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This group has been created to share
information, promote learning and collaboration, explore new
technology, and encourage professional growth.
This group is geared towards
learning about Apple’s
Final Cut Pro,
Motion,
Color,
LiveType,
DVD Studio Pro,
Compressor, and
Soundtrack Pro, but also embraces enhancing our knowledge
of pre-production, production, and post-production processes
and equipment.
We meet once a month, normally
on the last Wednesday of the month, at 7pm (please see below for more details).
Questions, comments and requests to be added to the private
email list (for newsletters and meeting reminders) may be
directed to
sacramentovideogroup@gmail.com.
NEW!!!! Larry Jordan's Tip Of The
Day!!!
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May 21st* (*note date change from ‘normal’ monthly meeting
date
Our MAY meeting will begin at 7pm
on
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21st at the
Arden-Dimick
Community Center
891 Watt
Ave, Sacramento, CA 95821
Our MAY 21st
meeting
will include:
Eric Gardner
will present the
Boris Continuum Complete 5 FxPlug
as well as the new
Final Effects Complete 5 FxPlug
plug-ins for
Apple Final Cut Studio.
Next month, someone will win this plug in!
VTC (the Virtual Training Company) sent a copy of
Nathan Haggard's absolutely excellent tutorial on
Apple DVD Studio Pro 4 for us to watch at
the meeting; plus, they gave us t-shirts for the door prize!
Hooray! Apple Pro Applications
specialist Elijah Lewis will help us understand
Compressor. Elijah
has
worked for Apple since 2000. Since he started at Apple he has
been; a EDU Specialist, Hardware Specialist, and I-Life
certified. He has been involved with Pro apps since
2003, has trained in all of the studio applications (like
Compressor), and holds certifications in Final Cut Pro and
Logic Pro Level 1.
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Past Meeting Highlights
April
Click here
to watch a
Podcasting movie on "what makes a good Podcast". Presented
courtesy of
filmmaker and multimedia teacher
Eliot Baring.
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
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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NOTICE* NOTICE*NOTICE*NOTICE* NOTICE*NOTICE*NOTICE*
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On June 25th and July 30th the
Sacramento VIP’s
will be holding the FCPUG
meeting at
www.peppers.tv
3665 Bleckley St, Suite 101
Mather, Ca 95650
916-362-7200
"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).“
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