Tonight's Meeting BONUS: COOKIES!

As the subject line says, as an added bonus for tonight's meeting, our Fabulous Pizza Break will once again feature those amazingly good cookies from San Francisco's Hot Cookie. Yay!

Of course, this means there will have to be a 50% increase in the entry fee at the door. Let me do the math here. Let's see, zero admission charge, times a factor of 1.5, equals...umm...oh yeah, that's still FREE!

See y'all tonight.

Next Meeting is Wed., Oct. 29th, BEATLES meeting room

The next meeting of MacFilmmakers is this coming Wednesday evening, October 29, at 7:00 pm in Apple's Beatles meeting room in the De Anza 3 building. Note that the Beatles meeting room is a new space. Full details below.

Wednesday, October 29

Apple's campus, Cupertino, CA

Beatles meeting room, located in the De Anza 3 building (Use the building entrance that faces onto Mariani Ave. Yes, this is a different entrance on the opposite side from what we are used to using previously.)

Doors Open 6:30 pm

Admission is Free!
Parking is Free!
The Pizza Break is Free!

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7:00 – 8:00 PM
NATE GENTNER
Product Manager for Adobe's Encore

“Adobe's Blu-ray Authoring Workflow"
While Blu-ray may be a "bag of hurt", what really hurts is that Apple does not (yet?) offer video professinals a Blu-ray authoring solution. Aargh! No problem, Adobe has a workflow solution.

With Adobe's Encore, you can author fully professional Blu-ray discs and, using third party hardware, burn your own Blu-ray movies. While Encore is, of course, part of Adobe's Premiere Pro editing suite of software, it also works well in an Apple Final Cut workflow.

Come, release your authoring pain! Blu-ray no longer needs to be a "bag of hurt".

http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/encore/
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/
http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/production/

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8:00 PM
Pizza Break
Once again, filling that gnawing void in filmmakers' lives (i.e., hungry tummies) since 2002, we present our always fabulous Pizza Break. Pizza and soft drinks are provided for everybody and at no cost (although kindly donations are never turned down), just show up and enjoy.

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8:30 – 8:45 PM
LISHKA DEVOSS
Kranky Kids

“Size Matters, Especially if Your Video Is Being Shown as Part of a Presentation"
Lishka DeVoss of Kranky Kids walks us through what happens when you:

1. Set-up a basic Keynote presentation and then -
2. Grab some sound effects from Soundtrack Pro and do a simple edit of them in GarageBand (because you think Soundtrack Pro is too difficult to learn and all you wanted were those sound effects) and then -
3. Add your FCP edited videos to Keynote and see what the same QuickTime compression of your videos from three different cameras looks like when they are blown-up and projected to a size they were not intended to be viewed at because you just wanted to put them on the web, right? (Except someone asked for you to show them as a preso . . . for work, or at school, or you really think people will invest money in your BIG film idea and you thought it might be nice if everyone didn't all have to gather around a computer monitor . . .)

The camera output into a Keynote Presentation will be from:

• a Sony TRV9 (Yes! The Original!)
• a Canon XL1-S (Another dinosaur!)
• and The Flip ULtra (The hottest little consumer Flash-based camera on the market for people who just want to shoot video for YouTube or the family computer using no tape and which only needs to have regular AA batteries on hand to make the little monster work!)

http://www.krankykids.com/

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8:45 – 9:30 PM
ADAM WILT
filmmaker, writer

"Making 'One Man, One Vote'"
Adam Wilt talks about the production and postproduction of a seven-minute short film.

- Mistakes made in production, and how they had to be fixed and fudged in post.
- How to use three cameras, including a cellphone cam, for a single image.
- Simple compositing and VFX using FCP, Motion, and Photoshop.
- Color correction and creating a look (even if it wasn't the look we planned on).
- Reworking an interlaced program for progressive displays.

http://provideocoalition.com
http://www.adamwilt.com/

Next Meeting is Wed., Oct. 29th

Our next meeting is Wednesday, October 29. One of our confirmed guest speakers will be Adobe presenting solutions for creating/burning Blu-ray DVDs on the Mac. More details to be posted later.