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Past Meeting Highlights
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”)!
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May
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.
In June someone will win this plug in! 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.\
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April
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”)!
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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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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).“ |