Summaries of past meetings are written as a courtesy for our members who, for whatever reason, cannot attend or just plain forgot what they saw and heard if they did attend. Details of presentations, and "show and tells" are included in all summaries. Also we try to include any valuable information the presenters give us so our membership may benefit. Lastly we include URLs and e-mails of most presenters in the event anyone outside of lafcpug wishes more information. Click Here for 2005 Click Here for 2004 Click Here for 2003 Click Here for 2002 Click Here for 2001 Click Here for 2000 Past Meetings 2001  November 28, 2001 Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Tom Wolsky (FCP Q and A) Josh Mellicker - How to create loopable content for motion menus- (How2) Marco Torres - San Fernando High School - (Show and Tell) Bruce Nazarian - DVD@cess in DVD Studio Pro- (How2) Tom Wolsky - Final Cut Pro 2 Editing Workshop- (Discussion) Adrian Ramsier - DVD Hardware -(Demo) Mitchell Rose - "Learn to Speak Body - Tape 5." (Show and Tell) Barry Braverman -DVD Transcoder Comparison - (Demo) Chuck Braverman - "Rocky and Rolanda" - (Show and Tell) Mehran Saky - "Road Kill" - (Show and Tell)  October 24, 2001 Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Michael Alberts (FCP Q and A) Phil Hodgetts - "How to make a 3D logo "Bug"- (How2) Gregory Lemkin - "Tokyo: Konjaku No Kan" - (Show and Tell) Jefferey Bernstein - "How to Choose the Correct Hard Drive" (Discussion) Joe Kornbrodt - "Movie and TV Trailers" - (Show and Tell) Klaus Eperlie - CGM Plug-ins for FCP - (Demo) Tony Mark - "Behind the scenes with the Olsen Twins" (Show and Tell) Roger Mabon - Medea Disk Arrays - (Demo) Guido Orio - "My Grandmas Piano" - (Show and Tell) Nicholas Kelly and Fred King - "The Meaning Counselor" (Show and Tell) Sept 26, 2001 Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Philip Hodgetts (FCP Q and A) Steve Martin - "The Ghost Writer"(Commotion DV)- (How2) Ted Bonnitt - "Mau Mau Sex Sex - (Show and Tell) Barbara Simon - "Compositing for the Beginner" - (How2) Darren Purcell - "Speed Truck Challenge" - (Show and Tell) Lillian Benson - Various Clips - (Show and Tell) Andrew Balis - "Sliding Filter Trick" - (How 2) Joseph Karr O'Connor, John Bishop, David Arellano, - "FCP in the Classroom" (Discussion) Scott Peterson - "A Buck and Change"- (Show and Tell)  August 22, 2001 Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Steve Martin- (FCP Q and A) Steve Martin - Reconnecting media when it goes offline - (How2) Luis Remesar - "Regreso" (show and tell) Lisa Brenneis - Visual QuickPro Guide for FCP - (demo) Frank Collins - Final Draft and Final Draft AV - (demo) Cliff Van Meter - Wired Quicktime - (demo) Michael Friedman - "Doppleganger" - (show and tell) Ross Jones, Cawan Starks, Charles McConathy RT MAX LITE - (demo) Kevin Dole - "DigiKam and cutting on the set" (How2) Dean Chamberlain - "Boogie Knights" - (show and tell)  July 25, 2001 Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Jeff Bernstein- (FCP Q and A) Steve Martin - How to pick the right codec - (How2) Brian and Rose Wilson - "Niagra" - (Show and Tell) Ron Margolis - MacWorld NY Report Robert Schuster - DV Gear you have never seen - (Demo) Kenny Blank - N'sync - (Show and Tell) Phil Hodgetts - Preprocessing to Reduce Encoder Stress - How2 Dan DiPaola Sorenson Media - Secrets of encoding (How2) Keith Hatounian - Generic Media - (Demo) Jim Tierney - Digital Anarchy - Elements of Anarchy (Demo) David George - "'S Wonderful" - (Show and Tell)  August 22, 2001 Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Steve Martin- (FCP Q and A) Steve Martin - Reconnecting media when it goes offline - (How2) Luis Remesar - "Regreso" (show and tell) Lisa Brenneis - Visual QuickPro Guide for FCP - (demo) Frank Collins - Final Draft and Final Draft AV - (demo) Cliff Van Meter - Wired Quicktime - (demo) Michael Friedman - "Doppleganger" - (show and tell) Ross Jones, Cawan Starks, Charles McConathy RT MAX LITE - (demo) Kevin Dole - "DigiKam and cutting on the set" (How2) Dean Chamberlain - "Boogie Knights" - (show and tell)  June 27, 2001 Andrew Balis, Ken Stone, Steve Martin - (FCP Q and A) Steve Martin - FX Builder - How2 Dave Macomber- "Duality" - (show and tell) Phil Hodgetts - Capturing DV at Low res - (How2) Tim Serda - History of FCP - (show and tell) Randy Ubillos - FCP tips and Tricks - (Demo) Mike Stroven and Ramy Katrib -Aurora Ignitor Card - (Demo) Randy Ubillos - Q and A - Matthew Ross - Curtis and Clover - (show and tell) May 23, 2001 Steve Martin and Ken Stone - (FCP Q and A) Steve Payne - "My Vacation" - (show and Tell) Steve Martin- "Say Cheese" (How 2) Chris Dupont - "Dream Theatre" (show and Tell) Barry Braverman - Filters and DV Cameras -(demo) Gregory Lemkin - "aimee Mann" (show and Tell) Phil Hodgetts - "log and capture in 2.0 - (demo and how2) Anthony Scarpa - "Betty Blowtorch" - (show and tell) Vicki Blue - "Edgeplay"- (show and tell)  April 25, 2001 Andrew Balis and Ken Stone - (FCP Q and A) Ross Jones - How to back up your HD (demo) Andrew Balis - installing 2.0 (demo) Enrique Moralas - "Pitch Factory" (show and Tell) Donna Kuyper and Erica Clare - Marzpac Camera stabilizer (demo) Terry McCarthy - "What was cool at NAB" (show and tell) Tony Milch - Audio and Bias DV ( demo) David George - "Scott Seidman (unfinished Documentary)" - (show and tell) Steve Paynie - "Blue" (show and tell)  March 21, 2001 Andrew Balis and Ken Stone - (FCP Q and A) Apple Computer - FCP 2.0 (demo) Tim Wilson and Boris Red - (demo) Michael Wohl - "Want" - (Show and Tell)  February 28, 2001 Ralph Fairweather & Andrew Balis -(FCP Q and A) Steve Martin - "How to do that 'Cops' thing" (how2) Dawn Cichon - SonicfirePro - (demo) Phillip Hodgetts - FCP Title Generator Tricks (how2) Anthony Scarpa - DunceDance (Show and Tell) Allan Hamill - Adobe Premiere 6 (demo) Dan Fort - "Life after Bojangles" (Show and Tell) JC Cornwell - "Life Planners" (Show and Tell)  January 24, 2001 Ralph Fairweather & Andrew Balis -(FCP Q and A) Steve Martin- "Match Frame" - (how2) Promax- "New G4 Macs" (demo) Lori Schwartz - Show and Tell Josh Mellicker - "Using FCP to make your video more film like" (how2) Mitchell Rose- "Modern Daydreams"- (show and tell) Adrian Ramseier - iDVD nad DVD Studio Pro (keynote) Alex Cima - "Hazed" music video (show and tell) Dan Brockett- Amgen recruitment video" (show and tell) top