We are also happy to offer all Final Cut Pro user group attendees 15% off any Apple training course or exam! It is as simple as referencing “Final Cut Pro user group” when registering. But the time to use it is limited. Though class can be scheduled for any time in the next 6 months, to enjoy this discount you must register by February 28, 2010.

This offer cannot be combined with other discounts. Call us today to inquire about our upcoming classes or check out our schedule of classes on our website.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions or for help with registering or scheduling your training course. Hope to hear from you soon and look forward to seeing you at our training facility soon!

Martin Dudley
Corporate Account Manager
202-429-9700
martind@fmctraining.com

P.S: DCFCPUG – One of our attendees at our JANUARY meeting won the free class raffle prize!
Take advantage of our sponsors good will and expert training to step up your game in FCS.

Rod – DCFCPUG

Future Media Concepts – Washington DC
CONGRATULATIONS to ROLAND MILLMAN who attended the Final Cut Pro User Group meeting last night and won the raffled prize: His choice of any 3 day class at FMC DC!!!!

Excerpt from FMC DC Facebook Wall:

Thanks FMC for supporting the DC Final Cut Pro User Group!!

Rodney – DCFCPUG

Final Cut Pro – Can Not Hear Audio on Even Tracks

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Its simply a setting in simply the wrong place…

Peter Koeleman sent this in:

The problem we are having is that you can’t hear the audio on the even tracks (2,4,6, etc.). It does this regardless of the camera we use.

After a day of pulling hair out and using the Apple forum, we figured it out. It was simply a setting: Sequence > Setting > Audio Output > Stereo.

Voila! It worked.

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Courtesy of Larry Jordan

Thanks to our members and invited guests for a record turnout last night!

For those that missed our meeting last night, you missed a treat!

Manny from AJA gave us a thorough overview of the AJA product line.  We had real product in the room for members and non-members to see, touch and feel.  After an awesome demo of the KiPro and its exoskeleton mounting gear, we watched a showreel of footage in which AJA products were featured.

KiPro components and other relevant AJA products were passed around the room which stimulated lots of good dialog between AJA and our audience.  We had a robust Question and Answer period for FCP and the intersection of AJA gear which could have gone on for hours….

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Attendance was in record numbers for a cold Tuesday night in DC and our venue sponsor outdid themselves from 2009 by providing refreshments and food (lots of awesome Pizza). Thanks Future Media Concepts (FMC)!

As a special SURPRISE bonus for the January meeting, FMC gave away a FREE FMC FCP course to a lucky attendee. We conducted our famous WINNER’S CIRCLE raffle in which nearly $2,000 worth of valuable sponsor items were raffled off.

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Congrats to our winners from last night. I’m sure you will put those tools to work in your next creative piece.  Start prepping your best works as we will begin to showcase our member’s works soon.

Since the meeting is all about members networking and learning, I deferred the DCFCPUG status to our next meeting in February (just a couple of weeks away – 10 Feb) and since you have the agenda posted, you can think about questions for the next meeting since our invited guest is the famous, yet humble LARRY JORDAN – FCP EXPERT extraordinaire!

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SEND ME YOUR “STUMP THE EXPERT” QUESTIONS NOW!  As a courtesy, I will provide those to Larry before the meeting so he can be best prepared to get you answer during our meeting timeframe.  For the full FCP immersion, take his very reasonably priced course during the day (see prior post on this subject). SIGN UP NOW as we have an additional discount for DCFCPUG members. Email me for details, if interested.

Yeah, next time, you should sign up EARLY and attend because you never know what might happen at a DCFCPUG meeting!

Again, I would like to thank our NEW and returning members for coming out last night, our venue and corporate sponsors for outstanding support and Manny for our “business meeting” at the Sushi house afterwards.  ;-)

I’ll have the meeting details up for the February meeting soon so check back often and don’t forget to tell your friends and colleagues to REGISTER FOR FREE MEMBERSHIP, AND sign up EARLY for EVENTS which helps us forecast resources (chairs, food, drinks, etc)

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P.S: New sponsors are signing up to support us (I’ll announce those new sponsors in a separate post shortly….)

Well, gotta go do real work now…

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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

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!

This utility allows you to uninstall all Final Cut Studio components with the press of a button. Apple does not offer an uninstaller, making removing or downgrading to an earlier version very difficult. Simply deleting the Final Cut Studio application icons does not remove the suite, nor does it make it possible to reinstall it again. FCS Remover allows you to quickly and easily uninstall Final Cut Studio either permanently or in order to reinstall an earlier version over the top.

I thought this would be useful as this was talked about in the FCP leaders list this week.

Enjoy!

Rodney – DCFCPUG

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

Default Gamma setting changed

Apple said that it has changed the default gamma display setting to help both consumers and professionals. The Cupertino-based company made adjusted the default settings to be closer to those used by Windows PCs and televisions. According to the latest Snow Leopard release notes, the default gamma setting has been changed from 1.8 to 2.2 — which is recommended by many professionals — and that applications that override the deftault and assume a gamma 1.8 setting may have different onscreen and printed output than they did in previous releases of Mac OS X.

Although the 1.8 setting has been used as the default by Apple since its earliest monitors and laser printers, Apple already actually recommends on its website to re-calibrate monitors to the 2.2 setting for photographic work.

Chatter on the ‘Net: Snow Leopard and its support for FCP 6 may not be compatible as the rumors abound about a rewritten FCP in the work…

Source: MacNN & FCP-L

http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html

How will that affect editing older projects when the Gamma was 1.8?
Is this going to be a giant PITA?

Tell us what YOU think?

DCFCPUG