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***2. WHAT’S NEW ON THE WEB SITE?
Taped live at the June 2016 lacpug Meet:
Matt Celia The Art and Tech of VR/360 Storytelling Part 2
Part 2 of a two part presentation with 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppTF2IY-Vu0
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Also follow us on Twitter for all the latest happenings in the digital and
lacpug world.
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***3. ARTICLES AND THINGS YOU NEED TO READ AND DO
Watch: "Affordable Anamorphic Adapters" FREE webinar with Adam Wilt,
Tuesday, 11:15AM PST.
Adam Wilt gives a brief overview of anamorphic lenses and adapters, then
illustrates the challenges and rewards of anamorphic shooting using SLR Magic
1.33x and 2.0x adapters.
http://bit.ly/2cyyB7t
Register
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Read: Easing the Editor’s Struggle… Just a Little - Editing via remote networking.
http://bit.ly/2cXysZt
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Read: Good read. ‘Snowden’: How Oliver Stone’s Editors Kept the NSA Whistleblower’s Story Personal and Political.
http://bit.ly/2d4gIuD
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Premium Beat has a bunch of free stuff you might like:
“Download 55 free motion graphics and transitions, 34 free color grading presets,
35 free sound effects and more. Free for personal and commercial use.”
http://bit.ly/2dmERvP
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Listen: Editing Stranger Things (with Kevin Ross and Dean Zimmerman)
http://bit.ly/2d4h84p
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READ: How to Freeze Frame in Premiere Pro
http://bit.ly/2d43Xlt
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WATCH: Let’s Edit with Media Composer – Advanced – Matte Key Transitions
http://bit.ly/2dmC0Yf
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WATCH: Excellent example of using Adobe Character Animator in After Effects
CC. - Cartoon Donald Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD9-zrGxrs4
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READ: TIPPING POINT - How Recognizing Changes In Content Consumption
Will Future-Proof Your Content, - by Michael Cioni
http://bit.ly/2dbp6ci
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READ: Raw is not Magic. - “This sense of raw images being a true digital negative — deep, rich, forgiving of exposure errors, and massively tunable to your ultimate taste, leads some to feel that raw is always a better choice than the other common way of capturing a high-dynamic range cinema image…”
http://prolost.com/blog/rawvslog
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LISTEN: Saving Your Sanity In the Edit Bay (pt 2): Contextual Editing. Your number
one asset as a film editor is your creativity.
http://fitnessinpost.com/contexts/
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READ: Science of Editing: Why It's Good to Have an Editor Around During the
Writing Process
http://bit.ly/2cG0VmH
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READ & WATCH: Common Video Editing Mistakes to Avoid
http://shutr.bz/2dmHEVY
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WATCH and READ: Tips for Better Editing in Premiere Pro
http://bit.ly/2cyBogQ
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WATCH: Working with Vector Graphics in FCP X
In this episode of MacBreak Studio, Mark Spencer shares some tips on how to work with Vector graphics in Final Cut Pro X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruya83kEb5s
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***4. AMSTERDAM SUPERMEET WRAP-UP
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Well, the NINTH Annual Amsterdam SuperMeet, held at the Hotel Krasnapolsky on Sept 11, 2016 is now in the history books. About 400 people showed up and, as it always is, was great fun. Thanks Amsterdam! We had a blast!
Blackmagic Design presented filmmaker Klaus B. Pedersen and he gave us an exclusive preview of his documentary short featuring Katalin Konya, the three-time world amateur champion in kickboxing. Klaus used and showed footage from the URSA Mini in his Doc. Klaus was joined by DaVinci Resolve specialist, Simon Hall.
Freelance film editor Adam Garstone showed us the amazing fayIN, a motion tracking and compositing plug-in from Fayteq that is simple enough to be used in the edit, but powerful enough for finished graphics. It was “wow.”
Adobe’s Bronwyn Lewis joined the SuperMeet stage for the very first time and wowed the crowd as well as delighted with new features in Adobe Premiere Pro, AE and other apps in CC. She was help out by Karl Soule. You can actually watch a Facebook Live stream of here presentation here:
http://bit.ly/2dukxcw
In a special presentation, Sam Mestman and Ronny Courtens demoed the wicked fast and powerful ShareStation from LumaForge.
HP presented filmmakers Milica Zec and Winslow Turner Porter III who took us behind the scenes of their VR/360 film, GIANT. Inspired by real events, this immersive virtual-reality experience, which mixes both game engine and live-action video, transports the viewer into the family's makeshift basement shelter. Terrific presentation. They were joined by HP’s Rick Champagne.
The second half of the show was devoted to freelance editor Duncan Shepherd who took us behind the scenes of “Pure McCartney VR,” a series of VR documentary shorts from Jaunt VR, starring Paul McCartney and directed by Tony Kaye.
Rounding out the evening was the crazy World Famous Raffle where we gave away over €71,000.00 worth of valuable prizes to dozens of lucky winners. There is no crazier raffle than the one at the Amsterdam SuperMeet and this year was an Amsterdam record.
There are lots of people to thank, especially our sponsors. They were the ones who paid for this event and we are very grateful to them. We hope you are too and will support them as they support us.
http://www.supermeet.com/
Also, special thanks must also go to the following people who worked tirelessly on behalf of the SuperMeet, and forgive me if I left any of you out. We could not of done this event without you:
Chris Eschweiler, Katie Berube, Rick Young, Ben King, Pauline Fernandes, Rick Macomber, Guy Molin, Job ter Burg, Gert Kracht and the students from the SAE institute in Amsterdam. You were all magnificent.
SuperMeets are so much more than what is on stage. More importantly they are a gatherings of like minded and creative people who make movies on the Mac. As producers of these events we get a front row center seat and a chance to
hang out and learn from all of you. That alone is why we do these. And Amsterdam, you could not have been a better host. Thanks for supporting this event. We can’t wait to do it again in 2017.
http://www.supermeet.com/
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***5. SPONSOR LACPUG
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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 Sept 28 at the next lacpug Meet.
Peace- and bless you Ralph, Charles, Doug, Mik, Pete and Bruce.
Michael Horton "HeadCutter"
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* MEMBERS LIKE YOU!
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