January BOSFCPUG Workflow Mixer

"A Night of Compression: Delivering in H.264"

 Upper Crust Pizza and Beverages Sponsored Courtesy of

ADMISSION: $5 (Includes Pizza and beverages courtesy of Digieffects and free raffle ticket to Big Dig Raffle)

STUDENTS: Contact Dan Berube at dberube@bosfcpug.org for free admission Discount Code. Please indicate collegeor university attending.

NOTE: You MUST registewr to attend this mixer as we need accurate numbers for seating and refreshments.

DATE: Thursday, January 21, 2010
TIMES: 7PM - 10PM (Doors open at 6:30PM)
VENUE:
Rehearsal Hall
Arsenal Center for the Arts
321 Arsenal Street
Watertown, MA 02472
617-923-0100
Event Directions: Click HERE for Directions and Free parking info

This month's worklfow mixer is sponsored by our friends at Matrox and Telestream

Complete updated details always at: http://www.bosfcpug.org

Producers, Editors, Digital Content Creators: Begin the New Year of 2010 on the right start by re-connecting with members of Boston's digital filmmaking community. 

Whether you're a Final Cut Pro, Avid or Adobe editor, this is one networking workflow mixer you'll not want to miss.

Today's digital filmmakers begin their projects knowing first how they will deliver. 

H.264 plays an important role in that delivery and we're going to focus on workflow solutions to optimize your H.264 encoding and distribution to Blu-ray, digital downloads, the web and mobile devices.

If you’re a professional content creator delivering H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices, you need a fast, flexible, high quality encoding workhorse. The Matrox MAX technology is that workhorse!  It works in systems with or without a video I/O device and extends the life of your current system investment, giving you the power you need to deliver today's premium H.264 formats faster than ever. 

Matrox MAX is a unique technology that speeds up H.264 encoding for resolutions ranging from iPod to HD. It uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for Blu-ray, the web, and mobile devices. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with amazing speed and system resources are liberated for other tasks. Quality and flexibility are ensured through direct integration with professional applications such as Apple Compressor, Telestream Episode Encoder and Adobe Media Encoder.

Our January workflow mixer is open to ALL Final Cut Pro, Avid and Adobe users, HDSLR filmmakers and those who make decisions in how content is delivered.

ABOUT WAYNE ANDREWS
Wayne Andrews is a senior product manager for the Matrox Video Products Group and frequent speaker on video editing techniques at industry seminars and events. For close to 10 years Wayne has been helping broadcasters, post facilities, and project studios implement cost-effective editing solutions.  In his "spare time" he films, edits, and produces concert DVD's for a wide variety of music groups.

ABOUT FRANCESCO SCARTOZZI
Francesco Scartozzi is director of sales (Americas) for the Matrox Video Products Group.  Francesco is responsible for identifying video industry trends, uncovering customer pain points, working with research and development teams to create cost-effective solutions, and educating customers about new opportunities to improve their workflows. Francesco began his career at Matrox in 1995 and has held various roles; from applications engineer where he learned the technology and the art of supporting customers; to sales engineer where his keen business development skills were put into practice. Francesco holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering with a minor in management from McGill University.

ABOUT CRAIG SEEMAN

Since 2002, Craig and his wife Michele operate their own boutique production facility. In keeping with his diverse past, Third Planet Video does a little bit of everything. Every shoot and edit ends with compression. It's the last thing the client sees, so to Craig it's got to look good. Craig is also a Forum moderator on Creative COW's Compression techniques, Sony EX Series XDCAM , Telestream Episode and Telestream Wirecast forums. Criag has also authored an article on using Matrox CompressHD with MAX.

BIG DIG RAFFLE
Prizes to include:
- Matrox CompressHD with MAX card - Matrox - ($495 value)
- Telestream Episode Encoder Pro - Telestream - ($995 value)
- Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro – Blackmagic Design – ($199)
- Digieffects MegaSuite (all Digieffects plug-ins) - ($799 value)
- Litepanels LP Micro - Litepanels - ($299 value)
- 3x 3 month rental of GenArts Plug-ins - GenArts - ($507 value)
- Magic Bullet Suite 2009 - Red Giant Software - ($799 value)
- BoinxTV - Boinx Software - ($499 value)
- 2 x Beauty Box for FCP/Premiere Pro – Digital Anarchy – ($400 value)
- mocha for Final Cut - Imagineer Systems - ($199 value)
- Topaz Enhance - Topaz Labs - ($349 value)
- 2 free Stock Footage Clips - ArtBeats - ($500 value)
- 200 towards MotionVFX Templates - MotionVFX - ($200 value)
- 2 free Stock Footage Clips - FootageHead - ($400 value)
- Copy of VeeScope Live - VeeScaope Live - ($100 value)
- $100.00 off or towards any Digital Heaven products - ($100 value)
- "Fast Path to Blu-ray for Mac" - Bruce Nazarian - ($14.95 value)
- Copy of UserMatic - EditGroove - ($34.95 value)
- "Final Cut Pro Power Skills" - Larry Jordan - ($39.99 value)
- ShotPut Pro version 2.0 - Imagine Products - ($89 value)
- ProxyMill version 2.0 - Imagine Products - ($199 value)
- Copy of DVDxDVPro - DVDxDV - ($39.95 value)
- Copy of "The New Now" - Philip Hodgetts - ($19.95 value)
- KeyGuide FCP Guides – Neotron Design – ($13.95 value)
- The New Now – Philip Hodgetts – ($19.95 value)
- SUGARfx Bubble Buddy 1.0 – Noise Industries – ($49 value)
- Boris Continuum Chroma Key – BorisFX – ($299 value)
- Creative Cow Training DVDs – Creative Cow – ($100 value)
- 2x Collectible SuperDVD w/ Issue #3 of SuperMag – FCPUG Network
- Selected Books by PeachPit Press
- Selected Books by Focal Press

BIG DIG RAFFLE SPONSORED BY

 

 

 

 

And a WHOLE LOT MORE!