GenArts is flying into town to give the DC Metro area the sneak peek on their next Sapphire Edge visual effects work! Come and visit us to be in on the action! Come meet and greet GenArts!

Our combined May meeting of the Washington DC Apple Final Cut Pro Users Group (DCFCPUG), DC After Effects and the DC Digital SLR (DCDSLR) will be an exciting knowledge sharing event!
Adam Lubkin and Zhibo Lai will be presenting the following agenda:

• Intro to the RED Epic camera
• How to shoot with it
• Show some sample footage and HDRx clips as well
• Shoot a few seconds of live footage
• Shoot same footage using a DSLR
• Downloading media
• Workflow demos using FCP, Color, Redcine X, and AE
• Compare/contrast footage from Epic and DSLR
• Q&A

REGISTER EARLY AND SHOW UP ON TIME AS THIS WILL BE A FULL HOUSE EVENT!

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Time: Doors open at 6PM for networking time, event starts around 6:30PM..

COVERED PARKING – AVAILABLE

SHOT ON RED

Winner Circle Raffle offering: $4,557 and climbing…

• Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 valued at $1,700
• ARTBEATS – Footage you can use – $500
• POND5 – Stock Media prize (Footage/Photos/Vector Illustrations/Music/Sound Effects/AE projects worth $100 (Qty: 2)
• GenArts Gift Certificate ($507 value for 3 months use of ALL Sapphire for FCP plugins)
• Noise Industries – SUGAR Fx Bubble Buddy plugin for cool animatable 2D/3D speech bubbles $50
• Noise Industries – Idustrial Revolution SupaWipe valued at $99
• G-Technology by Hitachi – 500GB G-RAID mini valued at $200 (limited due to the events in Japan!)*
• RED GIANT – Keying Suite 10 valued at $800
• Blackmagic Design – its a surprise! More to come

Thanks George Kennedy for the Vimeo post! Check out our DCFCPUG member winning the biggest prize at the SUPERMEET – 30K worth of BlackMagic Design DaVinci software + associated color grading console gear [1 min, 31 seconds in on video]

New item for our monthly event…. valued at $250
Read more at: http://getphonetic.com/

Hi all

Thought we’d pass this on to all of DCFCPUG members. Its a heck of a
deal.

Get in on this and tell your colleagues. You do NOT need to be at the SuperMeet
to win.

The SuperMeet and Class on Demand have teamed up to make the World Famous
Raffle even more famous. For the first time, you can enter online to win a
Class on Demand grand prize drawing including the top-of-the-line NVIDIA
5800 graphics accelerator card and 1 year unlimited access to Class on
Demand¹s entire online media training catalog! This prize has a total value
of over $5,000!

One lucky winner will be announced at the SuperMeet on Tuesday April 12th at the event.
You need NOT be present to win. But you must enter to win! You must register
online before 12:00PM CST, April 10, 2011. Register to win this prize at:

http://www.classondemand.net/giveaway/register.html

DCFCPUG member raising hand to support their PUG!

Please twitter, facebook, email, whatever this event so we can fill the house.
AJA is providing food and drink but we gotta get people to sign up so we know how many plates to fill, book the food, finalize plans, etc…

I need your support and teamwork!

http://dcfcpug120110.eventbrite.com/

Come to learn, network with peers, enjoy the food and play the raffle!

Over $10,000 dollars in prizes await the lucky attendee! Don’t miss out!

Rod
DCFCPUG
AJA KiPro MINI valued at $2000

(1) Artbeats footage $500

(2) Larry Jordan FCP Mouse pads $10 each

(1) GenArts – ONE FULL SAPPHIRE license = more than 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects . Valued: $1,699

(1) GTECH 1 TB G-Drive valued at $190 each

(1) FMC Motion Class certificate – valued at $1500

(1) FMC FCP Class certificate – valued at $1500

(1) FMC FCS Soundtrack Pro certificate – valued at $1500

(1) Macware  Logo Design Studio pro v2.0 valued at $60

(1) Mac Flux – Web Design Software for the Mac valued at $100

(1) Digital Anarchy – Beauty Box valued at $149

(1) PowerProduction Software – Martini – The Quickshot Creator for Final Cut Pro $200

(1) Clip Info Titlier (from Philip Hodgetts) valued at $100

(1) Sequence Clip Reporter (from Philip Hodgetts) valued at $100

(1) Sorenson Squeeze valued at $800

(1) Automatic Duck plug-in valued at $200

New items being added daily….

Page is updated so go ahead and REGISTER EARLY so we can finalize food and beverage resources and finish our planning for the major end of year event!

PDF: Raffle List for November!

9 November event:

• Artbeats footage $500
• Telestream Wirecast $450
• GenArts Gift Certificate – 3 months rental of plugins for AE or FCP $510
• (2) Larry Jordan FCP Mouse pads $10 each
• (1) 400 GB G-RAID mini Drive from G-TECH  valued at $200 each
• (1) FXFactory Volumextrix v2 $50 each
• (1) Clip Info Titlier (from Philip Hodgetts) valued at $100
• (1) Sequence Clip Reporter (from Philip Hodgetts) valued at $100

Total: $ 1,930

Register, buy your raffle tickets and take home the winnings!!!

Rodney Mitchell
President and Apple Ambassador
Washington DC Metro Final Cut Pro Users Group

http://www.dcfcpug.org

The gold standard for visual effects, GenArts Sapphire equips digital artists with a collection of more than 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects such as glows, glints, lightning, film effects, warps and textures. Over the last 14 years, Sapphire has become the plug-in suite of choice for production compositors and editors who require the perfect balance between creativity and productivity. Sapphire is a suite of plug-ins available for a comprehensive range of host platforms, including those from Autodesk, Avid, Apple, Adobe, Quantel and Eyeon, and it supports key industry standards such as AVX, AE and OFX.