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.

On June 24th we'll hear from:
 

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

Coming up:

July 29:
Steffan Schulz, Producer/Director, www.StrangeMedia.com: Underwater filmmaking from sharks to models with FCP and a laptop.

Stephanie Joyce from SmartSound will give one of the first User Group demonstrations of the highly anticipated new Final Cut Pro/Sonicfire Pro music plug-in from SmartSound.  The new FCP/Sonicfire Pro plug in effortlessly turns scoring markers into fully produced and edited music for your Final Cut Pro projects.  

Aug 26:

Photoshop for video with Mel Rose, New Horizons CLC

Sep 30:

Karl Soule from CS4 Photoshop-Adobe showing CS4 and giving away a free copy!

Very soon: Sanken and Lectronic microphone reps come show all!

Noise Industries

Pond5: Stock Video Footage and Royalty Free Clips in HD, PAL, and NTSC. Buy and Sell Stock Video in our Marketplace. Clips start at $5.00!

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Stock Footage

www.motiondrops.com provides awesome Visual FX stock footage. If you sign-up on their site, you can get free clips!

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O'Reilly Media is an American media company that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. VIP members are entitled to a 35% discount on books purchased directly from O'Reilly. VIP's also may get a discount on O'Reilly conferences and tutorials.

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."

All4DVD donated a free session disc worth $99.

all4DVD is an Authorized Apple Training Center
and Adobe Certified Training Center.

Music 2 Hues is a leading supplier of Production Music & Sound Effects to the Pro Sound, Film, Video & Multimedia Industries.

Artbeats offers innovative royalty-free stock footage, plus the tools and inspiration to help take your projects to a higher level. Our latest releases include ultra slow motion footage, gyro-stabilized city aerials, energy and environmental issues, cloud fly-thru's and lifestyles. In addition, we provide our customers with free video tutorials, tips & tricks, free footage downloads, creative samples and more.  Visit Artbeats to to put these valuable footage tools to work today.

Focal Press has been a leading publisher of Media Technology books for 70 years. Books on film and digital video production, photography, digital imaging, graphics, animation and new media, broadcast and media distribution technologies, music recording and production, mass communications, and theatre technology. Focal Press - learn, master, create

Purchase anything through Focal Press, and a 30% discount will be automatically taken at checkout! Code # 95116 can be manually added at checkout instead.  
 

Digieffects FreeForm AE, an intuitive and robust warping tool that allows you to manipulate a flat object into almost any shape using a mesh in 3D space. This NEW product takes After Effects 3D compositing to the next level.

According to Mark Christiansen, author of After Effects CS4 Visual Effects & Compositing Studio Techniques,

Click here for  video examples and a FREE trial
 

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Coming soon, new sponsor! Sound design library packages, "Slam Bang Boom & Transitions".  They’re both extremely popular and useful toolkits for producers & editors. For detailed info on each, visit

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