MoPictive NYC - Final Cut Filmmakers

February 2012 Meeting

Ned Soltz — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:57:04 +0000

Next Mopictive Meeting

Wednesday, February 15 2012

Abel Cine

609 Greenwich St. 5th Floor

Webcasting and Other Goodies

Ned's Toybox featuring the Teradek Cube

Craig Seeman presenting Telestream Wirecast and the whole process of creating a live webcast

Demonstration of Tiffen Dfx

The Canon C300 EOS Digital Cinema Camera

World Famous Raffle

Documenting Occupy Wall Street

Ned Soltz — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:12:44 +0000

Documenting Occupy Wall Street

SOPA and Protest-IP Legislation and YOU

Last minute, we know, but it took time to put together this very significant evening!

REGISTER HERE

Presented by AJA Systems

Meeting Details

AJA Presentation

A welcome from our Platinum Sponsor AJA Systems

SOPA and Protect IP in Context

600 Years of History

David e. Bell

It's going to be a wild ride from the origins of copyright law to the modern day. This talk will examine the basic tension between the free expressions of ideas and the need to make a living while expressing. And it will conclude by covering some specifics about SOPA and Protect-IP, how they effect you and what you can do as an individual.

David e. Bell - A photographer, visual story teller, and engineer with over 30 years of experience. His experience includes the development of specialized HDR and panoramic techniques, visual effects workflow, and various production roles in film and television. Currently he is working with his son Shane of the scanning, restoration, and completion of an unfinished film shot on 16mm film. As always interested in that space where technical and artistic challenges overlap.

99% (The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film)

Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites and others

Filmmakers/producers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites along representatives of the collaboration will present their work in progress. This collaborative film represents the work of over 60 filmmakers to document the OWS events this past fall. They are seeking funding via this Kickstarter page and Mopictive is proud to encourage their efforts.

We will have about 30 minutes of clips followed by a panel discussion with open Q&A from the audience.

Monthly Door Prize Raffle

Training videos, books, software, and much more!

Avid Night At Mopictive

Ned Soltz — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:34:56 +0000

Wednesday, December 14

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Abel Cine

609 Greenwich St, NYC

Join us as we continue our exploration of all the newly released and updated NLE applications.

Jay Ignasewski of AJA will demonstrate Media Composer 6 and its seemless integration with AJA products

John Felice of Avid will take us through Media Composer 6 and patiently answer all your questions.

Ned Soltz will show Boris Continuum Complete 8 filters in Media Composer 6 plus any other AVX filter he might encounter by meeting date.

And of course, the world famous raffle.

Admission is free with donations requested

FCP X Night At Mopictive

Ned Soltz — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 03:45:09 +0000

It's FCP X night at Mopictive!

Evan Schechtman, CTO Outpost Digital/Radical Media, will fill us in on the details of FCP X and its update FCP X 10.0.1. And come prepared with your FCP X questions, because Evan is going to answer them for you.

Jem Schofield, Buttons Productions, is going to teach us all about Rigging and Publishing in Motion 5. These are extremely powerful features in Motion 5 which will enhance FCP X workflows.

Wednesday, November 16

6:30pm -8:30pm

Abel Cine

609 Greenwich St, 5th Floor

New York, NY

It's FREE.

EditShare Presents: An Evening With Tariq Anwar

Ned Soltz — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:47:54 +0000

Join Oscar-nominated King’s Speech editor Tariq Anwar for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look into the art of editing straight from the cutting room floor.

Evening Overview
Set to take place at the Florence Gould Hall Theater, on Thursday, October 27, 2011, this exclusive industry event will kick off with an inside look at the future of non-linear editing technology with EditShare co-founders, Andy Liebman and James Richings. The evening’s guest MC, NYC filmmaker and founder of Manhattan Edit Workshop Josh Apter, will then lead the audience through an tour of Tariq’s life and work as editor on some of the most influential films of our time including Oscar-winning masterpieces, The King’s Speech and American Beauty.

Guests will have an opportunity to network with industry professional following the presentations.

"From the Cutting Room: Tariq Anwar" – Complimentary Registration Details
An exclusive event for the NYC filmmaking community, “From the Cutting Room: Tariq Anwar” will be held at the Florence Gould Hall Theater, French Alliance NY, 55 East 59th Street, in New York City from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. Registration is required as seating is limited. Seating will be on a first come first served basis.

Adobe Night At Mopictive – Wednesday, October 26

Ned Soltz — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 03:00:39 +0000

Register HERE

Dennis Radeke from Adobe Systems will tell us everything about Adobe CS 5.5, with emphasis on Adobe Premiere Pro. If you were at all interested in learning about Adobe products, this is not a meeting to miss. And, as a bonus, Dennis will answer all of your Adobe questions with a special Ask The Adobe Expert Q&A session.

Wednesday, October 26

6:30-8:30 pm

Abel Cine

609 Greenwich St, 5th Floor

Register HERE

Super Summit II – The State of the NLE

Ned Soltz — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:09:57 +0000

Tuesday, September 20

6:30 - 9:00 pm

New Yorker Hotel

34th and 8th Avenue

Held in conjunction with the Entertainment Technology Expo and co-sponsored by AllCreative NY, DigitalCONN and NJ FCPUG, this event will feature presentations about Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer 5.5 and Adobe Premiere CS 5.5.

Free admission.

Raffles and prizes galore.

Grand Prize - IO Express from AJA ($995 value)

No registration required for this event.

Next Meeting – Wednesday April 27

Ned Soltz — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:33:23 +0000

Post NAB Meeting

Working With Large Sensor Cameras

NAB Wrap-up

Raffle of AJA KiPro ($3995 Value)

MoPictive is proudly

sponsored by AJA Systems

SLC Conference Centers

352 7th Avenue (30th St) - 16th Floor

Doors open: 6:00pm
Meeting starts: 6:30pm

Price: $5 in adance or at door

Food Included!

See Below For Raffle Pricing and Details

This month we're moving to the SLC Conference Center at 30th and 7th Avenue

Agenda:

Ron Yoshida - A Close Up Look At the Sony PMW F-3 Camera
Timur Civan - A DP's Perspective On What Camera To Use
Post NAB Discussion - Agenda Evolving
Word Famous Raffle
Raffle of AJA KiPro ($3995 value) courtesy of AJA Systems

From the President's Even More-Messy Desk

MoPictive Friends,

We're moving our April 27 meeting to the SLC Conference Center, 752 7th Avenue, 16th Floor. This venue will also allow us to feed you, hence our $5 admission to help offset the cost of the event space and the refreshments.

Last month we took a look at the Panasonic AF-100 camera. In our continuing program on large sensor cameras, we started with several sessions on using DSLR's, continued with the Panasonic AF-100 and this month we will have a close up look at the Sony PMW F-3. Ron Yoshida owns and rents several of these cameras and he will answer your questions, show footage and generally do the hardware thing with us.

Our featured speaker of the evening is Timur Civan. You will find is bio below. As a DP, Timur owns and shoots a Canon 5D, a Red and a Sony F-3. He will be sharing the perspective of a DP on how to choose a camera for a specific shoot. In the process, Timur will show us clips from his documentary, commercial and cinematic accomplishments.

The rest of our evening will be evolving dynamically. It all depends upon what is announced at NAB, what will be relevant to our group, and who we will be able to find to present to us. In any event, NAB 2011 promises some exciting product introductions and workflow innovations. We'll just have to wait.

I'll announce a final agenda before the meeting.

Once again, our Platinum Sponsor AJA Systems is donating the amazing KiPro for us to raffle. The KiPro lists for $3995 and one of you will be taking one home on April 27. See below for the rules.

Hope to see many of you at NAB and of course on April 27.

With pre-NAB preparations, my desk is even more messy than before our last meeting!

Sincerely,

Ned Soltz
President, MoPictive

This month's lineup:

The Sony PMW F-3

Imagine a Super35 sensor camera with a PL lens mount and third party mounts to use virtually any lens. Imagine a camera so low in noise that you can shoot ISO 6400 with barely any noise. And imagine a camera with 3G SDI, dual link SDI and an option for S-Log and 4:4:4 output to HDCAM SR. Ron Yoshida will show us this camera suitable for your high end productions or even as a B camera for shoots with the highest end gear. It might be out of some our price range at a street price of $13,300 body only ($18,950 with 3 Sony PL primes) but rental is often the way to go on gear such as this. Ron Yoshida shoots and rents his fleet of F-3's and will have a show and tell.

Check the PMW F-3 here.

Timur Civan

The Perspective of a Director of Photography

Choosing the Right Camera For the Job

Timur Civan is an acclaimed Director of Photography and fine artist. He has the natural ability to take a seemingly impossible, logistically nightmarish photographic demand and turn it into an award-winning piece of art.

In his years of undergrad at New York University he honed his talent for creating visually stimulating art; he left the school with an appreciation for the capacity of the moving picture.

Initially Timur was a showing visual artist. Upon receiving praise for video artistry at several gallery showings in New York and Istanbul, he was offered the opportunity to shoot his first music video. This early display of an eye for the medium led to a series of videos by acclaimed directors and recording artists. This cemented his love of telling a story with the camera. To date has several dozen short films, music videos, corporate videos, commercials and documentaries under his belt. He is currently shooting a feature film.

Clients include:

BCBG / NYC & Company / Emeril Live / Elle Int'l / IKM productions / Little Marvin Big Media / Home Shopping Network / Discovery Channel / Oceana / Whole Foods Inc. / Raging Nation Films / CNN / Mtv / Sundance Channel / Food Network

Post- NAB

This part of our program is evolving and be sure to check your mailings as well as the Mopictive site for updates.

Special Raffle - AJA Ki Pro

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Regular 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:

IFP – Independent Filmmaker Project

Imagineer Systems

Intelligent Assistance

Forums Are Live!

Patrick Inhofer — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:16:05 +0000

Mopictive Forums are now live!

You must be registered on the site in order to post in forums. So far, we have a general forum, FCP X discussion and a Jobs Forum -- Help Wanted and I'm Available.

Please post and help create community among Mopictive members. Help with issues and even help with jobs!

Please email if you have any problems either registering or posting. We have just put an anti-bot captcha system in place, so let me know if it creates problems.

Patrick Inhofer — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:39:22 +0000

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