Agenda for tomorrow night, Wed. June 24th

OK, gang, here is the rundown for tomorrow night's meeting (specific order/timing subject to change):

• Demo Reels
• RED+FCP+Color: Making It All Work by Adam Wilt
• Pizza Break
• Multiformat Editing for Indies: Starting a Multiformat Project, or Fixing One That Is Underway by Jesse Spencer

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As always, the meeting opens up with your Demo Reels. Please keep your reel to a maximum of 5 minutes. Slots are limited and available on a first-come first serve basis.

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Next up will be Adam Wilt presenting RED+FCP+Color: Making It All Work.

Recently, Adam shot a 30-second spot using the RED camera. Tonight we will take a look at how that footage was taken through Final Cut Pro and Color. We will see many different vignettes in Color and how much of a difference there can be. Adam's original article on this subject is posted over at:
Pro Video Coalition

Adam Wilt is a filmmaker with Meets The Eye LLC

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Following Adam is the always fabulous Pizza Break. Free pizza, free soda and, according to a rumor I heard, YES, free cookies from San Francisco's famous Hot Cookies! So, skip your meals today, save that lunch money for filmmaking and chow down with us tonight!

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Once we're all properly bloated from pizza, we round out the evening with Jesse Spencer presenting Multiformat Editing for Indies: Starting a Multiformat Project, or Fixing One That Is Underway.

Indie filmmakers often have the most challenging technical problems to solve, and unfairly, they have least amount or resources! This presentation will concentrate on the challenges of multiformat editing, and will reveal a few simple key tricks that are handily built into FCP to help indie filmmakers overcome them. Even when you need to plan your edit today, for a video format that won't debut until tomorrow!

This presentation will be discussing nuts-and-botls anatomy of the video anatomy... as well as feature a few in-the-timeline tricks for untangling a messy project.

Jesse Spencer has been editing for 23 years. FOr the past 13 he has worked as Video Arts in SF as an onliner/colorist finishing high end projects bound for Theatrical release, and Broadcast on ITVS. His offline editing in films have screened at Sundance, and have been distributed by Lions Gate. Jesse is now freelance, working in all aspects of post offline through mastering, but now concentrating on consulting and post-supervision for Indie Projects.

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We are in Apple's Garage I/II. Doors open at 6:30, meeting starts at 7:00. For those arriving past 7:00 there will be a sign on the door with a cell phone number you can call to gain entry. Meetings are free and open to the public, all are invited to attend. Parking is plentiful and free.

Reminder: Garage I/II is upstairs in Apple's Building 4 (same location as Town Hall) at 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino.

We ARE meeting Wed. June 24th

Thank you, thank you, thank you to one and all for your generous support and suggestions for speakers. We now have an abundance of topics/presenters for this coming Wednesday, June 24th and therefore will be meeting. Indeed, I now need to coordinate with several offers to speak. While I won't mention those names here just yet, pending such individual confirmations, know that if you offered to speak yourself and/or connected me with another speaker, I will be contacting you or them in the next few hours to work out the details.

Again, thank you everybody, we will meet June 24th in Apple's Garage I/II meeting room.

Next meeting is NOT June 17th, read more...

OK, so as it turns out, the major Apple Pro Apps presentation which was planned for our June meeting has, at Apple's request, been postponed to July. So, immediately I can say there is no meeting on June 17th (tomorrow).

Now, at this moment, as I'd thought Apple was going to be our exclusive guest this month, while we do have a room for next Wednesday, June 24th, I have no speakers lined up. This is a call for assistance in helping to put together an agenda for 1 week from now, for Wednesday, June 24th. Please either add your comments here and/or email me directly with your ideas for available speakers.

If we can get a reasonable agenda lined up within the next couple of days--and that IS possible, we've done it many, many times over the years--then our next meeting will stay on track for next Wednesday, June 24th. OTOH, if collectively we cannot get at least one speaker/presentation lined up, preferably two, (along with the usual Demo Reels), then we are looking at no meeting this month but with the postponed Apple presentation happening July 29th. I will set the deadline for coordinating a decision to be this Friday, June 19th. For those who do not have it, my email address is (encoded to avoid spambots, but I'm sure you'll figure it out):

b o s s k e v a t p a c b e l l d a w t n e t

So, ladies and gentlemen, please start commenting as desired...