If you enter the date of your Event, Screening, User Group Meeting, Film Festival, or Seminar into our Event Calendar - it'll show up on the right side of our homepage under "Upcoming Events".

To view the calendar from the homepage click on the link under the MoPictive Community Calendar heading. If your event is taking place in NY, NJ, Conn - we hope this will become a great resource for all digital filmmakers. How does it work?

First - Register at this website via the Registration link in the footer.

Second - Use the "Contact Us" link to send an email to activate your posting rights.

Third - Post away!

Restrictions: Events must take place in the New York City Tri-State area. Events must be related to Digital Filmmaking. Use responsibly. For instance, don't post daily schedules for your school's entire semester. Do post registration deadlines. If you're not sure you're violating this policy... then you probably are!

Enjoy!

- The MoPictive, BoD

After editorial is finished, your picture is color corrected, and the mix is laid back you've got to get your film to your audience. Almost always this means some form of compression. There are 1,001 ways to compress video badly. There are only a few ways to do it well. This month's meeting focuses on two different approaches - via the web and via optical disc. We are also continuing MoPictive Shorts; a monthly event showcasing some of NYC's best storytellers in a 15 minute or less short film format, including a Q & A after the screening. Also returning, Audio for Editors, Part 3 and Ned's Toy Box.

Doors open: 6:00pm
Meeting starts: 6:30pm
Cover Charge: $5

(this is our latest itinerary, which is guaranteed to change - frequently)

Grand Prize Raffle: Telestream Episode EncoderPro ($995 value)

• Details on Telestream's Episode EncoderPro. Here's a glowing video review.
• $5 per ticket if purchased online.
• Only 50 Early Bird tickets are available to purchase online, 1 ticket per person.
• 25 tickets additional tickets will be available for purchase at the door: $10 each (1 per person).
• The official rules are on the EventBrite Registration Site.

Compression In-Depth

The Art of Compressing for the Web

Craig Seeman returns to MoPictive to explore compressing for the web. Craig will cover:

• 'Best practices' with an emphasis on how to create professional web-based video for the web’s most popular video-sharing sites. He will be working with Telestream's excellent compression softwareEpisode EncoderPro.
• h.265: Understanding this pervasive new codec
• HTML 5's new 'video' tag: How it promises to impact the landscape for web video delivery.

The State of BluRay and BluRay on the Mac

We are extremely pleased to host NetBlender at this meeting. They are the creators of DoStudio, a professional BluRay authoring app with WYSIWYG Java menu creation - perfect for us non-programmer types. Topics covered in this presentation:

• Industry Transition: DVD to Blu-ray
• AACS Licensing Fees: How it works, who pays what fees (you or your client?)
• Blu-ray on the Mac (why waiting for Apple might cost you)
• Bootcamp set-up
• AVC BD encoding with Compressor
• NetBlender DoStudio Authoring
• Blu-ray Menu Design with Photoshop: Time to Think Different (again)
• Advanced Interactivity: Your iPhone is part of the Blu-ray experience

With our great new screening room at Helen Mills, MoPictive is bringing back one of its early signature segments, Show & Tell. This time around, we're calling it MoPictive Shorts - showcasing the tri-state's best storytellers in the 15 minute and under short film art form.

MoPictive Shorts February Selection: Not yet announced...

Jamie Hitchings returns for a more in-depth look at how editors can use SoundtrackPro to improve the overall quality of their sound.

Join us as MoPictive’s own Ned Soltz demos his favorite of the latest gear that has floated across his product reviewer’s desk. We never know what Ned’s going to pull out of his Toy Box!

• Patrick Inhofer,  President (returning)
• Ned Soltz: Vice President (new)
• Josh Apter: Director of Education (returning)
• Jim Moore: Member-At-Large (returning, new role)

MoPictive Board Member Jim Moore has a full lineup of donated products to be raffled away! Everyone who attends will get at least 3 raffle ticket with their entry. Additional tickets can be purchased during the meeting.

Hello MoPictive!

Finally, after a loooong time we've got ourselves a new website. And you, our members, get to watch us build it out over the next few days! Ain't that fun? We'll be building out a Community Calendar and a full blown Web Forum. We'll also be able to prominently feature our generous sponsors who pay our bills.

Thanks for sticking with us!

Sincerely,

Patrick

President, MoPictive

Ripple Training has donated their Apple Certified COMPRESSOR training tutorial for the Jan. Raffle. Introducing the Apple Pro Video Series. Ripple Training is pleased to present the industry's first Apple Certified online video curriculum for iTunes

In this tutorial, master compressionist and author Brian Gary will walk you through all facets of using Compressor 3.5 while preparing you to become an Apple Certified Pro .