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lacpug News
6.6.16

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1. Next lacpug Meeting
2. What’s new on the web site?
3. Articles and Things you Need to Read and Do
4. Sponsor lacpug


***1. NEXT LACPUG MEETING


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

The next lacpug Meet will be Wednesday, June 22.

Happy Sweet 16 Birthday Lacpug

It will be: The Art of Story Telling with VR/360° Video Night.

Join us as we welcome Neil Smith and Matt Celia as they take you behind the scenes of the creation of an incredible virtual journey aboard a Pirate ship
sailing the seven seas in search of hidden treasure and deadly contraband. In 360° video. Really.

Plus we welcome New Deal Studios Co-Founder,Creative Director and VFX Supervisor Matthew Gratzner. Matt will take us through the process of how
he created his Cinematic Narrative VR Films from prep, production and through
post.

Also digital cinema innovator and rental house Radiant Images will be in the
lobby showing off lots of VR gear.

Oh yeah, Stump the Gurus, World Famous Raffle and CAKE!

Register now!

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


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***2. WHAT’S NEW ON THE WEB SITE?


Taped live at the March 2016 lacpug Meet, legendary presenter and trainer,
Larry Jordan, returns to show, illustrate, explain and demo EVERYTHING you
will ever need to know about media management in Adobe Premiere Pro CC AND Apple Final Cut Pro X. That's right - two demos for the price of one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf__pQ-XR7E

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Taped live at the May 2016 lacpug Meet, Paul Saccone takes us through
DaVinci Resolve 12.5. Resolve is a massive update with over 1,000 enhancements and 250 new features that give editors and colorists dozens
of new editing and trimming tools, incredible new media management and organization functions, new retiming effects, enhanced keyframe controls,
on-screen text editing, new ResolveFX plug-ins and much more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErllYkr13A0

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Taped live at the May 2016 lacpug Meet.
Fusion 8 is the world’s most advanced compositing software for visual effects artists, broadcast and motion graphic designers and 3D animators. With over
25 years of development, Fusion has been used on over 1000 major Hollywood blockbuster feature films!
Visual Effects supervisor with 20 years of production experience, Rony Soussan introduces us to Fusion 8 by showing us how to turn a 2D cityscape into a 3D cityscape and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Wu7JthR2c

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


Watch: Another FREE Moviola webinar, tomorrow, Tuesday June 7 at 11:30AM
PT.

“What's New in DaVinci Resolve 12.5”

With me and Paul Saccone. This webinar demonstrates many of the new
features, will show you what an incredible NLE Resolve has become, and will teach you how the combination of editing and grading in a single app can
give you more creative options than ever before! Paul will be live so you
can ask questions. Register now!

http://bit.ly/1RVHH69

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Automatic Duck has released Xsend Motion, an app that sends files from
Motion to FCPX and back. Ronny Courtens takes a good look at it.

http://bit.ly/25JhHYW

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Read: Art of the Cut’s Steve Hullfish discusses cutting the long running hit TV series, “Grey’s Anatomy” with its lead editor, Joe Mitacek. Mitacek has cut about 50 episode of “Grey’s” and has also cut Shonda Rhime’s “Scandal.

http://bit.ly/1TWHPtM

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Watch: Let’s Edit with Media Composer - ADVANCED - 4KFree.com with Kevin
P McAuliffe

In this lesson, Kevin gives Avid Media Composer editors the scoop on anther great, FREE resource, and that is 4KFree.com, from Rampant Design Tools. 4KFree.com will give you almost 100 free elements from across the Rampant Design Tools library, which will take any project you're working on to the next level!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqyWukA-Woo

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Watch: This week on Macbreak Studio, Steve and Mark continue with their exploration of 360 VR Video in FCP X, this time focusing on how to work
with 360 footage to deliver traditional video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuQqa-2l8I

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Read: Getting Your Foot In The Employment Door (and not in your mouth) By Woody Woodhall

http://www.provideocoalition.com/keeping-foot-door/

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Watch: Francis Ford Coppola to Publish 'The Godfather Notebook’
This is a must watch and a must get for any aspiring director or film buff.

http://bit.ly/1X7GbFY

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Read: How Field Of Vision’s Quick Production Turnaround Is Changing The
Way Documentaries Are Made And Seen

Are you a documentary film maker? Read and watch this.

http://bit.ly/1RVIMLq

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Read: Each year, the American Cinema Editors holds a student editing competition in which students are provided the same set of video dailies they must edit into a short.
Here are the three winners stories and their advice.

http://bit.ly/1Zszcp7

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Read: Ten Ways to Avoid Editors Block

http://bit.ly/1X7GiRW

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Enter: Emerging Film Directors Workshop
“Warner Bros. has been home to the most creative, provocative directors.
We’re continuing that legacy by looking to the generation of filmmakers,
and providing the support and resources they need to break new ground.”

https://filmworkshop.warnerbros.com

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Read: Introducing the 8K DXL Camera by Panavision, RED and Light Iron.

http://dxl.panavision.com

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Read: Casimir Nozkowski: The challenges of editing a foreign-language Doc

http://bit.ly/1WCkKNA

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Read: Top 5: Efficiency tips for your health and editing environment

http://bit.ly/1t2YIGV

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***5. SPONSOR LACPUG


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


See you May 25 at the next lacpug Meet.

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

Michael Horton "HeadCutter"


lacpug is sponsored in part by:

* MEMBERS LIKE YOU!

and


*BLACKMAGIC DESIGN
"Blackmagic Design is dedicated to allowing the highest quality video to be
affordable to everyone, so the post production and television industry can
become a truly creative industry."
http://www.blackmagic-design.com/

*DIGITALFILM TREE:
DigitalFilm Tree is a highly unique creative hub where technology and art
converge. Offerings include production, design, effects, color correction,
online finishing, and consulting services.
http://www.digitalfilmtree.com/


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