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lacpug News
3.25.19

CONTENTS:
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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. The Faster Together Stage at NAB: Stage
5. Sponsor lacpug


***1. NEXT LACPUG MEETING



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lacpug Meets are once again sponsored by Blackmagic Design and DigitalFilm Tree and we are grateful.

Join us on Wednesday, March 27 for the next lacpug Meet.

Also we welcome Industry workflow expert and founder of Light Iron Post in
Hollywood, Michael Cioni back to lacpug. Michael will take us on a unique
step-by-step process and demonstrate powerful tricks to improve your edit
through the newest sound techniques in FCPX 10.4.5. Call it "FCPX: The Most
Advanced Digital Audio Workstation You Didn't Know You Had."

We will welcome Michael Kammes who will ask and answers the questions,
"Is Post Production Ready for the Cloud? Can we create media in the cloud
and still use the software tools we use every day?"

Also we are very excited to have for the first time, audio guru Mark Edward
Lewis of Cinema Sound. Mark will be talking "Audio for Editors
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Plus Stump the Gurus and World Famous Raffle.

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


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***2. WHAT’S NEW ON THE WEB SITE?


Recorded live at the February lacpug Meet. We welcomed veteran editor
David Yocum who showed us how he created the award winning teaser
for the Academy Award nominated movie, Bohemian Rhapsody. In addition
David discussed the elements that go into making an effective trailer. Lots
of trailer examples were shown.
David was joined by composer David James Rosen co-founder of TOTEM a
boutique music and sound design library focused on theatrical marketing.
David showed us how he did the Queen "mashup" for the teaser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZwNOUqSzIQ&t=9s

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


READ: As many of you know we all lost and good friend and mentor
last week. Professor Norm Hollyn died. It’s going to take a long time
for many of us to adjust.

I wrote a tribute to Norm and you can read it here:
http://bit.ly/2HSXcCg

Avid has a nice tribute:
http://bit.ly/2JC9mCn

An excellent Obituary from LA Times:
https://lat.ms/2HRKx2H

Monica Daniel has created a T-shirt to remember him by
http://bit.ly/2TZ1mQo

lynda.com has made Norm’s learning course, Foundations of Video:
The Art of Editing FREE for a month.
http://bit.ly/2YmZwHF

There are hundreds of loving tributes all over the internet. What an
impact he made.

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WATCH: I talk to Chuck Joiner of MacVoices about the upcoming Faster
Together Stage show at rio Hotel, April 9.
http://bit.ly/2JHJjJQ

also

Sam Mestman and me talk to Richard Taylor about the Faster Together
Stage. Learn all about what is going to happen.
http://bit.ly/2HEbyar

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WATCH: Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 26 at 11:30AM PST. How to Upsell
Services to your Clients. FREE webinar with me and Barry Anderson.
Creatives are not known for being the best at sales or promoting
themselves.  So if that sounds like you and trying to go out and land
new clients seems like a root canal maybe consider something a little
less painful – upselling your existing clients!

http://bit.ly/2Twe4kv

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READ: At the faster Together Stage at NAB, we will be showing and
telling all about the soon to be released documentary, the River and
the Wall. The film strives to step beyond the sensationalist rhetoric
and show America what its southern boundary actually looks, sounds
and feels like.
Editor Josh Aldrich and colorists Robbie Carmon and Cheryl Ottenritter
will show us how they helped make this film what it is. It is stunning.

http://bit.ly/2HSmj8m

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WATCH: This is great and if you are at all interested in sound, and you
should be, it’s free.
Learn from professional mastering engineer and iZotope Education
Director Jonathan Wyner as he guides you through audio mastering
principles.

http://bit.ly/2UeNcd8

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READ: Another new and excellent ART OF THE CUT by Steve Hullfish
you need to read.

ART OF THE CUT with Nicholas Monsour, editor of “US”

http://bit.ly/2UWVnrY

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READ: Avid Media Composer ScriptSync + Simon Says transcription.
Easily import and line up a Simon Says transcript with ScriptSync in
Avid Media Composer

http://bit.ly/2UbK3uJ

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READ: Networking to Succeed as an Assistant Editor. How to conquer
impostor syndrome and learn to work the room.

http://bit.ly/2Fy51vB

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GET: One of the best tools out there that you need. Preference Manager
from Digital Rebellion.

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

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READ: What Screenwriters Can Learn from Academy Award-winner
Walter Murch’s Rule of 6

http://bit.ly/2UQjTL8

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***4. FASTER TOGETHER STAGE UPDATE.
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Just two more weeks until the Faster Together Stage at NAB. There will be no SuperMeet this year, however I will be hosting this show and doing the world famous raffle.

What is the faster Together Stage? Sponsored in part by Lumaforge it will be the largest gathering of Post people and Indie filmmakers during NAB Show 2019. It will feature many presentations, free food and cash bars, up close and personal time with lots of vendors and a great networking opportunity. Oh yeah, the raffle too, with a current value of almost $50,000.00 and counting!

The agenda has been announced and you can see it here. It’s SO good and I’m proud to be involved.

https://fastertogether.com/

Tickets on sale now but get them soon. Use discount code: jellyfish2019 to save $5.00 making the cost only $10.00. Do it now while you are thinking and look for me in the lobby and say hello as this year I will actually have time to be in the lobby.

See you at the Rio on Tuesday, April 9. I really can’t wait.

https://fastertogether.com/

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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 March 27 at the next lacpug Meet and then April 9 at the Faster Together Stage.

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

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/

*OWC:
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and overall faster performance. We also provide refurbished Macs and accessories.
https://www.owcdigital.com/

*POND5:
World's largest collection of royalty-free stock footage and creative assets. Stunning Footage you will not find anywhere else.
http://bit.ly/2tbBnqk

*ATOMOS
Atomos have redefined what monitors and recorders can do.
https://www.atomos.com/


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