July Meeting Follow-up
Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 08:49PM 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!