http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html
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***2. WHAT’S NEW ON THE WEB SITE?
Nothing. It's still summer time.
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Reminder:
lacpug is now on Facebook and Twitter. Follow the wild and wacky antics of lacpug by joining us.
http://on.fb.me/Y6vhmn
http://twitter.com/lacpug
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***3. ARTICLES AND THINGS YOU NEED TO READ AND DO
On Tuesday, Sept 23 at 11:30AM PDT join me and Jphn Kreng and Melissa Tracy for another FREE Moviola Filmmaking webinar.
“Fight Design For Filmmakers"
Learn some of the important information that you need to know before filming your next action sequence or fight scene. Top 5 Common Mistakes. Choosing your Angles. The Importance of Previs. How to Work with the Stunt Department.
http://moviola.com/webinars/fight-design-for-filmmakers/
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A look into the amazing career of editor Richard Marks! His experiences getting into the business, making the transition to Hollywood from New York as well as working on specific films like Apocalypse Now. This is an edited version of my interview with Mr. Marks taped live at the March 2014 lacpug meet.
http://moviola.com/inside-hollywood/a-special-event-with-richard-marks-editor/
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EDITING: Where to Pull Down the Real Money. (And it Aint Features)
http://bit.ly/1rrcsaZ
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Final Cut Pro X Batch Export - by Oliver Peters
http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2014/07/26/final-cut-pro-x-batch-export/
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Join award-winning editor Kevin P McAuliffe and get started editing fast in Avid Media Composer. Several excellent FREE Tutorials.
http://www.avidblogs.com/mc7fast/
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On the day before the Amsterdam SuperMeet, the editors of Star Wars: Episode VII, Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey and assistant editors Julian Smirke and Matt Evans talked to Avid's Matt Fuery at the Avid booth at IBC.
http://bit.ly/ZAIHts
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This week on MacBreak Studio, Mark Spencer and Steve Martin share a super-handy way to toggle corrections while grading your footage in FCP X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQgZ40neFcY
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Ways to get More Life From Your Mac Pro
http://digitalfilms.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/more-life-for-your-mac-pro/
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Avid Files 2013 Form 10-K and Completes Financial Restatement
http://ir.avid.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=870543
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***4. AMSTERDAM SUPERMEET - WRAP UP
Well, the Seventh Annual Amsterdam SuperMeet, held at the Hotel Krasnapolsky
on Sept 14, 2014 is now in the history books. About 500 people showed up
and, as it always is, was great fun and a great show. Thanks Amsterdam! We
had a blast!
Al Mooney took us on an entertaining tour of the brand new features in Adobe Premiere Pro and the other Creative Cloud video applications.
Award winning colorist Giles Livesy presented the new editorial and grading features of DaVinci Resolve 11. Giles was joined by filmmaker Hasraf Dulull who showed off his new short film, SYNC, which was shot on Blackmagic cameras and graded on DaVinci Resolve.
Audio editing guru Mike Thornton showed us how anyone can perform sonic miracles—transforming flawed audio and inconsistent dialogue into pristine, professional-sounding material using the brand new RX 4 and RX 4 Advanced tools from iZotope.
Atomos CEO Jeromy Young presented his learnings on 4K from the development of the Shogun 4K monitor-recorder & demonstrated the cost effective, post production friendly way to handle 4K.
Patrick Drake and Kylie Flavell who left a successful career to follow their passions and created, produced and hosted 'When Patrick Met Kylie: A Love (of Food) Story,' talked about their unconventional journey and how HP technology enabled their creativity. Patrcik and Kylie were preceded by HP’s Carlo Ruiz who showed off the HP Z Workstations.
And finally our special guests, picture editors Maryann Brandon, ACE and Mary Jo Markey, ACE, editors of 'STAR WARS: EPISODE VII,' took to the SuperMeet stage. They were joined by Avid’s Matt Fuery and talked about their collaboration with directorJ.J. Abrams and the craft of editing by showing before and after scenes they cut from the movies, 'STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS' and 'SUPER 8' - Then we turned all questions over to the audience for a lively discussion.
Rounding out the evening was the crazy World Famous Raffle where we gave
away over €35,000.00 worth of valuable prizes to dozens of lucky winners.
There is no crazier raffle than the one at the Amsterdam SuperMeet.
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/
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, Dean Cleary, Rick Young, Ben King, Charlotte McCarthy, Trevor Horton, Ben Barden, Gregory Clarke, Josh Long, Pauline Fernandes, 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 2015.
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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 Wednesday, Sept. 24 for the next lacpug Meet.
Peace- and bless you Ralph, Charles, Doug, Mik and Pete.
Michael Horton "HeadCutter"
lacpug is sponsored in part by:
* MEMBERS LIKE YOU!
*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/
*HDDISK:
A new starter company, but with plenty years of experience, We have been
providing products/services/programs to individuals, non-profit
organizations and corporations in the video industry for more then 20 years.
http://www.hddisk.us.com/
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