UPDATE 6/2/10:

GRAND PRIZE in our DC Winner’s Circle raffle is an iPod Touch!!

Raffle prizes up to $4,800 so far! Don’t wait, sign up today to attend!!

The Latest Digital Entertainment Creation Solutions for Film and Television

In order to make the most of our June DCFCPUG event, members should make time between now and 8 June to prepare questions for the featured presenters after learning more about the Autodesk Smoke capabilities and features.

IMPORTANT: Please INVITE your friends and colleagues to attend the meeting in JUNE!  There is considerable expense in bringing quality event to DC so let’s show our vendors/sponsors that it is worth the effort!

Don’t forget to check out the Essential Tutorials for Smoke...this will give you a up close and personal look at the User Interface. Read the articles from Issue 4, starting on page 257 of the SuperMagazine to hear a point of view from a FCP/Avid Editor on Smoke 2010 and the new version, 2011.

This post is written to provide some helpful links to aid in your learning and exploring of this high end finishing tool.

High-Quality Commercial Post Production Software

Autodesk® Smoke® 2011 software offers a timeline-based, all-in-one creative toolset for editorial finishing that spans color correction, keying, tracking, paint, cleanup, titling and 3D visual effects. Smoke 2011 won “Best of Show” at NAB this year (2010)!

Autodesk® Smoke® software is a leader in creative editorial finishing for high-quality commercial and broadcast projects. With an intuitive, timeline-based workflow, Smoke offers an all-in-one editorial finishing toolset for standard and stereoscopic 3D work.Smoke is available as a software-only application for the Apple® Mac OS® X operating system or as Autodesk® Smoke® Advanced, a turnkey solution on the Linux® operating system. For increased productivity, integrate Smoke into your workflow and share media and timelines with Autodesk® Flame® 2011 and Autodesk® Lustre® 2011 software. Learn More About Smoke on the Mac

• Creative toolset for NLE, color correction, paint, cleanup, titling, audio, 3D compositing, and finishing.
• 3D visual effects tools within Action, a 3D compositing environment that enables you to combine lights, 3D text, geometry, and a 3D camera system.
• Keying and color correction tools use Autodesk Modular Keyer, Master Keyer, and Colour Warper™ technologies.
• Adjacent workflow with EDL, AAF, and XML file support for conforming from Final Cut Pro® or Media Composer® creative cut applications.
• Timeline and visual effects tools for finishing standard and stereoscopic 3D projects.
• Native support for industry standard formats: Panasonic® P2 MXF files, Sony XDCam, Avid DNxHD® media, Apple® QuickTime® files (ProRes on the Mac® operating system), and RED® files.

For an overview of Autodesk Smoke, view the Essentials Tutorials.

• Brochure
• What’s New Brochure
• Top Reasons to Buy Autodesk Smoke
• Release 2011 Smoke – ON DEMAND videos from 2010 NAB show
• Video discussing the new features in Smoke 2011 on the Mac – “Grant Kay interview”

Smoke on the Mac brought to you by Oceana Digital Ltd NYC

Email from Larry Jordan executive team on Washington Tour:

Hi Rodney

First of all – I hope you had a wonderful holiday and that 2010 is treating you well so far.

I wanted to drop you a quick note because it occurs to me that your user group might be able to benefit from a promotional code we are offering for our tour. As you may be aware we are in the middle of a series of one-day seminars around the US. Take a look at our website for the full details.

We will be coming to Washington on February 10th and I’d like to extend our promotional code to your group. If members are interested in signing up for the seminar – they should login to our site, look at this post and enter the code ## Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content. ## when prompted during the registration process on the Larry Jordan link above. This will give YOU an immediate 10% discount.

I hope we’ll see you there.

Best wishes

Debbie Price
Larry Jordan & Associates, Inc
818 879 5105

http://www.larryjordan.biz

MEMBERS NOTE: They are offering a greatly reduced base price with an additional 10% for us which makes it less than $100 for the course. Right sized for this crazy economy were are living in.

Go to the course during the day and join us that evening, as Larry Jordan and Debbie are our invited guest for our PUG meeting!

Rodney
DCFCPUG

Don’t Miss a single day of GV Expo!

Have fun and check out the newest gear and workflows!

Enjoy!

Rodney – DCFCPUG

THIS WILL SERVE AS THE OCTOBER MEETING FOR DCFCPUG in conjunction with this SPECIAL EVENT and new relationship with the APPLE store – Tyson’s Corner!

THE APPLE RETAIL STORE EVENT IS FREE SO SIGN UP EARLY BOTH HERE AND AT THE APPLE RETAIL STORE SCHEDULE OF WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS TO RESERVE YOUR SPOT IN THE ONLINE RAFFLE and increase your odds in the raffle prizes! It will be the best $5 investment you’ve made in a long time

Start thinking of all the FCP questions you want answered!

Larry has committed to presenting at our February 2010 meeting during his national Final Cut Pro Tour and stop in DC.

Please mark your calendars for 10 February 2010 at 6pm @ one of our meeting locations (TBR) as we get closer.
Go to this link to learn more on this master FCP guru!

Rodney – DCFCPUG

Link: http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm
Wirecast is a live production tool that allows everyone to easily broadcast live events and create professional webcasts from any location!

Link: http://www.powerproduction.com/

StoryBoard Quick application creates, quick and easy stylish script integrated storyboards with storyboard previsualizations

Link: http://www.automaticduck.com/products/
Plugins for importing/exporting to from various tools such as FCP to AVID or Quantel,Toon Boom’s StoryBoard Pro or Pro Tools to Final Cut Pro

Link: http://www.toonboom.com/main/
Worldwide Leader in Animation Software – Home of the powerful digital storyboarding software – StoryBoard Pro and High Performance Animation Software – Animate Pro!

Link: http://www.junglesoftware.com/home/index.php
Home of the Gorilla Film Production Software and Story O – story organization software for Writers
Read the interesting back story on how Gorilla was born (by filmmakers!)

http://www.junglesoftware.com/company/about_us.php

Mariner Software – develops and publishes professional and personal software for the writing and creativity markets
Link: http://www.marinersoftware.com/
Key products – Montage, Contour, StoryMill, MacJournal, Desktop Poet + more

O’Reilly Book Publisher – many great titles to choose from.. Snow Leopard and iPhone app books will be won by lucky attendees
Link: http://oreilly.com/

Check back often for daily updates….

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