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Making your video look more like film
Larry Jordan returns and will show us some tips and techniques on making your video look like film.
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Larry Jordan returns and will show us some tips and techniques on making your video look like film. Think you know it all? Think again

Final Cut Pro Field Guide
Andrew demonstrates a new iPhone app - Final Cut Pro Field Guide packed with information on troubleshooting, workflows and much more.
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Moviolas Final Cut Pro Field Guide is a must-have for anyone working with Final Cut Pro- packed with information on troubleshooting a wide range of issues; full editorial workflows for new and emerging technologies including RED, P2 and HD DSLR cameras; a searchable listing of all Final Cut Pro keyboard shortcuts, and links to resources from software to hardware to online forums to help an editor with any scenario they face.

Autodesk Smoke on Mac OSX
It was the lafcpug debut of Smoke on Mac OSX where finisher and Smoke Guru Barry Goch takes us on a tour of the brand new high end finishing system now on the Mac.
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It was the lafcpug debut of Smoke on Mac OSX where finisher and Smoke Guru Barry Goch takes us on a tour of the brand new high end finishing system now on the Mac. Autodesk® Smoke® finishing effects software is a comprehensive visual effects and editing toolset that can save you time while expanding your creative capabilities. Autodesk Smoke benefits from many of the advanced visual effects tools in Autodesk® Flame® software, as well as the ability to conform from EDLs, AAF, and Apple® Final Cut Pro® XML files, giving you the flexibility to finish faster, with more streamlined content delivery.

How to configure your system to minimize proplems and Nesting
FCS Guru Larry Jordan returns to lafcpug to show us how to "configure your system to minimize problems."
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FCS Guru Larry Jordan returns to lafcpug to show us how to "configure your system to minimize problems." Larry will also show and tell on "Nesting," when to use it, and when to avoid it and how to use properly when you can't avoid it.

Hitchcock iPhone Application
Hitchcock for iPhone and iPod Touch is a mobile storyboard and pre-visualization composer.
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Jonathan Houser of Cinemak, author of the just released iPhone app, Hitchcock will fly down from Seattle to let us see it in action. Hitchcock for iPhone and iPod Touch is a mobile storyboard and pre-visualization composer designed for Directors, Directors of Photography, Producers, Writers, Animators, Art Directors, film students and anyone who wants to be able to visualize their story.

AJA Ki Pro
The AJA Ki Pro is a tapeless video recording device that records high-quality Apple ProRes 422 QuickTime files onto computer-friendly media.
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The AJA Ki Pro is a tapeless video recording device that records high-quality Apple ProRes 422 QuickTime files onto computer-friendly media. Because it features SD/HD-SDI, HDMI, and analog inputs, you can interface with virtually any type of camera you might own or rent. Enjoy monitoring flexibility through Ki Pro's numerous simultaneous outputs, connecting to both professional and consumer monitors." Jon Thorn will show and Tell all.

What's New in Media Composer 4.0
Editor and Avid Guru Steve Cohen will show off some of the new and not so new features of MC 4.0.
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Editor and Avid Guru Steve Cohen will show off some of the new and not so new features of MC 4.0. Steve will give a brief overview of the new editorial features in 4.0, mainly a demo of "transition preservation." Also, an overview of advanced keyframes for visual effects -- not a new feature in 4.0, but "new-ish," and a big improvement for anybody who does a lot of effects. Makes the MC work more like After Effects. Steve will then give us a look at why the trim mode is so great. Namely that you can trim any group of clips in any direction with playing video and audio to guide you. And you can monitor any part of the trim. And more, time permitting.

Avid Media Composer 4.0, Avid Media Access
Shane Ross will show off and talk about Avid Media Access and getting footage INTO Avid MC, and then the ability to mix and match that footage.
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Shane Ross will show off and talk about Avid Media Access and getting footage INTO Avid MC, and then the ability to mix and match that footage. Shane will combine different formats, frame rates, and resolutions all in the same timeline using only 2 hands and no net.

What's it like going from Avid to FCP and back to Avid? (Walter Murch)
Legendary film and sound editor Walter Murch returns to lafcpug to discuss "what is it like going from the Avid to FCP and back to the Avid."
Price: $3.99 | Explicit? clean
Walter has been editing with Final Cut Pro for several years after having used the Avid for several years. And now he is back on the Avid editing a movie here in Los Angeles. Mr. Murch will bring along his assistant editors Greg Thompson and Dave Cory for an assistant editor POV. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion.

RED camera post production workflow
Misha Tenenbaum will show us a clip from his latest project shot with Red Digital Cinema cameras and discus his unusual workflow.
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Misha Tenenbaum will show us a clip from his latest project shot with Red Digital Cinema cameras and discus his unusual workflow, working around the lack of a ProRes Proxy codec in FCP 6.