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 March 2008

"Aperture 2.0, Xmil Sequencer, Converting HDV"

  • Larry Jordan, Philip Hodgetts, Victor Maldonado - (FCP Q and A)
  • XMiL Sequencer - Rainier Standke- (demo)
  • Storage Solutions - Jason Deubler- (demo)
  • Converting HDV to ProRes 422 - and why you want to. - Larry Jordan- (demo)
  • "Route 30" - John Putch - (Show and Tell)
  • "American Cancer Society" - Brian Denny- (Show and Tell)

 Febuary 2008

"Blu-Ray, Wounded Marines, SugarFX"

  • Andrew Balis, Derek Mok, Victor Maldonado - (FCP Q and A)
  • FCP Tips you Should know or Need to Know- Marcelo Lewin- (demo)
  • SUGARfx - Ricardo Silva- (demo)
  • Blu-ray Wins. So what does that mean? - Bruce Nazarian- (demo)
  • Wounded Marines Careers Foundation - (Show and Tell)

 January 2008

"JVCPro HD Night"

  • Andrew Balis, Steve Martin, Philip Hodgetts - (FCP Q and A)
  • Working the 3D in Motion 3 - Steve Martin- (demo)
  • Litepanels- Kevin Baxter- (demo)
  • Open Television Network - Philip Hodgetts- (demo)
  • "The Sold Project" - Bill Darst, Rachel Sparks, Joel Nassan- (Show and Tell)
  • JVC 200 series ProHD Camcorders and DRHD100 Hard Disk Recorder - Stephen Milley- (demo)
  • "Music Video" - Mike Stathopoulos, Noah Ross- (Show and Tell)

  December 2007

"Holiday Toys Night"

  • Andrew Balis, Shane Ross, Larry Jordan - (FCP Q and A)
  • Hidden features in Final Cut Pro 6.0.2 - Lary Jordan- (demo)
  • redrockmicro - Brian Valente- (demo)
  • Matrox MXO' - Shane Ross- (demo)
  • Hey Now! - Zack Young- (Show and Tell)
  • Sony XDCAM EX - Doug Jensen and Curtis Harris - (demo)
  • A Christmas Movie Scrapbook - Les Perkins - (Show and Tell)

 November 2007

"RED Night"

  • Andrew Balis, Philip Hodgetts, Larry Jordan - (FCP Q and A)
  • High End Plug-ins for High End footage- Todd Prives - (demo)
  • FCP Workflow with the RED Digital Cinema Camera - Curtis Harris- (demo)
  • Red and Visual Effects' - Nick Jushchyshyn - (demo)
  • Everything you need to know about the Red Digital Cinema Camera - Evin Grant, Brook Willard Blair Paulsen and Ted Schilowitz- (demo)

 October 2007

"Legends of the Digital Video Revolution Night"

  • Andrew Balis, Philip Hodgetts, Josh Mellicker - (FCP Q and A)
  • FCP Tip/Trick of the Month - Josh Mellicker - (demo)
  • iMovie 08 - Randy Ubillos- (demo)
  • Preparing for Online Distribution" (where can I upload my movie for money and how do I do the encoding) - Philip Hodgetts - (demo)
  • Create your own plugins in a matter minutes with CHV - Christoph Vonrhein - (demo)
  • Ken Jaedicke- - (Show and Tell)

 September 2007

"Motion 3 and FX Night"

  • Andrew Balis, Christine Steele, Steve Martin - (FCP Q and A)
  • Motion 3 Tips and Tricks - Mark Spencer - (demo)
  • Alive and Kickin" - Jimmy Shubert - (show and tell)
  • More on Motion 3" - Steve Martin - (demo
  • How to create FX using Apple Color - Neil Smith, Yasu Tsuji, Aaron Peak- (demo)
  • See Hear Now"- David Friedman - (Show and Tell)

 August 2007

"Compression, Trapcode and Mr. Deity"

  • Larry Jordan, Philip Hodgetts, Victor Maldonado - (FCP Q and A)
  • "Sorenson Squeeze 4.5' -Color - John Diel and Coby Rich- (demo)
  • 'Mr. Diety" - Brian Dalton- (show and tell)
  • "Compressor 3" - Brian Gary and Brian Hoffman - (Show and Tell)
  • "Magic Bullet Looks, Primatte Keyer for FCP and Trapcode for FCP and Motion"- Sean Safreed -(demo)

 July 2007

"Apple Color, Boris BCC, CHV and SFETT"

  • Andrew Balis, Larry Jordan, Victor Maldonado - (FCP Q and A)
  • "Color Tip/trick - Andrew Balis- (demo)
  • 'Color 101"- Neil Smith, Yasu Tsuji, Aaron Peak- (demo)
  • "iCan Festival de Cine - Students from SFETT - (Show and Tell)
  • "CHV Electronics Particle Emitters for FCP 6 and Motion" - Christoph Vonrhein (demo)
  • "Boris Continuum Complete 5.0 for FxPlug" - Eric Gardner- (demo)

 June 2007

"Happy 7th Birthday lafcpug"

  • Andrew Balis, Steve Martin, Larry Jordan, KD Gulko - (FCP Q and A)
  • "SmoothCam Filter in FCP 6 - Larry Jordan- (demo)
  • 'ProRes 422 qnd FCP 6.0.1' - Paul Saccone- (demo
  • "Eat at Bill's: Life in the Monterey Market" Lisa Brenneis - Show and Tell
  • "Working with Motion 3 Templates in FCP 6." - Steve Martin (demo)
  • "Eddie and the Squid" - Show and Tell - Tony Mark
  • Feedback and Q and A with Apple -Paul Saccone (discussion

 May 2007

"Soundtrack Pro 2"

  • Andrew Balis, KD Gulko, Christine Steele - (FCP Q and A)
  • "Getting Organized in Final Cut Pro - Shane Ross- (demo)
  • 'Media Batch' - Marco Solorio- (demo
  • Show and Tell - Christine Steele-
  • "Everthing you need to know about Soundtrack Pro 2" - Steve Martin, Jeremy Roush, Doug Cunningham - (Demo)
  • "Eddie and the Squid" - Show and Tell - Tony Mark

 April 2007

"FCS2 and Blackmagic Design"

  • Andrew Balis Larry Jordan, KD Gulko, Christine Steele - (FCP Q and A)
  • "CHV Electronics Plugins for Final Cut Pro - Christoph Vonrhein- (demo)
  • 'Blackmagic Design' - Dan May- (demo
  • Digital Heaven - Martin Baker- (Demo)
  • "Everthing you need to know about Final Cut Studio 2" - Steve Martin, Larry Jordan, Philip Hodgetts, Martin Baker - (Discussion)

 March 2007

"Adobe and Telestream"

  • Andrew Balis Kevin Monahan Tara Veneruso - ( FCP Q and A)
  • Tara Veneruso - FCP Tip/Trick of the Month - "Quick DVDs and Quick Podcasts" (demo)
  • Telestream - Kevin Louden and Barbara Dehart- (demo
  • "Adobe Creative Suite Production Studio"- Giles Baker - (Demo)

 February 2007

"Sort of Sony Night"

  • Andrew Balis, Christine Steele, KD Gulko, Kevin Monahan -( FCP Q and A)
  • Christine Steele - FCP Tip/Trick of the Month - "Media Manager" (demo)
  • Ampede WebLink - Eric Ocean- (demo
  • "Mojave Phone Booth and HDV - John Putch - ( Discussion)
  • "Shooting and Editing with XDCAM HD"- Jody Eldred and Larry Jordan - (demo)
  • "Liza Minnelli Tribute" - Show and Tell - Les Perkins
  • "Captain Brew" - Show and Tell - Mike Mrozek

 January 2007

"Future of Post Production"

  • Andrew Balis, Christine Steele, KD Gulko -( FCP Q and A)
  • Andrew Balis - FCP Tip/Trick of the Month (demo)
  • VeeScope Live - Brad Wright- (demo
  • Angus Wall and Andreas Wacker - "Zodiac"( Discussion)
  • "Show and Tell" - Steve Payne (show and tell)
  December 2006 - (No Meeting due to Holidays)

   November 15, 2006

"lafcpug goes to DV Expo"

  • Ben Aein - DV Monitor - (demo)
  • Red Digital Cinema update- Ted Schilowitz (demo)
  • "One Six Right"- Brian J. Terwilliger (show and tell)
  • What's New in FCP 5.1.2 - Steve Bayes (demo)
  • "Trains" - Mike Goubeaux (show and tell)

   October 25, 2006

"From FCP to the Web"

  • Andrew Balis, Philip Hodgetts, Victor Maldonado, KD Gulko -( FCP Q and A)
  • Compression Recipes- Philip Hodgetts (demo)
  • Making the Leap - Michael Friedman- (discussion
  • How the big boys do it - Dan DiPola (Discussion)
  • Exporting Widescreen Movies for the Web" - Brian Gary - (demo)
  • "Armageddon On Your Mind" - Dave Edison (show and tell)

  September 27, 2006

"How did you do that?"

  • Shane Ross, Victor Maldonado, KD Gulko, Kevin Monahan, Ken Stone -(FCP Q and A)
  • How to make a FCP Plug-in - Shane Ross (demo)
  • "Sad Lisa" - Alan Sheltra- (How did you do that?)
  • "Super Fast Heavy Metal Video Blitz" - Eddie Roman- (How did you do that?)
  • "Metamorfishes" - Mitchell Rose- (How did you do that?)
  • "Straight Life: Story of Art Pepper" - Laurie Pepper- (How did you do that?)
  • Travelling Mattes in FCP - Larry Jordan (demo)
  • "Super Teen *Topia" - Mark R Root- (How did you do that?)
  • "Music Video" - Kenn Michael- (How did you do that?)

 August 23, 2006

"Making DVDs"

  • Andrew Balis, Noah Kadner, KD Gulko, Tara Veneruso -(FCP Q and A)
  • DVD 101 for Editors - Tara Veneruso (demo)
  • Automatic Duck - Wes Plate- (demo)
  • Creating DVD Motion Menus with LiveType - Larry Jordan (Demo)
  • Creating HD DVDs - Bruce Nazarian - (demo
  • 3-D Film Festival - Les Perkins (show and tell)

 July 26, 2006

"Making Music, Making Movies"

  • Steve Martin, Larry Jordan, Mike Curtis, Bruce Nazarian -(FCP Q and A)
  • Sonicfire Pro 4 - Stephanie Joyce (demo)
  • FrameForge 3D- Ethan Markowitz - (demo)
  • SyncVue - Michael Buday (Demo)
  • "iCan Festival de Cine" - Marco Torres and Students from SFETT - (show and tell)
  • "Working with Multicam" - Steve Martin (demo)
  • MusicBed DV and Season One - Eric Huffman - (demo)
  • "Dow Jones Factiva" Brian Gary - (Show and Tell)

 June 28, 2006

"Happy 5th Birthday lafcpug"

  • Graeme Nattress, Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, (FCP Q and A)
  • Gorilla 3 - Ethan Markowitz (demo)
  • "Start Editing Now" - William Davis- (demo)
  • Shake 4.1 - Damian Allen- (Demo)
  • Understanding Film Look - Graeme Nattress - (demo)
  • Jonathan Birch- Drew Mylrea- (show and tell)
  • "Run" - Edber Mamisao - (show and tell)

 May 24, 2006

This meeting is now available on DVD

"The Promax Digital Cafe Comes to lafcpug

  • Larry Jordan, Steve McCracken, Christine Steele, KD Gulko (FCP Q and A)
  • PictureReady - Keith Hatounian (demo)
  • "Matrox MXO" - Pino Barile- (demo)
  • Red Digital Cinema Camera - Ted Schilowitz- (Demo)
  • Mobile Field Editing with a MacBook Pro and XDCAM HD - Steve Bayes - (demo)
  • Tascam FW-1082 - Jeff Laity- (demo)

 April 19, 2006

"Dede Allen in conversation with lafcpug"

  • The entire night was given over to Film Editing legend, Dede Allen. Michael Horton moderated the first half of the show and also showed clips from Reds, Little Big Man, Dog Day Afternoon, and Slap Shot.
  • The 2nd half of the show was given over to audience Q and A.

 March 22, 2006

This meeting is now available on DVD

"The Real Deal on the HVX 200 with FCP Night""

  • Larry Jordan, Philip Hodgetts, Christine Steele, Alex Lindsey (FCP Q and A)
  • FCP Tip Trick of the Month - Christine Steele (demo)
  • P2 workflow with the HVX200 - Shane Ross, Andrew Parke, Jim Lindsay- (demo)
  • Shooting with the HVX200 - Barry Braverman- (Demo)
  • Tips to working with garbage mattes and chroma key - Larry Jordan - (demo)
  • What you need to know about the MacBook Pro - Brad Wright- (demo)
  • "Short" - Scott O'Connor - (Show and Tell)

 February 27, 2006

"Get Yourself Organized Night"

  • Steve Martin, Phil Hodgetts, Shane Ross, Christine Steele, (FCP Q and A)
  • "Color Correction in FCP" -FCP Tip Trick of the Month - Steve Martin (demo)
  • "StoryBoard Artist" - Fred Gallo- (demo)
  • FileMaker Pro 8 Untitled - Ramy Katrib- (Demo)
  • Converting HDV to SD 4:3- Philip Hodgetts - (demo)
  • "Short" - Ted Bonnitt - (Show and Tell)

 January 25, 2006

"lafcpug welcomes Digital Heaven"

  • Larry Jordan, Phil Hodgetts, Martin Baker, Christine Steele, (FCP Q and A)
  • "7 steps to Easy Color Correction" -FCP Tip Trick of the Month - Larry Jordan- (demo)
  • "HD Log" - Dan Montgomery- (demo)
  • Auto Motion - Martin Baker- (Demo)
  • Final Draft AV - Frank Colin - (demo)
  • "3 Shorts" - Ryan Reeves - (Show and Tell)
  • Can you make 2 short films for $5,400 and make it look like it cost $54,000? - Warren Eig - (Show and Tell)

  Dec 7, 2005

"lafcpug at DV Expo West"

  • How to "successfully" take your movie to Podcast - Brian Gary and Steve Martin - (demo)
  • The Kona LHe Card - Ted Schilowitz and Jon Thorn- (demo)
  • Aperture for the FCP User - Kirk Paulson - (demo)
  • Steadicam Merlin - Garrett Brown - (Demo)
  • Canon XLH1 - Don Berube - (demo)

 Nov 16, 2005

"Huge Systems and the HVX200"

  • Larry Jordan, Phil Hodgetts, Brian Gary, Christine Steele, (FCP Q and A)
  • Alan Novitz - "Huge Systems " - (demo)
  • Philip Hodgetts - "Kinemac" (demo)
  • Randall Weatherington - "Keta Rap: - (show and Tell)
  • Kenn Michael - 2 Music Videos" - (show and Tell)
  • Russell Walker and Jerry Miles - Understanding the P2 workflow with the Panasonic AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD Camcorder - (demo)

 Oct 26, 2005

This meeting is now available on DVD

"Walter Murch and Company"

  • Phil Hodgetts, Andrew Balis, Matt Geller, Sean Cullen and Steve Matin(FCP Q and A)
  • Marcus Herrick - "2 new free plug-ins for FCP " - (demo)
  • Walter Murch and Sean Cullen - Editing Jarhead" (discussion)

 Sept 28, 2005

"HDV Night Part Deux"

  • Phil Hodgetts, Andrew Balis and Larry Jordan (FCP Q and A)
  • Brad Wright - "Editing HDV NON Nativly in FCP 5" - (demo)
  • Forrest Maready - "Traffic" - (demo)
  • Ted Schilowitz -"Kona LHe card" - (demo)
  • Chuck Braverman and Rob King- "Editing HDV Natively in Final Cut Pro 5 " (Demo)
  • Jeremy Saville - (Show and Tell)

 August 25, 2005

"Avid and FX Night"

  • Ken Stone, Phil Hodgetts, Andrew Balis and Philip Hodgetts, Steve Martin, Tom Wolsky, Kevin Monahan (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - "Motion and VO" - (demo)
  • Kevin Monahan - "Motion Graphics and Effects in FCP" - (demo)
  • Tim Wilson -"Slick Tricks with Tiger and Avid Xpress Pro" - (demo)
  • BT Corwin - "New ways to rip audio" (Demo)
  • Guido Orio - (Show and Tell)

 July 27, 2005

"Boris and the Duck Night"

  • Ken Stone, Phil Hodgetts, Andrew Balis and Philip Hodgetts (FCP Q and A)
  • Andrew Balis - "Fun things you can do with the Option Key in FCP 5" - (demo)
  • Wes Plate - "Automatic Duck Pro Export 3.0" - (demo)
  • Marco Torres and the students from SFETT -"iCan 6 Filmfest" - (discussion)
  • Ann Renehan - "Boris FX and Grafitti" (Demo)
  • Les Perkins - "DVD - (Show and Tell)
  • Alexander S Lee "The Real Shaolin"- (show and tell)

 June 22, 2005

"Happy 5th Birthday Lafcpug"

  • Ken Stone, Phil Hodgetts, Andrew Balis (FCP Q and A)
  • Andrew Balis - "Edit in the Viewer in FCP 5" - (demo)
  • Brian Gary - "The art of encoding using Compressor" - (demo)
  • Larry Jordan -"Upgrading to FCP 5" - (demo)
  • Mark Stolaroff - "Anatomy of a Scene: Tips for No Budget/Low Budget Filmmakers" (Demo)
  • Philip Hodgetts - "Apple and Intel - Fact and Fiction - (discussion)
  • Roland Wood - "Final Touch Color Corrector" - Demo
  • Kerry Kirkham Owyeung -"The Short Attention Span Show" - (show and tell)
  • Mark Vasconcellos "Trailer"- - (show and tell)

 May 25, 2005

"All you Want to Know about DVD Studio Pro 4"

  • Ken Stone, Steve Martin, Phil Hodgetts, Andrew Balis (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - "Looking under the hood of a Multiclip in FCP 5" - (demo)
  • Joe Kennedy - "Micronet Sancube" - (demo)
  • Larry Jordan -"Upgrading to FCP 5" - (demo)
  • Brian Hoffmann and Bruce Nazarian - "DVD Studio Pro 4" (Demo)
  • Anthony Dalesandro -"Spec Commercials"- - (show and tell)
  • Courtney Jones"Fronterz"- - (show and tell)

 April 27, 2005

"Show and Tell Night" - (No DVD)

  • Ken Stone, Noah Kadner, Steve McCracken (FCP Q and A)
  • Noah Kadner - "Formosa" - (show and tell)
  • Jonas Navickas - "Waking up Dead" - (show and tell)
  • Dale Ellis -"Tune Up to Success" - (show and tell)
  • Tony Petrossian - "Vermillion" (Show and Tell)
  • Lauri Pepper-"San Francisco, 1957" - (show and tell)
  • Marco Torres-"Cool Web Docs for Apple Ed" - (show and tell)
  • Daniel Foster-"Gaytino" - (show and tell)
  • Dan Spigel-"House of Generals" - (show and tell)
  • Jeremy Saville-"Untitled" - (show and tell)
  • Tony Mark -"Asylum" - (show and tell)

 March 23, 2005

"Making Music and Music Videos"

  • Ken Stone, Jeffery Morse, Steve Martin (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - Cutting to the Beat of Music" - (Demo)
  • Stephanie Joyce - Sonic Fire Pro - (demo)
  • Timothy Standing - Softraid (demo)
  • Mitchell Rose - "Weightless- (Show and Tell)
  • Ted Schilowitz -"Making of Cold Hard Bitch" - (show and tell)
  • Kenn Michael-"Wylde Bunch" - (show and tell)
  • Bill Boletta-"BURN: The Documentary" - (show and tell)

  Febuary 23, 2005

This meeting is now available on DVD

"HDV Night"

  • Ken Stone, Philip Hodgetts, Steve Martin (FCP Q and A)
  • Val Reynolds and Jody Eldred - "Working with the Sony HDR-Z1U HDV Cam and the HVR-M10U VTR " (Demo)
  • Promax - Everything you need to know and should know about HDV - (demo)
  • Frank Schindler- HDV Music Video (Show and Tell)
  • Brad Wright - How to Edit HDV on a Mac - (Demo)
  • Joel Inden -"3 Spec Spots" - (show and tell)
  • Greg Benson-"Mediocre Films" - (show and tell)

  January 26, 2005

This meeting is now available on DVD

"Plug-ins and Multicam"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin, Sharon Franklin (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - "Managing your Renders" (Demo)
  • Todd Prieves - Sapphire Plug-ins - (How-to)
  • Larry Jordan - Keyframed Wipes (How-to)
  • Philip Hodgetts - 2 solutions for Multicam in FCP - (Demo)
  • Frederic Haubrich - Capturing HDV into iMovie and then into FCP - (How-to)
  • Philip Bloom -"The Thing" - (show and tell)
  • Daniel Foster -"Keepers of the Art" - (show and tell)

   December 9, 2004

No DVD

"lafcpug at DV Expo"

  • Walter Murch and Sean Cullen - FCP and "Jarhead" workflow and Q and A
  • Joseph Linaschke - FCP Production Workflow (Demo)
  • Brian Meaney, Greg Niles, Brian Schmidt, oseph Linaschke - Pro Apps Q and A and Feature Request

   November 17, 2004

"First Meeting in our new Home"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Philip Hodgetts Sharon Franklin (FCP Q and A)
  • Alex Lindsey - Capturing your video Live to your PowerBook -(demo)
  • Brad Wright- From DVD to FCP with DVDxDV Pro - (Demo)
  • Larry Jordan - How to use the VO tool (demo)
  • The boys from DigitalFilm Tree - Future of Post Production- (demo)
  • Terrance Brown - The Zen Garden- (show and tell)
  • Wesley Smith - Beyond the Fish - (show and tell)

 October 27, 2004

"Last Meeting at LA Film School"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin Larry Jordan(FCP Q and A)
  • Michael Wohl - Motion PowerStart -(demo)
  • JD Wilcox - Sata Raids - (Demo)
  • Kenn Michael - Shooting with the Panasonic VariCam and editing with DVCProHD (demo)
  • John McKay - Virtual Katy- (demo)
  • Ryan Laslofly - (show and tell)

 September 22, 2004

"Back to School"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin Rick Sebeck(FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - Power Logging - (Demo)
  • Sharon Franklin - Organizing and Assembling your Project (demo)
  • Phil Hodgetts and Les Perkins - Keying Mary Poppins - (demo)
  • Josh Mellicker - JoshKeys- (demo)
  • Noah Berlow- "Herstory History" (show and tell)
  • Rick Sebeck -Demo Reel - (show and tell)

 August 25, 2004

"Summer Closeout Event"

  • Sharon Franklin, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin(FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin and Andrew Balis -Cutting Dialouge - (Demo)
  • Hage Van Dijk - Combustion 3(demo)
  • Aaton Cohen Sitt - Gorilla - (demo)
  • Christian White - Uncompressed HD Workflow- (demo)
  • Daniel Foster - "The Shaman of Paparazzo" (show and tell)
  • Don Dunham - Mamochka - (show and tell)

  July 28, 2004

"The Other NLE's"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin Jerry Hoffmann(FCP Q and A)
  • Tina Eckman -Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 - (Demo)
  • Marco Torres and the students from SFETT - (discussion)
  • Tim Wilson - Avid Xpress Pro - (demo)
  • Sony Vegas 5 - Timothy Duncan - (demo)
  • Paul Mitton - Pinnacle Liquid Edition Pro 5.5 (demo)

June 23 ,2004

 

"Happy 4th Birthday lafcpug"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin (FCP Q and A)
  • Diana Weynand -Multi-task while playing a sequence in the FCP Timeline - (Demo)
  • Marco Paolini- "55mm Plug-ins" - (demo)
  • Ashley Witt- "Logic Pro 6" - (demo)
  • Byron Gaither - "GarageBand" - (demo)
  • Tony Mark - "The Mailman" (Show and Tell)
  • Lena Nozizwe - "Hut to Hollywood" (Show and Tell)

 May 26, 2004

"The Promax Digital Cafe Comes to lafcpug"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin, Brian Meany, Lisa Brenneis (FCP Q and A)
  • Andrew Baum, - CineWave 4.6 - (Demo)
  • JD Wilcox - "Capturing DV via SDI" - (demo)
  • Ted Schilowitz - "Kona 2 and Io" - (demo)
  • Jeff Merritt - "FCP 4.5 - DVCPRO 100 Workflow" - (demo)
  • Brian Meaney - "FCP 4.5" (demo and Q and A)

  April 28, 2004

"LA Debut of Motion"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin (FCP Q and A)
  • Larry Jordan, Steve Martin, Philip Hodgetts, Noah Kadner - NAB Wrap up - (Discussion)
  • Brian Gary - "MultiCam in Final Cut Pro" - (demo)
  • Jim Perry - "Rescuing Bad Sound" - (demo)
  • Greg Niles - Motion - (demo)
  • Chris Bosen and Maryellen Owens - "Beaux & D'aria" (show and tell)
  • Jason Apuzzo - "Terminal Island." - (show and tell)

 March 24, 2004

"Creative Troubleshooting Night"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve McCracken, Philip Hodgetts (FCP Q and A)
  • Jake Benjamin - "Adding a Dream Look to your movie" - (Demo)
  • Diannah Morgan - "Creative Titling with Final Cut Pro" - (demo)
  • Jud Pratt - "Chip Monck" - (show and tell)
  • Philip Hodgetts - LiveType - (demo)
  • Larry Jordan - "Troubleshooting your FCP System, Part Deux" - (demo)
  • X.Dean Lim - "Love Supreme" - (show and tell)
  • Tito Da Costa - "Awake" - (show and tell)

 Feburary 25, 2004

"Motion Graphics and Effects and Walter Murch"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin, Lisa Brenneis (FCP Q and A)
  • Alex Lindsey - "What Filmmakers Need to Know About Visual Effects" - (Discussion)
  • Kevin Monahan - "Motion Graphics and Effects tips and tricks" - (demo)
  • Walter Murch - "Editing Cold Mountain" with FCP - (discussion)

 January 22, 2004

"Doc Night"

  • Philip Hodgetts, Ken Stone (FCP Q and A)
  • Chuck Braverman - Making Money Making Docs - (Discussion)
  • Dave Strohmaier - "Cinerama Adventure" - (show and tell)
  • Ted Bonnitt - Home Video and TV sales for your Doc- (Demo)
  • Myles Connelly - Making Docs; The Process - (discussion)
  • Peter Jazwinski - "Making Gretchen" -(Show and Tell)

  December 11, 2003

"lafcpug at DV Expo"

  • Philip Hodgetts, Steve Martin. Richard Harrington, Paul Saconne(FCP Q and A)
  • Paul Saconne - FCP 4.1 and AJA LA and LD Capture Cards - (Demo)
  • Brad Wright - How to get media off a DVD and imported into FCP - (demo)
  • Rick Blue, Ramy Katrib, "Editing NBC's Scrubs with FCP"- (Demo)
  • Tom Wolsky- Taming the Wild and Wacky Auto select Option in FCP 4.1 - (demo)

 November 19, 2003

"What YOU can do with FCP 4.1 "

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin. (FCP Q and A)
  • Jim Perry - FCP FAQ - (Discussion)
  • Wes Plate - New Automatic Duck - (demo)
  • Frank Collin -StoryBoarding with Final Draft AV- (Demo)
  • Scott Barbour - Working with the Trim Window in FCP 4 - (demo)
  • Philip Hodgetts - FCP 4.1 and Panther - (Demo)
  • Dean Chamberlain - Couple on Street Corner - (Show and Tell)

 October 22, 2003

"Dual 2gig G5 vs the Dual 1.4.2 G4 "

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin. Lisa Brenneis, Michael Wohl, Phil Hodgetts - (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - Matting Video to Text in LiveType - (Demo)
  • Tony Donaldson - Time lapse imagery - (Show and Tell)
  • JD Wilcox and Cawan Starks -The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth about the G5 - (Demo)
  • Drew Mylrea - "Ivory Gate" - (Show and Tell)
  • Larry Jordan - "When Bad Things Happen to Final Cut Pro" - (Demo)
  • Joshua Lee Cohen - Dalai Lama - (Show and Tell)

 September 24, 2003

"Making Music"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin - (FCP Q and A)
  • Andrew Balis - Tips and Tricks with the range Tool - (Demo)
  • "All over the World" - Tony LaTorre - (Show and Tell)
  • Ron Margolis - Getting to Know Soundtrack - (Demo)
  • Stephanie Joyce - SonicFire Pro 3.1 - (Demo)
  • Zed Saeed - Logic Platinum 6 - (Demo)
  • Brandon Walter - "Ray Dell Tubbs Gets Famous" (Show and Tell)
  • Pons Maar - "Stupid Fool" (Show and Tell)

 August 27, 2003

"The LA Launch of DVD Studio Pro 2"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Brian Meaney, Philip Hodgetts - (FCP Q and A)
  • DVD Studio Pro 2.0 - Brian Schmidt - (Demo)
  • How to go from FCP to DVDSP - 2 - Bruce Nazarian - (Demo)
  • Building a DVD with DVDSP 2 and FCP 4 - Megan Cunningham - (Demo)
  • "3D Film Fest Trailor and DVD" - Les Perkins - (Show and Tell)
  • FCP 4.0.1 and DVDSP - 2 Q and A - Brian Meaney and Brian Schmidt

 July 23, 2003

"Much more on FCP 4"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Lary Jordan - (FCP Q and A)
  • How to use the Time Remap feature in FCP 4 - Ken Stone -(Demo)
  • "Mixers" Beth McElhenny -Show and Tell
  • How to use the new Audio Mixer in FCP 4" - Dan Brockett -(Demo)
  • SFETT - Marco Torres and his Students - (Show and Tell)
  • How to use LiveType - Phil Hodgetts - (Demo)
  • PhotoShop techniques to FCP" - Dale Ellis - (Demo)
  • "True Human as the Hanged Man" - Daniel Foster -Show and Tell

 June 25, 2003

"lafcpug's three year anniversary"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Ralph Fairweather, Charles Roberts - (FCP Q and A)
  • RT Extreme - Steve Martin -(Demo)
  • "Turquoise" GiGi Mullins and Stephen Savage - (Show and Tell)
  • Cinewave 4 - Andrew Baum and James Murphy - (Demo)
  • Boris Red 3GL - Tim Wilson - (Demo)

 May 28, 2003

"Extreme Sports Night"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Ralph Fairweather, Larry Jordan - (FCP Q and A)
  • Hands Free Video System - Rick and Chris Boggs and Jake - Demo)
  • Surf Videos - Dean Cleary - Show and Tell
  • Motor Racing - Howie Zechner and Paul Vlahos - Show and Tell
  • Skateboard Videos- Brandon Schrichten - Show and Tell
  • More tools you can Use - Jim Greer - Demo
  • SuperCross, BMX and Skateboard - Evan Nesbit - Show and Tell
  • Extreme Sports - Todd Grossman - Show and Tell

 April 23, 2003

"The Los Angeles Debut of Final Cut Pro 4"

  • Ken Stone, Lisa Brenneis, Michael Wohl, Steve Martin - (FCP Q and A) 
  • The Future of Digital Cinema - Charles Swartz - Discussion
  • FCP 4 - Brian Meaney and Paul Saccone - Demo
  • FCP 4 - Q and A - Brian Meaney and Paul Saccone - Discussion

 March 26, 2003

"More Tips and Tricks Night"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin, Larry Jordan - (FCP Q and A) 
  • Steve Martin - How to make motion menus in FCP and import them into iDVD 3. - (demo)
  • Marco Paloni - Plugins from Digital FilmTools -(Demo)
  • Brian Fleming - "Nothing so Strange" - (Show and Tell)
  • Philip Hodgetts - Creating Effects in FCP - (Demo)
  • JD Wilcox - 5 Film Look Methods (Demo)
  • Guy Cochran - How to create a Motion Favorite -(Demo)
  • Bill Lippincott & Paul Kelleher - "Derelect" - (Show and Tell)

 February 19, 2003

"Lafcpug Goes to Creative Cow"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin. Kevin Monahan, Marco Solorio, Ralph Fairweather- (FCP Q and A) 
  • Larry Jordan - Everything you want to know about Offline RT -(demo)
  • Ghaffer Phourazer - "The Monkey King" -(Show and Tell)
  • Tim Wilson - Boris Continuum Complet - (Demo)
  • Ramy Katrib and Zed Saeed - "Developing the WorkFlow for Walter Murch - Discussion)
  • Gregory Lemkin and Aaron Orten - "Powder" (Show and Tell)

 January 23, 2003

"Taking your DV Movie to film"

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin- (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - Final Cut Express - (demo)
  • Lance Laspina - Frazetta. - (Show and Tell)
  • Noah Kadner - DVX100 - PD150 Film Out Comparison- (Demo)
  • Mark Shepherd - "Taking your DV Movie to Film" (Demo)
  • JP Husky/In-Q - "Who I Am" - (Show and Tell)

 December 11, 2002

lafcpug at DV EXPO (no summary, just pictures and not available on DVD)

  • Brian Meaney, Michael Wong, and David Black- (FCP Q and A)
  • Cawan Starks - Decklink - (demo)
  • Jim Tierney - Psumani and Aurora Sky. - (Demo)
  • Noah Kadner - DVX100 vs the PD150 - (Demo)
  • Nate Weaver - "If Ozzy Was My Dad (That Would Rock)" (Show and Tell)

 November 26, 2002

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin- (FCP Q and A)
  • Dean Godshall - Keyframing in FCP - (demo)
  • Barry Goch - "Various Movie clips for DVD" - (Show and Tell)
  • Steve Martin - "Getting your Browser Organized" - (Demo)
  • Daniel Foster - "Airborne" (Show and Tell)
  • Larry Jordan - "Panning and Zooming in FCP" - (demo)
  • Scott Peterson - "Scrabylon"- (Show and Tell)

 October 23, 2002

This meeting is available on DVD

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Lisa Brenneis, Sharon Franklin - (FCP Q and A)
  • Philip Hodgetts - TroubleShooter For FCP - (demo)
  • Mitchell Rose - "Case Studies from the Groat Center for Sleep Disorders" - (Show and Tell)
  • Josh Mellicker - "Let's get Vertical; Compositing in FCP" - (Demo)
  • Philip Hodgetts - "Perfect Titles in FCP the First Time and Everytime" (Demo)
  • Lillian Benson - "Smothered-The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" - (Show and Tell)
  • Frank Rohmer and Dan Fort - Panasonic DVX100 24p Camcorder - (Demo)
  • Gregg Spotts - "FCP for Sports Broadcast Applications"- (Show and Tell)

  September 25 2002

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Steve Martin - (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve martin - All about FCP's Trim Edit Window - (Demo)
  • Tara Veneruso - History of Web Filmmaking - (Discussion)
  • Mark Shepherd - "Are You In" - (Show and Tell)
  • John Badham & Paul Messick - ShotMaster - (Demo)
  • Gregory Lemkin - X-Box Commercial - (Show and Tell)
  • Larry Jordan - From FCP to Web via Cleaner - (Demo)
  • Richard Fauman and Kevin Leadingham - "National Public Safety Football League" (Show and Tell)
  • Dean Chamberlain and James Reitano -"Rapper Motion Man and his DJ Kutmasta Kurt" - (Show and Tell)

 August 28 2002

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Michael Alberts - (FCP Q and A)
  • JD Wilcox - Keyboard Shortcuts and Modifier keys - (Demo)
  • Philip Hodgetts - DV Companion for OSX - Demo)
  • Beverly Baroff - "& Thou Shalt Honor" - (Show and Tell)
  • Aaton Cohen-Sitt - Gorilla - (Demo)
  • Andrew Balis - CGM filters and transitions Vol2 for FCP -(Demo)
  • Ramy Katrib and John Taylor - AJA Kona Capture Card - (Demo)
  • Les Perkins- "The Music Legacy of Paul Smith" - (Show and Tell)
  • Tom Sanders - "Dark Commandos" - (Show and Tell)

 July 24, 2002

  • Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, Phil Hodgetts - (FCP Q and A)
  • Josh Mellicker - Enhancing your CDs - (Demo)
  • Bill Davis - The "art" of Industrial/Corporate Video - Demo)
  • Brian Gary - Commercial Demo Reel - (Show and Tell)
  • Larry Jordan, Cade Rhudy, Rick Pratt - Every Thing you ever wanted to know about Corporate Video - (Demo)
  • Marco Torres and SFETT - Trailer for iCan Film Fest - (Show and Tell)
  • Tim Wilson - Enhancing your Corporate Video with Boris Red - (Demo)
  • Phil Ohler - San Diego Padre Promos - (Show and Tell)
  • Beth McElhenny - "Mixed Marriage" - (Show and Tell)

 June 26, 2002

  • Ken Stone, Paul Saccone, Daniel Fort (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - "Ins and Outs of OSX - (Demo)
  • Wes Plate - Automatic Sequence Export Pro - (Demo)
  • Michael Friedman - "How to do an explosion effect" - (Demo)
  • Doug Hansel, Steve Chasin - Avid Xpress DV 3.5 - (Demo)
  • Michael Friedman, Robert C Rodriguez, Daniel Fort - Working with FCP and OSX in a real world production environment
  • Tony Mark, Courtney Jones "The Mailman" - (Show and Tell)
  • Mike Stathopoulos and Dan Whitehill - "The Delivery" - (Show and Tell)

  May 23, 2002

  • Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Guy Cochran (FCP Q and A)
  • Phil Hodgetts - Importing PDF Files and restoring a "soft focus" shot - (demo
  • Bruce Nazarian - What's new in DVD Studio Pro 1.5 - (Demo)
  • Brian Fleming - "Nothing so Strange" - (Show and Tell)
  • Guy Cochran - Cheap lights and Lighting techniques for DV - (Demo)
  • Mehran Saky - Lighting in VERY tough Enviroments - (Demo)
  • Alan Armes and Brandon Barnes - "Caroline LaLive: Finding the Perfect Line" - (Show and Tell)
  • Bill McComber - "Valium and Grass" - (Show and Tell)

 April 24 ,2002

  • Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Walt Shires (FCP Q and A
  • Josh Mellicker- Film Look Tecniques - (DEMO)
  • Dan Fort, Paul Saccone, Edvin Mehrabyan - CinemaTools -(DEMO)
  • Jason Apuzzo "San Pedro" - (Show and Tell)
  • Scott Billups - Magic Bullet - (DEMO)
  • Deeder McDaniel - "Until Morning" - (Show and Tell)
  • Phil Hodgetts - Low Cost Film Look Plug in Comparison - (DEMO)
  • Steve Payne - Self distributing your own Movie - (Discussion)
  • Alessandro Mercuri - "Alien American" - (Show and Tell)

 March 27 ,2002

  • Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Scott Barbour (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - Keyboard shortcuts and Boris Calligraphy - (How2)
  • Tim Wilson - Boris Calligraphy, Graffiti, and RED tour - Demo
  • James Darfus - Brewshow - (Show and Tell)
  • Ralph Fairweather - Capturing and THEN logging your media - (How2)
  • Phil Hodgetts - FCP 3's Color Correcter - (How2)
  • Elaine Wilkes - MovieWorks - (Demo)
  • Cawan Starks - How to back up your project Files. - (How2)
  • Guy Cochran - PhotoShop and FCP - (How2)
  • Anthony Delesandro - "Collette's Last Bath" - (Show and Tell)

 February 23, 2002

  • Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Terry McCarthy (FCP Q and A)
  • Steve Martin - How you can add multiple transitions to your timeline with one click and How to use "Mark to Markers." - (How2)
  • Jason Davies - Peak DV and Deck - Demo
  • Dave Poncia - Alanis Morissette Concert - (Show and Tell)
  • Dan Brockett and Randy Bickler - Field Audio Production for DV Filmmaking - (discussion)
  • Kevin Klinger- SmartSound® Sonicfire® Pro - (demo)
  • Vicki Wagner - Shelley's Supper Club - (Show and Tell)
  • Biff - On the road of Life" or "I can change a tire by myself - (Show and Tell)

 January 23, 2002

  • Terry McCarthy - How to upgrade to 3.0 (Demo)
  • Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Randy Ubillos (FCP Q and A)
  • Phil Hodgetts - The RT Hack (discussion)
  • Phil Ohler - "DVD Project" - (Show and Tell)
  • Paul Saccone and Randy Ubillos - Whats new in 3.0 - (Demo)
  • David George - "Sister Beatrice Explores..." - (Show and Tell)
  • Cawan Starks - How to run 2 copies of 3.0 on OSX at teh same time - (Demo)
  • Wes Plate - Automatic Composistion Import FCP - (Demo)
  • R/Kaine Blaze - DVD Project - (Show and Tell)
  • Pons Marr -" My First Job" - (Show and Tell)


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