Members:

Help me pack the house for our January meeting!

We are assembling some awesome prizes to warm you up from all this cold weather and put a smile on your face as you walk out the door with the best deals in town!

Here are some of the sponsors supporting this month’s raffle:

AJA

ARTBEATS

GENARTS

DIGITAL ANARCHY

NOISE INDUSTRIES

DIGIEFFECTS

NATTRESS

more coming everyday!

The member with the most guests or better yet, guest that become members and attend, just MIGHT be pleasantly surprised with my response….

Let’s show the sponsors that we appreciate their support of our monthly meetings and investment in us!

Click on their sponsor links to find out more about their products and services supporting the FCP community!

Rodney Mitchell
DCFCPUG Leader

DCFCPUG members:

In the spirit of holiday giving, Peachpit would like to give us a unique opportunity to provide our members with high-quality FCP articles and video instruction from Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman’s critically acclaimed Peachpit book Video Made on a Mac: Production and Postproduction using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite absolutely FREE.

For six months, we will be posting high quality FREE training content from the recent Peachpit publication entitled: “Video Made on a Mac: Production and Postproduction using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite”. This book was written by two of our local FCP and Color experts: Richard Harrington and Robbie Carman!

Discounts available to our membership! Inquire, if interested! Awesome book as a Xmas present to your favorite FCP editor/colorist.

Stay tuned to this post, as more detailed information is provided and shared on DCFCPUG!

December 1 – 3, 2009
Walter E Washington Convention Center

I want to thank all the members who responded to the request for support of the GVExpo Digital Production BuZZ. This is THE OFFICIAL PODCAST for the GVExpo. The selected DCFCPUG members will be supporting Larry Jordan and his team in his BOOTH at the Expo while getting paid to support! A Win-Win Scenario for all…


GV Expo is being held at the Walter E Washington Convention Center on December 1st to 3rd.


Good Luck and don’t forget to mention DC Final Cut Pro User Group during the event!!!

Larry Jordan is scheduled to be at our FEBRUARY 2010 User Group Meeting so start thinking of those hard to solve problems to ask the expert… See if you can stomp the Expert….

Rodney – DCFCPUG

Artbeats now offers an additional resource for finding the stock footage you need. The Artbeats FootageHub is a unique gathering of over 50 footage brands. As a reseller for all of these brands, Artbeats can now provide you with thousands more clips to choose from. To celebrate, we have gathered a top of the line MacBook Pro laptop, thousands of dollars in Artbeats footage, and incredible prizes from generous sponsors for 13 weeks of scavenger hunting on artbeats.com.

The giveaway lasts 13 weeks from November 2, 2009 until January 31, 2010. Each week you may enter one time for a chance to win that week’s prize package. You’ll also be automatically entered in the Grand Prize drawing each week you play. Be sure to bookmark this page: to come back every week. No purchase necessary to participate.

From Artbeats:
MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.8GHz Laptop (or equivalent) (value $2,499)
1TB External Hard Drive (value $150)
1 Film Clutter 2 HD (value $1099)
1 Cloud Fly-Thrus 3 HD (value $1299)
1 Ultra Motion 2 HD (value $1099)
1 Aerial Landscapes 2 HD (value $1299)
Your Choice of $2,500 Free Footage from artbeats.com
Other Sponsors:
Adobe: 1 Production Premium (value $1699)
Maxon: 1 Cinema 4D (value $995)
VASST: 1 Absolute Training for Final Cut -Full Bundle, 15 DVD set (value $599), “The Full HD” book by Douglas Spotted Eagle (value $29.99)
CoreMelt: 1 CoreMelt Complete V2 + Lock & Load (value $499)
SmartSound: 5 Music Packs (value $497.50)
Red Giant Software: 1 Magic Bullet Looks (value $399)
Boris FX: 1 Boris FX (value $299)
NewBlue FX: Bundle of Video Essentials I, Video Essentials II, and the brand new Video Essentials III (value $300)
Total Training: 1 Annual subscription to the Total Training Online: All Access library (value $239.99)
Have questions or trouble playing? Email marketing@artbeats.com

Thanks Jennifer for the link!

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!!!

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

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

• ShrinkRay – Tilt-Shift Effects for Final Cut Pro 6 & 7
• Free Effect Freemeo – Trendy Lower Thirds for FCP
• Free Effect Photo – High Quality Instant Photo Effect for FCP

Go to this link to claim your free goodies!  It’s the real deal!

Videos are here for the 3 free plug ins

Thanks to LAFCPUG for the Tweet on this one!

Rodney – DCFCPUG

Images:

http://www.film.ca.gov/ProductionTools/Incentives.html

Incentives for Filming in California

Film and Television Production Tax Credit

Financial Incentive — The STAR Partnership

The State Theatrical Arts Resources (STAR) Partnership is a unique program that offers filmmakers access to unused, distinctive State-owned properties (e.g., health facilities, vacant office structures, prisons, etc.) for cost recovery expenses only, thus helping production companies to substantially cut below-the-line expenses. Permits for STAR properties are also obtained through the CFC.

Film and Television Rebate Program – “Scene in San Francisco”

San Francisco offers a refund on all San Francisco payroll taxes paid and a portion of hotel and sales tax paid to the City during production of a Feature Film or Television program.

Tax Incentives

No State hotel tax on occupancy. Most cities or counties that impose a local hotel tax have a tax exemption for occupancies in excess of 30 days.

Five percent sales tax exemption on the purchase or lease of post-production equipment for qualified persons. (Exemption is taken by the seller of the equipment and passed on to the buyer at the point of purchase.)

Services Provided

Free permits for California State properties.

No location fees for California State properties. Most properties require reimbursement for monitors.

One-stop film office for California State properties.

On site location library and CinemaScout, (www.cinemascout.org), a web-based location finder for sites throughout California.

On site California Highway Patrol (CHP) Film Liaison available to assist with filming on State freeways and highways. This liaison also arranges CHP officers to monitor film shoots.

On site California State Fire Marshal available to provide advice and approval for pyrotechnics and other special effect permits for State properties.

Coordination with more than 55 in-state film commissions. CFC will e-mail your customized location requests to designated film commission offices.

Production and troubleshooting assistance.

Guidelines and Application Forms:
SF_Rebate_Gnrl_Instructions_on_Website.pdf