DC Metro FCP UG

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]

Agenda (UPDATED!) Go to Supermeet.com for more details!

You will have to be there in person given that AJA had to pull their LIVE feed to snag this big ticket presentation. It’s THAT BIG of a DEAL! My guess its the unveiling of the new FCS!

The Final Cut Pro User Group Network is excited to have a very special guest presentation at the 10th Annual Las Vegas FCPUG SuperMeet. Come to see a surprise sneak peek at something very special – you really do not want to miss this one!

DO NOT WAIT TO BUY YOUR TICKET – buy online –
NOTE NEW Las Vegas SuperMeet location:
Where? – Bally’s Event Center – on the Las Vegas Strip
3645 Las Vegas Blvd South
Las Vegas Nevada, 89109

If you only can attend one, THIS IS THE ONE to ATTEND!

LINK TO Las Vegas SUPERMEET: http://www.supermeet.com/

You are missing a good SUPERMEET via the Internet live from Amsterdam! It will be available later, in case you missed for replay (non live, of course).

Here are a few screenshots to stir your interests…

SUPERMEET 2010 – AMSTERDAM!

FOUNDERS: Michael Horton (LAFCPUG), Daniel Berube (BOSFCPUG)

BLACKMAGIC daVINCI on the MAC

http://www.dcfcpug.org

Enjoy the background on the Supermeets and the details of the upcoming Amsterdam Supermeet which is the final one for 2010.

Rodney – DCFCPUG Leader

WHAT’S ON THE AGENDA?
Rodney Charters ASC (D.P., “24″) will offer DSLR workshops with Canon
during the day and present on the latest DSLR workflow solutions at the
SuperMeet. Autodesk will show off the must see Smoke on Mac OSX. Apple
certified trainer, Abba Shapiro will give us some of his “Secrets of Final
Cut Pro.” In addition we will have show and tells from NE area filmmakers,
more FCS workflow solutions, and of course the World Famous Raffle where we
will give away once again, thousands of dollars worth of prizes to dozens of
lucky winners.

SUPERMEET DIGITAL SHOWCASE
In addition to a great show we will once again have a vendor area we are
calling the “SuperMeet Digital Showcase”, with 20 software and hardware
developers including, Autodesk, Canon, Avid, Adobe, Blackmagic Design,
Matrox, Maxon, Noise Industries, GET and many others.

FREE WORKSHOPS

Rodney Charters, DOP of the TV show “24″ will be holding 2 FREE Canon DSLR
workshops during the day. Also Adobe will will be holding several sessions
on the brand new Production Premium CS5. Registration for these workshops
will be online this week so keep checking the SuperMeet.com web page.
Workshops during the day, and SuperMeet at night. Great way to spend a
Friday in Boston.

OPEN SCREEN THEATER
SuperMeet Attendees will be able to showcase their projects in what we are
calling the “Open Screen Theatre.” Those of you wanting to get seen will
have a 10 minute chance to do so. All you need to do is just show up and
sign up, get up and show off. The Open Screen Theater will be located in the
Digital Showcase Area and sign ups begin at 4PM.

PITCH YOUR REELS. GET WORK!
For the very first time in SuperMeet history we will dedicate an area of the
Digital Showcase to getting jobs. Post Production Companies and individuals
are looking for talent and they are hiring. You will have a chance to meet
these people and a chance to pitch your reel. Bring your reels, business
cards, resumes, iPad or lap top, and sell yourself.

Again, tickets are only $10.00 each and only $5.00 for Students with Valid
Student ID and will remain so until June 1, 2010. After that it’s $15.00
each. So buy your tickets early. There are only 500 tickets available and
once they are gone, they are gone.

If you are able to support and take advantage of this opportunity for education and networking, go to the Supermeet in Boston, represent DCFCPUG and most of all have fun and get new work!!

Rodney Mitchell

President, DCFCPUG

I’m representing our DCFCPUG at the national level in San Francisco this year. I’m registered for the free workshops during the morning and in the afternoon we do a roll call of all FCPUG Leaders around the country. This will be the FIRST year DCFCPUG will be represented. Another milestone for our growing PUG community! Given the epic snow storm descending on the DC area, I can’t complain about the rain here in the Bay Area too much… I just hope I still can fly home as scheduled on Sunday… if not, guess I will just have to tough it out here in the Silicon Valley one more day..

Post a comment and say hello…

All the best and edit the rest!
Rodney Mitchell
President, FCP Leader and Apple Ambassador

Washington DC Metro Final Cut Pro Users Group

http://www.dcfcpug.org

email: rodney [at] dcfcpug.org

Here is the details of the events today. Perhaps Washington, DC might be a new destination for the SUPERMEET one year!

San Francisco Supermeet

Event specifics – Ninth Annual San Francisco SuperMeet to take place on Friday, February 5, 2010 at the University of California San Francisco, Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA. Doors open at 3:30PM with a Digital Showcase and presentations begin at 7PM and continue until 11:00PM. This SuperMeet promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid editors, gurus and digital filmmakers in the Bay Area for all of 2010.

• Canon: Best Workflow for Canon File-Based Cameras
• Canon’s line of EOS HD Video Cameras has created a storm of interest among cinematographers and videographers, using them exclusively as a tool for video acquisition. Joe Bogacz of Canon will present solutions for matching Canon’s file-based cameras with the most functional workflow choices for high-end production.
• Autodesk: Smoke on Mac OS X
• Alexandre Domingue, President of Post-Moderne will show commercial and music video work on Autodesk(R) Smoke(R) on Mac OS(R) X.
• Music Video: “Destroy Me”
• The debut music video from Indie/electro band Lilofee for their single “Destroy Me” was directed by filmmaker Jordan Livingston. The video features all six band members perming amidst eye-popping, post-apocolyptic dreamscapes. Visual Effects and Animation were created by Tony Hudson in extensive collaboration with the visual effects students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.
• AJA KiPro and Io Express: A Simple Workflow from Lens to Post
• Jon Thorn of AJA will show off the simplicity of a 10-bit workflow from lens to post using both the AJA KiPro and Io Express. The Ki Pro’s ability to instantly create Apple ProRes files on-set has revolutionized post-production in addition to giving file-based life to a range of tape-based cameras. Io Express, a portable digital i/o with full 10-bit support can be used alongside Ki Pro recordings to monitor and edit files anywhere, at anytime. Jon will demo how the Ki Pro’s included up/down/cross conversion brings unity to a production while providing the most efficient direct-to-edit capabilities in the industry.
• Motion 4 Does 3D
• Apple Motion expert Mark Spencer will show us real honest to goodness 3D by showing how to integrate Motion 4 and Maxon Cinema4D together into your editing workflow.
• The New Speed Tools in Final Cut Pro 7
• Final Cut Studio Guru and author Kevin Monahan returns to the SuperMeet stage to show off the newly improved and much easier to use speed tools in Final Cut Pro 7.
• Top 5 iApps Every Digital Content Creator Must Have
• HandHeldHollywood.com’s Taz Goldstein will show off 5 of the newest, most innovative must-have iApps for the iPhone and iPod Touch designed for digital content creators, along with a variety of hardware that’s been developed to support this growing market.
• Matt Silverman: The Idea behind IDEO’s Living Climate Change
• IDEO CEO Tim Brown needed to tell the world about his latest initiative, LivingClimateChange.com. Bonfire’s Creative Director Matt Silverman convinced IDEO’s senior creative brain-trust to move away from a simple live-action video and created an eclectic motion graphics piece utilizing a combination of live action video, rotoscoping, hand-drawn illustration and animation, 3D animation, and hand-lettered typography.

The San Francisco SuperMeet will also feature Show and Tells from Bay-area digital filmmakers

• SuperMeet
• AJA Ki Pro
• Autodesk
• Canon
• Adobe
• Red Giant

SuperMeets are gatherings of Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid editors, gurus and digital filmmakers from throughout the world who use or want to learn to use Macintosh-based workflows and solutions such as Apple’s Final Cut Studio suite of applications. SuperMeets are held annually in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Amsterdam, and London, with a new major city to be announced in 2010. The SuperMeet agenda usually includes demos of new products, digital video tips and tricks, and filmmaker show and tells, including a SuperMeet Digital Showcase with vendors and small developers providing workflow solutions for digital filmmakers and content creators.

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I’m representing our DCFCPUG at the national level in San Francisco this year. Here is the details of the upcoming event. Perhaps DC might be a new destination for the SUPERMEET one year!

San Francisco Supermeet

[prMac.com] Los Angeles, CA / Boston, MA – The agenda has now been set for the Ninth Annual San Francisco SuperMeet to take place on Friday, February 5, 2010 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA. Doors open at 3:30PM with a Digital Showcase and presentations begin at 7PM and continue until 11:00PM. Tickets are on sale online for $15.00 each and $10.00 for students or $20.00 at the door. This SuperMeet promises to be the single largest gathering of Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid editors, gurus and digital filmmakers in the Bay Area for all of 2010. It is expected this SuperMeet will sell out as historically every SuperMeet sells out.

• Canon: Best Workflow for Canon File-Based Cameras
• Canon’s line of EOS HD Video Cameras has created a storm of interest among cinematographers and videographers, using them exclusively as a tool for video acquisition. Joe Bogacz of Canon will present solutions for matching Canon’s file-based cameras with the most functional workflow choices for high-end production.
• Autodesk: Smoke on Mac OS X
• Alexandre Domingue, President of Post-Moderne will show commercial and music video work on Autodesk(R) Smoke(R) on Mac OS(R) X.
• Music Video: “Destroy Me”
• The debut music video from Indie/electro band Lilofee for their single “Destroy Me” was directed by filmmaker Jordan Livingston. The video features all six band members perming amidst eye-popping, post-apocolyptic dreamscapes. Visual Effects and Animation were created by Tony Hudson in extensive collaboration with the visual effects students at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA.
• AJA KiPro and Io Express: A Simple Workflow from Lens to Post
• Jon Thorn of AJA will show off the simplicity of a 10-bit workflow from lens to post using both the AJA KiPro and Io Express. The Ki Pro’s ability to instantly create Apple ProRes files on-set has revolutionized post-production in addition to giving file-based life to a range of tape-based cameras. Io Express, a portable digital i/o with full 10-bit support can be used alongside Ki Pro recordings to monitor and edit files anywhere, at anytime. Jon will demo how the Ki Pro’s included up/down/cross conversion brings unity to a production while providing the most efficient direct-to-edit capabilities in the industry.
• Motion 4 Does 3D
• Apple Motion expert Mark Spencer will show us real honest to goodness 3D by showing how to integrate Motion 4 and Maxon Cinema4D together into your editing workflow.
• The New Speed Tools in Final Cut Pro 7
• Final Cut Studio Guru and author Kevin Monahan returns to the SuperMeet stage to show off the newly improved and much easier to use speed tools in Final Cut Pro 7.
• Top 5 iApps Every Digital Content Creator Must Have
• HandHeldHollywood.com’s Taz Goldstein will show off 5 of the newest, most innovative must-have iApps for the iPhone and iPod Touch designed for digital content creators, along with a variety of hardware that’s been developed to support this growing market.
• Matt Silverman: The Idea behind IDEO’s Living Climate Change
• IDEO CEO Tim Brown needed to tell the world about his latest initiative, LivingClimateChange.com. Bonfire’s Creative Director Matt Silverman convinced IDEO’s senior creative brain-trust to move away from a simple live-action video and created an eclectic motion graphics piece utilizing a combination of live action video, rotoscoping, hand-drawn illustration and animation, 3D animation, and hand-lettered typography.

The San Francisco SuperMeet will also feature Show and Tells from Bay-area digital filmmakers

To purchase tickets and for complete details on the SuperMeet including driving and transit directions and instructions, a current list of raffle prizes and details on Open Screen Theater and the free Educational SuperWorkshops, visit the SuperMeet web site.

• SuperMeet
• AJA Ki Pro
• Autodesk
• Canon
• Adobe
• Red Giant

SuperMeets are gatherings of Final Cut Studio, Adobe and Avid editors, gurus and digital filmmakers from throughout the world who use or want to learn to use Macintosh-based workflows and solutions such as Apple’s Final Cut Studio suite of applications. SuperMeets are held annually in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Amsterdam, and London, with a new major city to be announced in 2010. The SuperMeet agenda usually includes demos of new products, digital video tips and tricks, and filmmaker show and tells, including a SuperMeet Digital Showcase with vendors and small developers providing workflow solutions for digital filmmakers and content creators.

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Free Workshops and Open Screen Theater!

The 9th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet is coming up soon and will once again be held at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center on Friday, February 5, 2010.

Tickets are on sale now for the “Early bird” price of $10.00 each. Which means if you plan to attend, then buy your ticket now or you pay $15.00 after January 4, 2010 and $20.00 at the door.

This event will be the single largest Bay Area social gathering of digital filmmakers, content creators, FCS, Avid and Adobe Gurus and users in all of 2010.

SuperMeet Digital Showcase
This years SuperMeet promises to be bigger than ever before. In addition to a great show we will once again have a vendor area we are calling the “SuperMeet Digital Showcase,” with over 30 software and hardware developers including AJA, Autodesk, Canon, Avid, Blackmagic Design Footagehead, G-Tech, Matrox, Maxon, Noise Industries, Red Giant and others.

FREE Workshops
Also, for the first time ever we will include FREE educational workshops as part of the SuperMeet experience. Workshops during the day, and SuperMeet at night. The workshops are sponsored by Adobe, Autodesk, Canon and Red Giant and all are 2 hours each and all are absolutely free. You can sign up for one workshop or for a maximum of three. There are only 40 seats available for each workshop so if you are interested, then register NOW. Go here to register and for course descriptions:

<http://supermeetworkshops.eventbrite.com/>

What’s on the agenda?
Well, it’s SuperSecret, but we can tell you this: There will be USER-driven presentations from AJA, Canon and Autodesk. There will be show and tells from local Bay Area filmmakers, FCS tips and tricks and yes, the World famous Raffle where we will give away thousands of dollars worth of prizes to dozens of lucky winners including a Canon EOS 5D Mark II HDSLR, AJA KiPro, NLE software, plug-ins and more. More importantly the SuperMeet is your chance to hang out and network with over 600 of your peers, many of whom know more than you do.

Open Screen Theatre
Not enough? We’ve also added an exciting component to the SuperMeet Digital Showcase. Local filmmakers can showcase their projects in what we are calling the “Open Screen Theater.” Filmmakers and digital content creators wanting to get seen will have a a 10 minute chance to do so in an informal, collaborative setting. We want those who are shooting with HDSLRS and other tapeless workflows to screen content and interact. Filmmakers, just show up and sign up, get up and show off. It’s first come, first serve in our “Open Screen Theater.”

Buy Your SuperMeet Tickets Now
Tickets are on sale now, and as usual we expect this event to sell out. As you all know, SuperMeets always sell out.

Again, tickets are only $10.00 each and will remain so until January 4, 2010. After that it’s $15.00 each. So buy your tickets early online. There are only 500 tickets available online and once they are gone, they are gone.

Go to the SuperMeet web site for daily updates, directions to the MBCC, updates on the FREE educational workshops and the ever growing list of raffle prizes and generous sponsors.

<http://www.supermeet.com/>

See you in San Francisco on Feb. 5, 2010. We can’t wait!

Thanks!

Dan
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Daniel Berube
Co-Producer, SuperMeets

BOSFCPUG

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