1st Annual IBC FCPUG SuperMeet

FCP User Groups and Digital filmmakers from Los Angeles, Boston, Mexico, Italy, Germany, UK and from around the world will be heading to Amsterdam, The Netherlands for the First Annual IBC FCPUG SuperMeet to be held on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at the Gashouder on the grounds of the beautiful Culture Park Westergasfabriek as part of IBC. This event will be the largest gathering of FCP Users and Gurus on the planet during IBC week.

Where? -
Culture Park Westergasfabriek
Gashouder

When? -
Sunday, September 14
5PM until we can't take it any more

How much?
Just Euro10.00 for online purchase (includes 2 raffle tickets).
Euro 15.00 at the door (includes one raffle ticket).
Tickets on sale NOW.

What's on the Agenda? -
- Paul Saccone, Director of Technical Marketing in Apple's Applications Marketing group, will visit us all the way from Cupertino Ca. and provide the latest news on Final Cut Studio.

- Blackmagic Design will present Darius Fisher http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1363455/, Editor and FX wizard who co-edited and produced "Fuel," (formally Fields of Fuel) http://www.fieldsoffuel.com/ a documentary that won the Audience award at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Darius will show clips from the doc and show us how they used Final Cut Studio to make it happen.

Hollywood comes to Amsterdam
Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) star in Traitor, a taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counter- espionage operations. Traitor is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of The Day After Tomorrow) and edited by award winning Film Editor, Billy Fox (Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moan.) Jeffrey Nachmanoff (subject to availability) and editor Billy Fox will discuss how Final Cut Studio helped bring this taut international thriller to life.

- From Spain, Miguel de Olaso, also known to Red Digital Cinema Camera users as MacGregor, will show footage from the Red Cam and talk BRIEFLY on workflow.

- Simon Hayhurst, Adobe Sr. Director of Product Management of Dynamic Media, and Jason Levine, Adobe Sr.Worldwide Evangelist, Creative Solutions. will show how Adobe Production Premium can compliment your FCP workflow.

- Rick Young, who is editor of Macvideo.tv and founder of the UK FCP User Group will give us his "Top Ten FCP Tips and Tricks."

- Grass Valley/Thomson will show a short video of high quality JPEG 2000 shot on the Infinity Camcorder and edited with Final Cut Pro. The video will be followed by a short demonstration of the file-based workflow between the Infinity and FCP. This includes a full 10-bit, 4:2:2, JPEG 2000 workflow that uses the recently released I-J2K Suite from CineForm as well as MPEG-2 HD workflow using the Telestream Flip4Mac solution.

Any Raffle Prizes? - Of course

Submitted by Michael Horton