Austin SXSW SuperMeetup

Hi Everyone,

We will not have a CUTS Austin meeting on the third Tuesday of March. Instead I’d like to invite you to this incredible event. Hope to see you there.

Cynthia

Meet HDSLR Filmmaker Philip Bloom at SXSW SuperMeetup Sat. March 13th

Please Twitter: RT Meet Philip Bloom @ SXSW SuperMeetup Sat 3/13: Party & Network, Get Seen in Open Screen & Win Prizes: http://supermeet.com/sxsw.html

Looking to attend a cool Film Party during SXSW© 2010?

We’ve got your Film Party on Saturday, March 13th! Join the FCPUG Network, including BOSFCPUG, LAFCPUG, CUTS Austin, The Austin Film Society and other film-related groups during SXSW© 2010 for a special informal SuperMeetup gathering of FCP, Avid and Adobe editors, HDSLR filmmakers and digital content creators!

Featuring Special Guest D.P., Director and Filmmaker PHILIP BLOOM! Meet Philip and interact with other HDSLR filmmakers - enjoy a few cocktails to light up your evening - “GET SEEN” in our OPEN SCREEN THEATRE - and win one of many cool prizes to use on your next film project in our World Famous Raffle!

FREE to all FILM, GOLD or PLATINUM SXSW Badge Holders

$5.00 for all NON-BADGE Holders

Includes Free Complimentary Drink and 2 Raffle Tickets.

Food (free) and Cash Bar will be available

Where: Maggie Mae’s Austin
323 E. 6th Street
Austin, TX 78701
When? - Saturday, March 13th, 6PM - 9PM

Register now and complete details at:
http://supermeet.com/sxsw.html

SXSW Filmmakers! “Get Seen” in our OPEN SCREEN THEATRE

GET SEEN and interact with other Filmmakers via “Open Screen Theatre.” Filmmakers and digital content creators wanting to get seen will have a a 10 minute chance to do so in an informal, collaborative setting. We wantall HDSLR filmmakers and those who did not make it into this year’s SXSW Festival program to screen your content and interact. Just show up and sign up, get up and show off. It’s first come, first serve in our “Open Screen Theatre.” Bring your content on a DVD or a QT movie on a drive. Sign-ups begin at 5:45PM.

See you there & Happy Filmmaking!

CUTS Austin Meeting February 16th

Hi Everyone,

The next CUTS Austin meeting will be next Tuesday night, February 16th, from 7-9 pm at BB Rovers 12101 Jollyville Rd. Last month there was a mishap with the room and we were forced to cancel so this month we will have the meeting originally planned for last time. Let me refresh your memory.  There will be a 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. You might be one of the lucky people who will go home with a free copy of Beauty Box or Hitchcock.

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 .

Hope to see you there.

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
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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.  http://sxsw.bside.com/2009/

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