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lacpug News
2.22.16

CONTENTS:
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1. Next lacpug Meeting
2. Articles and Things you Need to Read and Do
3. Announcing the Fifteenth Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet
4. Sponsor lacpug

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***1. NEXT LACPUG MEETING

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lacpug Meets are once again sponsored by Blackmagic Design for all of 2016
and we are grateful.

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***3. ARTICLES AND THINGS YOU NEED TO READ AND DO

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Join me and Barry Anderson for another special FREE Moviola Webinar, Tuesday, Feb 23
at 11:30AM PST. “The Camera's Eye: A Guide to the Perfect Lens.” Get a break down of
the various types of lenses and focus on their functions, environments where certain
lenses excel and strengths and weaknesses of each type of lens. Register here:

http://bit.ly/1QcvIFp

Barry has also written a blog post that goes along with this webinar over on PVC.com

http://bit.ly/1Or636a

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Watch: Editstock.com is the place you go to download professional dailies to use to practice
your editing skills. Misha Tenenbaum, the founder of Editstock has produced a tutorial showing
you what makes the edits so special in the short film TN Parkour, one of the many many
films you can download and use for editing practice.

http://bit.ly/1XIXMBC

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The New Frontier of Virtual Reality. Virtual reality is taking off with filmmakers, so much so
that there was a VR section in the New Frontier category at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival..

http://adobe.ly/1QWfjBa

More VR: Here’s how Sundance’s first VR residency film got made.

http://bit.ly/20Re37N

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Live in LA? You want to go to this.

VR & 360° Video Event

Location: Filmtools In-Store Event
1400 W Burbank Blvd, Burbank, CA 91506
Date: February 24, 2016
Time of Event: Noon to 2PM

Register here:

http://www.filmtools.com/events.html

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Watch: Editor Michael Matzdorff has produced three excellent FCPX tutorials now up on the
ACE web site.

https://americancinemaeditors.org

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4K Video Editing on a 12" MacBook? Possible?

http://bit.ly/1Qy4JWA

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Read: A brand new DaVinci Resolve 12 book has just come out. Written by the excellent Dion Scoppettuolo, it features 5GB of content along with the book. More info here:

http://www.learning-paths.com

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Watch and learn: FX wizard Sean Mullen of Rampant Design Tools joins Film Riot to show you
how to force push a car. Force push a car?! Sounds boring, right? Nope!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GGZNvcvMzY

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Learn: How the Color in 'Sicario' Reveals the Battle Between Good & Evil

http://bit.ly/1SOkOrp

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Watch: Join Alan Edward Bell, ACE & Mark Yoshikawa, ACE, as they discuss their
techniques and challenges in editing the final installment of the Hunger Games phenomenon.
Glenn Garland hosts.

http://bit.ly/20FS5JS

Also at moviola.com: Listen in on a conversation with Oscar-Nominated editor Hank
Corwin (THE BIG SHORT) as he discusses both his editing techniques and philosophies.

http://bit.ly/1oDSqvQ

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Watch: RED GIANT just released PluralEyes 4.0. So what is new?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_9OwcOXTBw
 
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Read: Pancakes, Shmancakes! Part 1 – Premiere vs FCP X

http://bit.ly/1Rji2ar

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This week on MacBreak Studio, Mark Spencer shows Steve Martin from Ripple Training
some options for reframing video clips in Final Cut Pro X.

http://bit.ly/1mTGEMf

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Steve Hullfish talks to the editorial consultant Vashi Nedomansky of the recent smash
movie DEADPOOL about training a team of Avid editors and assistants for their switch
to Premiere Pro for the movie. Vasai also delivered a workflow that put the big-time
box office hit in theaters everywhere.

http://bit.ly/1QWlchI

The Steve interviews DEADPOOL editor Julian Clarke. This interview is more about
the craft of editing more than the NLE it was cut in.

http://lat.ms/1QWlzbY

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Listen: Zack Arnold interviews Guru Jeff Greenberg, or does Jeff interview Zack?
Not sure. But this episode of Fitness in Post concerns itself with “Setting Goals and
Taking Action.” Covers health, fitness and career goals. Listen in and learn.

http://www.fitnessinpost.com/69/

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***4. ANNOUNCING THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL LAS VEGAS SUPERMEET.
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Has it been 15 years? Yes it has. Holy cow!

So, once again…. Announcing the Fifteenth Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet to be held on
Tuesday April 19 in the Pavilion Ballroom at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas NV.

Earlybird tickets are on sale online only for the really cheap price of $10,00 each for adults
(plus ticket fee) and $7,00 each for Students and Teachers. On March 18 the ticket price
goes up to $15.00 so save money and commit early. It helps you and helps us plan!

This SuperMeet will once again be the largest gathering of Final Cut, Avid, Adobe, Resolve
and digital filmmakers during NAB Show week. This is YOUR party and it’s going to be a great
one. 

What’s on the  agenda? Well, it’s SuperSecret, but we can tell you this; There will be USER
driven presentations, revolutionary new ideas and new products for you to drool over. And
yes, there will be another round of the seemingly endless World Famous Raffle where we
will give away once again, thousands of dollars worth of prizes to dozens of lucky winners.

Keep watching this page for daily updates and register early!

http://www.supermeet.com

Note: if you or your company wish to help sponsor the SuperMeet, get in touch with us.
We will tell you hall you need to know.

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***5. SPONSOR LACPUG

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lafcpug.org has available sponsorships available. If your company is
interested in sponsoring lafcpug.org head on over to the "How to Sponsor
lacpug" page and read up on the particulars. lacpug does not exist without
the support of sponsors and sponsors get a lot from lacpug. You will also
help us get rid of this "Sponsor lacpug" section of the newsletter.

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

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See you Aug 26 at the next lacpug Meet.

Peace- and bless you Ralph, Charles, Doug, Mik and Pete and Bruce.

Michael Horton "HeadCutter"

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