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Meeting Summary -December 11, 2003- lafcpug at DV Expo   lafcpug put on a show at DV Expo in LA to a SRO crowd and featured an all star Stump the Gurus, demo of Aja's low cost LA and LD capture cards, how to get your media off your DVD, editing "Scrubs" with FCP and taming the wild and wacky Auto Select option in FCP 4.1 Agenda 5:15PM - 5:45PM - Stump the Gurus Join Steve Martin of Ripple Training, Philip Hodgetts of Intelligent Assistance and more FCP Gurus to be announced as they attempt to solve all of your FCP problems or feel really bad if they dont. 5:50PM - 6:20PM - FCP 4.1 and AJA's brand new Io LA and LD - Paul Saconne Most of you are familiar with how many streams of Real Time uncompressed video FCP 4.1 can handle in Safe Mode on a Dual G5 running Panther hooked up to 14 drive Xraid with an Io from AJA. But what can it do in Safe Mode with DV to the internal drive that ships with the G5? Apple's Paul Saccone is going to show us. Plus, what is in FCP 4.1 and why do we need it. Plus, we will be among the first in the country to take a look at AJA's brand new low cost Io LA and LD breakout box. Plus, Paul will take questions. Plus, Paul will answer them. 6:25PM - 6:40PM - How to get media off a DVD and imported into FCP - Brad Wright Brad will show us how easy this process is by using the tool he created called DVDxDV 6:45PM - 7:15PM - Editing NBC's "Scrubs" with Final Cut Pro - Rick Blue and Ramy Katrib The hit television show from NBC, "Scrubs" has been using FCP exclusively this season and is the first network TV show to do so. They are just about half way thorough the seasons 22 episodes and Scrubs editor Rick Blue along with Digital FilmTrees's Ramy Katrib will show and tell us everything we need and want to know about editing a network TV show with Final Cut Pro. How's it's going so far? It's going very well. 7:20PM -7:35PM -Taming the Wild and Wacky Auto select Option in FCP 4.1- Tom Wolsky Author and FCP Guru Tom Wolsky will attempt, (without a net) to show and explain the Auto select Option in FCP 4.1. Children are warned to cover their eyes. 7:45PM - 7:-55PM - World Famous Raffle Prizes include 2 copies "Final Cut Pro 4 Editing Essentials" by Tom Wolsky - CMP Books Copies of "Liquid" and "Fancy Ones" Live Fonts - LiveType Central 2 Copies of Motion Graphic Backgrounds - 12INCH Design Copy of Final Draft and Final Draft AV - Final Draft 5 $20.00 Gift Certificates - Paquito Mas Restaurants DVD Studio Pro 2 - Apple FCP 4 T-shirts - Apple 2 Licenses for SheerVideo Pro Software Video Codec - BitJazz 2 copies of ProMax QuickStart Training DVD-ROM for Final Cut Pro 4 - Promax SteadyTracker Lite - Promax 2 copies "Shoot for the Cut" (Canon GL2) - Magnet Media Films 2 copies "Shoot for the Cut" (Panasonic DVX100) - Magnet Media Films 2 copies "Zoom In" (Canon GL2) - Magnet Media Films 2 FCP 4.0 Keyboard KeyGuides - Neotron Design Color Corrector for FCP DVD - Digital FilmTree Great VisualFX for Final Cut Pro - Intelligent Assistance Killer Titles for Live Type and Calligraphy - Intelligent Assistance DVD Companion Pro Pack - Recipe 4 DVD 13 copies of lafcpug DVDs (Oct 01 - Oct 02)- lafcpug