and software solutions, including DSLR and Digital Cinema cameras, HDSLR workflow, color grading, and the present state and future of Digital Cinema and it’s impact on all content creators. Blackmagic Design has promised to give away a copy of DaVinci Resolve (value $995) at each of its three sessions.

To purchase tickets and for complete details on the SuperMeet, SuperMeet workshops as well as driving and transit directions, a current list of raffle prizes and details on the Open Screen Theater visit the SuperMeet web site.

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