Feb. 17th BOSFCPUG Meeting

[Daniel Berube]

The NEXT meeting of the Boston Final Cut Pro USer Group - BOSFCPUG will 
take place on Tuesday, February 17th in Comm 101 at the College of 
Communications at Boston University. Please join us!

Our theme for February is "FCP To Avid and Back" and we are pleased to 
have special guest Wes Plate of Automatic Duck. In addition, Alex 
Lindsay of dvGarage and Pixel Corps will discuss visual FX for 
filmmakers, and Todd Prives and the gang from GenArts will be on hand 
to show off their new set of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro.

REGISTER now at:
http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=25580

Complete details about the meeting with list of Big Dig Raffle prizes 
and directions are available at:
http://www.creativecow.net/index.php?forumid=79&postid=107672598090619

- GENARTS SAPPHIRE PLUG-INS FOR FINAL CUT PRO
Todd Prives from GenArts will start off the meeting by showing off 
GenArts' new Sapphire Plug-ins for Final Cut Pro. The full package of 
Sapphire contains more than 175 image processing and synthesis effects, 
and you can get familiar with them in time for the meeting by 
dowloading a free trial at:
http://web.genarts.com/sapphire-ae.html .

GenArts: http://www.genarts.com
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- WHAT FILMMAKERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT VISUAL EFFECTS
Learn what you MUST know BEFORE you shoot a movie that has ANY visual 
effects. Alex Lindsay, former member of Industrial Light and Magic's 
"Rebel Unit" and founder of dvGarage, returns to touch upon what you 
need to do on the set to make your Visual Effects Supervisor (for 
beginning filmmakers...the students at the local art school) love you! 
If you ever plan to shoot a movie with ANY visual effects, you need to 
know these tips! Topics covered: Photogrammetry, Blue/Green Screen 
keying, HDRi lighting, Matchmoving and more...

dvGarage: http://www.dvgarage.com
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- FIRESTORE FS-3 WITH FINAL CUT PRO TIP
Finish your FCP project but your client wants a copy of all master 
clips in OMF format? Dan and Don Berube of noisybrain. Productions will 
give a quick demo of how to utilize the FireStore FS-3 from Focus 
Enhancements to produce OMF files straight out of Final Cut - a little 
faster than we think it would take.

Focus Enhancements: http://www.firestore.com
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- SEBSKY TOOLS WITH CHARLES ROBERTS
Charles Roberts will give a short demo of "Sebsky Tools," Peter 
Reventlow's cool freeware utility which lets you convert FCP Batch 
Lists into Avid Log Exchange (ALE). Quick, easy and accurate way to 
convert Bins from FCP to Avid and back, among a bunch of other cool 
features.

Sebsky Tools: http://www.dharmafilm.com/sebskytools/
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- WES PLATE OF AUTOMATIC DUCK
Special guest Wes Plate will talk about moving your timelines from 
Final Cut to Avid and back with his excellent set of tools, Automatic 
Duck Pro Export and Automatic Duck Pro Import FCP. Wes will also 
discuss how to translate your FCP timeline into Adobe After Effects and 
Boris Red 3GL. Automatic Duck is the leader in timeline translation 
between Avid, After Effects, Boris Red 3GL, Final Cut Pro and Quantel 
via OMF and AAF.

Automatic Duck: http://www.automaticduck.com

See you there!

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Dan
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Daniel Berube
Apple Certified Trainer
Founder, Boston Final Cut Pro User Group - BOSFCPUG
Boston Chapter Forum Leader, Apple Consultants Network
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noisybrain. Productions
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