DCFCPUG members: We have established a relationship with Larry Jordan’s group to bring our members a great source of training on FCP and donor to our user group meetings! Let’s show our support !
Sign up quickly as these limited seats go quickly!
Take advantage of this once a year opportunity when Larry Jordan comes to Washington D.C for his Final Cut Pro PowerUP series. We’ve established a special discount for our DCFCPUG members to save you money on this great seminar. See below for details:
SAVE MONEY – LEARN MORE!
Larry Jordan’s PowerUP with Final Cut Studio seminars are coming back to Washington September 18-19th! Larry has created three new seminars based on feedback from last year’s tour, and the latest news in our industry.
- Succeeding in the New World of Tapeless and HD Video (4 hours)
- Integrating Adobe Products into a Final Cut Workflow (4 hours)
- Discover the Hidden Power in Final Cut Studio (8 hours)
Every attendee is automatically entered into Larry’s raffle to win a Macbook Pro at the end of the tour!
But wait…there’s more! Media Distributors is proudly offering a chance to attend the PowerUP seminars in the tour city of your choice for FREE (valued at over $600). Visit www.mediadistributors.com to enter.
Need some additional handy online tools for your cinematography work? Our associates at Panavision in New Zealand have some great free reference tools that might help.
This Cinematography Reference is definitely one for your favorite bookmarks. Here are a few to get you started:
Frame and Format List
DOF/FOV/AOV Image Calculator
Illumination Guide for Motion Picture Film
Enjoy!
Rod - DCFCPUG
OpenCut.org describes their new film competition as “completely open-source” and “designed to encourage people to take professionally shot material and edit it in their own way.” Explaining that “there is no ‘one way’ to tell a story,” the competition is looking for their footage to be “re-edited and re-told from many different vantage points and perspectives.” (more…)
(Successful post-production requires solid production. Here is one in a series of production tutorials designed to improve the ultimate edit.)
The oft-stated yet still under- appreciated reality is that audiences will forgive mediocre video but not sub-standard sound. Solid audio recording offers better choices in post-production, and separates your work from that of an amateur.
Listed below are the steps to set up an external condenser microphone, a basic field mixer and a prosumer camcorder – specifically, audio-technica’s AT8035 Line + Gradient Condenser Microphone, Sound Devices’ 302 Compact Production Mixer and Canon’s XH-A1 high definition camcorder - to capture audio in the field. (more…)
