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"VENDORS
CORNER"
with
Jim Tierney, from
Digital Anarchy
Video Compression
with
Wil Wells.
Have you ever
looked at video on the web and said “how does that video
look so clean and awesome?” Wil helped us learn about
the often misunderstood world of web-compression and had us come out
the other side as compression rockstars! Wil began his
online career with CBS Radio overseeing and creating
promotional media, websites, and web ads. In 2003, Wil
began working for the Emmy award winning
Peppers.TV as their Sr. Creative Director and Editor where
he received Award of Excellence Telly’s for his animated
graphic design for broadcast programming. In 2009 he started
his own studio,
The Pear Lab, specializing in social, CMS and video
centric web design and winning 4 joint ADDY awards and an Emmy
nomination! Wil also hosts the online show “Talk Nerdy
To Me” with Rian Flynn, Creative Director of The Pear Lab.
DVDSP, part 2, with
Rich Beckermeyer.
Rich covered region settings, sub-menus and their uses,
chapter creation in FCP and how its utilized in DVDSP, and
creating a Simple Slideshow using only DVDSP! Rich
has vast experience as director/producer, editor, and shooter
for cable/web shows, live event productions, TV shows and
documentaries on-location in South America, Europe and in the
US. Career highlights include working with the creators of
the HBO Documentary Film, “The Yes Men Fix the World,” &
interviewing former President Jimmy Carter. Presently, Rich
creates mechanisms for project management, technical skills
development, equipment buying, and interoffice communications
for the
Center for Multicultural Cooperation
Our April, 2010 meeting featured:
VMI
was in our Vendor's Corner.
DVDSP,
Part 1" with Jason Broussard;
Jason is the
Senior Editor/ Videographer at
PEPPERS.TV,
a graphic artist and producer.
Jason taught us about exporting out of
FCP and importing into compressor, compression specifically for DVSDSP, plug
and play DVD's, looping a DVD, custom menus with Photoshop
overlays and two different ways of authoring your DVD.
"Color correction"
with
Charles Angelis;
Charles is the Digital Media instructor at New San Juan High
School (an Apple Authorized Training Center for Education).
Charles is also an
Apple Certified Trainer and a freelance video editor
with over a decade of experience editing national television
series, documentaries and corporate web video. "There's more to
color correcting than "corrections." Charles
began to show
us how to give your projects mood, taste and individuality
with the tools in Final Cut Pro and Color. Charles will delve
into tonal balance, matching shots, fixing white balance and
transforming the atmosphere and attitude of your scenes.
Charles was so hot, he'll be back in August to teach us Color
Correction 2!
Our March, 2010 meeting featured:
Jeff Way from
AJA showed the revolutionary Ki Pro!!
"Finally, shoot on the same codec as you edit with, full
raster 10 bit Apple ProRes 422, built natively into Ki
Pro’s stand-alone, portable hardware."
Prof. Robert
W. Gore,
from the
Sacramento City College Theatre Arts and Film
dept., is a certified trainer for
Apple Motion,
DVD Studio Pro,
Final Cut Pro,
Soundtrack Pro, and
Color.
Sacramento City College is a certified Apple
Training Center for all of the Final Cut Studio Pro Apps. Rob
is astonishing, amazing... and amusing! Rob lead us
in a full meeting about Apple's
MOTION,
along with tips, tricks and ‘round-tripping’ procedures.
Our February, 2010 meeting featured:
Rob Huddleston
-developing web pages and applications since 1994 and
teaching web and graphic design since 1999. Rob is an Adobe
Certified Instructor, Certified Expert, Certified Developer,
and serves as an
Adobe User Group Manager. Rob presented an “Intro to
Flash”, focused on converting a video to FLV and
importing into Flash’s video program.
Professor
Gary Martin,
from the Radio TV and Film Production Department at
Cosumnes River College-an Apple Authorized Training
Center®-with “Compressor: Getting the Most from Final Cut
Studio”. Authoring a DVD? Publishing a Blu-Ray disc or
sending images to your iPhone? Need on-line video review?
Gary showed beginner and intermediate Compressor
workflows for FCP Studio and FCP 7.
Al Gonzalez,
from
Quad Air Communications, presented a short documentary
piece he produced and shot in India. Al shared
the unique editing process he went through.
Our January 27,
2010 meeting featured:
Todd W. Spencer.
Currently
a Television Specialist for the State, Todd has
spent a lot of time in Hollywood
doing blue/green screen work on shows like Starship Troopers,
Contact, Stuart Little, Castaway, etc. Todd is an expert in
green screen lighting and special effects.
Tim Walton
is an
editor/producer/DP knows green screen lighting really well
from his days at Serious Magic. Tim helped us understand how to get a great keyed shot!
Brian Hamm
knows about using ‘colored lights’ and backlighting
from his years and years of experience as a professional
DP. Brian showed us how to place kicker lights and
use dramatic
lighting to
get various types of feeling in our shots.
NOV 18
Laura Chick from
ChickFlick Productions
presented a VIP special meeting;
"SHOW US YOUR SHORTS.....You
are happily invited on November 18th for an evening to
showcase, show off and show and tell...... the varied and
various talents of our members.
We encourage you to bring family and friends...to have some
popcorn, sit back and enjoy an evening of fun and
laughter... several shorts.....broadly defined as anything
produced around 10+ minutes in length.
This includes, commercials, webcasts, web series, industrial
videos, pieces for festivals, works in progress,
documentaries, weddings, music videos, just about anything
other than your family's home movies..." " It will be fun to
get to know how we are using our editing skills to create
some intriguing shorts. Think of this as the Sacramento
FCPUG Film Festival"
OCT 28, 2009
with
Martin Ucik from
plus24
/Sanken
and
Matt Robertson,
from
Lectrosonics, Inc
showed their line of
microphones and offered tips and tricks for better audio
recording.
SEPT 30,
2009
Karl
Soule,
Adobe
Product Evangelist,
demonstrated
and gave
away a free copy
(worth $1699.00!)
Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 (CS4)!
*Adobe
is delighted to offer VIP members
special pricing on Adobe software.
Save 15% on all Adobe
products. More
here.
&
Todd Prives from
GenArts, Inc.
GenArts, Inc. makes specialized visual effects software
for the film, broadcast and video industries.
Todd demonstrated
Sapphire software - which
creates amazing visual effects!
GenArts, Inc.
gave (value $169) a monthly rental of
the
Sapphire suite
AUG 26,
2009
Mel Rose
from New
Horizons CLC wowed us with"Photoshop for Video".
What could be created in Photoshop can be customized for any
video format. Mel has over 25 years experience as a
professional photographer and as a teacher of imaging
techniques.
&
Gary
Martin, Professor Radio TV & Film Production,
Cosumnes River College, Apple Authorized Training Center®,
Apple Certified Trainer®, Final Cut Pro showed us about
Multicamera Editing
In Final Cut Pro" .
"If you ever use multiple camcorders at
events or interviews, or if you create music videos using a
single-camera style with a single CD audio track, then Apple’s
Final Cut Pro Multicamera editing process can speed up your
work and improve your productivity. This half-hour
demonstration will introduce you to the multi-cam interface,
and offer some suggestions on both shooting and editing a
project that was shot without the benefit (and expense) of a
multiple-camera switcher and full broadcast remote-truck."
July 29
Steffan Schulz,
Producer/Director, shared aspects of UNDERWATER
filmmaking-from sharks to models- as well as how FCP
and a laptop are critical in the field.
Check out Steffan’s
work at
www.StrangeMedia.com
www.imdb.com/name/nm2333397
Stephanie Joyce
from
SmartSound demonstrated the new
FCP/Sonicfire Pro music plug-in. The new
FCP/Sonicfire Pro plug-in effortlessly turns
scoring markers into fully produced and edited music for your
Final Cut Pro projects.
"SmartSound
has always been the only music solution to automatically edit
your music selection to any length you need, right from the
search engine and they just keep adding even more amazing
customizable features. Roundtrip editing with control over
timing and instrumentation make music creativity a simple task
for every visual producer." Stephanie wrote (after this
meeting): "Here's a code that will give
free shipping to anyone in who orders from our website. It's
activated for the next 30 days and we're having some seriously
great sales right now on music and the Final Cut Pro plug in.
Please feel free to share this discount code with anyone and
everyone: SACFCUG free economy shipping - expires
8/31/09"-Steph at
SmartSound
June 2009
Philip
Howard, owner of
The Right Music, is a Berklee College of Music trained
film composer, where he graduated with the highest honors.
Over the last ten years he has contributed to numerous
award-winning projects, ranging from computer-animated
children’s programming, advertising campaigns, theater and
dance productions, documentaries, and independent short films.
Philip is continuously fascinated with the
creative-collaborative process that is film and relishes in
the opportunity to spread the word about this very powerful
aspect of filmmaking: The Art Of Sound.
Casey Bishop with
Roland Systems
Group. Roland Systems
Group an industry leader in audio and video field
recorders under the EDIROL brand will be on hand to
demonstrate and answer questions and demonstrate our exciting
product line which includes: EDIROL F-1, R-44, R-4 Pro, and
EDIROL VC line of video converters. Come and learn how these
products can improve your audio and video quality and increase
your production workflow using tapeless workflow and dedicated
hardware
May 2009
Rob Gore with STP
(SoundTrackPro)
Prof.
Robert W. Gore,
from the
Sacramento City College Theatre Arts and Film
department, is a certified trainer for
Apple Motion,
DVD Studio Pro,
Final Cut Pro,
Soundtrack Pro, and
Color. Professor Gore showed us some
tips and tricks with FCP's
Soundtrack Pro (STP). Stay
tuned,
SCC is about to be a certified Apple Training
Center for all the Final Cut Studio Pro Apps.
April 29, 2009
Shawn
Bockoven spoke about
streaming and compression technology using low or no cost
compression software and techniques for web delivery.
Shawn Bockoven
manages METV, a P.E.G. Television Station in Merced, CA and is
the station engineer--Just an all around 'technogeek' type of
guy. Shawn has been working in video and film industry
over 25 years. He has a beautiful wife who puts up with him
and three wonderful children under the age of 20. On a nice
day, you will find him tiling or laying wood floor, replacing
fence posts, sitting by a fire and hitting the weights. His
favorite TV shows are Battlestar Galactica, Friday Night
Lights, Big Bang Theory, and Life. Favorite movies are Blade
Runner, The Matrix (Not the sequels), Dune the extended
version, Green Mile, Napoleon Dynamite and The World According
to Garp.
Director of photography (DP),
Mark Herzig showed unique camera moves, angles and lighting
tricks in cinematography. Mark
is an award-winning director of photography.
Mark works on commercials, corporate image, and fiction
narrative. He has taught cinematography at the Academy of Art
Institute in San Francisco, and the PCFE Film School in
Prague, Czech Republic, and is currently writing “Practical
Cinematography”, based on his lecture notes. “What I bring is
not only an eye for light and framing, but a sensibility that
enables a variety of narratives, each with its own distinctive
shape and style, its own meaning, its own set of emotions and
thoughts.
With many lights or few, my strategies seek to bring clear,
coherent definition to the story while remaining flexible
enough to roll with the changes that are the only constant in
filmmaking. Experience has taught me to use the tools rapidly
and decisively; what unfolds before the lens has a brief life,
and that essence must be captured before it is gone forever.”
March 25, 2009
John
Alexander Jimenez. John has been working in the film and
television industry for over a decade. Independent films,
music videos, television shows and commercials have benefited
from his creative talents. Mr. Jimenez brought his film
production skills to the advertising world as a
Director/Director of Photography and has quickly won awards
and notoriety in the advertising arena. Success started early
in 1996, when he became the Director of Photography on
"Hollywood Director". Joe Carnahan’s break-through
feature film “Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)”.
After a 1998 Sundance festival appearance, he wrote and direct
the comedy "Taco Heaven" (1998). It was seen around the
country via the film festival circuit, culminating as one of
the Smithsonian Institute’s "Best of Fest Week". One award the
he is especially proud of is the 2000 Sacramento Metropolitan
Arts Commission Emerging Artist Award for his cinematography.
"Fugitive Hunter" (2003), which he wrote and directed, and is
currently being distributed nationally by Hollywood heavy
weight Lion's Gate DVD. John
was DP on “Vive La Food!" which won the 2009 "Best of Best
Film Award".
Charlie Holiday
gave a mini-seminar on directing.
Charlie is a
working actor who has appeared in more than forty movies and
television programs. His recent credits include the Hallmark
Movies of the Week
The Christmas
Card
and
Out of the
Woods,
the
Starring role in the independent movie
Ashes,
the lead
role of Jake Snow in the award-winning film
Sanctuary, a
co-starring role in the CBS mini-series
Ruby Ridge,
and movie roles in
Mad City,starring
Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta, and
A Smile Like
Yours,
with Greg Kinnear. Other motion picture credits include
Kindergarten Cop, Ed Wood, Final Analysis,
and
Wisdom.
He has recently wrapped production on
Lost and Found,
his
third picture with director Leonard Carillo. Among his many
Television credits are the mini-series
Gone But Not
Forgotten, Nash Bridges, L.A. Law, The Young and the Restless,
Moonlighting, Quantum Leap, General Hospital,
and
Highway To
Heaven,
and a Guest Starring role in the
mini-series
"They Were
Giants”
for the BBC, where he was also the
dialogue coach and advisor for their International Emmy
nominated series
The Seven
Wonders of the Industrial World. He is a member
of Actors Equity Association (on withdrawal), the American
Federation of Television and Radio
Artists (AFTRA), the Screen Actors Guild (SAG.) and serves as
an elected member of the SAG
Executive Council. He also serves on the SAG Works committee,
which is dedicated to bringing more
principal work in motion pictures and television to Northern
California, and is active with Book Pals,
the nationwide literacy program of the Screen Actors Guild
Foundation, whereby professional
actors volunteer their time to go into the classroom on a
weekly basis to read aloud. Charlie also
acts as the liaison between the Screen Actors Guild and many
of the Northern California film
commissions. He also serves as a member of the
Indie
Outreach Campaign,
SAG's national
outreach program to independent film makers. In addition to
his own work as an actor, Charlie has been teaching and
coaching actors for more than 15 years,
and offers both private coaching and acting classes for
children and adults at his private studio
in Rancho Cordova. His students can be seen in national
commercials and major motion pictures,
as well as stage productions and independent films. He is
President and Director of Education of
Jeremy Whelan's Mosaic Acting System, and is the Director of
the Sacramento Mosaic Acting Academy.
He also taught acting and directing in the Master of Fine Arts
program at the Academy of Art
University in San Francisco from 1999 - 2006, and also
conducts Improvisational Comedy workshops
for corporations. Charlie is
available for interviews and as a guest speaker for schools,
clubs, and other groups and organizations.
Charlie is represented in Hollywood by the Stevens Group -
818-528-3674. His
representation in San Francisco is Joan Spangler at Look
Talent - 415-781-2841. For more
information call 916/361-0952 or e-mail to
charlieactor@sbcglobal.net
February 25,
2009
Gabriel Mitri,
Regional Account Manager for
Matrox Video Products. “Need I/O for the Mac? The hot new
product from Matrox
that won four prestigious awards at NAB 2008 will be presented
live in action. They donated a
MXO2*! Matrox MXO2
is the first truly portable device that gives you
broadcast-quality input/output, monitoring, and up/down/cross
conversion to streamline your workflow with Apple Final Cut
Studio 2. It’s MacBook Pro and MacPro compatible, fits in your
laptop bag, can run for hours off a field battery (or its AC
adapter), and weighs under 3 ½ lbs.
Matrox MXO2
connects to a MacBook Pro via the ExpressCard/34 slot and to a
MacPro via the internal PCIe slot. Everything you need to
connect to both systems is included in the
Matrox MXO2
package so can easily more it around as needed. This is the
only mobile product on the market that gives you all the I/Os
you need plus supports the full range of workflows that you
are likely to encounter. It supports ProRes 422 and ProRes
422 HQ and also gives you the freedom and flexibility to use a
wide variety of other codecs and video formats. In HD for
example, it also supports HDV, DVCPRO HD, XDCAM HD, XDCAM HD
422, and XDCAM EX workflows. Since it takes full advantage of
the high bandwidth of the PCI Express bus (It is not a
FireWire 800 device.), it also lets you work in 8- and 10-bit
uncompressed mode.
Matrox MXO2 realtime 10-bit hardware scaling on the
outputs gives you maximum flexibility. You can upscale from
NTSC or PAL to either 720 or 1080. You can downscale 720 or
1080 HD footage to NTSC or PAL. This feature is particularly
useful when you need to master both HD and SD because it lets
you output both simultaneously from the same timeline. It is
also invaluable when you need to proof DVD content from an HD
video source or make quick SD rushes from HD material.
Matrox MXO2's
realtime cross conversion in hardware can save you hours of
rendering when your source material does not match your
client’s delivery requirements. Not only is
Matrox MXO2
powerful, versatile, and portable, it’s also amazing
affordable at just $1595.”
Charles
Angelis
shows us
FCP's
"Ripple, Roll, Slip and Slide". He explained their purpose
and how to use them efficiently. Also, hel showed us FCP tips
and tricks for working smarter, faster and leveraging the
dynamic capabilities of your sequence. Best of all he'll
explain and demonstrate using Beizer Curves to animate objects
and control speed and filters. Charles runs the
Final Cut Cafe "The mission of Final
Cut Cafe is to provide educational support and resources
for students, teachers and practitioners of digital media,
filmmaking, video production and post-production in a
collaborative,
discussion based format. Our moderators are Apple Certified
Trainers, digital media educators and industry professionals."
January 28,
2009
Karen
Holt, from
Blackmagic Design,
showed us
Blackmagic Design
products and how they fit in our production workflow. "Blackmagic
Design,
Inc. manufactures the world’s highest quality video editing
products, converters and routers for the post-production and
television broadcast industries. The Multibridge, DeckLink and
Intensity family of products have revolutionized the post
production industry and made HDTV and film editing more
affordable."
Dan Green showed
MediaSilo.
"Say good-bye to FTP and hello to
MediaSilo. With no software
to install, MediaSilo is a complete turnkey solution.
Post-production companies, casting agencies, web broadcasters,
and just about anyone working with video on a regular basis
benefits from making MediaSilo part of their routine workflow.
Virtually unlimited storage combined with the fastest
available content delivery network means fast uploads and fast
downloads anywhere in the world."
*Editors note: This looked
like such an awesome, logical system that I am going to try to
set it up for my work with the State! KO
OCTOBER 29,
2008
Nick Zgradic, General
Manager for MACCAM, the West Coast Representative for
Chimera, presented
tips and tricks using
Chimera lighting products.
Karl Soule',
from
Adobe Systems, Inc. showed the new “Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, an
all-new, tightly integrated, cross-platform toolset for video
and audio editing, still and motion graphics, visual effects,
and interactive media, as well as DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and
mobile authoring. Achieve amazing results more efficiently
than ever before with unparalleled creative control, new 3D
workflows and enhanced editing and design features, and
tighter than ever integration between Adobe applications.” Adobe
Systems, Inc.
has also donated
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Production Premium (value
$1699) for our door prize drawing!
SEPTEMBER
24, 2008
Charles Angelis
showed us how to
FIX SOUND PROBLEMS IN POST, including techniques with Final Cut Pro
and Soundtrack Pro. Charles Angelis is a ROP Multimedia
Production Instructor at San Juan High School and an Apple Certified Trainer
in Final Cut Pro and a freelance video editor with a decade of experience
editing national television series, documentaries and corporate web video, using
FCP and Avid Media Composer. Get his notes HERE
Tim Walton
treated us to
a glimpse of the documentary he produced, “FROZEN IN TIME:
Sacramento's
Iceland Ice Rink”.
FROZEN IN TIME
was KVIE's 3rd HD production. Tim spoke about exporting and
importing with multiple formats, the use of still images/archive
films, and how he used 3-way color correcting in FCP. He also
demonstrated a unique DVD Studio Pro 4 menu, with sub-menus and
slide-shows where the viewer can manually flip the pages using the DVD remote.
Thank you to our generous
door prize sponsors;
Noise Industries;
Pond
5,
MacProVideo.com,
Motiondrops;
Digital Juice;
Digieffects;
Motionloops;
Lensprompter;
www.motiondrops.com
provides awesome Visual FX stock footage.
They donated individual clips
($120.00 value) for our door prize!
Lensprompter
The
affordable prompting system that hangs on the camera lens! Can also be used for
white balance.
music
2 hues
is
a leading supplier of Production Music & Sound Effects to the Pro Sound, Film,
Video & Multimedia Industries. Now offering instant online downloads as well as
over 100 CD's, our music line covers numerous genres for the video or music
editor. Supporting our music line is a sound effects series of over 800 SFX,
also available for instant download. Download single tracks or whole
CD/Categories.
Digital Juice
is the World leader in
royalty-free professional animations, stock footage, music, layered graphics,
clip art, and templates. Our mission and passion is to provide high quality
creative content and software at revolutionary low prices."
MotionLoops
donated a DVD ($49.95 value) PLUS all
registered users get free clips sent out weekly! “A leader in royalty free
motion graphics and filmed effects for video editing, presentations, vj
performance and multimedia design.” Check ‘em out!
Noise Industries FxFactory "SUGARfx Video Wall 1.1
" effects pack
(Value $59). Video
Wall 1.1 works in Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express, as well
as After Effects. It has a PRO version with all the controls to go crazy and a
LIGHT version to make it easy on those of you who just need the basic controls.
Twist, bend, zoom, make it look like a mortise, use as a transition, or try
using it as a Video Wall. To learn more go to
Noise Industries
Digieffect,
Simulate:Camera
; special effects plug-ins that allow you to create creative, unusual camera
effects like,
film
degradation/contamination" type effect along with destabilize and lens flare
Pond5: Broadcast quality HD and SD. Clips start at $5.00!
Two people can win $100 credit to use at
www.pond5.com.
We gave awaya free tutorial from
macProVideo.com!
“macProVideo.com
brings high quality video training to your computer desktop”
August '08
Mike Jones from
ARRI Lighting
& Dave Bunge from Bunge Grip Services
ARRI
is the
largest manufacturer of professional motion picture equipment
in the world. This equipment includes lighting, post
production tools, professional motion picture cameras and
accessories. Built for
reliability, durability and performance, professionals from
all over the world put ARRI lights to the test under the
harshest conditions. Products consist of HMI
Fresnels, PARs, electronic and magnetic ballasts, location and
studio Fresnels, fluorescents, fill and portable lighting
kits. ARRI's
extensive range of quality products provides solutions to any
lighting situation. For more information, go to
www.arri.com
Mike and Dave showed us some new ways to light
using ARRI lights and fresh ideas.
Silverado
Systems, Inc.
presented "RED" cameras
Erik
Espera
from Silverado Studios presented:
“Getting to know the RED ONE Digital Cinema Camera. The
RED ONE Digital Cinema Camera is revolutionizing the way
feature films, television commercials, music videos and
high-end corporate image videos are being captured. It’s
not HD. It’s Ultra HD and is capable of shooting Super
35mm resolution digital video, which is 4 times larger than
1080p HD. The footage the RED ONE captures is often compared
to film and in fact, has a very film-centric workflow thanks
to its native RAW format. The RED ONE is proving that it
truly is a viable alternative to film for projects of all
levels and budgets. Erik gave an overview of the camera, show
clips from recent projects shot on RED, and demonstrated post
production techniques using RED footage and Final Cut Pro.”
July '08
John Diel
(from
TELESTREAM) showed us how to prep
files for the best looking images for Blu-Ray, iPod,
iPhone, or Flash using
EPISODE”.
TELESTREAM also donated “EPISODE”
for our door prize drawing! Thanks, John!
David
O’Connor
showed us “Nesting Sequences” in
Final Cut Pro. We really enjoyed this segment and learned
a new trick or two. Thank you, David!
Professor
Rob Gore
(from
Sacramento City College)
went over some intermediate authoring with
DVDSP
(DVD Studio Pro).
We love Professor Gore! :)
and our free door prize drawing prizes were sponsored
by:
MacProVideo.com,
Larry Jordan.biz,
Motiondrops;
Telestream,
Moviola,
Motionloops,
Noise Industries ,
digieffects;
and
pond5.com
www.motiondrops.com
provides awesome Visual FX stock footage. Broadcast quality royalty-free visual FX and
stock footage at affordable prices. All formats available. They donated
3
free clips.
Larry Jordan.biz
provides “high-quality, engaging training and information
through a variety of media worldwide.” They donated mouse
pads and two incredible FCP tutorial discs!
Someone won a
free tutorial from
macProVideo.com! “macProVideo.com
brings high quality video training to your computer desktop”
www.digieffects.com donated
Simulate: Illuma. “Simulate:
Illuma offers effects that deliver the light and filter
options you didn’t get in the field!” AWESOME!!!!
From
TELESTREAM: they gave a FREE copy of Flip4Mac software:
Episode (value $395)
Win
an
Apple logo Beanie donated by Elijah!
MotionLoops
donated a motion graphics and filmed effects DVD ($49.95 value) PLUS all registered users get
free clips sent out weekly! “A leader in royalty free motion
graphics and filmed effects for video editing, presentations, vj performance and multimedia design.” Check ‘em out!
Moviola
offered our group training courses at 50% off! (Via
discount certificate)
Noise Industries’
FxFactory"SUGARfx LightPack" (a $79 value)
LightPack contains filters like Marquee, Paparazzi and
Lens Flare. Bring the best out of your images by making them
shimmer with any of the 6 light filters (and one cool
transition that’s included as a bonus). A powerful way to add
light rays to your footage, still images and text.
POND5 $200.00
worth of broadcast-quality stock
footage! The winner got to choose from 50,000+ clips.
All categories,
HD/SD. Pond5.com is the 1st real footage “marketplace” built
to satisfy the needs of buyers and sellers and offer true
footage values.
June '08
The Adobe
“Flash” wizard, Phuong Nguyen (from
melonheadstudio.com), tried to pack in less
than 20 minutes, all of the info we’ll ever need to know about
FLASH. Amazingly, he almost succeeded! We did learn
about FLASH video for the web and more. Thanks,
Phuong!
Rick Vertolli,
a specialist in Animation from
CSU, Chico, presented an remarkable demo reel (we
have a few copies to give out) showing how animation and
computer graphics strengthen a video or film project. Rick
teaches in
CSU, Chico’s Applied Computer Graphics
program (graphics.ecst.csuchico.edu).
I can’t wait to hire his team; those graphics were stunning
(and quite entertaining!) Thank you, Rick!
Prof. Robert W. Gore,
from the
Sacramento City College Theatre Arts and Film
dept., is a certified trainer for
Apple Motion,
DVD Studio Pro,
Final Cut Pro,
Soundtrack Pro, and (pretty soon),
Color. Stay tuned,
Sacramento City College is about to be a certified
Apple Training Center for all the Final Cut Studio Pro Apps.
Rob astonished and amused us with FCP tips, tricks and
‘round-tripping’ procedures. We got a good glimpse of
Soundtrack Pro. Rob left us all clamoring
for more, and has kindly agreed to return for our July
meeting.
Thank you SO MUCH to all of June’s giveaway
sponsors.
BORISFX /
ChannelWolves
donated a
Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug
license, an $895 value! It went to lucky winner,
Shawn Bockoven. (Congrats, Shawn!) THREE
Class on Demand
Training titles- FCP6, FCS2, and OSX/Leopard went out to three
happy winners.
MacProVideo.com
continues to bestow upon us monthly tutorial giveaways. LensPrompters
gave us a teleprompter lens kit for the drawing.
VTC gave away a
DVD Studio Pro training DVD.
Hooters/Elijah Lewis
donated a funny mouse pad and discount food certificates!
Thanks to
David Kilborn
for taking photo’s of the ‘door prize’ winners and the
speakers.
Thank you
VMI, Inc.
for donating a projector (a real beauty!) and projection
screen for our meeting. PLEASE support our local video
industry vendors!
Thanks
PEPPERS.TV
for hosting our meetings for June-August! A
truly gorgeous production facility right here in Sacramento!
As
always, thanks to KVIE 6’s
TIM WALTON
for being our MC (and congrats on your EMMY® award nomination
as Producer/Writer/Editor for “Frozen In Time:
Sacramento's Iceland Ice Rink”)!
May 08
Eric Gardner
demonstrated
Boris Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug
as well as the new
Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug
plug-ins for
Apple Final Cut Studio.
Thanks Eric and
Telestream /
ChannelWolves
We watched a segment from the excellent
DVD Studio Pro 4
tutorial from
VTC (the Virtual Training Company).
Apple Pro Applications
specialist Elijah Lewis explained a facts and
workarounds with
Compressor.
Thank you VERY MUCH to all of our great ‘door prize’ sponsor’s;
dvcreators.net
macProVideo.com,
Round Table Pizza
Restaurants,
Fresh Choice,
and
VTC.\
April 08
Thank you
VMI
for donating the projector for the night and thanks to
Silverado for helping us with other equipment.
Thank you VERY MUCH to all of our great ‘door prize’ sponsor’s;
Lapdome,
Motion Loops,
macProVideo.com,
Round Table Pizza
Restaurants,
Fresh Choice,
KBCOVERS
and
VTC.
Thanks to
David Kilborn
for taking photo’s of the ‘door prize’ winners and the
speakers.
Dinesh Payroda, a graphic artist from the
Arts Institute and
CSUS, showed us some cool videos incorporating
Photoshop filters and graphics and offered some tips on how to
improve our videos by using them.
Rob Neep demonstrated the really neat
Steadicam©-like unit he had built. We were
amazed at the wonderful shots he got with it. He also showed
us a terrific video he made for CSUS (using the unit to get
the smooth tracking shots) and shared a few clips from his
special effects laden movie, “Worlds
Away”
Rueben
Plaza from
Cerebus Playground showed off the creative
stop-action special effects they created for their video, “LeeAzon”.
He treated us to a few more videos and got us excited about
shooting with a still camera and using filters in a whole new
way!
As always, thanks to KVIE 6’s
TIM WALTON
for being our MC (and congrats on your EMMY® award nomination
as Producer/Writer/Editor for “Frozen In Time: Sacramento's Iceland Ice Rink”)!
March 08
Thank you to Dennis Dunrud and his
wonderful sales team from
VMI, Inc. in Sacramento for demonstrating the
new
Sony XDCAM Camera
and supplying a projector for our meeting, AND,
thank you for donating (with Sony Electronics) a new
digital camera for our door prize giveaway!
Thank you, Scott Sabicer, for showing us
DVD Studio Pro
basics that everyone needs to know. We appreciate you
traveling the distance and taking the time to teach and
entertain us!
Thank you Michael Carroll,
who showed us the floating
shoulder rig that was used in Mike’s new
production, Nightbeats.
Mike was generous enough to share insight on production,
locations, editing, equipment, and show us a teaser of his new
movie. We can't wait to see him accept an Oscar®!
Thank you Tim Walton (who will share HIS movie
production and editing tricks from his award-winning movie "FROZEN
IN TIME: Sacramento's Iceland Ice Rink" at our
July meeting) for being our terrific Master of Ceremonies.
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www.peppers.tv (sponsors of our June, July, and August 2008
meeting)
"www.peppers.tv has three staff members who are
excellent FINAL CUT PRO editors (Wil, Jason and Pat).
Wil Wells is their Creative Director and excels in all
areas of Motion Graphics, blue screen and virtual set design,
and web site creation and design (we add video to websites
too). He is also a composer.
Pat Crandley is primarily an FCP
editor, but his area of expertise is in file organization. He
is the keeper of all our hard drives. We actually include a
hard drive in the cost of any sizeable production…the client
pays, they own it, we keep it here. He is also does motion
graphics and 3D visualization…creating environments that don’t
yet exist (can do things like buildings not yet built but the
client needs to see them “in the picture”, crime scene
reenactments, human body modeling for medical videos).
Jason Broussard is primarily a FCP
editor, but also shoots, designs websites and does motion
graphics. He also shoots stills for us.
Janice Davis, who used to own
Take 1 Productions, joined Sue Peppers at
www.peppers.tv and is now the Executive Producer there,
handling all video project management. She has much insight
into government bidding, and production budgets.
STUDIO 50 – houses
www.peppers.tv, the primary company, and subleases to
Luminosity Studios (Tania Van Allman – logo design, biz
cards, simple websites), Art of Marketing (Doug Reitz,
print graphics and book layout and publishing), Nimbus
Public Relations and Marketing (Bill George, Corporations
and politics), and Capture Audio (Aaron Kinney, sound
booth, audio mixing, on site recording).“ |
