DC Metro FCP UG

Congratulations to all our winner’s this month!

David Langley
AVID EDITING BOOK
FXFACTORY T-SHIRT
DigiEffects  DAMAGE plugin
CrowdControl pre Alpha channel clips
Voila app – Screen Capture software
Translate IT app – multilingual dictionary for Mac

Nnamdi Azikiwe
FCP ON THE SPOT BOOK

Craig Kabis
FXFACTORY T-SHIRT
NATTRESS plugin – Standards Conversion

Ryan Ragle
NOISE INDUSTRY SUGARfx Lightpak effects
NATTRESS plugin – Big Box of Tricks

Jennifer Quilo
NATTRESS plugin – Film Effects
ScreenFlow app

Twann Hudson
EDITMULE AUTOSCRATCH plugin

Loye Miller
Timetable app
Keyboard covers for MAC keyboard (2)

Clifford Burke
GridIron FLOW app
Keyboard covers for MAC keyboard (1)

When the next meeting is scheduled, please bring a few colleagues and friends along to help the group grow!

Sincerely,

Rodney Mitchell
DC Final Cut Pro User Group

http://www.dcfcpug.org

Save yourself some time and review this list BEFORE migrating to Snow Leopard.

If anyone tests FCP 7, update the list accordingly…

This site just might make your day…

Rodney – DCFCPUG

The Talk of the MacCommunity with Chuck Joiner podcast

Podcast Released 1 Sept 2009

Listen up DCFCPUG… this is why we exist and why I do the things I do for DCFCPUG. One day you will find us at the “top of the hill” with LAFCPUG, BOSFCPUG, SFCutters. I’m currently in discussion with Dan on the remake of FCPUGnetwork!

Be inspired, support your local FCPUG, it really does pay to be a member and you really do get back 10 times what you put into it.  The Washington Metro area has some very talented folks out there…. take a day for yourself to recharge with us at DCFCPUG and you just might win a tool for your next project and you can take THAT to the bank!

Rodney Mitchell
DCFCPUG

Michael Horton
LAFCPUG

Daniel Berube
BOSFCPUG

The latest iteration of the Final Cut Pro User Group SuperMeet is coming up, this time in Amsterdam. Event organizers Michael Horton and Dan Berube can’t help but display their enthusiasm for both the event and for their mission of bringing the power of digital storytelling to the world. They discuss some of the new features of this SuperMeet, such as turning part of the event over to the audience, the newest edition of their SuperMag and the expansion of the Final Cut Pro user group community. Their plans for the future, why it is so important to them, and why they refuse to make the SuperMeets “dog and pony shows” are all part of a look at one of the fastest-growing conference series going.

Rodney – DCFCPUG

SOLD OUT EVENT! You will just have to catch us next month!

Send us an email @ contact @  dcfcpug.org if you want to be on the notification list for future meetings!

FREE PIZZA and DRINKS provided courtesy of FMC!!!

LIMITED SEATING !! REGISTER NOW FOR A FREE TICKET TO ATTEND… once we are maxed out, you will just have to catch us next time!

REGISTER NOW FOR A FREE TICKET TO ATTEND

Greetings New and Returning DCFCPUG members!:

We have been hard at work planning our “Back to Basics” September meeting. We have been working over the summer establishing a viable process and program to engage our online readership while providing an environment that we can learn, share and explore Apple Pro applications and best of breed industry apps, tricks of the trade and services to improve our workflow in this creative and competitive marketplace.

Invite your friends, associates, colleagues and anyone who is interested in keeping this activity vibrant, and productive.

It takes a lot of work to put these events on for our growing membership (over 222 subscribers!), so if you want this community group to continue, I do ask that you set aside one day each month to attend our meetings and share your knowledge with us…

For what its worth, I have a few special “treats” for those that do in the form of valuable books, software, etc to make your trip and mine worthwhile. It’s more than worth the price of admission! UPDATE: OVER $1,000 worth of goodies to make your workflow work!

So come out and support YOUR meeting!

Our monthly meetings beginning in September will be held at:

Future Media Concepts
1627 K Street NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20006

Doors open at 6:30pm with meeting promptly starting at 7pm.

We have new sponsors, and exciting raffle giveaways that will make the trip worth your time.

The agenda will be posted soon on this main website after its finalized!

Check back daily for any updates and send your greetings to me on Twitter!

Enjoy the Labor Day holiday and wish me well on my well deserved Sept holiday (& birthday)!!

I hope to see a packed house at FMC, and as always take a moment to see what you can do to help our group grow and stay relevant and useful to us all. I’m always looking for a few good reliable volunteers to help run the organization, so if you can support in that way, please send us an email at our rodney@dcfcpug.org address.

Warm regards to all and have a great Labor Day holiday!

See you on 22 Sept!

Rodney
DCFCPUG

“As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a filmmaker”, if this is your mantra, then you’ve got to see FilmFellas! Zacuto is excited to announce their new webisodic series, FilmFellas. A behind the scenes peek featuring influential and emerging new filmmakers who are making, creating and challenging the independent film scene and how we view entertainment.

Follow this continuing series, you won’t want to miss a webisode as the cast and topics change. Watch in full screen HD with new webisodes premiering every two weeks. Producers Steve Weiss, Jens Bogehegn & Scott Lynch sit down and dine with industry movers and shakers where talking film is their family business.

Keep up the good work, Steve… we’ll be watching and learning!

Watch the amazing artistry in motion in the works from the cast on their sites!!!!

Truly inspiring, awesome work…. Kevin, Patrick, and Ron !!

Rodney – DCFCPUG

This is the edition in which you will find your DC Final Cut Pro User Group as one of the expanding groups in the FCP Network – see PAGE 31!!!

The PDF magazine has finally completed publication and released today!

Its packed with 171 pages of topics you will find very interesting….

Remember; use the free Adobe Acrobat 9 reader to read this customized PDF!

HERE IS THE LINK!

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• We are Community by Daniel Berube
  We are the heart of our industry. We are the global community and are not only witnessing change/evolution, we are guiding it.
• Taking the SuperMeet Global by Michael Horton
  In January of 2007 just after the 6th Annual Macworld SuperMeet in San Francisco, Dan Berube and I sat down and decided to take the SuperMeet global.
• Shooting in HD and Editing in SD: Killer Tricks to Make Your Show Sizzle by Abba Shapiro
  The industry is buzzing over Blu-ray DVDs and high def transmissions, however most users will be watching your programs on standard def DVD player, maybe with up conversion to an HDTV, or on their laptops.
• Ten Years of Final Cut Pro by Rick Young
  Way back in 1999 Apple unleashed a tidal wave at the post-production scene. I doubt anyone in Apple marketing realized just how big this wave was going to be– it changed everything in the world of editing, and it has never been the same.
• The FCP Generation–All Grown Up by Merethe Rosvold
  It’s safe to say that for the last decade, Final Cut Pro has been making steady inroads into the world of professional editing. Supposedly, around 49 percent of the market uses Final Cut Pro today, which makes it the main contender to the industry giant, Avid.
• How to use Media Manager to Archive your Projects by Larry Jordan
  I am not a fan of Media Manager. In fact, in my classes I actively counsel against its use because it has the ability to permanently delete, destroy, or otherwise mangle your files. Especially if you overlook a critical check-box or two.
• How to Import FCP Projects into Adobe Production Premium by Karl Soule
  People who prefer to edit in other applications have been left out of the integration party until very recently. With the introduction of Premiere Pro 4.01, Premiere Pro can be used as an importer of Final Cut Pro project files…
• Final Cut Synergy: Project Sharing in Final Cut Pro by Stephen Kanter
  Simply put, Avid is designed to share projects, whereas Final Cut Pro is not. For some shows dependent on a collaborative work- flow, not being able to share projects in Final Cut Pro isn’t just inconvenient, it’s a deal breaker.
• The Ghost in the Palace by Phil Ashby
  By the time you’ve read this article, there will probably be another couple of codecs slipped in through the side gate.
• The 21st Century Pen: Remapping the Arctic with Digital Cinema by Jennifer A. Smith
  From a 400 square-foot cottage on Alaska’s Barter Island, filmmaker Arthur C. Smith III carved an icy niche on the northern edge of North America.
• Make Multiclip Sequence: A Hidden Gem in FCP by Alexander Snelling
  A lot of FCP users are probably familiar with the amazing functionality of Multiclip in FCP. When I edited the Sex Pistols’ 30th Anniversary concerts at Brixton Academy last year, I had to go deep into Multiclip and found a mountain of spices.
• Color Correction in FCP or Apple Color by Jamie Hitchings
  A large part of your post production end game should be dedicated to color correction. Achieving the right look in Final Cut Studio can be done either in Final Cut Pro or in Color, depending on what needs to be done, your level of comfort, and your turnaround time.
• Final Cut Server: One FCP Workflow for Starters by Aidria Astravas
  While Final Cut Server (FCSVR) may seem intimidating to the average editor, once set up by the right person, editors and producer’s workflows can be critically easier.
• Sony XD Cam EX Workflow and Final Cut Studio by Ned Soltz
  Considering buying a Sony EX-1 or EX-3? Debating the move from a tape to tapeless workflow? Or are you an editor just handed XDCAM EX files and wondering what to do with them?
• AVCHD Editing Workflow for Final Cut Pro by David Saraceno
  The HMC150 holds its end of the bargain by producing stunning AVCHD footage. However, editing native AVCHD in real time isn’t a reality in any video editing application, despite marketing claims to the contrary.
• It’s Not Just the Camera: A Mash of Thoughts on Production and Post by Jem Schofield
  My first-ever DVD authoring project was the beginning of my journey into the world of video production. I had just bought the first Mac tower that shipped with a SuperDrive (the 733MHz Power Mac G4), and a copy of DVD Studio Pro 1.0.
• Making Home Movies (The Secret Agent Method) by Mónica Reina-Kadner
  I’ve lived in Mexico City my whole life, but I love to travel. I also love to take pictures and when I can, video. But I like to travel as light as possible and I needed a camera that’s so small I’d never want to leave it behind. With all that in mind, I set out to find the kind of camera that would satisfy not only a Final Cut Pro user like me, but also a secret agent!
• How to Build an Audience for your Independent Production by Phil Hodgetts
  Traditionally, distribution of a film or television project was someone else’s problem. The producer created the project and handed it off to a distributor–if they were lucky enough to win the distribution lottery. The sad reality here is that less than .05% of the films submitted to the Sundance Festival actually obtain distribution deals.
• Using Shapes in Motion by Jim Kanter
  It is easy to create, modify and animate vector shapes in Motion. They can be used to add elements to a design or as masks. You can import shapes from other applications but creating them in Motion gives you the most control and versatility.
• Flying Photo in After Effects with Trapcode Particular by Rob Birnholz
  Like any effect in Final Cut Pro or After Effects, there are several methods to create the look, either manually or with help from a third party. There’s one technique using Trapcode Particular that I rely on time and again.
• Are these images too bright or is it just me? by Tina Lung
  Have you ever run into the situation where you are importing images from a PC into Final Cut Pro, but they look too bright? You are then spending a long time correcting them manually.
• The DPI Myth Explained by Ben King
  Over the years I have worked across the whole media industry from print design through all digital media to film and there is one thing that crops up time and time again on forums or questions from producers/directors/production managers. That is “What DPI do I use?” or more infuriatingly “What DPI is video?”
• Your Keyboard Galaxy by Loren Miller
  What to do when FCP command mapping needs a boost. How to match-map Avid and Final Cut Pro key commands
• Bento: Your FCP Media Library by Christopher Phrommayon
  You’ve decided to take a break from your Final Cut Pro system, and you’re on your first vacation in months. Since you can’t entirely leave your inner geek at home, your spouse let you bring your mini camcorder and a MacBook, because some of your vacation planning was saved in Bento. However, while on vacation, no editing allowed!
• Excerpt: Fast Path to Blu-ray Disc by Bruce Nazarian
  This quick tutorial will show you how a modest investment in software will enable you to create your first Blu-ray Disc project even if you don’t have a Blu-ray Disc burner! As a bonus, it will also allow you to use BD-R media for archiving and backup once you have a suitable Blu-ray Disc burner.
• Bullet-Proofing Your Editing System by Jeff Greenberg
  Entropy is one of the basic rules of the universe. Anything with moving parts breaks. Make that everything. Your editing system
  will eventually act up. It’ll never be a convenient time. It’s always going to be at the worst time, right before a job is finished. All you can do is try and prepare for this inevitability.
• I Ain’t Hollywood: Is RED One Right for Me? by Steve Sherrick
  So, I have some projects coming up that I’m interested in exploring to see if RED One is a good fit. It seems like every trade magazine I pick up either has the camera on the cover or at the very least, an article inside. It’s very hard to miss RED Digital Cinema these days.
• Beat the House: An instant Editing method for RED Footage with FCP by Noah Kadner
  The RED One is a challenging camera to shoot with in terms of manual focus, exposure and the like, but it’s even more complex in post-production.
• Amateur vs. Preditor: Whoever Wins–We Lose by Keith Larsen
  Every time we are told that we are in a recession, I do better. Our business is never affected by bad times.
• The Silver Lining by Jeff Rothberg
  It is hard to avoid the day-to-day pessimism that pervades all forms of digital communications. Continued stories of massive layoffs, downsizing and revised profit projections are all too familiar an occurrence.
  
• Apple Authorized Training Center Locations

Rodney - DCFCPUG

We welcome Nancy and the Noise Industries Team as an active sponsor of the DC Final Cut Pro User Group family. Check out their exciting visual effects plug-ins for Final Cut Pro, Motion, Final Cut Express and Adobe After Effects!

Support your user group and be the lucky person to win one of these great products! Better odds than the real lottery!

Please click on their image in the sponsor section, browse their offerings and support them as they support our user group community. They have been generous enough to sponsor our upcoming raffle series at the monthly meetings.

Rodney – DCFCPUG