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May.
21 , 2008
"Encoding
Night"
Join us as we welcome Bill Harris
from Telestream who will show us the new and improved
"Pipeline"
hardware encoder. Also Josh Mellicker of DVCreators will
show us their latest software encoder, dvcCast.
Andreas Wacker, who
developed the digital workflow for David Fincher's "Zodiac"
returns to lafcpug to talk about how to "Encode for the
Web" including choosing the right codec and container etc.
Compressor Guru Brian Gary and Ray Wallick of Omni
Cinema Craft will debut the brand new Cinema
Craft Encoder MP Plug-In for Compressor 3. Plus,
Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells and of course, World
Famous Raffle.
Agenda
6:45- 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
Join FCP Gurus Andrew
Balis, Brian Gary, Kevin
Monahan and Larry
Jordan as they will attempt to answer all of your
questions and solve all of your problems concerning FCS. If they
can't solve your problem or answer your How 2, then you go home
with a problem but you still got out of the house, so that's
not a bad thing.
7:20PM - 7:35PM - Encoding For the
Web - Andreas Wacker
Andreas
Wacker, who developed the digital workflow for David Fincher's
"Zodiac"
returns to lafcpug to talk about ways to Encode for the Web including
what codecs to use, what size to
pick, what people are using these days, and how much bandwidth
you have to watch.
7:40PM - 8:00PM - dvcCast - Josh Mellicker
dvcCast!
imports your exported movies, captured digital pictures, graphics,
and audio files, resizes and encodes them in "spectacular"
quality, then uploads web-ready media to your FTP server, then
even writes you the tags to embed your work in a web page, blog
or forum. Josh Mellicker of dvCreators.net,
shows us how.
8:05PM - 8:30PM - Telestream Pipeline
SDI Network Encoder - Bill Harris
Real-time encoding from SDI to
DV25, IMX 30/40/50 in a single box
Sits on your network so anyone can access it
Smart encoding to Final Cut Pro project bin settings
External encoding allows fast ingest without burdening your edit
workstation
And so much more
8:30PM - 8:55PM
- Break
GMAX
will be there showing off their storage solutions. Lots of other
stuff will be showing off too. The
break is a chance to hang out and meet and greet and get your
problems solved. Lots of FCP Gurus come to lafcpug meetings and
this is your chance to network and make contacts and get your
problems solved. Snacks and Beer
and Wine will be on sale in the lobby. Proceeds go to the Gallery
Theater.
9:00PM - 9:30PM - Cinema Craft Encoder
MP Plug-In for Compressor 3 - Brian Gary and Ray Wallick
The Cinema Craft
line of encoders set the bar within the entertainment industry
for Standard Definition DVD, MPEG-2 compression and then once
again with AVC/H.264 High Definition encoding for Blu-ray discs.
Their résumé of SD titles is quite impressive:
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, Spiderman 3, King
Kong, Pirates of the Caribbean, the list
goes on. The
release of Cinema
Craft Encoder MP changes all that. For the first time the
Cinema Craft Xtream software encoding engine is available outside
of its proprietary, online system as a Compressor 3 plug-in.
9:35PM - 9:45PM - "Does Anyone
Care"- Tom Mitchell- Show and Tell
"Does anyone care?" is a musical call-to-action video
aimed at a christian youth group. It was also used to amass nearly
$50,000 in donated materials and labor to benefit Mexican
refugees near Tiajuana. TRT: 4:55
There is a short lead-in story, but in
essence the video is a music video montage that I created to
inspire to the youth group of St. Mel's Catholic Church in Norco
to action in support of Mexican refugees in the Tiajuana
area who were displaced by the bandits/rebels in central Mexico.
I characterize it as "Katrina without
a hurricane" because the families were forced from their
land by armed forces in Mexico's ongoing internal struggles.
They fled with little but the clothes on their backs.
It could also be characterized as a "zero
budget, unscripted testimony to a little known tragedy."
It was shot by my wife Margaret (no, not that Margaret
Mitchell...) and I for the cost of a couple of reels of tape
and a battery charge, and posted by me in FCP5 and Digital Film
Lab 2. Bring Kleenex... (Between you and me, the piece was a
divine inspiration in the aftermath of a pretty plain impromptu documentary
requested by the priest at St. Mel's to validate the aid project.)
9:50PM - World Famous Raffle
Pipeline Network
Encoder - Telestream ($1950
value)
(2) copies of the Cinema Craft Encoder MP plug-in for Compressor
3 -
Omni Cinema Craft
($795 each value)
(2) copies of the Compressor 3 Tutorial - RippleTraining
(4) copies of the PeachPit DVD Studio Pro 4 Second Edition book
- Peachpit
Cinema Craft caps - Omni
Cinema Craft
1 year ZIO Pro
Membership - ZIO
PRO
4 copies of dvcCast -
DV
Creators
"Stop Staring
and Start Grading with Apple Color" - Creative
Cow.net
"Money Making Graphics
& Effects for FCS 2" - Creative
Cow.net
Portable 100GB USB Drive
- GMAX
2 coupons for 25% off
your next purchase of $700.00 or more - GMAX
1 copy of ShotPut
EXpress - Imagine
Products
T-shirts and Water Bottles-
BBC Motion Gallery
Keyboard KeyGuides -
Neotron
2 Free HD Clips - gotFootageHD
Copy of VeeScope Live
- VeeScope
Live
$100.00 off or towards
any Digital Heaven products - Digital Heaven
100 credits for the royalty
free stock video clips of your choice - Revolution Stock Media
Copy of DVDxDVPro - DVDxDV
50% off Training class
at Moviola - Moviola
Plug-in package of your
choice - Lyric
Media
Ken Stone dot net T-shirt
- Ken
Stone
Special thanks to ProMax
for footing the bill and Victor Maldonado and Dean
Cleary for taping the show
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