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"Back to the Future"

Presented by AJA Systems

Wednesday, November 17th
Doors open: 6:00pm
Meeting starts: 6:30pm
Doors close: 7:00pm

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Grand Prize Raffle: Matrox MXO2-mini ($895 value)

• Automatic Duck (fantastic tools to migrate timelines between different non-linear systems)
• MochaPro (awesome rotoscope, object removal, tracking, stabilizing software)
• CineDeck (nifty direct from any camera to disk 4:4:4, 4:2:2 to Cineform 12-bit, ProRes, DNxHD up to 4k and beyond)
• Matrox (get introduced to the full range of Matrox MXO2 series of Capture / Output / Monitoring tools... they work with FCP, Avid, Adobe CS5 and can be taken on the road or shared between edit bays. And did we mention... faster than real time h.264 acclerated compression?)

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Meeting Details:

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We are at a new venue this month! It's smaller than our previous meeting spaces this year and we're sure to max it out. You must pre-register.

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Ned's Toy Box

MoPictive's own Vice President Ned Soltz is back this month with his Toy Box. What fun, useful, or innovative gear has passed his desk for review? We have no idea - because he won't tell us. To find out you need to show up. Prepare to be entertained AND informed!

• High-quality stabilization?
• Minority Report type special effects?
• Track objects onto your video (or make objects disappear entirely), even if you don't have tracking markers?
• And do you need to do this with an app that works within the Final Cut Studio ecosystem?

Then you need to be at this month's meeting when Ross Shain from Imagineering Systems previews "MochaPro", a new product that merges the awesomeness of the original Mocha tracker and rotoscoping tools with the object removal, stabilization, and wire removal tools of its sister apps.

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If you were to describe an ideal codec to capture your footage, you might ask for:

• Wavelet compression (no blocks)
• 4K resolution, and beyond
• 12-bit precision
• RGB, RGBA, YUV, and RAW flavors
• AVI and MOV

That's what the Cineform codec offers. Unfortunately, for those of us on 'mere mortal' budgets - the ability to record from the camera to Cineform wasn't very likely. . .

. . . Until now! Check out the very cool, direct-to-disk cinema grade, HD/2K video recorder. Not only does it record the output of your camera to the industry-standard Cineform codec, but it also records to Apple ProRes and Avid DNxHD at 4:4:4 or 4:2:2. This unit even has a built-in touchscreen playback monitor. Like we said, high-end for mere mortals. And it'll be presented by Allan Hoff, CEO of Cinedeck.

MoPictive Shorts: TBD

Due to the late change of venue, we're still working out this month's short.

Monthly Door Prize Raffle

As always, we continue our monthly door prize raffle of a basket of goodies donated to us from the world's best vendors. When you support them, you're supporting MoPictive:

Wednesday, June 16th

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MoPictive Monthly Meetings continue at the Helen Mills Screening room - featuring 130 stadium-style seats, with a projection booth, 5.1 surround system, free food and drink, and an opportunity to meet and network with a wide range of New York City's best and brightest filmmakers.

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The Tao Of Color Grading

Fresh off presentations to the Conneticut and Boston FCP User Groups, “The Tao of Color Grading” is back in NYC to present to MoPictive.

Patrick presenting to the Boston User Group

1. The biggest lie you'll never see.
2. How we must combat that lie.
3. How even the most complex color correction app can be broken down and replicated using basic filter sets in most NLE and composting apps
4. The advantage of dedicated color grading apps and control surfaces.
5. An approach toward your color grades that will work on any system, with any filter(s).

About Patrick

Patrick Inhofer is the Owner/Operator of the boutique finishing house Fini.tv and the new color grading training site TaoOfColor.com. He is a colorist and editor with over 21 years experience in broadcast, cable, corporate, and indie post-production. His passion for the industry was renewed with the 2006 release of Final Touch (now Apple’s Color). His Colorist passion combined with his extensive background as an Online/Finishing Editor creates great left-brain/right-brain interaction that he believes is well suited to his temperament and the craft.

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Door Prize Raffle

As always, we continue our monthly door prize raffle of a basket of goodies donated to us from the world's best vendors. When you support them, you're supporting MoPictive. See the list on the left.

Full Story via PCPro.co.uk/blogs

Watch a demo via YouTube and the John Nack on Adobe Blog.

DaVinci Resolve Control Surface: $30,000

"Blackmagic announced the release of the new DaVinci Resolve 7.0 that includes support for the Mac OS X platform, upgraded user interface, improved video field support, a new EDL library, improved shared database support, as well as new pricing for all models starting from a very affordable $995. Delivery for the Mac version is planned for sometime this summer - after June."

Full Story via ProVideoCoalition.com

MC Control by Euphonix

"Avid also announced plans to further develop an open-standard protocol that expands the compatibility between the Euphonix control surfaces and Avid and third-party audio and video applications."

Full story via Sports Video Group

April Meeting Lineup

The Vitti Fund
Celebrating the life of MoPictive's founder through an educational grant program

Michael Vitti, Fearless Leader

Martha Pinson
What makes a great Script Supervisor?

MoPictive NAB 2010 Roundup:

• Mitch Jacobson: MoPictive's Man On The Floor
• Ned Soltz: Covering NAB from a Journalist's perspective
• Josh Apter & Jem Schofield: DSLR Workflow Update
• Plus more...

Monthly Door Prize Raffle

Grand Prize Raffle
Automatic Duck + Automatic Duck's Media Copy 3.0

Meeting Details

The Vitti Fund

MoPictive's President Patrick Inhofer will unveil the long awaited and discussed educational grant program, The Vitti Fund (TVF). TVF celebrates the life of MoPictive founder Michael Vitti. TVF is dedicated to furthering Michael's greatest passion, giving others the knowledge they need to further their goals in becoming exceptional digital filmmakers.

Using the 501c3 designation that Michael so proudly achieved for The Moving Pictures Collective of NYC, The Vitti Fund will be operated under our tax-exempt status as an educational organization. All contributions to TVF are tax-deductible.

We hope you'll join Patrick as he celebrate the life of our gregarious founder - by ensuring Michael's passion continues to give the greatest gift of all... education.

"Below the Line": Script Supervisor

Join us for our first presentation in MoPictive's new "Below The Line" series. "Below the Line" will bring you some of New York's most talented and credited professionals who are essential to any production but rarely get the accolades they deserve.

Martha Pinson is a talented Script Supervisor. Her credits include major motion pictures, episodic prime-time television, and smaller indie productions. Martha will be talking with us about:

• The basic functions of the Script Supervisor
• What separates a good Script Supervisor from a great one
• What is the one thing every Script Supervisor must get right
• How can you make your Script Supervisor's job easier
• Why you can't afford not to have a Script Supervisor

Time allowing, Martha will also show us some of the tools of her trade that allow her to keep track of everything from sight lines to props.

Martha Pinson is an accomplished Script Supervisor and has worked with such directors as Martin Scorsese and Sidney Lumet. Her motion picture credits include "The Aviator", "Wall Street", "The Departed" and "Shutter Island". She is also a Director and Writer for both stage and screen and is in development on several of her own projects.

NAB Roundup

We continue MoPictive's long-standing tradition of wrapping up NAB - the industry's premier North American trade show for production and post-production suppliers. We've lined up several speakers to give us different perspectives.

• Man On The Floor Report: Mitch Jacobson, will provide us with his highlights of products that caught his attention. Mitch will also demo the rig he used to do nightly live streams for The Editors Guild using nothing more than his laptop and two webcams.
• Working NAB as a Journalist: MoPictive's Vice President, Ned Soltz, will share what it's like to work NAB as a journalist for DV magazine. He'll also highlight products that got his attention.
• DSLR Update: MoPictive's Josh Apter and Jem Schofield of theC47.comreturn to update us on all the latest NAB news concerning DSLR cameras, codecs, and workflows.
• Plus more...

Door Prize Raffle

As always, we continue our monthly door prize raffle of a basket of goodies donated to us from the world's best vendors. When you support them, you're supporting MoPictive:

Grand Prize Raffle