DCFCPUG Special Holiday Event - December 2010 - Live from the GVExpo 2010! Rod Mitchell, Joe Carabeo - Astray Productions, Jeff Greenberg - FMC, Mark Leisher, George Kennedy, and Cameron King (After Effects DC) and special guests! Don't Miss it!

You are cordially invited to the  December 2010 meeting of the DC Metro Final Cut Pro Users Group.

GVEXPO

• Conference Room 201
• Washington DC Convention Center
• 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
• 1 December 2010

Agenda:

Welcome - Pro User Group Highlights for 2010 (Rodney Mitchell - DCFCPUG)
AJA Highlights - Kona, KiPro and KiPro Mini -  (Dan and Manny/AJA)
After Effects DC - "Motion Graphics - How to Stand out in a Crowd in DC" (Cameron King)
George Kennedy - "DSLR - What's the big deal anyway?"
G-Technology - "How to Choose Storage for Content Creation" (Mark Anderson)
Automatic Duck - "Cool AMA workflows + Plugin updates (Wes Duck)
Mark Leisher - "To be announced"
Sorenson - "Final Cut Pro to Squeeze Workflow"
Future Media Concepts - "Untangling the Mess: 15 minutes to Media Management in Final Cut Studio + 30 FCP tips in 30 minutes!" 

WINNER"S CIRCLE RAFFLE:
REGULAR BASE RAFFLE - only $5 per ticket to play!
GRAND PRIZE RAFFLE - only $20 per ticket to play!

PRIZE LISTING as of 11/23/2010: OVER $17,000 in the prize bag !!!!

AJA KiPro  valued at $4500

(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

(2) Larry Jordan - Free access to his webinars for two lucky winners

(1) TOOLFARM: Crowd Control credits (50)

(1) MovieSlate for you Apple Mobile device (iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad)

(1) Wirecast PRO valued at $995.00

(1) Episode PRO v6 valued at $995.00

(1) Class on Demand - Complete Training for Final Cut Pro 7 DVD valued at $150

(1) Red Giant Software - Magic Bullet Suite valued at $800

New items being added daily....

Special thanks to Footage Firm for use of their awesome, quality footage during the event/presentations!

Over the course of the year, we've been busy with various projects and connecting with new Washington Metro creative talented professionals and with our regional sponsors. Our members have learned a lot over the last 12 months and have even participated in a Hollywood Feature Film!

Our sponsors have been awesome partners in bring the best of industry to the DCFCPUG family and we look forward to a prosperous 2011!

Lineup for our end of year bash!

Speakers:

• Rodney Mitchell - DCFCPUG Leader
• Dan & Manny of AJA Video Systems
• Joe Carabeo - Astray Productions
• Jeff Greenberg - Future Media Concepts
• Mark Leisher - Mark Leisher Productions
• George Kennedy - DC DSLR Leader, CEO MagekFilmworks
• Cameron King - After Effects DC Leader
• Mark Anderson - G-Technology
• Wes Duck - Automatic Duck
• Coby Rich - Sorenson Media

Stay tuned for additional special guest who might surprise us with a visit...  

Be prepared to ask questions and in the process, learn what producers of content need to know to communicate to production and post production teams who create all that wonderful content you get to cut in the edit suite. This is one of the reasons I strive to educate our community on the technical aspects of creative filmmaking as well as the creative side. Come on out and meet and stump the experts!

Rodney Mitchell - Leader of the "Creative Rebellion"

President of the Washington DC Metro Apple Final Cut Pro User Group
Rod has been the brains behind the resurgence of the FCP user group in the Washington Metro area. He has worked for Larry Jordan as his Lead, Audio Engineer during the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show, written for the Final Cut Pro User Group Network (FCPUGnetwork) Supermeet team in their annual SUPERMAGAZINE capturing the lead article position for 2010! Worked on the very exclusive Miami Exotic Car Runway shootout and top the year with a role as Director, Video Village for the Hollywood Feature film, "At the Top of the Pyramid"!

Reel page: http://www.dcfcpug.org/reels/

Joe Carabeo

Astray Productions, is multimeadia production company with a primary focus on Film, 
Comic books and Photography. We like to think of ourselves as a house of new ideas 
that are sometimes scary, thrilling, adventurous and romantic. These ideas are always 
driven with a passion from our hearts to be the best and most creative, and also drive 
to always progress for the better and find the best solution. We have taken the word 
"Astray", not only because that is a major theme in our story telling, but it also 
represents our fearlessness.

Editing since the mid 90s, Jeff has worked on numerous corporate/industrial projects, regional and national commercials, music videos and as supervising editor on a 35mm independent feature length film. His work has been in festivals, on DVD and on television. Editing and instruction clients include all three major networks, Letterman, Conan O'Brien, ESPN, all four branches of the military and many Fortune 500 clients.

Teaching both nationally and internationally for Future Media Concepts, he specializes in post-production, focusing on subject such as: Editing, High Definition, Standard Definition, DV, DVD Production, Workflow, Color Correction, Compression and Graphic Compositing. Some of the solutions he's certified to teach include products from Apple, Avid, Adobe and Autodesk.

Jeff is an entertaining and energetic seminar instructor, speaking on average over fifty sessions a year at various shows. For the past four years he has taught and chaired technical tracks at the NAB Post|Production World, Post|Production New York, the Avid Government Training Symposium, and the Consumer Electronics Show. Additionally, he is the Program Manger for the Editor's Retreat, a yearly exotic getaway, focusing on editing (both aethetics and technology).

Jeff does some technical writing, having contributed to a number of books and magazines. He has tutorial DVDs on Avid, Marquee and Color, available from Vasst.com. Feel free to drop him a line with any questions to: JeffG@fmctraining.com.

Mark Leisher

Mark Leisher is founding and Operations Director of Mark Leisher Productions, Emerald Media Group and Greenroads TV. Mark has 10 years of video production experience and 7 years in video post-production. Mark first purchased HDTV camera equipment in 2003 and learned quickly that HD digital acquisitions was fast taking over the film & video industry.

Mark’s expertise behind the lens has earned him numerous credits in network commercials. feature films, sports marketing, adventure travel documentaries, music videos, high-end corporate videos, reality programming and video for the web. Mark’s professional attitude and his ability to work as a “team” player or a 1-man band owner-operator, is invaluable to any production project.

 When not working as a freelance director of photography, cinematographer, Mark is out on the road exploring new adventures, new video project opportunities and adding to his growing HD stock footage collection. An adventure filmmaker by heart, mark enjoys traveling all over the world working on different projects or wherever his talents are needed. Mark’s future productions goals include more travel abroad, storytelling and documentary style projects.

 Mark adds a unique craftsmanship to all the projects he works on and contributes a creative lighting, filtration and “ in” camerawork effects. He loves employing the best technical tools for the job and giving the projects that special “something” extra to intrigue and motivate the viewers.

 Mark and his team of freelance video professionals are continually working on there own idea’s for new programming and network content and strive to make a difference in the world of environmental issues and meaningful storytelling.

George E. Kennedy

George E. Kennedy, Jr. | CEO 
Magek Filmworks Productions, Inc.
Communication Through Digital Media

Cameron King
Editor, Motion Graphics, DP

Our platinum sponsor, AJA Video Systems is back this month to talk about the KiPro and its ability to help us navigate the different cameras, formats, recording media and compression schemes. As promised, some very lucky DC Metro Final Cut Pro User Group member will be the WINNER of a brand new KiPro unit during our special GRAND PRIZE raffle during this month's event (valued at over $4,500)!!!

In addition to the Grand Prize raffle, we will be holding our monthly Winner's Circle Raffle that encompasses all the other awesome creative prizes.  Navigate to the DCFCPUG.ORG site to find the agenda and raffle prize listing when posted and explore the site.

This will be an exciting time to learn, connect and participate in YOUR regional FCP group! Tell all your friends to sign up early as this will be a SELL-OUT event and I would highly recommend you register EARLY and spread the word via all social media channels!

Arrive NLT 5:30 pm for our networking time (with food and drinks) and meet your Metro area creative professionals. Your next gig might come from someone you've met.  I'm living proof of this concept.  Just look at the projects this user group has been involved in so far during 2010!...

• FCPUG SuperMeets - San Francisco, CA, Las Vegas, Nevada
• National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
• Digital Production BuZZ (Larry Jordan Talk Radio show)
• Exotic Rally - 2010 Miami Shootout
• Hollywood Feature Film production (with IMDB movie credit!)
• Various screenwriting and pre-production events
• Special projects to include environmentally green activities, editing contests development and HD acqusitions
• Government Video Expo - Digital Media Conference

About Us:

More on the AJA KiPro:

Everyone from broadcasters to indie filmmakers can probably agree on one thing: the possible choices for image acquisition are daunting. Different cameras, different formats, different recording media and different compression schemes. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to simplify acquisition so that virtually any camera, digital or analog, could record the same format and resolution? Enter the AJA Ki Pro.

The AJA Ki Pro is a tapeless video recording device that records high-quality Apple ProRes 422 QuickTime files onto computer-friendly media. Because it features SD/HD-SDI, HDMI, and analog inputs, you can interface with virtually any type of camera you might own or rent. Enjoy monitoring flexibility through Ki Pro's numerous simultaneous outputs, connecting to both professional and consumer monitors.

Ki Pro is portable and rugged; designed for real production environments. With the optional exo-skeleton it can sit below your camera-out of the way of your battery adapters, wireless mics and other accessories. Integration with your other production gear is seamless.

Ki Pro is intuitive to operate. Alongside the camera, the familiar VTR-like buttons provide immediate controls for basic operation. From a distance, use a web browser via ethernet or WiFi to control operations from a laptop or iPhone.