CUTS Austin Meeting January 19th
Hi Everyone,
The next CUTS Austin meeting will be next Tuesday night from 7-9 pm at BB Rovers 12101 Jollyville Rd. This month I’ll have a short demo of the new Beauty Box plugin for Final Cut Pro. Member Rod Cole will show off his new Plural Eyes multi camera editing software for FCP and Jonathan Houser of Cinemak will be showing us Hitchcock, the incredible story boarding application for iphone and the ipod touch.
Beauty Box is a plugin that does automatic skin retouching and it’s pretty amazing. You can read more about it at http://www.digitalanarchy.com/beautyVID/tutes.html .
Plural Eyes automatically synchronizes all your audio and video clips without the need for timecode, clappers or any special preparation. For more information and to download a trial version visit http://www.singularsoftware.com/pluraleyes.html
Hitchcock Storyboard Composer is the worlds first mobile story boarding application. No need to know how to draw, no complicated programs to learn. You can have your first story board up and running in a matter of minutes. Storyboard Composer allows professionals and students to portray their vision to others in an easily controllable and transportable format. Click below to learn more about what features it has to offer and how it will assist you in bringing your ideas to life. If you don’t already have an iphone or ipod touch you will want to run out and get one once you see Hitchcock in action. For more information visithttp://www.cinemek.com/storyboard/index.php
Don’t miss your chance to win either a copy of Beauty Box or Hitchcock.
Hope to see you there.
Cynthia
CUTS Austin Meeting December 15th - She wrote the book on Final Cut Pro
This month (only) we will be having the CUTS Austin meeting on December 15th at BB Rovers Cafe & Pub 12010 Jollyville Rd from 7 - 9 pm. I’m excited that our guest speaker will be Diane Weynard of Weynard Training Center. Diane wrote the book on FCP, literally. She is the author of the training book used in all authorized Apple training centers. Through the magic of ichat she will show us her new iphone app for final cut “ikeys to go”. She’ll also talk about the new features in FCP 7 and then she will open it up for a session of “Ask the Expert”. Don’t miss this opportunity to have your questions answered.Seguin Film Festival
My first short film “There Was A Crooked Road” will be screening Saturday at the Seguin Arts and Film Festival at 11:30 am. Cap Mac member Rod Cole was the Director of Photography. For more information about the festival please visit www.seguinfestival.org . It looks like a fun little festival with lots to do besides film.
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Cynthia
I’ve Landed In Vegas
Boy is this trip off to a great start. Paris messed up our reservations so we were upgraded to a suite for free. We actually have a coffee maker in the room. In all the years that I’ve been coming to Vegas I have never stayed in a room that nada coffee maker.
So now it’s late in the day but I came down to the convention center for an after hours event with Adobe. But I had time to stop by and visit my friend Stephanie at the SmartSound booth.
The big announcement from SmartSound is that they now have a plug in that works inside Final Cut Pro. You can now set markers and in/out points in your fcp project & Sonicfire Pro will automatically read their location and calculate the exact amount of music you need.this is true round trip editing with Sonicfire Pro 5. That’s incredibly powerful when you consider SmartSound has thousands of fully customizable tracks in their royalty free music library. It’s really an amazing way for video editors to create their soundtracks.
Now it’s on to Adobe
Don’t Forget About the iphone sig
Don’t forget that the IPhone SIG with Michael Sidoric is tonight April 16th at BB Rovers.
Panasonic AG-HMC150
If you were at the CUTS Austin meeting last night there is no doubt in my mind that you were totally blown away by the Panasonic AG-HMC150. If you were unable to attend but would like a dvd that covers Bernie Mitchell’s presentation please let me know and I will send you one. email hidden; JavaScript is required
I’m also happy to announce that CUTS Austin sponsor VSA www.vsastore.com will be offering a special for CapMac/CUTS Austin members on the AG-HMC150 in conjunction with a new promotion from Panasonic in about a week. Please stay tuned for further details
Final Cut Pro SuperMeet at NAB
If you will be attending this year’s NAB in Las Vegas tickets are on sale now for the 8th Annual FCPUG SuperMeet to be held at the Rio Hotel on Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Cost is only $10.99 per ticket, but after April 1 the price goes up to $15.00. You have one week to save enough money to buy 5 pulls on a slot machine or 3 extra raffle tickets or a watered down drink in a tall glass.
http://www.lafcpug.org/nab_2009.html
The SuperMeet agenda will be announced early next week, We will present revolutionary new ideas on workflow with Final Cut Studio. There will be show and tells, more tips and tricks and yes, the World famous Raffle where the total value of the raffle prize list as of this writing is over $40,000.00. What will it be by April 21?
There is no recession at a SuperMeet.
This year for the very first time, the FCPUG Network will have a booth on the show floor. Booth #SL10129 will be located in the lower-lower South Hall conveniently near the Blackmagic Design booth. The idea of this booth is to make it THE social gathering spot for all FCS and Digital moviemakers who find themselves in need of learning and connecting. Since Apple won’t be on the show floor we hope to fill part of that void.
The SuperBooth will have a different presentation almost every 20 minutes for all 4 days of the NAB Show. We have commitments from over 20 of the world’s foremost FCS Gurus and digital filmmakers and we are just getting started.
At the SuperBooth you can elect to learn something you don’t know, or just hang out with us and meet people who might change your life.
To register for your free NAB Show floor pass go here and use code TP01:
http://nabshow.com/passport
Vegas.com has great deals on Hotels. I mean GREAT deals. It is cheaper than ever to attend NAB. But book now. Hotel prices will go up. Here are just some of the deals
Stratosphere Hotel - Less than $72.00 a night
Sahara Hotel - Less than $60.00 a night
Tropicana Hotel - Less than $91.00 a night
Excalibur Hotel -Less than $67.00 a night
Circus Circus - Less than 56.00 a night
http://www.vegas.com/
If You Are Attending SXSW You’ve Got To See This
Having trouble planning your schedule? The b-side festival genius can help you out. Once you’ve chosen all the films and panels you are interested in seeing simply run the festival genius. It will fix all of your conflicts by suggesting other times that you can catch a screening. Check it out for yourself. Â http://sxsw.bside.com/2009/
March CUTS Meeting
The Next CUTS Austin Meeting will be March 31st 7 - 9 pm at the Manchaca Road Branch Library, 5500 Manchaca Road. Our guest speaker will be Bernie Mitchell of Silver Platter Productions. Bernie Mitchell is an Emmy nominated Producer/Director/Writer/Editor, Multimedia Person of the year, and DVD Association Hall of Fame member who’s experience includes; overall responsibility for the launch of a global hi-def TV, Radio and Web network, running his own marketing consulting and multimedia production company, writing a book and surviving the
dot.com madness.
Bernie has shot many hours of high definition images, published articles, presented lectures and demos on hi-def world-wide. He covered the 2007 Idiatrod Race, being on the trail from Anchorage to Nome, shooting HD in minus 67 degrees. Bernie has a question for you. “Why in the world would you still shoot with tape?” At our next meeting he will demonstrate the features of the new Panasonic AG-HMC150 AVCCAM hi-def camcorder. This camera captures using the AVCHD codec, which is MPEG-4 H.264. The media is inexpensive and widely available SDHC memory cards. He will also discuss and show the workflow from acquisition, to post via FCP, to delivery and finally to archive.
AVCHD capture opens the door to a variety of distribution and display options including; projectors, monitors, Playstation, Blu-ray, and DVD.  iPhone, YouTube and the web are literally just a couple of clicks away.  I hope to see you there.
Cynthia