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| Past Meetings |
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| Meeting Summary |
We welcomed LA Post House Hollywood-DI who did the world's first movie color corrected on Apple Color. Managing Director Neil Smith, senior colorist Yasu Tsuji and DI supervisor, Aaron Peak did the demo.
Also set to appearing were Boris who showed off Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 FXPlug.
CHV Electronic's Christoph Vonrhein showed off his new suite of particle emitters for FCP 6 and Motion.
The students from SFETT made their annual pilgrimage to lafcpug to tell us all about this years iCan Festival de Cine.
Andrew Balis had a great Color tip/trick to show off.
Plus another round of Stump The Gurus and of course, World Famous raffle. All in one night. Whew!
6:45- 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
Join FCP Gurus Andrew
Balis, Larry Jordan,
Victor Maldonado and Brian Gary, as they will attempt
to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems
concerning FCP. If they can't solve your problem or answer your
How 2, then you go home with a problem but you still got out
of the house, so that's not a bad thing.
7:20PM - 7:35PM - 'Tip/Trick of the
Month' -Color - Andrew Balis
In this tip/trick, Andrew Balis
will show some of the cool functionality of working with keyframes
to animate effects in Color. Whether you want a color to change
from one hue to another, go from low to high contrast, make a
scene look like its getting cooler or darker, go from color to
black and white, or any type of animated effect, its done using
Color's very intuitive approach to working with keyframes. The
demo will feature how to add, modify and trouble-shoot working
with keyframes as well as show a couple un-documented tips that
make modifying keyframes very efficient and fun. These topics
are pulled from Ripple
Training's upcoming DVD tutorial "Color Grading in
Color" hosted by Andrew Balis.
7:40PM - 8:15PM - Color 101- Neil
Smith, Yasu Tsuji, Aaron Peak
Neil Smith, Yasu Tsuji and Aaron
Peak from Hollywood-DI
will be covering:
Everything you ever wanted to know about Apple COLOR but were afraid to ask:
- how to best set up your timeline in
FCP 6 to avoid pain and hardship later
- do you really want to touch that 3-way color corrector?
- exporting out of FCP into COLOR (and when to use XML)
- overview of COLOR interface and controls ... all very intuitive
(no, really)
- setting up parameters and options for a successful grading
experience
- the eight ROOMs and what you typically do in them
- saving and applying grades
- difference between primary and secondary grading - when to
use each
- basic use of scopes and color calibration issues
- using the ColorFX room to quickly get a look you want
- exporting back to FCP and screening the finished clips
They will be illustrating a typical grading workflow with some scenes shot from a Mercedes commercial with a Viper camera.
This demo will be very much a 'view from the helicopter' .... lots more detail will be covered in the three COLOR 101 seminars being run by our sister company RPMpost.
A special seminar discount will be available to all LFCPUG members who attend the meeting .... secret password required.
RPMpost will also be donating a free COLOR 101 training seminar to the LAFCPUG raffle!
8:20PM - 8:35PM - iCan Festival de
Cine - Students from SFETT
Students from San Fernando High
School's San Fernando Education Technology Team, (SFETT) return
for their annual visit to lafcpug to talk briefly and show a
trailer for the upcoming iCan
Film Festival which will take place Saturday, August 4 2007
at the Library Plaza in San Fernando. For those of you who don't
know about SFETT you should check it out HERE.
It's a great, as well as inspirational story. NOTE: These kids can use your help. They are looking
for someone or company to underwrite the cost of renting a large
screen and projector for the event, August 4. The entire city
of San Fernando comes out to support these kids and the iCan
film festival is a BIG deal to the community. The projector and
screen need to be large enough and bright enough to be seen by
about 300 -400 people. If you can help, write me and I'll get you in touch with
SFETT.
8:35PM - 8:55PM -
Break
This is a chance
to hang out and meet and greet and get your problems solved.
The kids from SFETT will be in the
lobby selling T-shirts. Dulce
Systems will be there too. Lots
of FCP Gurus come to lafcpug meetings and ths is your chance
to network and make contacts and get your problems solved. Snacks and Beer and Wine will be on sale in the
lobby. Proceeds go to the Gallery Theater.
9:00PM - 9:20PM - CHV Electronics
Particle Emitters for FCP 6 and Motion - Christoph Vonrhein
Christoph Vonrhein of CHV
Electronics will be showing a revolutionary completely new
particle emitter system, called "Particles Heaven 2D".
This plugin is not just a set of templates for Motion's particle
system. It is in fact the first real FxPlug particle emitter
plugin ever and is fully committed to work with Motion and Final
Cut Pro. Brace yourself and prepare to get blown away!
9:20PM - 9:55PM -Boris Continuum Complete
5.0 for FxPlug - Eric Gardner
Eric Gardner, Senior Product
Specialist and Channel Manager from Channel Wolves will show
off the now shipping BCC
5.0 for FxPlug from Boris. Developed specifically for Apple's
new FxPlug plug-in architecture, BCC 5.0 for FxPlug is a brand
new member of the Boris Continuum Complete product family. BCC
5.0 for FxPlug takes full advantage of the FxPlug plug-in architecture
to greatly extend the compositing and effects capabilities for
Final Cut Studio. New BCC 5.0 for FxPlug workflow benefits include
support for deep color processing, new contextual controls for
organizing user workspace, and full support for Motion 3.0.
10:00PM - World Famous Raffle
5 Copies of Magic
Bullet Colorista -
Red
Giant Software
Free Color 101 Training
Class - RPM Post
Copy of Boris
Grafitti - Boris
2 copies CHV FxPlug Bundle
04-2007 - CHV
Electronics
Copy of VeeScope Live
- VeeScope
Live
$100.00 off or towards
any Digital Heaven products - Digital Heaven
100 credits for the royalty
free stock video clips of your choice - Revolution Stock Media
Copy of DVDxDVPro - DVDxDV
50% off Training class
at Moviola - Moviola
FCP Keyboard KeyGuide
- Neotron
Design
Plug-in package of your
choice - Lyric
Media
Ken Stone dot net T-shirt
- Ken
Stone
Special thanks to ProMax for footing the bill and Victor Maldanado and Dean Cleary for taping the show