October Meeting Follow-up

Updated 10-23-09 2:04pm: Uploaded and added link to Hitchcock Storyboard pdf.

A special thanks to John Pinella who brought in his recently acquired Red ONE camera for us to take a look at. Also a special thanks out to our sponsors: Gen Arts (our newest sponsor), Noise Industries, Crowd Control, Peach Pit Press, Focal Press, Duncan Video, and our generous hosts at FOX59.

My keynote presentation is now available to download from our Downloads Page. The .pdf file has live links directly to the iTunes Store for the iPhone applications I talked about last night.

The storyboard created using the iPhone app Hitchcock is also available to download from our Downloads Page.

A couple other things we talked about:

   - The new V/DSLR cameras that Nikon and Canon recently introduced. We showed Vincent Laforet's video "Nocturne" which was shot with the Canon 1D Mark IV courtesy of Stu Maschwitz's YouTube sight (Stu worked on the video as well). You can read about the details behind the shoot on Vincent's blog and Stu's blog. I also mentioned that Laforet will be in Muncie on November 3 at the Civic Center. You can get info and purchase tickets at Jack's Camera website. 

   - Apple released new iMacs this week that look to be a significant bump over previous additions. The high end iMac uses the same quad-core processor that the Mac Pro's use, and also allows up to 16GB of RAM now. Throw in a new 27" LED screen with the same horizontal resolution of the 30" Cinema Display, and it should make for a pretty computer. They also released a new mouse, Magic Mouse. It is essentially a multi-touch aware two button mouse. One downside - as of now it looks like there is no support for a middle mouse button click, which could be problematic when working in Color or other apps (such as 3D apps). 

After a raffle of some items provided by our sponsors, we called it a night. Be sure to keep an eye here on the website for next month's meeting details. It will be taking place Dec. 10 due to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

July Meeting Follow-up

Hello Indy FCPUGers! Just wanted to give you a quick rundown on last night's meeting and make you aware of a few things. First off, the meeting went very well, although we did run a little long and couldn't get to everything in the new Final Cut Studio 3. Our good friend Stephanie Joyce from SmartSound did a great job and once again wowed members with Sonicfire Pro 5 and the Final Cut Pro plugin. It truly is great software and if you don't already have it, you need to go get it - you don't know what you're missing!

I followed up with what I believe was the first showing of Final Cut Studio 3 at a users group meeting in the world. We got through Final Cut Pro, Motion, most of Compressor (I forgot one very cool feature), and we talked about the new features in COlor and Soundtrack Pro. We will cover those another month (next meeting if I can squeeze them in).

We then wrapped up by giving away four books provided by Peach Pit Press and Focal Press. I want to point out a new feature to the website  - the books we give away at the meetings will be made available to purchase via Amazon right here on our website the very next day. That way if you see a book that looks interesting at the meeting, but don't win it, you can visit our website the next day and purchase it (or at least add it to your wishlist) before you forget. You can find those books in the left hand column just below the Twitter tracker.

We also gave away $100 credits to Crowd Control, our newest sponsor. Crowd Control is pre-keyed footage of people that you can drop right in your timeline or presentations without having to do anything to key them. We also gave away three licenses for SUGARfx plugins for FX Factory provided by Noise Industries. FX Factory has some of my favorite effects for use in Final Cut Pro and Motion. We gave away Urban, Cinema, and Folding Cards last night.

Stay tuned for more details on our August meeting - they'll be coming soon. We also have some discounts we'll be emailing you really soon, so if you're not signed up as a member, you should do that now!