Walter Murch to appear with lafcpug at DV Expo West.
 

Walter Murch to appear with lafcpug at DV Expo West.

Legendary Film Editor and Sound Designer, Walter Murch, (Apocalypse Now, The Conversation, Cold Mountain) will be a guest at the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group’s (lafcpug) annual meeting at DV Expo West, Thursday, December 9 at the LA Convention Center, beginning at 7:00PM. Mr. Murch will talk about FCP workflow in the upcoming film, “Jarhead” and take questions from the audience. Mr. Murch is also scheduled to deliver the Keynote speech beginning at 6:00PM.

Also scheduled to appear will be engineers from the Apple Pro Apps Team who will demo “Production Suite” workflow as well as take questions and feedback. In addition, lafcpug will hold its “World Famous Raffle” with prizes totaling into the thousands of dollars.

You must register for DV Expo in order to attend this event. Registration is available online until 1:00PM Thursday, Dec 2.

https://www.cmpevents.com/DVx4/a.asp?option=B&V=2&SC=LFCP

FCP Users to gather at Macworld
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group, (lafcpug) along with leaders from the FCP User Group Network will hold a meeting at the Mezzanine Club in San Francisco Ca. as part of the MacWorld Expo festivities, Wednesday, Jan 12, beginning at 7:00PM.

On the agenda will be Apple's Bill Hudson who will talk about the soon to be shipping Xsan.

Also scheduled to appear will be Brian Rothschild, Executive Director of the John Lennon Educational Tour Bus who will talk about the program and show clips of students work.

AJA’s Ted Schilowitz will show as well as tell about the making of the music video “Are you Going To Be My Girl,” by the Aussie band, Jet.

DV Guy Philip Hodgetts of Intelligent Assistance will be showing two new options for MultiCam editing with Final Cut Pro.

Jin Woo Joo of the San Francisco based filmmaking group, CinemaSports will talk briefly about the group as well as show clips from past events.

Filmmaker Chris Jenkins will show clips from his HD documentary, “El Fandi, a modern day Matador.”

A raffle with prizes totaling into the thousands of dollars will wrap up the evening.

There will be a $5.00 donation requested at the door. Doors will open at 6:00PM and seating will be first come, first served.

For more details on the agenda, a list of raffle prizes and directions to the Mezzanine Club, log onto the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/macworld.html

LA FCP User Group (lafcpug) to meet Jan 26
 

Next Meeting of the Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:45PM - till we drop at the Gallery Theater in East Hollywood

Scheduled to appear will be a demo of the Sapphire Plug-ins from Genarts. Philip Hodgetts will demo two new options for Multicam in FCP. Larry Jordan and Steve Martin will show off techniques for Keyframing Wipes and Render Management. Also, another round of Stump the Gurus, and Show and Tells. Oh yeah, and World Famous Raffle too.

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested.

For all the details including directions to the gallery Theater, go to the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Agenda (subject to change)

6:45- 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
Join FCP Gurus Ken Stone, Andrew Balis, and special guest gurus, Sharon Franklin and Steve Martin as they will attempt to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems concerning FCP. If they can't solve your problem or answer your How 2, then you go home with a problem but you still got out of the house, so that's not a bad thing.

7:20PM - 7:40PM - Tip/Tick O' the Month - Render Management - Steve Martin
Rendering is always a frustrating part of editing, but there are tips and tricks to help you ease the render pain. Steve Martin of Ripple Training will show you some techniques to help you manage your renders.

7:45PM - 8:15PM - Sapphire Plug-ins from Genarts - Todd Prives
Consisting of over 175 plug-ins, Sapphire Plug-ins from Genarts have been around longer than you have and have been used in more movies than there are in the Netflix Library. These aren't your father's plug-ins. Prepare to be wowed. Todd Prives of Genarts will demo.

8:20PM - 8:40PM - Keyframed Wipes (How-to) - Larry Jordan
So, you wanna add some pizzazz to your program opens? Larry Jordan will present a very cool way to recreate the three-way animated wipe open from Charlie's Angels. And, knowing Larry, you'll also discover a lot you never knew about keyframes. the Motion tab and a very unorthodox way of using a traveling matte. Larry's presentations are not to be missed.

8:45PM - 9:05PM - Break
This is a chance to hang out and meet and greet and get your problems solved. Honestly we don't know what will be going on in the lobby until we figure out where to put the tables. But I can tell you this much: Intelligent Assistance will be in Lobby selling their latest creations, Practical Color Correction and Killer Titles for Calligraphy and LiveType and talking about the new Pro Apps Hub. Ripple Training will be on hand to show off all their great DVD tutorials. Snacks will be on sale in the lobby. Proceeds go to the Gallery Theater.

9:05PM - -9:35PM - FCP Does Multicam - Philip Hodgetts
DV Guy Philip Hodgetts of Intelligent Assistance will be showing two new options for MultiCam editing with Final Cut Pro. Not another work around but real, real-time, multicamera cutting. He'll do the shootout between the open source and free LiveCut and the commercial Multicam Lite from Digital Heaven. Is free good? Or, is $295 really worth it? You'll have to be there to find out what app is best to cut LA based "Javelin's" latest guerilla-style music video.

9:35PM - 9:45PM - "The Thing" - Show and Tell - Philip Bloom
I shot a demo music video using the DVX-100a and cut a rough using storyboards in FCP. Some minor color correction was done to the end product in FCP also.


9:45PM - 9:55PM - "Keepers of the Art" - Show and Tell - Daniel Foster
Keepers of the Arts is a half-hour arts and culture travel series that showcases world artisans and their crafts, deeply influenced by cultural beliefs, rituals and spiritual ceremonies. The ten minute excerpt is from the pilot, shot in Bali, Indonesia. Created by Eye Awake Studio in association with About Time Productions.

10:00 - World Famous Raffle

Free Floor passes to VideoMaker Expo - Videomaker
Free Genarts T-shirts - Genarts

Copy of Sapphire Plug-ins - Genarts
Copy of MultiCam Lite - Digital Heaven
2 copies "FCP HD Hands on Training" - Peachpit Books
5 $20.00 Gift Certificates - Paquito Mas Restaurants
Copy of DVDxDVPro - DVDxDV
FCP Keyboard KeyGuide - Neotron Design
Copy of Zoom -in DVD - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside FCP -HD - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 - Magnet Media
Copy of Final Draft and Final Draft AV - Final Draft
2 Royalty Free Stock Footage CDs - ThinkStock Footage
Killer Titles for Live Type and Calligraphy - Intelligent Assistance
Practical Color Correction For FCP - Intelligent Assistance
1 T-shirt - kenstone.net
Copy of the Feb lafcpug meeting with Walter Murch -lafcpug

HDV Night at lafcpug, Feb 23
 

Next Meeting of the LA Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, February 23, 2005 6:45PM - till we drop at the Gallery Theater in E Hollywood CA.

Join us as we devote the entire evening to HDV. Scheduled to appear will be reps from Sony who will show off the brand new HVR-Z1U Camcorder as well as the M10U VTR. We will discuss several techniques for editing HDV with FCP with Brad Wright, author of HDVxDV. ProMax will also be on hand to show and tell everything you need to know about HDV before you buy. There will be lots of HDV footage to look at and we intend to do our best to cover everything you need to know about HDV. Agenda will be set about one week before meeting.

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested.

Agenda (subject to Change)

6:45- 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
Join FCP Gurus Ken Stone, and special guest gurus, Sharon Franklin and Steve Martin as they will attempt to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems concerning FCP. If they can't solve your problem or answer your How 2, then you go home with a problem but you still got out of the house, so that's not a bad thing.

7:20PM - 7:45PM - Working with the Sony HDR-Z1U HDV Cam and the HVR-M10U VTR - Val Reynolds
Sony's Val Reynolds will be on hand to show off the brand new Z1U HDV Cam as well as the companion HDV Player, the M10U. Val will be also be available for questions throughout the evening

7:50PM - 8:25PM - Everything you need to know and should know about HDV - The Boys from ProMax
So, what is the absolute best method for preserving the beauty of your HDV footage when you bring it into your Mac? The boys from ProMax will be coming up to answer that question and more.
They will show DV footage from a Z1 compared to DV from a PD170.
Footage of HDV through AIC to DVCPro HD
Footage of AIC to Uncompressed 10bit
Footage of HDV out analog HD converted to HD-SDI and captured DVCPRO HD
Footage of HDV out analog HD converted to HD-SDI and captured uncompressed 10 bit
HDV footage and HDCAM footage side by side examples
Uncompressed HD 10 bit compressed back to Transport Stream and recorded
to HDV camera.
And if time, HDV monitoring


8:30PM - 8:40PM - "HDV Music Video" - Frank Schindler - Show and Tell
From Frank:
The clip was shot on an FX-1 with most of the default settings except the color level was +7, the max. If I had it to do over again I probably would have rolled that off to a +5 or +4. It was a live performance and we had no control of the lighting. There were multi-colored lights on the entire stage. This is raw footage and discussion with the principles is underway to decide what everyone wants to do with it. The sound is internal camera sound which doesn't sound too bad. A computer recorded mix of the sound was recorded independently and will be added in post.

8:45PM - 9:05PM - Break
This is a chance to hang out and meet and greet and get your problems solved. ProMax and Sony will be there to answer all questions and show off their toys. Intelligent Assistance will be in Lobby selling their latest creations, and talking about the new Pro Apps Hub. Ripple Training will be on hand to show off all their great DVD tutorials. Snacks and Beer and Wine will be on sale in the lobby. Proceeds go to the Gallery Theater.

9:05PM - -9:35PM - How to Edit HDV on a Mac - Brad Wright
Currently FCP does not support editing HDV, but there are several "work arounds" and Brad Wright, author of HDVxDV will discuss them all. From capturing HDV into iMovie/FCE to FCP, LumiereHD, and others, as well as his own solution, HDVxDV.

9:35PM - 9:45PM - Show and Tell

9:45PM - 9:55PM - "Mediocre Films" - Greg Benson - Show and Tell
From Greg:
I'm an actor-writer in L.A. who gets pretty bored just sitting around between jobs. So I shoot no-budget comedic shorts on Mini DV and share them with the world at mediocrefilms.com. ("Mediocre Films: They're Better Than They Sound.") I'll be sharing two recent shorts, "Mating Season" (budget: $41) and "Phone Call to God" (budget: $8) at the meeting. It's a World Premiere for both. Hope you don't think they suck.


10:00 - World Famous Raffle
SteadyTracker UltraLight - ProMax
Copy of Motion PowerStart - DVCreators.net
2 Copies of LiveType PowerStart - DVCreators.net
Copy of DV Enlightenment - DVCreators.net
Surprise from Sony - Sony
50% off any Apple Pro Apps Class _ Moviola
Various Books from CMP Books - CMP Books
5 $20.00 Gift Certificates - Paquito Mas Restaurants
Copy of DVDxDVPro - DVDxDV
Copy of HDVxDV - HDVxDV
FCP Keyboard KeyGuide - Neotron Design
Copy of Zoom -in DVD - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside FCP -HD - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside Motion - Magnet Media
Copy of Final Draft and Final Draft AV - Final Draft
2 Royalty Free Stock Footage CDs - ThinkStock Footage
Killer Titles for Live Type and Calligraphy - Intelligent Assistance
Practical Color Correction For FCP - Intelligent Assistance
1 T-shirt - kenstone.net
Copy of the Feb lafcpug meeting with Walter Murch -lafcpug

For all the details and directions to the Gallery Theater, go to the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

lafcpug to make music March 23
 

The next meeting of the LA Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be Wednesday, March 23, 2005 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood Ca.

"Making Music on FCP Night"

Bring your dancing shoes and join us as we devote much of the evening to making music and music videos. Stephanie Joyce of SmartSound will show off the very cool music creation tool, Sonicfire Pro V3, Steve Martin of Ripple Training will show us tips and tricks on how to cut our video to the beat of the music. We will also slip in a brief demo and explanation of Raids, and why MacOSX Disk Utility might not be the best choice for striping your hard drives. SoftRaids Timothy Standing will present. Plus, Music Videos galore, Stump the Gurus, and World Famous Raffle.

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested.

Agenda (subject to change)

6:45- 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
Join FCP Guru Ken Stone, and special guest gurus, Sharon Franklin Andrew Balis, and Steve Martin as they will attempt to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems concerning FCP. If they can't solve your problem or answer your How 2, then you go home with a problem but you still got out of the house, so that's not a bad thing.

7:20PM - 7:40PM - Cutting to the beat of the Music - Steve Martin
Ripple Training's Steve Martin will show us how to cut your music video to the beat of the music. This assumes you have rhythm.

7:45PM - 8:10PM - Sonic Fire Pro - Stephanie Joyce
SmartSound's Stephanie Joyce will show you how to create great sounding soundtracks with SmartSound's patented software. Award winning Sonic Fire Pro is the only software programs that let you create professional quality, customized, royalty-free music soundtracks for your videos- automatically! The patented software also lets you bring in outside music (such as Soundtrack or Garage Band) and makes it fit the length of your video project, quickly, easily, and automatically. SmartSound can generate royalty free music AND import the music you create, it even reads your FCP markers! It's a great addition to your video toolbox.

8:15PM - 8:30PM - SoftRaid - Timothy Standing
Timothy Standing of SoftRaid will give a brief demo and explanation of Raids, and why MacOSX Disk Utility might not be the best choice for striping your hard drives.

8:30PM - 8:45PM - "How'd You Do That?" - "Weightless" - Mitchell Rose
From Mitchell:
A music video for Swami Jr., fronted by singer/songwriter Billy Goodrum, in which at the laundromat, his mind goes on tumble-dry. The "video," shot on film, uses a lot of "motion control" shots that were damn expensive, and keying that doesn't cost a damn thing.

8:45PM - 9:05PM - Break
This is a chance to hang out and meet and greet and get your problems solved. Intelligent Assistance will be in Lobby selling their latest creations, and talking about the new Pro Apps Hub. Ripple Training will be on hand to show off all their great DVD tutorials. Snacks and Beer and Wine will be on sale in the lobby. Proceeds go to the Gallery Theater.

9:05PM - 9:25PM - The Making of a "Jet" Video - "Cold Hard Bitch" - Ted Schilowitz
Fans of iPod commercials know the song "Are you Going to be My Girl" by the Aussie band, Jet. You also know their other big hit, "Cold Hard Bitch." What you may not know is that the video of that song was cut on FCP using the Kona 2 card. AJA's Ted Schilowitz will take us thorugh the workflow.

9:25PM - 9:45PM - "How'd You Do That?" - "Wylde Bunch" - Kenn Michael
From Kenn:
I have two music videos I did for the same artist - Wylde Bunch. They're on Sony/Columbia records and their album is on iTMS. The first video I shot and has a narrative attached to it. The second one I edited from tons of touring/concert footage.

9:45PM - 9:55PM - "BURN: The Documentary" - Bill Boletta - Show and Tell
Director: Bill Boletta
Director of Photography: Tim Otholt
People come to Los Angeles from all over the world with the hope of becoming rock stars. This short documentary gives a profile of Burn, a talented music group which hasn't yet made it big but has tried hard for years. The film looks behind the scenes of the music business and points up the inherent tensions that exist in that world between idealism and pragmatism, artistry and finance, talent and commercialism. In addition to interviews with band members, friends of the band, and music industry professionals, there are excerpts from live performances as well as studio rehearsal footage. The film was shot digitally in 24p with the Panasonic DVX-100 and edited entirely in FCP. Runtime: 10 minutes


10:00 - World Famous Raffle
Copy of Sonic Fire Pro - SmartSound
Copy of Softraid - Softraid
50% off any Apple Pro Apps Class _ Moviola
5 $20.00 Gift Certificates - Paquito Mas Restaurants
Copy of DVDxDVPro - DVDxDV
FCP Keyboard KeyGuide - Neotron Design
Copy of Zoom -in DVD - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside FCP -HD - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside DVD Studio Pro 3 - Magnet Media
Copy of Inside Motion - Magnet Media
Copy of Final Draft and Final Draft AV - Final Draft
2 Royalty Free Stock Footage CDs - ThinkStock Footage
Killer Titles for Live Type and Calligraphy - Intelligent Assistance
Practical Color Correction For FCP - Intelligent Assistance
1 T-shirt - kenstone.net
Copy of the Feb lafcpug meeting with Walter Murch -lafcpug

For more details including directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site
http://www.lafcpug.org

FCP 5: Got Questions?
 

On Tuesday May 3, lafcpug will host "The Los Angeles Debut of FCP 5 and Soundtrack Pro." http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule_etc.html

FCP Product designer Brian Meaney and others from the FCP team will be down to demo and take questions and feed back. The show will be open to the public.

For those of you who cant make it to this meeting and have questions you feel need to be asked, please send them to fcpquest@yahoo.com. Lisa Brenneis and myself will sort through them all and pick what we consider the "top ten." We will then present them to Brian and the FCP team and publish the answers at lafcpug.org and here shortly thereafter.

Send as many questions as you like

Spread the word

Michael Horton
lafcpug
http://www.lafcpug.org

lafcpug to meet April 27
 

Join us on Wednesday April 27 where, for the very first time in the history of lafcpug, we will devote the entire evening to Show and Tells. Each filmmaker will be given 10 minutes each to show their movie or clips from their movie and then tell us how they did it. It's about time we did this and we hope to do this more often. So join us, will you. Starts 6:45PM

Agenda (subject to change)

6:45- 7:15PM - Stump the Gurus
Join FCP Guru Ken Stone, and special guest gurus, Andrew Balis and Steve Martin as they will attempt to answer all of your questions and solve all of your problems concerning FCP. If they can't solve your problem or answer your How 2, then you go home with a problem but you still got out of the house, so that's not a bad thing.


7:20PM - 7:30PM - "Formosa" - Noah Kadner
Director Noah Kadner will show clips from "Formosa," his film,which just won best comedy at the Garden State Film Fest. The film was shot using the Panasonic SDX900 and edited on FCP.


7:35PM - 7:45PM - "Wake Up Dead" - Jonas Navickas
From Jonah:
The short film "Wake Up Dead" was written, directed and co-edited by Jonas Navickas while studying at the L.A. Film School. Shot on 24pHDCAM, Final Cut Pro was utilized to edit the film, both offline and online. "Wake Up Dead" was an official selection of the 2003 New York City Horror Film Festival and will soon be a part of Fangoria TV programming.
Jonas Navickas lives in Silverlake, edits exclusively on Final Cut Pro, and has several projects in various stages of production.
http://homepage.mac.com/jnavickas/iMovieTheater1.html
http://cultcuts.net/shortsF.htm#wakeupdead


7:50PM - 8:00PM - "Tune Up To Success" - Dale Ellis
From Dale:
Working primarily with legacy footage shot over a few years, freelance producer Dale Ellis edited an infomercial to promote a series of seminars by top-charting jazz musician Freddie Ravel. The video shows business and non-profit organizations why booking Freddie's "Tune Up To Success" seminars will make their next conference a hit by sampling his ideas, musical performances and endorsements


8:05PM - 8:15PM - "vermillion" - Tony Petrossian
From Tony:
Who Am I?
Tony Petrossian. I'm a music video director signed to a small production company out of NY and LA called Rockhard Films. I've done videos for artists such as Hoobastank, DMX, and Slipknot. I've directed over 30 videos over that last 3 years and have mostly edited my own stuff on Final Cut. . .
What I'll be Showing:
One of my recent vids is for Slipknot's "vermillion" where we shot the whole thing on digital still photos and sequenced them in quicktime and cut in final cut. . .
www.rhfilms.com (click on my name and you can watch some of my work)



8:20PM - 8:30PM - "San Francisco, 1957" - Laurie Pepper
From Laurie:
I'm an independent filmmaker working on a documentary based on "Straightlife," the book I wrote with my late husband, jazz musician, Art Pepper. I'm using Art's music and his voice as narration. The movie includes enacted sequences and various kinds of animation. The clip is part of the work-in-progress, but I think it does okay as a stand-alone short film. It's called "San Francisco, 1957" and is a little over 7 minutes long with opening and end titles. -- Laurie Pepper
Check out websites below.
http://straightlife.org
http://homepage.mac.com/nowsthetime/


8:30PM - 8:40PM - "Cool Web Docs for Apple Ed" - Marco Torres
Marco Torres is an Apple Distinguished Educator, George Lucas Educational Foundation board Member, producer, photographer, digital storyteller, and a social studies and media teacher at San Fernando High School, home of the famous San Fernando Education Technology Team. I have been making mini-web documentaries for Apple. I am going to show about 3 min cool demo reel of the work I have done over the last 8 months for Apple. The function of these movies is to engage people in conversations about what schools would look like, if all kids had 24/7 access to the powerful production tool of an Apple Powerbook for their learning, living, and creative needs and wants.



8:40PM - 9:00PM - Break
This is a chance to hang out and meet and greet and get your problems solved. Intelligent Assistance will be in Lobby selling their latest creations, and talking about the new Pro Apps Hub. Ripple Training will be on hand to show off all their great DVD tutorials. Snacks and Beer and Wine will be on sale in the lobby. Proceeds go to the Gallery Theater.


9:00PM - 9:10PM - "Gaytino - Daniel Foster
From Daniel:
Selections from projection design for a one man show, "Gaytino," that recently premiered at the Kirk Douglas Theater * about the life of Dan Guerrero and notables in his life: Chicano painter Carlos Almaraz, Cesar Chavez, and Dan's father, Lalo Guerrero, the legendary "Father of Chicano Music," who died last month, in March.


9:10PM - 9:20PM - "House of Generals" - Dan Spigel
From Dan:
I'm Dan Spigel Producer Director of House of the Generals.A seven year project. self finance 103 min feature. No stock footage. All original battle scenes. Film contains actual WWII Tanks and Planes. A holocaust based film that has been receiving good reviews. Shot in Beta SP, DV, 16mm.
Hollywood screening planned at the Hollywood Regent in Late July 05.
www.houseofthegenerals.com


9:25PM - 9:35PM - Untitled - Jeremy Saville
From Jeremy:
Jeremy Saville is an Actor/Writer/Filmmaker who's made several DV shorts. His films have been finalists at The Second City Film Festival and have been featured at The Austin Film Festival. His show ComedyLight was chosen as pick of the week by "The New Times", and he's currently working on a pilot for television.


9:40PM - 9:50PM - "Asylum" - Tony Mark
From Tony:
LAFCPUG member Tony Mark (tonymark.com) will be showing a trailer from his latest feature film "Asylum". Shot on the Panasonic 100a and edited in FCP, Tony will show some of the strengths of the camera and a slew of the effects of FCP. Tony was last in last year when he showed us part of his film "The Mailman" which has since sold to distributors and
if time allows, will take some questions on getting distribution on digital features.


10:00 - World Famous Raffle

For all the details including directions to the Gallery Theater go to http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

__________________
Michael Horton
"HeadCutter"
Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group
http://www.lafcpug.org

DVD Studio Pro 4 at lafcpug, May 25
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will meet Wednesday, May 25 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood Ca. Scheduled to appear will be a demo of "What's New in DVD Studio Pro 4," by Apple's Brian Hoffman and DVD Guru, Bruce Nazarian. In addition, Micronet will show off their SanCube SAN storage solution. Plus, FCP 5 tips and tricks, Show and Tells, Stump the Gurus, and “World Famous Raffle.”

Meeting is open to the public on a first come first seated basis. There will be a $5.00 donation respectfully requested at the door.

For complete agenda and directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Final Touch at lafcpug June 22
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) now with over 4000 members world wide, will mark its fifth year anniversary, Wednesday, June 22 at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood Ca. On the agenda is a look at the SD, HD and 2K color corrector, Final Touch by Silicon Color. Plus tips and tricks for Low budget/No budget filmmakers, encoding with Compressor, fact and fiction about Apple's move to Intel, more on FCP 5, Stump The Gurus, Show and Tells, and World Famous Raffle.

The meeting is open to the public and will begin at 6:45PM with doors opening at 6:00PM There will be a $5.00 donation respectfully requested at the door.
For complete agenda and directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Boris and the Duck at lafcpug, July 27
 

It will be “Boris and the Duck Night” at the next meeting of the LA Final Cut Pro User Group, (lafcpug) Wednesday July 27 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in East Hollywood CA.

Scheduled to present will be Ann Renehan from Boris FX who will show off the latest versions of FX and Graffiti. Plus Wes Plate will show us the latest and greatest version of Automatic Duck Pro Export 3.0. Plus our annual visit by the students of SFETT, http://www.sfett.net/index.html who will show off their work and talk about the iCan Film Festival, August 6 in San Fernando, CA. Plus more on FCP 5, Show and Tells, Stump the Gurus, and World Famous Raffle. Doors open at 6:00PM and there will be a $5.00 donation respectfully requested at the door.

For complete agenda and directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site. http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

HDV and Traffic at lafcpug, Sept 28
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will hold it’s next monthly meeting, Wednesday, Sept 28 at the Gallery Theater in E. Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM. It will be “HDV and Traffic Night.” Scheduled on the agenda will be the world premier of xmedit's TRAFFIC. Plus, "How to Edit HDV Natively presented by Academy Award nominated filmmakers, Chuck and Marilyn Braverman and editor Rob King. Also “Editing HDV Non Natively” presented by Brad Wright." Plus AJA,’s brand new KONA LH Capture card will make its LA debut, demoed by Ted Schilowitz. Rounding out the evening will be another round of Stump the Gurus, Show and Tells, and World Famous Raffle.

For complete details on the agenda and directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

This meeting is open to the public and a $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door

Walter Murch at lafcpug, Oct 26
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will welcome Academy Award winning Film Editor/Sound Designer Walter Murch to its next meeting, Wednesday, Oct 26 at the Gallery theatre in East Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM. Mr. Murch will talk about the unique workflow he and his editing team used on the film “Jarhead,” directed by Academy Award winning director, Sam Mendes and slated for a US release in November, 2005

Also on the agenda will be Show and tells, 2 new free FCP Plug-ins by Marcus Herrick, and more.

Tickets are now on sale ($12.00) at the lafcpug web site where you can also get much more info including directions to the Gallery Theatre.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

HVX200 at lafcpug, Nov 16
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will welcome Huge Systems and the Panasonic AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD Camcorder Wednesday, November 16 at the Gallery theatre in E. Hollywood, CA. beginning at 6:45PM.

Huge Systems will discuss storage solutions that integrate quite nicely with Apple’s Xsan, while reps from Panasonic will discuss the AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD’s much talked about P2 card and workflow with Final Cut Pro. Also on the agenda is a demo of the 3D app, Kinemac. Rounding out the evening will be another round of Stump the Gurus, Show and Tells and World famous Raffle. A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.

For complete agenda and directions to the gallery theatre, please visit the lafcpug web site
http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Hey Michael,

Do you (or Jan) know if this will be a fully functional unit?
(From info I read on the CML list the HVX200 at HD Expo was not.)

Have no idea if cam will even be there. Hope it will as they hinted it might. Evening will be more about the P2 workflow and all the confusing stuff surrounding it.

FCP Users to Gather at DV Expo West
 

FCP Users to Gather at DV Expo West

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will once again play host to hundreds of FCP Users and Gurus at this years DV Expo West to be held at the LA Convention Center, Wednesday, Dec 7, beginning at 7:00PM.

Scheduled to appear will be Academy Award winning Steadicam inventor and cameraman, Garrett Brown who will show off his brand new "Merlin." Plus Apple will be down to show the just announced tool for Pro Photographers, Aperture. Also scheduled to appear will be AJA’s Ted Schilowitz who will demo the new Kona LHe capture card. FCP Gurus Steve Martin and Brian Gary will show you exactly how to take your movie from Final Cut Pro to your Video iPod. And, if that isn’t enough, there will be a raffle with prizes totaling into the thousands of dollars.

Space is limited and seating is on a first come first served basis. More information including registration instructions and directions to the LA convention Center can be found on the lafcpug web site
http://www.lafcpug.org/dvexpo.html

Agenda set for lafcpug event at DV Expo, Dec 7
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will once again play host to hundreds of FCP Users and Gurus at this years DV Expo West to be held at the LA Convention Center, Wednesday, Dec 7, beginning at 7:00PM.

Scheduled to appear will be Academy Award winning Steadicam inventor and cameraman, Garrett Brown who will show off the brand new just shipping "Merlin." Plus Apple's Kirk Paulson will be down to show the just announced tool for Pro Photographers, Aperture. Also scheduled to appear will be AJA's Ted Schilowitz who will demo the new Kona LHe capture card. FCP Gurus Steve Martin and Brian Gary will show you exactly how to take your movie from Final Cut Pro to your Video iPod. Plus Don Berube will show footage and show off the new Canon XLH1 HDV camcorder. And, if that isn't enough, there will be a raffle with prizes totaling into the thousands of dollars.

Space is limited and seating is on a first come first served basis. Admission is free. More information including registration instructions and directions to the LA convention Center can be found on the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/dvexpo.html

FCP Event at Macworld featuring Walter Murch
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group, (lafcpug) along with leaders from the San Francisco, Boston, Chicago and other FCP User Groups will unite at the Mezzanine Club in San Francisco Ca. as part of the Macworld Expo festivities, Wednesday, Jan 11, beginning at 7:00PM.

On the agenda will be Academy Award winning film editor and sound designer, Walter Murch who will talk about his experiences with Final Cut Pro on the recent film Jarhead and take questions from the audience

Also scheduled to appear will be Apple’s Phil Jackson and Alec Little who will show off and talk about Soundtrack Pro.

Panasonic will show footage and talk about the brand new camcorder, the HVX200

A raffle with prizes totaling into the thousands of dollars will wrap up the evening.

Tickets are on sale now for $15.00 each and this event is expected to sell out quickly. Doors will open at 6:00PM and seating will be first come, first served.

Food and drinks will be available

For more details on the agenda, where to buy the tickets, a list of raffle prizes and directions to the Mezzanine Club, log onto the lafcpug web site.
http://www.lafcpug.org/macworld.html

If I volunteer to help out at the door, will that get me in? See you there, Michael!

No. But we need somone to sing the Star Spangled Banner to open the show. That will get you in. :-)

You are very welcome Chris. Just bring a load of those cool flashlight pens and remind me to put your name on list as we get close to the event as it is close to selling out

Yeah, I'd have to hit the bar pretty hard before I could do any singing.

But as for the swag, consider it done -- and thanks!

lafcpug welcomes Digital Heaven's Martin Baker, January 25
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will be meeting Wednesday, January 25 at the Gallery Theater in Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM. Scheduled on the agenda will be Digital Heaven's Martin Baker who is flying in from the UK to show off the world premiere of...something super secret. Plus Dan Montgomery from Imagine Products will show off HD Log. Plus Frank Colin of Final Draft will give a brief look at the latest version of Final Draft AV. Plus filmmaker Warren Eig will answer the question, can you make 2 short films for $5,400.00 and make them look like they cost $54,000.00. The answer it seems is yes you can and Warren will show you. Plus another round of Stump the Gurus, Show and Tell, FCP Tips and Trick of the Month with Larry Jordan and once again, World Famous Raffle. All in one night.

For all the details including directions to the Gallery Theater, visit the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door

lafcpug to meet Feb 22.
 

The next meeting of the lafcpug will be Wednesday, Feb. 22 at the Gallery Theater in stunning E. Hollywood Ca.\. It will be “Get Yourself Organized Night” because that’s about as good a title we can come up with. This show is going to be a good one, that I promise.

We will welcome DigitalFilm Tree's Ramy Katrib who will show off what can only be described as a FileMaker Pro digital replica of the organizing solution Walter Murch uses on his movies. Plus a demo of the # 1 storyboarding software for filmmakers, Storyboard Artist. Plus Steve Martin will return with tips and tricks on Color Correction in Final Cut Pro and show off Ripple Training’s brand new training DVD, “Color Correction for Final Cut Pro.” Plus Philip Hodgetts will show us how to convert HDV to SD 4:3 and future proof your HDV movie when and if HD distribution becomes available. Not enough? Ted Bonnitt returns with a brand new short movie, shot on 35mm and mastered to HDSR 4:4:4 DI He will talk a little about the workflow and show the movie.

Hold on, we are not done yet. Another round of Stump the Gurus and World Famous Raffle will wrap up the evening.
Get there early for this one folks.

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.

For more info including directions to the Gallery Theater click on over to the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Registration for ProMax Digital Cafe now open
 

Registration is now open for the annual Charles McConathy Digital Cafe (CMDC) which will be held at the Stardust Hotel, Tuesday NIght, April 25 beginning at 6:30PM

Presentations to include:

Adobe
AJA
Apple
Avid
Sony

and more.

This is just one of the must attend events at NAB, so if you are planning to go, make this one part of your plan.

Go to the ProMax web site to register

http://www.promax.com/events/cafe/

FCPUG SuperMeet: Call for Submissions
 

What are you doing with Final Cut Studio?

Are you going to NAB?

Great stories exist in our community and the Final Cut Pro
User Group Network (FCPUG Network) will bring these stories to the forefront to highlight at the 5th Annual NAB FCPUG SuperMeet, to take place on Wednesday, April 26th, at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas.

The FCPUG Network is looking for your best work created in Final Cut Studio. This is your chance to get your work seen by a full house of filmmakers, broadcasters, FCP editors, gurus and enthusiasts. We're talking about hundreds of people seeing what can be done and what YOU have done in Final Cut Studio. So if you will be at NAB and want to show your work, then read on.

We will choose an undetermined amount of the best submissions based solely on how interesting it sounds and on diversity. Works can be from a doc, music video, narrative, animation, wedding, corporate, home movie or graphics heavy piece, or for the web. We don’t care. We want to see what you are doing. This is not about good and bad. It's about interesting, stimulating
and diverse stories.

HOW TO ENTER:
1. Send an email to michaelh@lafcpug.org
In the email, state your name and contact info and include a
paragraph or two on what is on the tape you wish to submit. We are not accepting tapes at this time. Only emails from those who will be at NAB and at the FCPUG SuperMeet and have a piece they think will rock the house will be accepted.

2. Deadline to send your email is April 10, 2006. No
exceptions!

3. All email entries received by April 10 will be reviewed by a
panel of 5 curating judges from LAFCPUG, BOSFCPUG, CHIFCPUG
and SF CUTTERS.

4. Through the curating process will select an undetermined amount of finalists by April 13, 2006. Each finalist will be contacted using the contact info supplied in your email.

RULES:
1. You, or someone involved in the making of your work must be present at the FCPUG SuperMeet, April 26 at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas to show and tell about your work. No exceptions and no friends can show and tell for you! If you are not going to be at NAB and at our event, then don't send us a submission.

2. Your work must have been created using at least one of the applications in the Final Cut Studio Suite.

3. Your work can be on Mini DV, DVCam, DVCPro 50 or 100 or DVD only. No exceptions.

4. Each Show and Tell is limited to 5 minutes and not one
minute more. If your work is three minutes in length, that
means you will have two minutes to discuss it. NO
EXCEPTIONS. You must stay within the 5 minute limit. We
suggest keeping your work to be screened to 3-4 minutes in
length. If it is longer than 5 minutes, you will have to
edit it down before you submit it to us. We will not allow
anything over this time limit.

Send your submission now to Michael Horton at:

michaelh@lafcpug.org

The Real Deal" on the HVX200 at lafcpug, March 22
 

The next meeting of the lafcpug will be Wednesday, March. 22 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in the heart of East Hollywood. Join us as we bring you real live user demos of the Panasonic HVX200 Camcorder, Real live human beings showing real footage using real Live HVX200 camcorders and P2 cards and doing real live workflow. This will be the REAL deal.

Editor Shane Ross, DP Andrew Parke, and Producer Jim Lindsey will takes us through P2 workflow as well as all the “gotchas” one might encounter out in the field. Plus they will show footage. Also DP and author Barry Braverman will show you what you need to know about the HVX200 including what to watch out for. Plus FCP Guru Larry Jordan will show us ”Tips to working with garbage mattes and chroma key.” Plus Brad Wright will show us what we need to know about the Macbook Pro. Plus the FCP Tip/Trick of the Month by Christine Steele, another round of Stump the Gurus and World Famous Raffle. All in one night. Whew!

For the entire agenda including directions to the theater, click on over to the lafcpug web site:

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Dede Allen to appear at lafcpug, April 19
 

In what we hope will be a series of events on the "craft of film editing," the LA Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will welcome legendary film editor, Dede Allen (Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, Slapshot, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Little Big Man and many more) to the stage Wednesday April 19 at the Gallery Theatre in Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM. Ms Allen will speak about her extraordinary career, the craft of editing, show clips from some of her movies and take questions from the audience. Tickets are on sale now for $8.00 each and this event is expected to sell out. For more info and a link to where to buy tickets, visit the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html
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FCPUG Event at NAB at 47K worth of raffle prizes
 

For those of you going to the giant FCPUG Event at NAB this coming April 26 at the RIO Hotel, we just passed the 47K mark worth of raffle prizes. That's HUGE!

Some of the prizes are:

Sony HVR-A1U HDV Camcorder - Sony ($3,100 value)
(2) Multibridge Extreme - Blackmagic Design ($5,100 value)
(3) Decklink Cards - Blackmagic Design ($2,685 value)
(2) G-DRIVE Q 250's - G-Tech ($538 value)
(2) G-DRIVE mini 100's - G-Tech ($598 value)
AJA Kona 3 Capture Card + K3 Optional 1RU External Breakout Box - AJA - ($3,298.00)
(2) HDP Mini Converters + Power Supply - AJA - ($1660.00 value)
Io LA - AJA -($1190.00)
Io - AJA - ($2290.00 value)
FireStore FS-4 Pro - Focus Enhancements ($1,200 value)
DV Creators Lighting Kit - Lowel ($1,800 value)
1 GY-HD100 3-CCD PROHD CAMCORDER - JVC ProHD - ($6295.00 value)

and that is just a few of them

Get your tickets now folks if you are going to NAB. Someone is going to win these. Course it ain't going to be me, damnit.

http://www.lafcpug.org/nab_2006.html

That's nice Michael, you can just go ahead and load all those prizes in my car thank you very much! =)

Now over 50K. Wow.

http://www.lafcpug.org/nab_2006.html

Whoa! What are the new prizes?

Andromeda Update for the DVX100 (A/B) $3000.00 value
(2) Firewire Rev Pro Drives - Thompson Grass Valley - ($1000.00 value)
Copy of Genarts Sapphire Plug-ins - Genarts - ($599.00)
Flip4Mac WMV Studio Pro HD Component - Flip4Mac - (value $179)
(2) Flip4Mac Infinity Component for Final Cut Pro - Flip4Mac - (value $990.00)
Gift Certificate for 3 Stock Footage titles from Creatas Footage, Thinkstock Footage & Bigshot Media - Creatas Footage - ($1500.00 value)

Awesome! One question though, what happens if someone wins the Andromeda mod but doesn't have a DVX to mod?

We will most likely ask for a raise of hands about who owns it and then limit the give out to them. Might take a little while though

I wasn't originally going to go to this, but some people have told me that it's open to the public. Is this true? I primarily use Vegas, but I work with a lot of filmmakers who use Final Cut -- so I work with it occasionally, especially at the local film fests, and my office is thinking of migrating to it. Would it be okay for me to attend, or do I need more Final Cut street cred?

Always open to the public. Lots of folks who attend dont use FCP so you are more than welcome. Just get a ticket before you arrive just in case we fill up.

http://www.lafcpug.org/nab_2006.html

Picts from the SuperMeet and a few from show floor
 

These picts were taken by Cristoph Vornheim of CHV Electronics plug-ins for Final Cut Pro. Includes a few shots from the show floor.

http://www.lafcpug.org/album/more_nabpicts06/

The Steadycam on the Segway is pretty cool

Red, Avid, Matrox, Tascam, PictureReady! at lafcpug, May 24
 

Join us as we bring a little bit of NAB to lafcpug. The famous ProMax Digital Cafe will make a stop at lafcpug, May 24 at the Gallery Theatre in E Hollywood. Booked so far is Ted Schilowitz who will tell you all you need to know about the most talked about camera since the Kodak Brownie, RED. Plus our good friend Tim Wilson will fly in from Boston to show and tell what's new with AVID. Plus Pino Barile will show off the brand new Matrox MXO. Plus Keith Hatounian will show off the much talked about PictureReady! from Gallery. Plus Jeff Laity of Tascam will show us how to set up and use the FW-1082 Audio/Midi interface to control Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack and Logic. And they will be giving one away as part of our World Famous Raffle. Oh yeah, plus Stump the Gurus.

This meeting is open to the public as always and seating is first come, best seat.

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully required at the door.

Gor here for all the details, directions to the Gallery Theatre and a link to where to register

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

Shake, Nattress at lafcpug June 28
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Group (lafcpug) will celebrate it's 6th birthday, June 28 at the Gallery theatre in Hollywood beginning at 6:45PM

Scheduled to appear will be a demo of the new Gorilla 3 from Jungle Software.

Bill Davis will show off the very unique "Start Editing Now" training DVD.

Graeme Nattress will fly in from Canada to help you get that "Film Look" in your video.

A special guest from Apple is coming down from Cupertino to show off the brand new Shake 4.1, now for only $499.00. Plus we get back to the FCP tips and trick of the month with Christine Steele, show and tells, Stump the Gurus and of course World Famous Raffle.

For complete details including directions to the Gallery theatre in Hollywood, click over to the lafcpug web site

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

lafcpug to make music, July 26
 

The Los Angeles Final Cut Pro User Croup (lafcpug) will hold it’s monthly meeting this Wednesday, July 26 beginning at 6:45PM at the Gallery Theater in E. Hollywood. Join them as this month they bring you lots of cool toys to make your life easier in the Summer heat.

Scheduled to appear will be Stephanie Joyce from SmartSound who will show off Sonicfire Pro 4. Plus Eric Huffman from Synk Audio will show off his music creation tool, Musicbed DV. Plus Michael Buday will demo the "ultimate review and approval tool," syncVue. Not enough? Well, how about a demo of the very cool Storyboard and pre-viz tool, Frameforge 3D Studio. Plus the students from SFETT will make their annual visit to lafcpug to show and tell and talk about the upcoming iCan7 Festival de Cine And of course, the FCP tip/trick of the month with Steve Martin showing us Multicam tricks in FCP, show and tell with Brian Gary, Stump the Gurus, and World Famous Raffle. Meeting is open to public.

For complete details and directions to the Gallery Theater click on over to the lafcpug web site.

http://www.lafcpug.org/user_schedule.html

A $5.00 donation will be respectfully requested at the door.